Gallery Photographer David Butow's Photograph of Tim Walz in The Atlantic

Via The Atlantic

September 28, 2024

 Gallery Photographer David Butow's photographs from the Democratic National Convention are featured in the current The Atlantic article "Tim Walz is too good at this".

Related: "The Campaign" Virtual Exhibition.

Field of View: The Politic Aesthetic

 Via Field of View

September 28, 2024

Excerpted from "The Politic Aesthetic   Access is gone. Moments are dead. Long live the flash"

(see also the virtual exhibition "The Campaign"

"Few photos exemplify access like this gem by LIFE magazine photographer Hank Walker: Kennedy and his brother Robert deep in conversation in a hotel room during that same convention in 1960. It’s one of my all-time favorite political photographs. Access to an authentic moment like this is a photojournalist’s dream.

    photograph by Hank Walker

“The brothers talked very quietly, and Jack told Bobby who he was going to choose as Vice President,” Walker said in a 1994 interview. “I only made one picture in there, and then I waited outside for Bobby to come out. When he did, he was furious.”2

Walker’s contact sheet proves he made way more than just one picture—he wasn’t escorted in and hurried out in 30 seconds. Walker was allowed to work it. Notice how at first he’s shooting horizontally (frame 23), then rotates his camera and makes the one (frame 24).

Photographs by Hank Walker

Henri Cartier-Bresson once said that using a flash was “monstrous” and “impolite, like coming to a concert with a pistol in your hand.” Some of the photos from the 2024 conventions were definitely monstrous.

Photograph by Mark Peterson

Mark Peterson has been temporarily blinding politicians with his strobe for years. “The flash is like crack to them,” he once said.

Photograph by Mark Peterson

A regular contributor to The New York Times Opinion section (mostly b&w) and New York magazine (mostly color), Peterson’s flash does more than light the scene—it defines it. It’s his signature look, one he’s refined and mastered. And it’s contagious."  full article here.

Jimmy Carter at 100

 September 25, 2024

Ken Harkins

Carter Wins!, 1977

Monroe Gallery of Photography is honored to offer a special selection of photographs by Ken Hawkins of Jimmy Carter to commemorate his 100th birthday on October 1, 2024.

Ken Hawkins is a photojournalist who has covered politics, disasters, and conflict zones—including Vietnam, Nicaragua, and El Salvador—since 1970, working globally for publications and agencies such as TIME, Sports Illustrated, Fortune, Forbes, Paris Match, Stern, the New York Times, Newsweek, Wired, and the British Broadcasting Corporation. For over two decades, his work was represented by the premier photo agency SYGMA Paris/New York. In 2016, Hawkins authored "Jimmy Carter – Photographs 1970 – 2010", a photographic memoir of his time as a TIME photographer working the Carter campaign and White House.  

Please contact the Gallery for print details.

The Carter Center has invited members of the public to contribute photos of themselves alongside birthday messages for the country's oldest living former president. The images make up a mosaic marking the centennial.

Ken Hawkins

Blue Sky Afternoon in Plains, 1977

Oklahoma State University Museum of Art Exhibit “How We Rebuild” Includes Gallery Photographer Nina Berman

 Via Oklahoma State University Museum of Art

September 23, 2024

The Oklahoma State University Museum of Art presents “How We Rebuild,” opening Sept. 24, 2024. This selection of photographs examines the aftermath of conflict, focusing on what it takes to recover the heartbeat of humanity.

The exhibition draws from 12 years of work created by grant winners and finalists from The Aftermath Project, a nonprofit organization committed to telling the other half of war stories after the conflicts have ended — what it takes for individuals to rebuild destroyed lives and homes, to restore civil societies, and to address the lingering wounds of war while struggling to create new avenues for peace.

Documentary photographer Sara Terry founded The Aftermath Project to impart the importance of “aftermath photography,” yearning for a society that doesn’t forget the people and places that conflict photography covers.

“The end of war does not mean peace. It is simply the end of death and destruction. Every story of war includes a chapter that almost always goes untold — the story of the aftermath, which day by day becomes a prologue of the future,” Terry said.

The photos selected for “How We Rebuild” center and reflect on the human stories and memories that define us. The assembly of images features moments of hope, agency and resilience.

“These photographs serve as a powerful reminder that rebuilding isn’t just physical — it’s emotional and communal, requiring empathy, patience, and shared understanding,” said Liz Roth, OSU Museum of Art interim director.

