Photography workshop with Kevin Fleming set April 27

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Photography workshop with Kevin Fleming set April 27

Acclaimed photographer Kevin Fleming will lead a photography workshop from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Saturday, April 27, at the Lewes Public Library. Attendees can learn to be better photographers in just one day.

The workshop is limited to six people, so everyone will receive individual attention.

Fleming will begin with the basics of photography including shutter speeds and f-stops. From there he will cover how, when and where to find and create better photographs. The workshop is perfect for beginners and intermediate photographers.

Cost is $125 and includes lunch catered by Arena’s and a free signed copy of Fleming’s “Heart of America” book. 

For more information and to register, go to KevinFleming.com.

See 1950s Pittsburgh through this alumnus’ lens

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See 1950s Pittsburgh through this alumnus’ lens

It’s spring of 1953 and Rosella’s passion for photography grows faster than the grass on the lawn of the Cathedral of Learning. He follows it, camera in hand, throughout his time at the University of Pittsburgh, capturing everything from touchdown ticker tape at the old Pitt Stadium to commuters awaiting the arrival of a Fifth Avenue streetcar.

When he isn’t photographing, Rosella pursues a degree from Pitt’s School of Dental Medicine. He graduates in 1957 and goes directly into service as a naval dentist. After two years of service, he leaves the Navy and begins his own dental practice, where he is successful for more than 30 years, retiring in 1993.

Over the years, he never forgets those happy, creative years with his camera at Pitt — or the images he captured. That’s why, around 2014, Rosella decides to revisit them. He thinks they might be worth compiling into a book of photography. When others see his captivating work, they agree. 

The result is “Pittsburgh Streets 1950s,” a collection of 115 black-and-white and color images Rosella produced during and shortly after his time at Pitt. Its release last fall was celebrated with a talk and reception at the Heinz History Center as part of its Italian American program.

In the book’s foreword, photographer Linda Benedict-Jones, the first curator of photography at Carnegie Museum of Art and former executive director of Pittsburgh’s Silver Eye Center for Photography, writes that Rosella’s images “provide insight not only into the way people acted and interacted, not just which carnival or parade they attended, what clothes they wore or cars they drove, but perhaps most importantly [insight] into what a young photographer found worthy of examination.”

“Thinking Is a Full-Body Pleasure”: Artist Harry Dodge on Philosophy

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“Thinking Is a Full-Body Pleasure”: Artist Harry Dodge on Philosophy
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This article is taken from the Spring/Summer 2024 issue of AnOther Magazine:

“My first encounter with the French-Martinique philosopher Édouard Glissant was during a lecture by the poet Fred Moten in Los Angeles. He said, ‘We have to consent not to be a single being.’ It set me thinking, so I read Glissant’s Poetics of Relation, from which Moten was paraphrasing. Part of what’s fascinating is the form — a philosophical text that’s poetic, almost like a song. In it he talks about the interconnectedness of everything and how everything is always changing everything else — ‘Diversity, the quantifiable totality of every possible difference, is the motor driving universal energy.’ To acknowledge every organism or every dot in space-time as different can help us avoid categorical thinking, which in turn can lead to systemic violence or polarisation. Glissant talks about opacity too — this idea of letting the Other, this thing that is unfamiliar to you, remain unfamiliar to you. Not incorporating it into your familiar, which effaces difference. It’s a book I go back to, reread and get new things from all the time. To me, Glissant’s work is an exhortation to tolerate what’s unknowable.”

The Los Angeles-based multidisciplinary artist Harry Dodge works in sculpture, film and text. What connects his practice across these mediums is feverish curiosity: “Thinking is a full-body pleasure,” he says, “a kind of joyful puzzling.” Dodge has exhibited at the New and Whitney museums in New York and the Hammer Museum in LA, and his sculptures are currently on display in Conversation 8, a joint show at the San Francisco Arts Commission with the painter Alicia McCarthy, a longtime friend of his. In 2020, Dodge published My Meteorite: Or, Without the Random There Can Be No New Thing, a memoir-meets-thought experiment about the cosmic interconnectedness of moments, people and matter across time and space. He is now working on a psychedelic science-fiction novella. 

Production co-ordinator: Lino Meoli. Post-production: Samy’s Camera 

This story features in the Spring/Summer 2024 issue of AnOther Magazine, which is on sale now. Order here.

