British Journal of Photography Wednesday March 15, 2023
In his debut book – the first-ever publication by a Sudanese photographer – Salih Basheer revisits memories of his parents, who died when he was three years old, notes the British Journal of Photography. The book’s title, 22 Days in Between (Disko Bay, 2023), refers to the number of days that separate the deaths of Basheer’s mother, who died of an unknown illness, and his father, who was killed while trying to break up a street fight. “All my memories are without faces,” Basheer says.
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David Schonauer Wednesday March 15, 2023
Photographs, once taken, remain the same. The photographers who create them change, however, and they may find new things in old images. Home alone in Watch Hill, R.I., during the 2020 covid
quarantine, acclaimed photographer Tina Barney exhumed about 1,000 35-millimeter negatives shot in the late 1970s and early '80s, when she was learning the basics of her craft. Her mature eye
recognized the … Read the full Story >>
Fstoppers Tuesday March 14, 2023
Speaking of sports: March Madness is upon us once again, and Fstoppers wants to inspire your photographic hoop dreams by suggest five shots that are essential to get when you’re covering basketball. It starts with the pre-game show. “I try to figure out the team's routine, their stretches, their warm-ups, and when they call the starting five. I'm looking for photos of the players' personalities and the interaction between them before the game starts,” notes New York City photographer John Ricard.
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The Guardian Tuesday March 14, 2023
“Pain, triumph, disaster – and a pair of tightly squeezed testicles.” Those, notes The Guardian, are some of the things you’ll find in the 50 images that editors selected for a recent feature—shots, declares the newspaper, that changed the way we see sport forever. Among them: Neil Leifer’s photo of Muhammad Ali standing over Sonny Liston in their 1965 title fight; Tony Duffy’s photo of long jumper Bob Beamon leaping into history at the 1968 Mexico City Olympics; and David Burnett’s shot of runner Mary Decker after stumbling in the 1984 LA Olympics.
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