This exhibition invites audiences to engage with the visual narratives and reflect on the role of the photographs in helping communities heal. “How We Rebuild” is organized by ExhibitsUSA, a program of Mid-America Arts Alliance.

Artists included in the exhibition are Rodrigo Abd, Juan Arredond, Fatemeh Behboudi, Nina Berman, Pep Bonet, Andrea Bruce, Monika Bulaj, Kathryn Cook, Jeremy Dennis, Gwenn Dubourthoumieu, Michelle Frankfurter, Alessandro Gandolfi, Glenna Gordon, Ron Haviv, Jessica Hines, Olga Ingurazova, Andrew Lichtenstein, Luca Locatelli, Davide Monteleone, Saiful Huq Omi, Javad Parsa, Adam Patterson, Joseph Sywenkyj, Sara Terry and Donald Weber.

“How We Rebuild” is on view Sept. 24 through Dec. 20 at the OSU Museum of Art. Learn more at the website.

For more information about The Aftermath Project, visit theaftermathproject.org.

The Age of Rage: Protest, Camera, Action

 

Via The Nation

September 21, 2024

"Photography radically acts as a language that speaks for the world’s oppressed and critically functions as a vital visual voice of resistance."

"Photography helps us understand what we are and imagine what we might become...

The fight for equality across the human condition radically evolves out of protest. Beyond the jackboots, the batons, the water cannon, the tear gas, the bullets, the tanks, the fences, the walls, the concentration camps and all means of surveillance, history teaches that what power fears more than anything is a people on the move against injustice. Looking at the history of photography, we can understand that progress across the political terrain of human rights has been difficult. Marginalized bodies, when divided, are vulnerable to capture, control and genocide. Thinking through our past in photographs and decentering the knowledge formations of imperial lenses means that we can critically join or remake the politics of the left intersectional, aligned in mission, and truly inclusive. This will create waves of solidarity and supportive modes of resistance that strategically enable people to embrace the different ecologies of freedom and resist imperialist politics that divide and rule" -- click for full article

For journalists, NYPD protest changes can’t come too soon

 Via Columbia Journalism Review

September 20, 2024

"For the sake of democracy and the protection of First Amendment rights, that day can’t come soon enough. In New York and across the nation, police departments should immediately ban kettling, which threatens the First Amendment rights of all protesters and specifically undermines the work of the press. As the Justice Department has noted, police departments should ensure that provisions are in place to allow journalists to continue to work, documenting events including police activity, when a lawful dispersal order is given or a curfew put in place." --click for full article

Pressing Matters - A Conversation with Ed Kashi/Photojournalist and Filmmaker

 Via Stony Brook University

September 16, 2024

Ed Kashi/photojournalist and filmmaker. He will discuss his experiences photographing vulnerable communities, center on seeking solutions and driving policy change, Sept 26, 2024 from 3:30-4:50pm in the Wang Center Lecture Hall 2. Part of the “Pressing Matters” lecture series.


Ed Kashi is a photojournalist and filmmaker renowned for his compelling storytelling and intimate portrayal of global issues through photography. A native of New York City, Kashi has used the power of images to communicate complex narratives about conflict, social issues, and environmental concerns in the past decades, and his work has been published in prominent media outlets such as National Geographic, The New York Times, and Time Magazine. He has received numerous awards for his photography, including the 2023 President's Medal of the American Society of Nephrology, for his recent series of work documenting chronic kidney disease from undetermined causes around the world. His research implicates climate change as an important contributor to its rise because repeated dehydration, severe heat, and environmental toxins are the likely factors in the rising death toll among young people from hot, rural, resource- limited parts globally. Kashi has been recognized as a major advocate for raising awareness of this disease through his works showing patients suffering and dying in Sri Lanka, Nicaragua, Peru, and India.

Thursday, September 26, 2024

3:30 PM - 4:50 PM (ET)

West Campus - Wang Center - Lecture Hall 2

100 Nicolls Road

Stony Brook NY 11794

Pennsylvania man, brother charged with assaulting New York Times photographer on January 6

 

Via ABC20 WHTM

September 13, 2024




Two brothers were arrested Thursday on charges that they assaulted a New York Times photographer inside the U.S. Capitol during a mob’s attack on the building more than three years ago.

