mary ellen mark Archives

County fair time is my favorite, both for attending and for all the great photo opportunities. Keep ’em coming. Save the date for September 10, our next happy hour, which will be a fire sale of prints leftover from 10 years of Exposed DC photography shows, held at the Leica Store.

No doubt you’ve heard the tragic news about the Roanoke, Virginia CBS reporter Alison Parker, and cameraman, videographer, and photographer Adam Ward, who were shot to death by a disgruntled former station employee on Wednesday.
Meanwhile, police forced BBC reporters to delete footage and threatened to confiscate their cameras as they covered the Virginia shootings.
Ten years after Hurricane Katrina, Carlos Barria used the prints of photos he took in 2005 to find the same locations he documented at the time. Barria overlaid the prints to contrast the inundated New Orleans then with the city today.
The Baltimore Sun put together a great photo set about the Cotopaxi eruption in Ecuador.
Stunning images of athletes in motion at this year’s IAAF World Championships competition in Beijing.
CNNMoney has published Mary Ellen Mark’s last assignment, Picture This: New Orleans, before she died last May.
Rudi Meisel was one of the very few West German photographers allowed to cross the Berlin Wall into East Germany. Despite the best efforts of censors, he captured authentic street life in the GDR. A new exhibition reveals that East and West Germans weren’t so different after all.
As Gustavo Jononovich documented, the bounty of natural resources in Latin America can sustain a community, but also destroy it through pollution and overdevelopment.
Time Magazine pontificates on The Next Revolution in Photography.
Diverting your attention from Mei Xiang’s mixed news this week, it turns out baby pandas get even cuter when you put them in baskets.

Photographers around the world have been mourning the loss of legendary photojournalist and documentary photographer Mary Ellen Mark, who died Monday. There are many tributes you should go read, starting with The Washington Post’s In Sight blog celebration of her life.
As NPR says, these portraits of wounded soldiers are meant to be stared at.
You’ve probably heard lots of moaning over this reminder by Richard Prince that your Instagram photos aren’t really yours. One of the “artworks” in his exhibit is a $90,000 print of a photo by alt-porn site Suicide Girls, who responded cleverly by making posters of his prints and selling them for $90. Founder Missy Suicide followed it up by doing an IAMA on reddit, which immediately turned into a free-for-all of redditors demanding explanation for the company’s use of questionable non-compete clauses on contracts for its models and photographers in its early days (she eventually left a lengthy answer in her original post). That’s quite enough of everyone being terrible for this week, thanks.
Syrian photographer Khaled al-Hariri, who worked for Reuters for more than 20 years, has died aged 54 following a long illness. In more sad news, National Geographic photographer Cotton Coulson died on Wednesday after a scuba diving accident off the coast of Norway.
Women in Afghanistan can be incarcerated for shocking reasons. In the four years she spent visiting women’s prisons across the country, Gabriela Maj heard stories of women who’d suffered more than anyone she’d ever met. In her book, Almond Garden, Maj presents the stories of 50 of those women, alongside portraits she took after getting unprecedented access to the facilities where they live.
Mikhael Subotzky and Patrick Waterhouse have won the Deustche Börse photography prize for Ponte City, a study of an apartment block in Johannesburg.
On the edge of space: photographer Christopher Michel’s out-of-this-world selfie, 70,000 feet above the Earth.
What gets your dog’s heart racing? Nikon-Asia developed a camera to show you.

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