Vanity Fair Thursday November 16, 2023
“For those of us on the outside, the ‘fog of war’ is beginning to resemble a total eclipse of the sun.” So writes Fred Ritchin, Dean Emeritus of the International Center of Photography, in an essay at Vanity Fair. In it, Ritchin notes that a “near total collapse of the media ecosystem has left people unable to visually gauge what is going on in the conflict between Israel and Hamas. With the contraction of print publications, the front pages of newspapers and the covers of newsmagazines have essentially disappeared, no longer providing a unifying focus." Ritchin’s book The Synthetic Eye: Photography Transformed in the Age of AI will be published next year by Thames & Hudson.
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L’Oeil de la Photographie Thursday November 16, 2023
Sergiy Lebedynskyy, Director of the Museum of the Kharkiv School of Photography, transported an impressive collection of some 5,000 photographs to Wolfsburg, Germany, a few weeks after Russia launched its war in Ukraine. The works, notes L’Oeil de la Photography, belong to the so-called Kharkiv School of Photography, a movement that has been experimenting artistically since the late 1960s and represents a kind of anti-attitude to official Soviet-style photography. The trove of material is on view through Jan. 7, 2024, at the Kunstmuseum of Wolfsburg.
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KAKE Thursday November 16, 2023
Kansas-based photographer Caitlyn Payne is facing an $80,000 fine and a potential ban from doing business for “scamming” couples by not showing up at their weddings. The Sedgwick County district attorney says Payne is engaging in "deceptive or unconscionable acts,” notes KAKE. Payne, who runs the CP Family Photography business in Derby, Kansas, has reportedly left “dozens” of clients complaining that she didn’t deliver services as promised. Read the full Story >>
The Guardian Thursday November 16, 2023
When photographer Sarah Waiswa returned to Kenya in 2010 after nearly a decade abroad, she was struck by how women were expressing their views and talking about their experiences. A number were redefining what an “African identity” meant to them, notes The Guardian, which recently spotlighted the exhibition “Sisi ni Hao” at the Goethe-Institut in Nairobi. The exhibition mixed old and new portraiture, fine art and photojournalism to explore African womanhood and how female photographers there are redefining their lives.
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