Last night, Peter van Agtmael was awarded the prestigious Infinity Award for Young Photographer of the Year by the International Center of Photography. Kira Pollack, Director of Photography at TIME, reflects on the importance of his work as an editor firmly committed to his vision.
Magnum Photographers Alec Soth, Jim Goldberg, Susan Meiselas, Paolo Pellegrin, Mikhael Subotsky, and writer Ginger Strand are a bunch of friends going on a homespun adventure; a two week road trip.
Dutch photographer Viviane Sassen works along the thin line separating art and commerce. She is dually known for her innovative fashion work in French Vogue, Purple, and POP and for her surrealist African portraiture.
This evening the International Center of Photography in New York City will honor Elliot Erwitt with a lifetime achivement award. In an interview with LightBox he says, "I think great pictures start great conversations. It’s the stuff of life, just talking with the people that are around."
Like many New York City based photographers Peter van Agtmael rushed over to the World Trade Center Site on the eve of the killing of Osama Bin Laden to see how people would react to the news. After making some work in the crowd overtaken with the media and young revelers he decided to head home to sleep, confused by the reactions of the crowd, and waiting to see what the morning would bring.
When President Obama announced last Wednesday that he would not release images of the dead Osama Bin Laden, this decision seemed anomalous. When a “Most Wanted” fugitive at this level of notoriety is captured or killed, it has become customary to release photographs of the deceased as evidence, and these images often have tremendous propaganda value. David Levi Strauss takes a brief historical look at the effects of these images.
This week: The killing of Osama bin Laden and reactions to it from around the world; NATO bombs Muammar Gaddafi’s compound in Tripoli, killing his son; the U.S. after tornadoes and flooding; remembering the Holocaust; the beatification of Pope John Paul II; Obama visits the World Trade Center Memorial.
For almost fifty years during his career as a tabloid journalist, Enrique Metinides captured murders and car crashes, criminals and catastrophes. Filmmaker Ross McDonnell introduces us to Mexico's Weegee.
For the first time ever, World Press Photo is awarding multimedia in its annual competition. Among the finalists is a ground breaking production entitled Blanco, a project exploring blindness across the globe by Italian photographer Stefano De Luigi.
The 3/11 Tsunami Photo Project, a new app for the iPhone and iPad, features the work of fourteen photographers who documented the tragic aftermath of the earthquake and tsunami in Japan. The app is an innovative fundraiser as well - all proceeds from the project go to the Japanese Red Cross Society.
