W. Eugene Smith Grant Awarded to 5 Photographers
W. Eugene Smith Fund breaks 40-year tradition and presents 41st annual grant in humanistic photography to five photographers.
Martha Cooper: Archivist of New York City’s Artistic Underground
A new exhibition in Berlin, entitled Taking Pictures, showcases six decades of Martha Cooper’s illustrious photography career. She takes us back to the early 1980s, for an intimate look at New York’s iconic graffiti scene.
Adobe Unveils a Collection of 70,000 Free-to-Use Images
As Adobe is organizing its virtual AdobeMAX conference (Oct 20-22, 2020), the giant tech company has unveiled a new tool in Adobe Stock: an access to a massive free collection of 70,000 photos, illustrations, vectors, and other assets.
Sid Kaplan’s Analog New York
A show of New York native Sid Kaplan’s work is currently on view at Les Douches Galerie in Paris. It’s the first time his oeuvre has been shown in France.
Photographers, Submit your Work!
Blind supports the production of visual stories and invites all photographers to submit their portfolios.
Yegan Mazandarani, The Pariahs of Donbass
In September 2018, photographer Yegan Mazandarani traveled to the secessionist, self-proclaimed, unrecognized Donetsk People’s Republic on the Russian-Ukrainian border to photograph its inhabitants. His images, taken with empathy, are now brought together in a book.
Bénédicte Kurzen, Voodoo Wrestling in Congo
French photographer Bénédicte Kurzen explores the mystical and ancestral practice of Congolese wrestling in Brazzaville.
Jeff Mermelstein, Anthropologist of the Absurd
In his new book #nyc, Jeff Mermelstein takes a radical new approach to photography and abandons the pretense of art in favor of exploring complexities of the human mind in a series of new images made of anonymous cell phone text conversations.
Mary Ellen Mark, A Life Defending Humanity
This month, German publisher Steidl is releasing an exceptional book on the career of American photographer Mary Ellen Mark. For 60 years, she has worked to highlight the richness of our cultures and the diversity of our society.
A video interview with François Halard
In this second book devoted to artists’ studios, the photographer continues his exploration and opens the doors to the studios of mythical figures of art history such as Louise Bourgeois, Saul Leiter or Giorgio Morandi. Interview with François Halard.
The surprising architecture of Los Angeles
While the city of Los Angeles is currently undergoing heavy densification and transformation, the architects Caroline and Cyril Desroche are publishing a documentary book containing 1,300 photos in order to take stock of the city’s urban fabric. In it they deconstruct the hierarchies and analyze the city’s standards, with billboards and parking lots appearing on the same plane as the mythical stilt houses.
Regarding the Painful Memories of Others
How to represent violence? Through the work of three photographers, our columnist explores this complex question of photography.
ON THAT DAY, “A successful jailbreak” by Benjamin Hoffman
With our On That Day series, photographers are invited to take us behind the scenes of one of their photographs. Today, photographer Benjamin Hoffman relates his trip to Robben Island, South Africa.
Taking Your First Steps in a Darkroom
Now that you have all the keys in hand to take up film photography, you may decide to start developing your film at home. Here are some tips on getting started that will guide you through the various steps so you can see your images appear as negatives.
Jérémie Villet: in search of the wolf
The photographer corrals a nice little gallery of animals going all the way back to his childhood. Aged 22, Jérémie Villet is about to publish his first book.
ON THAT DAY, “In the Land of the Kims” by Philippe Chancel
With our “On That Day” series, photographers are invited to take us behind the scenes of one of their photographs. Today, Philippe Chancel tells us about a compromised photo session in North Korea.
How photography has taken over Brussels during and post lockdown
1000 photos, 50 photographers, four weeks of speed assembly, one city-wide exhibition, and 174,000 visitors. Since June, the streets of Brussels have turned into outdoor exhibition halls and, here and there, Belgian photography has eclipsed billboards. The project is called EXI(S)T, and reminds us once again that culture is a site of resistance to ongoing crises.
A Powerful Portrait of Resistance and Resilience in New York City
The Museum of the City of New York presents “New York Responds,” an outdoor photography installation culled from more than 15,000 submissions made during the COVID-19 crisis and the Black Lives Movement protests.
Making the most out of your photography website
A website is a valuable digital tool that allows you to show your work to a large audience and to introduce yourself. Whether you’re creating your first photo website or looking to dive back into it to update it, here are some tips for making the most out of it.
Alejandra Laviada’s Geometric Trompe-l’oeil
Mexican artist Alejandra Laviada first trained as a painter before turning to photography. For years she wanted to combine painting with photography, and she started doing that recently. Here’s a look at some of her latest work.
ON THAT DAY – “When I turned 25” by Yan Morvan
With our series On that Day, photographers are invited to go behind the scenes of one of their photographs. Today, Yan Morvan recounts his beginnings as a photographer on an assignment in Lourdes.
Choosing Your Film Roll in 5 Steps
Film is a major element in the practice of analog photography. It is coated with light-sensitive silver gelatin emulsion that captures light allowing images to emerge, which will be developed in the laboratory and then printed or scanned. In this article, we outline a five-step process to help you pick the film that is right for you, depending on the desired type of picture, development, and rendering.
INSIDE THE FRAME – Spotlight on herbaria
Just as cultural institutions are reopening their doors, Blind explores museum collections and takes a closer look at some historical photographs. Today, we focus on a cyanotype by the British photographer Anna Atkins which is part of the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
ON THAT DAY – “Senegalese Magic” by Denis Rouvre
With our series On that Day, photographers are invited to go behind the scenes of one of their photographs. Today, photographer Denis Rouvre tells us about this long-awaited moment, on a beach in Senegal…
Photography and comics: Mohamed Ali by Abbas
Magnum Photos, in collaboration with Éditions Dupuis, publishes a graphic novel about the epic fight between Mohamed Ali and George Foreman which took place in 1974 in Kinshasa and was covered by the French-Iranian photojournalist Abbas. Comic book panels and photography: two art forms that go together beautifully.
