feature shoot Wednesday November 20, 2024
You thought the shoot went well, so why isn’t the client hiring you again? Feature Shoot offers some answers to that question—15 of them, to be precise—and adds remedies for fixing the issues. The number-one way to lose clients, notes FS, is to ignore their preferences and go off in your own direction. The fix is simple enough: Do what clients want. “Give them options, but make sure their ideas are represented,” notes FS.
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Curbed Wednesday November 20, 2024
There may be a rising appreciation of Brutalist architecture from the 1960s and 1970s: Curbed spotlights the work of Owen Davies, who moved from the U.K. to New York in early March 2020, only to find a ghost city as the pandemic set in. Wandering empty streets, he came across big concrete monolithic buildings, comparatively rare in London. The discovery set him off in search of other concrete structures. "I started to see them as monuments left behind from some kind of a failed utopia,” he says.
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OCULA Wednesday November 20, 2024
Documentary photographer Susan Meiselas will receive the Outstanding Contribution to Photography Award from the Sony World Photography Awards 2025, reports Ocula. Meiselas, noted for her coverage of conflict in Nicaragua and carnival strippers in New England, follows last year’s recipient of the award, Sebastião Salgado. “Meiselas has created a powerful corpus of work, expanding perceptions of documentary photography through her insightful portrayals of people in their communities,” noted the World Photography Organization.
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CNN Wednesday November 20, 2024
After initially pledging to honor women’s rights, the Taliban has nearly erased women from public life, sending girls behind closed doors notes CNN, which features a portrait of teen girls in Kabul secretly celebrating a birthday, their faces purposely turned away from the camera. The image was one of many from a six-month body of work by Iranian-Canadian photojournalist Kiana Hayeri showing the lives of Afghan women as the Taliban has continually stripped them of their basic rights,
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