NY Times: Capitol Police Officer Eugene Goodman Recounts How He Held Off the Mob on Jan. 6.

 Via The New York Times

June 13, 2022

Ashley Gilbertson

Officer Goodman, The Stroming of the Capitol, January 6, 2020

"Officer Goodman, whose heroism was captured in widely circulated video recorded by a reporter inside the Capitol, said rioters sprayed him with what he believed to be bear spray, threw objects at him and tried to shake him and other officers off some scaffolding during the storming of the building. He also recounted throwing up in reaction to the tear gas deployed by the Metropolitan Police when they arrived to reinforce the Capitol Police, who had been overrun.

“It looked like something out of medieval times, where you see one big force fighting another force,” Officer Goodman said."

PROJECTIONS: David Butow - Guns in America - An Epidemic

 

PROJECTIONS: Guns in America - An Epidemic. Join us for a riveting week of searing imagery from seven highly acclaimed photographers.

About this event

From June 13th-17th PROJECTIONS - Guns in America will present imagery from seven internationally respected photographers who have covered gun violence in America for twenty-five plus years. These photographers: David Butow, Cheriss May, Kathy Schorr, Carlos Oritz, Jon Lowenstein, Barbara Davidson and Zed Nelson have won every major photographic award. Ms. Davidson is a Pulitzer Prize winner.

With the latest horrific massacres in Texas and New York and the continued lack of action from our elected officials were compelled to visit this multifaceted conversation. We invite you to reach out to those officials to join us and to experience how their political posturing is wreaking havoc on our society.

Here's the schedule of presenters:

Monday: David Butow

Tuesday: Carlos Ortiz

Wednesday: Kathy Schorr and Jon Lowenstein

Thursday: Barbara Davidson

Friday: Cheriss May and Zed Nelson

We thank our sponsors for their continued support: PhotoShelter, Epson, Archive Magazine, Pro Photo Daily and AI-AP.

Register here.

'Napalm Girl' at 50: The story of the Vietnam War's defining photo

Via CNN
June 8, 2022

Oscar Holland, CNN

In Snap, we look at the power of a single photograph, chronicling stories about how both modern and historical images have been made.

The horrifying photograph of children fleeing a deadly napalm attack has become a defining image not only of the Vietnam War but the 20th century. Dark smoke billowing behind them, the young subjects' faces are painted with a mixture of terror, pain and confusion. Soldiers from the South Vietnamese army's 25th Division follow helplessly behind.

Taken outside the village of Trang Bang on June 8, 1972, the picture captured the trauma and indiscriminate violence of a conflict that claimed, by some estimates, a million or more civilian lives. Though officially titled "The Terror of War," the photo is better known by the nickname given to the badly burned, naked 9-year-old at its center: "Napalm Girl".

The girl, since identified as Phan Thi Kim Phuc, ultimately survived her injuries. This was thanks, in part, to Associated Press photographer Nick Ut, who assisted the children after taking his now-iconic image. Fifty years on from that fateful day, the pair are still in regular contact -- and using their story to spread a message of peace.

"I will never forget that moment," Phuc said in a video call from Toronto, where she is now based.

Photograph of New York City By Ashley Gilbertson Leads NY Times Magazine Feature

Via The New York Times Sunday Magazine

June 1, 2022

Photograph by Ashley Gilbertson

What Do We Want From Our Next New York?

Decade after decade, waves of migration have remade New York. What kind of city will the latest one create?

 

Queens, New York: lunch with the Maestro. Tony Vaccaro photographed by Ashley Gilbertson

 

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June 1, 2022

Queens, New York: lunch with the Maestro. Tony Vaccaro photographed by Ashley Gilbertson

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David Butow Photographs For TIME

 Via TIME

May 29, 2022

Uvalde Community Worships Together on First Sunday Since School Shooting Claimed 21 Lives

Report on the Spring Art Week in New York

 

Via Art Tribune

May 29, 2022

THE PHOTOGRAPHY SHOW

For a change of medium, however, you had to go to The Photography Show presented by AIPAD, Association of International Photography Art Dealers that this year debuted in a new location in Midtown. The fair, now in its forty-first edition, has gathered forty-nine galleries from nine countries around the world, offering a broad look at contemporary photography, as well as the past of this medium. Inevitably, current events have also entered the images on display, such as in the photographs of Ukrainian refugees by Daniel Butow or those depicting the New York of the pandemic taken by Ashley Gilbertson. But there has also been a lot of history, especially American, with photos of Gordon Parks, Helen Levitt, Diane Arbus, Weegee, Tony Vaccaro. 

View our exhibition at The Photography Show presented by AIPAD here.

New York Times: From Sandy Hook to Uvalde, the Violent Images Never Seen

 Via The New York Times

May 30, 2022

Frustrated Americans ask whether the release of graphic photos of gun violence would lead to better policy. But which photos, and who decides?

"For a culture so steeped in violence, we spend a lot of time preventing anyone from actually seeing that violence. Something else is going on here, and I’m not sure it’s just that we’re trying to be sensitive.”

--Nina Berman, a documentary photographer, filmmaker and Columbia journalism professor.

Full article here.

Faces of the fire: Resilient rests share their stories; Photos by Gabriela E. Campos

The Santa Fe New Mexican

May 29, 2022

 Gallery photographer Gabriela E. Campos photographed for the article "Faces of the fire: Resilient residents share their stories".

David Butow's photograph from Uvalde, Texas leads the New York Times Editorial "A Heartbroken Nation".

 Via The New York Times

May 28, 2022

David Butow's photograph leads the New York Times Editorial "A Heartbroken Nation".