Free Press photographers win top honors at annual photo contest

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Free Press photographers win top honors at annual photo contest

Detroit Free Press
April 18, 2024 at 9:22 AM

Detroit Free Press staff photographer Ryan Garza was named Photographer of the Year by the Michigan Press Photographers Association for the second year in a row at its annual convention in early April.

Isa Campbell, center, of Gwinn sits in her cardboard sled as her father Ambrose Campbell of Gwinn, sister Aryanna Campbell, left, and brother Ambrose Brody Campbell Jr., right, wait for the start of the K.I. Sawyer Cardboard Sled Races on Feb. 11, 2023.Isa Campbell, center, of Gwinn sits in her cardboard sled as her father Ambrose Campbell of Gwinn, sister Aryanna Campbell, left, and brother Ambrose Brody Campbell Jr., right, wait for the start of the K.I. Sawyer Cardboard Sled Races on Feb. 11, 2023.
Isa Campbell, center, of Gwinn sits in her cardboard sled as her father Ambrose Campbell of Gwinn, sister Aryanna Campbell, left, and brother Ambrose Brody Campbell Jr., right, wait for the start of the K.I. Sawyer Cardboard Sled Races on Feb. 11, 2023.

In addition, a Free Press’ video project by photographer Mandi Wright featuring a woman struggling with addiction won first place Multimedia Project and stories from the paper’s photo series “Where We Live” were among the many photography and video stories also recognized by the statewide organization.

The photography staff took home a combined 18 awards from the MPPA, including five first places in the photography and video categories. A portrait by Wright of Wayne State fencer Bobbie Hirsch took home first place in Portrait Personality and a story about a Palestinian boy who came to Dearborn Heights for a prosthetic leg took the top award in Feature Picture Story.

A crowd stands on a large hill of dirt watching the action as cars crash into each other during TNT Demolition Derby's Wexford Warzone Weekend at Wexford County Fairgrounds in Cadillac on Saturday, June 10, 2023. Over 2,500 fans came to the event to watch the various categories of cars bump and run and some crash into each other during the two day event.A crowd stands on a large hill of dirt watching the action as cars crash into each other during TNT Demolition Derby's Wexford Warzone Weekend at Wexford County Fairgrounds in Cadillac on Saturday, June 10, 2023. Over 2,500 fans came to the event to watch the various categories of cars bump and run and some crash into each other during the two day event.
Bobbie Hirsch, 19, of Huntington Woods, poses in his fencing uniform Wednesday, March 22, 2023 in Detroit. Hirsch is a trans male athlete on the Wayne State fencing team and shares his story about what it has been like to transition.Bobbie Hirsch, 19, of Huntington Woods, poses in his fencing uniform Wednesday, March 22, 2023 in Detroit. Hirsch is a trans male athlete on the Wayne State fencing team and shares his story about what it has been like to transition.
Bobbie Hirsch, 19, of Huntington Woods, poses in his fencing uniform Wednesday, March 22, 2023 in Detroit. Hirsch is a trans male athlete on the Wayne State fencing team and shares his story about what it has been like to transition.
Amir Jones, left, of Detroit and his cousin Eric Jones of Detroit show their muscles while arriving to a practice for the West Side Cubs at McCabe Field in Detroit on Tuesday, September 12, 2023. More than just youth football and cheerleading teams, the West Side Cubs represent a vital community institution with a 66-year history.Amir Jones, left, of Detroit and his cousin Eric Jones of Detroit show their muscles while arriving to a practice for the West Side Cubs at McCabe Field in Detroit on Tuesday, September 12, 2023. More than just youth football and cheerleading teams, the West Side Cubs represent a vital community institution with a 66-year history.
Amir Jones, left, of Detroit and his cousin Eric Jones of Detroit show their muscles while arriving to a practice for the West Side Cubs at McCabe Field in Detroit on Tuesday, September 12, 2023. More than just youth football and cheerleading teams, the West Side Cubs represent a vital community institution with a 66-year history.
Kelci Harris, 6 of Warren, wasn't so sure about holding a bunny rabbit but eventually did at the petting zoo area at the City of Detroit's General Services Department - Parks and Recreation Division 38th annual Easter Fun Fest at the Heilmann Recreation Center in Detroit on Saturday, April 8, 2023.The crowd with many kids estimated at over 4,000 during the noon to 4 pm event did everything from an Easter egg maze to painting, carnival rides and raffles with a chance to win a bike or an Easter basket.Kelci Harris, 6 of Warren, wasn't so sure about holding a bunny rabbit but eventually did at the petting zoo area at the City of Detroit's General Services Department - Parks and Recreation Division 38th annual Easter Fun Fest at the Heilmann Recreation Center in Detroit on Saturday, April 8, 2023.The crowd with many kids estimated at over 4,000 during the noon to 4 pm event did everything from an Easter egg maze to painting, carnival rides and raffles with a chance to win a bike or an Easter basket.

