- A Milwaukee-based photographer is taking 1,000 pictures of Black people as a way to help bring people together, starting on social media, in a campaign for Juneteenth.
- Join us on Thursday, June 25 at 6 p.m. for our next virtual roundtable. We’ll be exploring the theme of motion. You can register here to get all the details and let us know you will be participating.
- Capital Photography Center is offering a DSLR photography basics class tomorrow, 9:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., $99. Students will be required to follow COVID-19 safety practices, conduct a self-screening health assessment, and sign a waiver of liability prior to attending.
- A new book reexamines one of Gordon Parks’ powerful and prescient projects when he documented urban crime for an assignment with Life magazine more than sixty years ago.
- Coverage of the protests has opened up dialogue about the racism, sexism, ageism, and classism in the photography industry. Black photographers and photo editors Danielle Scruggs, Lynsey Weatherspoon, Wale Agboola, and Brent Lewis talked to Aperture about why that is and ways to address it, including how photo editors and photographers can help and ways to make it more impactful long term.
- Brent Lewis, who is a photo editor at The New York Times and a co-founder of Diversify Photo, also spoke with Amy Silverman on Daylight Dialogues about the importance of hiring Black photographers and the work that needs to be done in the editorial world.
- Black photographers from across the U.S. share their experience documenting the protests.
- Photoworks issued a call for entries for photographers aged 12 to 18 for an online exhibition, “Here We Go Again,” which will explore connections between images being made today and the idea of past and present.
- Italian photographer Guido Guidi spent decades making photos inspired by and relating to the moon.
- Melissa Breyer’s “True Stories” series blurs reality on the streets of NYC with elements of film noir, vintage film, and classic fashion photography serving as her inspiration.