Photographer Walker Evans was born in St. Louis in 1903. His childhood was a comfortable one secured by his father’s earnings as an advertising executive; he marveled at the railroads that crisscrossed the Midwestern landscape and spent summers in resort hotels.
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“I live near the beginning of the Mississippi and have always felt a pull to it,” Soth tells writer Colin Pantall of the British Journal of Photography. “I used to run away when I was 5 or 6, pack a suitcase with books and run away from home. I’d only get a few blocks but it was the whole Huck Finn process, where the north is home and the south symbolises the exotic.”
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A Midwestern High Schooler’s Intimate, Imperfect Portrait of Adolescence
Far more affection than angst figures in the adolescent wasteland where the eighteen-year-old photographer Colin Combs portrays his friends, most of them high-school seniors from Dayton, Ohio. Combs’s home town is sometimes called the heroin capital of the United States.
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I saw a soldier sitting and gazing into space. I asked the sergeant near him what had happened. “I don’t know,” he said absently. I dropped down on my knees and took five frames of that man. My “staring soldier picture” captured what men seemed to feel about what they’d endured.
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A good photo can let you see the world in ways you never dreamed of.
That’s what struck us about the nominees for the 2018 World Press Photo contest, an annual competition that highlights the best photojournalism of the year. The finalists were just announced.
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