Category: Creativity

Photographer Mandy Parks recently captured the pain, beauty and bravery of a woman’s fight with breast cancer. The pictures show Kelsey Johnson shaving his wife, Charlie’s, head. The Arkansas photographer’s post has received more than 209K reactions and 215K shares in less than a day, and people from all over the world are sending the couple their best wishes.

A New York City-based photographer is suing fashion house Alexander Wang for using his copyright-protected work without a licence. In a complaint filed at the US District Court for the Southern District of New York on Monday, August 12, Robert Barbera said Alexander Wang had used a photograph he took of UK singer Dua Lipa without compensation.

Motoko Sato became fascinated with nature from a young age, encouraged by her father, who was a botanical artist. A trained painter, she picked up a camera after her parents died, and she felt compelled to live in the moment. Her background in Japanese painting, which does not employ gradation, led to her stark black and white photographic style.

The numbers are well known -billions of photos shared every day- and the habits well-entrenched- checking social media 40 times a day-. Every concert, every street performance, every incident, accident, spill, fall, weird dance, every anything that is out of the ordinary is filmed and photographed and immediately shared via a myriad of networked channels linked together by varying shades of relationships.

Instagram is going after meme accounts – which post pictures with slogans – often created by other social-media fanatics and, on many occasions, reposted without giving credit. On July 26, 15-year-old Ben was surprised to find he couldn’t log into five of his eight Instagram accounts.

An exhibition examining Lee Friedlander’s five-decade long obsession with signs is currently on view at Fraenkel Gallery in San Francisco. Since the early 1960s, Friedlander has photographed the signs that inscribe the American landscape. Made in cities and small towns from New Jersey to Montana, Arkansas to South Dakota, this highly influential photographer chronicled hundreds of the hand-lettered ads, storefront windows and massive billboards he encountered.

Our work as photographers says a lot about us as human beings. Continuing to evaluate that work well beyond its inception is important to both our creative and personal growth. There’s a framed picture hanging against the far wall of my bedroom. Twelve by twelve.

The narrative around plagiarism is often extemely simplified: There is a plagiarist and there is a victim. It’s a simple and compelling narrative. There is a bad person that has stolen or lifted from a good person by using their work without the decency of at least giving them proper credit.

Stephen Mayes argues that the rise of digital changed the very nature of photography by moving it from a fixed image to a fluid one. Photography is less about document or evidence and more about community and experience … and that’s not a bad thing.

Last weekend at Photo London I had the chance to attend a lecture with Sebastião Salgado. Leo Johnson interviewed the 71-year old photographer about his life and work. In the Q&A that followed a young student, probably around 21 years old, asked what he would recommend a young photographer to start his career today.

Most people think that technology is for young people, but nobody told Kimiko Nishimoto that. She’s an 89-year-old Japanese grandma who’s been snapping and editing her own pictures for the last 17 years, and as you can see below, her style is certainly unique! She didn’t get into photography until she was 72 years old.