David Walker, 49, of Delran, New Jersey, and Philip Walker, 52, of Upper Chichester, Pennsylvania, also are charged with stealing a camera from the photographer during the Jan. 6, 2021, attack.

Philip Walker told investigators that he tossed a camera into a body of water on his way home from Washington, D.C., according to an FBI agent’s affidavit.

Court records don’t name the photographer or identify her employer, but New York Times spokesperson Danielle Rhoades Ha confirmed that the affidavit refers to staff photographer Erin Schaff, who wrote about her experience at the Capitol.

“We are grateful to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia and the FBI for their persistence in pursuing justice in this case,” Rhodes Ha said in a statement. “Independent, fact-based journalism is a cornerstone of democracy and attacks against reporters should be a grave concern to anyone who cares about an informed citizenry.”

Philip Walker told the FBI that he believed the photographer was a member of “antifa,” a term for anti-fascist activists who often clash with far-right extremists at political protests.

A livestream video posted on social media showed the photographer standing at the top of the East Rotunda Stairs just before the Walkers assaulted her and then ran down the staircase.

Schaff recalled that two or three men in black surrounded her, demanded to know her employer and became angry when they grabbed her press pass and saw that she worked for The New York Times.

“They threw me to the floor, trying to take my cameras,” she wrote. “I started screaming for help as loudly as I could. No one came. People just watched. At this point, I thought I could be killed and no one would stop them.”

Schaff said police found her but didn’t believe that she was a journalist because her press pass was stolen.

“They drew their guns, pointed them and yelled at me to get down on my hands and knees,” she wrote. “As I lay on the ground, two other photojournalists came into the hall and started shouting ‘She’s a journalist!’”

Philip Walker was carrying what appeared to be Schaff’s photographic equipment as he fled, the FBI said. David Walker pushed the photographer again when she tried to pursue his brother and retrieve her equipment, according to the affidavit.

A magistrate judge ordered David Walker to be released on $50,000 bail after his initial court appearance in New Jersey on Thursday, court records show. An attorney who represented Walker at the hearing didn’t immediately respond to an email seeking comment.

The Walkers were arrested on complaints charging them with robbery, assault and other charges.

Other rioters were charged with assaulting an Associated Press photographer outside the Capitol during the riot. One of them, Alan Byerly, was sentenced in October 2022 to nearly three years in prison.

Nearly 1,500 people have been charged with Capitol riot-related federal crimes. Approximately 140 police officers were injured in the attack.

World Press Photo and NOOR present ‘Celebrating Communities,’ an exhibition including Gallery photographer Anna Boyiaz's "Finding Freedom in the Water"

 Via World Press Photo

September 6, 2024

World Press Photo and NOOR present ‘Celebrating Communities,’ an exhibition and public program in Abidjan, Yamoussoukro, and four cocoa-farming communities in rural Côte d'Ivoire, with the support of the Chocolonely Foundation (Tony's Chocolonely) and the Fondation Donwahi.

This exhibition highlights diverse perspectives and narratives, underscoring the profound impact of community on individuals and societies both globally and locally. From neighborly gestures to organized activism, the work in ‘Celebrating Communities’ underscores the transformative power of human connection and shared purpose, visualizing communities as catalysts for change.

Gallery photographer Anna Boyiaz's project, Finding Freedom in the Water, is presented alongside nine other award-winning projects from the World Press Photo Contest and ten bodies of work from NOOR’s education program, ‘Advanced Visual Storytelling in Côte d’Ivoire.’

‘Celebrating Communities’ will be on display at the Fondation Donwahi in Abidjan from 14 September to 13 October, and a traveling version of the exhibition will visit Yamoussoukro and four cocoa-farming communities: Adzopé, Daloa, Méagui, and Heremakono Dies-Divo.

WE THE PEOPLE, Photographs by Nina Berman

 Via The Capa Space

September 2, 2024

Nina Berman

The Fight for 15 protest in Long Island, NY 2016. 

We the People brings together more than three decades of work by photographer Nina Berman who has tenaciously documented the public outrages, injustices, protestations and longings of a deeply dissatisfied and increasingly polarized society. What the United States should be, and for whom, are questions at the heart of Nina’s work and the 2024 election. 

September 8th - November 24th, 2024

Opening Reception, Sunday September 8th, 4-6pm

THE CAPA SPACE

2467 Quaker Church Road

 Yorktown Heights, NY 10598