Projections Friday September 15, 2023
For five nights next week, September 18 to 22, Projections will continue its showcase of work from photojournalists covering the war in Ukraine. Presenters will include Tom Warburton, Paula Bronstein, Michael Brochstein, Sasha Maslov, Ken Cedeno, Evgeniy Maloletka, Heathcliff O’Malley and Valery Meinikov. The events begin at 7:00 EST via Zoom. This is the 11th week of presentations from world renowned photojournalists working in Ukraine.
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David Schonauer Friday September 15, 2023
A Kansas high school football photographer has died after falling and hitting her head on concrete while taking photos during a game, we noted this week. Linda Gregory, 69, fell after a collision
with players as she was photographing a junior varsity game between Wichita Northwest High School and rival Bishop Carroll High on Sept. 4. Gregory, and her husband, Mel, have been shooting … Read the full Story >>
The New York Times Thursday September 14, 2023
Nancy Buirski, an Emmy and Peabody Award-winning documentary filmmaker whose eye was honed as a still photographer and picture editor, died on August 29 at her home in Manhattan, reports The New York Times. She was 78. Buirski’s 2011 film The Loving Storyexplored the case of Mildred and Richard Loving, who faced imprisonment because their interracial marriage in 1958 was illegal in Virginia. As a picture editor at The New York Times, Buirski was credited with choosing photographer Kevin Carter’s Pulitzer Prize-winning image of a starving Sudanese toddler eyed by a vulture.
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MY MODERN MET Thursday September 14, 2023
Over the course of eight years, from 1977 until 1984, Swiss photographer Willy Spiller documented life in New York City’s subways, amassing nearly 2,000 images that form a visual time capsule of that moment in the city's history. First published in 1986 in the book Hell on Wheels, the work was rereleased to wide acclaim in 2016. That book is now out of print, but, notes My Modern Met, a redesigned edition of Hell on Wheels is being published. It includes previously unseen images.
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