Lucie Foundation Friday May 8, 2026
The Lucie Foundation is pleased to offer four cash grants and a variety of prizes to support the work of emerging and established photographers. Scholarship categories include Fine Art ($3,000 professional; $1,000 emerging) and Photojournalism/Documentary ($3,000 professional; $1,000 emerging). Winners will be part of a group exhibition that will travel to the House of Lucie Galleries worldwide, including Los Angeles, Athens, Budapest, Ostuni, and Samui. Deadline: Sept. 30, with a 20-percent early bird discount for entering by Aug. 23. Read the full Story >>
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David Schonauer Friday May 8, 2026
The overabundance of and overexposure to images thrust upon humanity by social media and new technologies--and more recently the proliferation of A.I.-generated images that feel increasingly detached
from human experience--have sparked a countermovement of resistance, noted the Observer in a recent report on the surging market for vintage Leica cameras. In other vintage news, Kosmo Foto
spotlighted a husband and wife who make 1920s-style … Read the full Story >>
The New York Times Thursday May 7, 2026
Stephanie Chernikowski, a Texas-born photographer who moved to New York City in the 1970s and quickly became a fixture at clubs like CBGB, where she captured the radiant chaos of punk as bands like the Ramones, Blondie and the Patti Smith Group refashioned the look and sound of rock, died on April 1 in Manhattan. She was 84, notes The New York Times. “The city was broke and crumbling,” Chernikowski recalled in a 2009 interview with the culture site Pop Matters. “Sometimes it seemed there was a mass psychotic breakdown, but from the swamp arose a rough magic.” Read the full Story >>
DP Review Thursday May 7, 2026
Since 2018, Polish photographer Kamil Budzynski has been placing homemade pinhole cameras throughout the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, leaving them in abandoned buildings, trees and other locations for months at a time. The resulting solargraphs, notes DP Review, are strange, quiet and even disorienting, thanks to exposures that can stretch across seasons. Kosmo Foto recently published an interview with Budzynski about the long-running project. Read the full Story >>
