Reading Time: 2 minutes The American photographer’s new photo book brings together images spanning over 30 years, capturing the beauty of his city’s many communities
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Reading Time: 4 minutes Composed of hazy vignettes from his coming-of-age, Stephen Velastegui’s latest zine documents a transitory period of his life in Queens, New York
Reading Time: 4 minutes Special Correspondent for Getty Images John Moore was one of the first photographers to cover the 2014 Ebola outbreak in Liberia. “I learned a skill set that I never expected to use in my hometown,” he says, as he reflects on the process of covering the coronavirus outbreak in New York
Reading Time: 3 minutes Prints from 96 New York-based photographers go on sale until 20 April to raise money for Elmhurst Hospital Centre, Queens
Reading Time: 4 minutes In an upcoming book, former Club Kid Walt Cassidy chronicles the 90s New York party scene with a curation of over 500 images by 18 artists
Reading Time: 3 minutes Between 1971 and 1983, Bob Colacello served as editor of Andy Warhol’s Interview Magazine; a…
Reading Time: 4 minutes A group show of contemporary Czech photography, Tender is dedicated to work that “registers vulnerabilities of people and their environments – the bruises on the fruit”. The selected photographers include image-makers such as Tereza Zelenková, Vendula Knopová, and Hana Knížová, for example, who adopt widely varying styles but can all be seen to investigate this idea in their selected work.
“Remember, ‘tender’ also means a bid and this exhibition is a part of a program established to promote the Czech Republic abroad,” write the exhibition curator Michal Nanoru. “Are you going to accept the offer?”
Reading Time: 3 minutes “To me photography is a means, perhaps the best means of our age – of widening knowledge of our world. Photography is a method of education, for acquainting people of all ages and conditions with the truth about life today,” wrote photographer Berenice Abbott, in an unpublished text from 1946, Statement in Regard to Photography Today. Berenice Abbott: Portraits of Modernity will run at the Fundación MAPFRE in Barcelona till 19 May 2019. Following its showing in Barcelona, the exhibition will go on display at the Fundación MAPFRE’s Sala Recoletos in Madrid from 01 June till 23 August.
Reading Time: 3 minutes Dawoud Bey, Jess T. Dugan, Rosalind Fox Solomon, Shahidul Alam, and Zadie Smith have been announced as the honourees of this year’s Infinity Awards, organised by The International Center of Photography (ICP) in New York.
American photographer Dawoud Bey will be presented with the Art award, Jess T. Dugan with Emerging Photographer, and Zadie Smith with Critical Writing and Research, for her piece in the New Yorker titled Deana Lawson’s Kingdom of Restored Glory. This year’s jury was composed of: Erin Barnett, director of exhibitions and collections, ICP; David Gonzalez, co-editor, Lens Blog; Kristen Joy Watts, editor of @design, Instagram; and Rhea L. Combs, curator of film and photography, National Museum of African American History and Culture.
Reading Time: 4 minutes When Kanghee Kim started making photographs, it was out of frustration. Due to visa complications,…