Naïma Lecomte and the sheds of the Camargue
The photographer stumbled upon the atypical constructions of former workers located in the heart of the Camargue National Park, in the South of France. In a series that’s a cross between documentary work and a poetic stroll, she paints a nuanced portrait of these timeless habitats.
Arles 2020: Must-see exhibitions this summer
Synonymous with photography, Arles will be spending this summer without its Rencontres because of the coronavirus. Nonetheless, local cultural actors have taken up the challenge with a multidisciplinary program where the image holds the pride of place. We present a selection.
Dorothea Lange: Day Sleepers
MACK publishes a remarkable book that sheds fresh light on the work of the American photographer Dorothea Lange. Previously unseen images often show slumbering subjects.
Patrick Bienert : “Georgia is a special place”
In his latest book published by KAHL, the German photographer Patrick Bienert explores the weight of the former USSR on Georgian society. An invitation to discover this little-known country in full mutation but which seems as if suspended in time.
CIRCULATION(S) 2020 – “To bear witness to this persistent danger” by Margaux Senlis
With her UXO series, the photographer explores the danger of explosives left over from the Vietnam War. Residents of non-cleared areas continue to face the threat of being injured or killed by an explosion. Margaux Senlis traveled to Vietnam, as well as to Laos and Cambodia, to embark on a photographic investigation exhibited as part of the Circulation (s) festival in Paris.
Jamel Shabazz’s intimate pictures of the New York subway
Over the past 40 years, Jamel Shabazz has created a singular archive of New York life on the move, finding intimate moments of beauty and humanity in the most unlikely of places: the public transit system.
Climate change under Trump’s presidency
In Trump Revolution: Climate Crisis, the second in the Bronx Documentary Center’s series exploring the impact of the Presidency of Donald Trump, curators Michael Kamber and Cynthia Rivera bring together the work of photographers Stacy Kranitz, Kadir van Lohuizen, Yuri Kozyrev, Katie Orlinsky, Bryan Thomas, Marcus Yam in a harrowing exploration of the impact of White House policy on the environment.
ON THAT DAY, “Tanger” by Marco Barbon
With On That Day, photographers are invited to tell the story behind one of their photographs. Today, photographer Marco Barbon tells the story of a stop at the Phoenician tomb in Tangier.
Andrea Savorani Neri, “I’ve always been fascinated by southern Italy.”
It was at the wheel of his car and equipped with his large-format camera that Andrea Savorani Neri, an Italian photographer, decided to travel through southern Italy: Campania, Apulia, Basilicata, Calabria, and more. Her black and white wandering took him from the places of his childhood to the most remote corners of this ancient and unchanging Italy.
Art Paris Art Fair 2020: the stories of Elsa & Johanna
Showcased by the gallery La Forest Divonne at the Paris Art Fair – online until the end of June – Elsa & Johanna have mastered the art of storytelling.
Art Paris Art Fair 2020: Edouard Taufenbach’s cut-out pictures
Edouard Taufenbach is showcased by the Galerie Binome at Art Paris – online until the end of June – alongside Douglas Mandry, Laurence Aëgerter and Anaïs Boudot. We focus on this singular artist who uses images as his raw material.
Stephen Shore’s Forgotten Archives
Never-before-seen 35mm photographs from Stephen Shore’s groundbreaking series documenting “main street” America during the 1970s.
Art Paris Art Fair 2020 goes digital
Placing emphasis on discovery, which has always been a hallmark of this general-interest art fair, the 22nd installment of Art Paris breaks new ground with a virtual edition designed for the era of the coronavirus. The program features 150 modern and contemporary art galleries from twenty countries.
Gideon Mendel: climate change photographer
Portrait of a photographer who used his experience in social issues to document climate change.
A video interview with Claudia Andujar
The 88-year-old photographer has become the “mother” and voice of the Yanomami Indians of the Amazon forest she has spent her life photographing. This key figure in documentary photography has her work exhibited at the Fondation Cartier in Paris. Interview with Claudia Andujar.
INSIDE THE FRAME: The eye and the blade
On the occasion of the exhibition Erwin Wurm: Photographs at the Maison Européenne de la Photographie (suspended due to the Covid-19 epidemic), Blind takes a closer look at this Austrian artist of the absurd and celebrates his photographic work.
Patrick Wack: An ideal confinement
The French photographer Patrick Wack created the series Landscapes of No Confinement in his adoptive Germany. His images capture a strange feeling of freedom right when half of the planet’s inhabitants are under lockdown in their homes.
Marie Bovo: nocturnal flamboyance
The photographer’s work on the sleeping world and that which is invisible is currently on view at the Henri Cartier-Bresson Foundation in Paris.
Contact High: the history of hip-hop in photography
The International Center of Photography in New York inaugurates its new Lower East Side location with CONTACT HIGH: A Visual History of Hip-Hop. The exhibition, based on Vikki Tobak’s eponymous book published in 2018, documents the explosion of hip-hop in the United States through a series of iconic portraits. These original images break with the stereotypes of a raucous, disorderly culture.
How to Make your Own DIY Photo Book in 6 Steps
Now that you’ve sorted your digital photos, it’s time to move on to your print photos. Maybe they’re still in their envelopes or neatly gathered in traditional albums: either way, it might be time to do something else with them, maybe even organize a fun and creative family activity, for example, to immerse yourself in memories or to make perfect homemade presents for future use. Here are 6 tips to make a DIY photo book.