Former staff photographer Sarahbeth Maney earned an honorable mention in Photographer of the Year category for the second year in a row and former photo intern Audrey Richardson, a Michigan State University student, won second place in the College Photographer of the Year category.

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More: Palestinian boy came to Dearborn Heights for a prosthetic leg and got chance to be a kid

Saleh Humaid, 8, of Gaza listens as Anew Life Prosthetics and Orthotics Prosthetist & Orthotist Matt Warner goes over the steps towards getting him fitted for a prosthetic leg that his company is donating to Humaid on Tuesday, June 13, 2023, during his trip to the United States with the help of the Palestine Children's Relief Fund to get him therapy and the new high-quality prosthetic he couldn't get back home.Saleh Humaid, 8, of Gaza listens as Anew Life Prosthetics and Orthotics Prosthetist & Orthotist Matt Warner goes over the steps towards getting him fitted for a prosthetic leg that his company is donating to Humaid on Tuesday, June 13, 2023, during his trip to the United States with the help of the Palestine Children's Relief Fund to get him therapy and the new high-quality prosthetic he couldn't get back home.

The honored work featured coverage by Garza of the Michigan State University school shooting along with a story about a demolition derby in Cadillac and Detroit’s annual Easter Fest by photographer Eric Seals.

This article originally appeared on Detroit Free Press: Free Press photographers win top honors at annual photo contest

Ukrainian photographer Julia Kochetova wins World Press Photo 2024 in Open Format

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Ukrainian photographer Julia Kochetova wins World Press Photo 2024 in Open Format

Ukrainian photographer wins World Press Photo 2024. Photo: Julia Kochetova

Ukrainian photographer Julia Kochetova has won World Press Photo 2024, the most prestigious award for photojournalists, with her project War Is Personal.

The winners were announced on Thursday, 18 April.

Earlier, Kochetova’s multimedia project about the war in Ukraine was shortlisted in the Europe category.

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Now it has been announced as the winner of the Open Format Award.

The War is Personal project consists of photographs taken by Kochetova in war-torn Ukraine, along with audio recordings, music and illustrations that complement the photos.

“I know that this photo and our flag will go around the world. Summer 2022, the border of Kharkiv and Donetsk oblasts, this checkpoint, and the urgent need to raise our flag… There are no prizes in war. But I have been blessed with a clear sense that I am one of those who hold our flag. I will do it to the best of my ability. Honour to those who were killed in battle, glory to the living heroes. I am grateful to those who have defended and continue to defend my right to life,” Kochetova said in reaction to her victory.

 

Julia Kochetova

Photo: Julia Kochetova on Facebook on 24 February 2022

Who else won World Press Photo 2024?

The jury recognised the work A Palestinian Woman Embraces the Body of Her Niece by photographer Mohammad Salem as the Photo of the Year.

 

A Palestinian Woman Embraces the Body of Her Niece.

 Photo: Mohammad Salem

The Story of the Year is the Valim-babena project by photographer Lee-Ann Olwage, which tells the story of the tradition of adult children caring for dementia patients in Madagascar.

 

The Valim-babena project

Photo: Lee-Ann Olwage  

Alejandro Cegarra won the Long-Term Project of the Year with his series of photographs about migrants in Mexico, The Two Walls.

 

Alejandro Cegarra photographed migrants in Mexico.

Photo: Alejandro Cegarra  

 

About World Press Photo

World Press Photo is a competition for all professional photographers working in the field of photojournalism or documentary photography. The winners are selected annually, first at the regional and then at the global level.

This year, 24 regional winners were announced on 3 April. Four global winners are selected from among them: World Press Photo of the Year, World Press Photo Story of the Year, World Press Photo Long-Term Project Award and World Press Photo Open Format Award.

Last year’s winner was Ukrainian photographer Evgeniy Maloletka. He was recognised for his series of photographs The Siege of Mariupol. At first, his series was shortlisted in the Europe category, and then one of the images – from a Mariupol maternity hospital bombed by the Russians – was named Photo of the Year.

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