Picture of The Week
by Rogered
PAKISTANI PHOTOGRAPHER CAPTURES INTERNATIONAL AWARD
What is the Story behind this Sony Award Winning Photograph?
Shabir Mian explains this shot and what went through his mind when capturing this picture, that later earned him a Sony Award.
“One day I was in this spot for soe work, and it started raining. The boy was running over the railway tracks, coming back from the school towards his home. He didn’t know about any trains; whether they were coming or not.”
“He was wandering with happiness and running on the tracks and enjoying the rain. I wanted to capture that moment, to capture the happiness and fearlessness in the child. That picture represents children in that age around the world.”
Explore the whimsical photography of Todd Webb with former LIFE editor Bill Shapiro
“I instantly fell in love with Webb’s work,” says former LIFE editor-in-chief Bill Shapiro, “with the beauty he captures, with his sense of the life of the street; with the way he frames both the sweeping, iconic skyline and those small, fleeting moments that define the city that New Yorkers love.”
These sentiments seem to be shared by just about everyone who encounters the work of Todd Webb for the first time. Webb, most fittingly described by Shapiro as “the best NYC photographer you’ve never heard of,” worked and laughed alongside photography’s upper echelon, including Georgia O’Keeffe, Walker Evan, Gordon Parks and Ansel Adams, but unlike his well-known friends, Webb was never interested fame. Instead, he quietly took to documenting life in America, particularly post-war New York between 1946 and 1960.
Winners of the 2017 Sony Photography Awards revealed
The 2017 Winners of the Sony Photography Award have been revealed including the works of Documentary Photographers.
The winners of the world’s largest photography contest have been revealed.
The 2017 Sony Photography Awards, which received over 227,000 entries from 183 countries, crowned Belgian snapper Frederik Buyckx as the Photographer of the Year for his snowy series, dubbed Whiteout.
Winners and two runners up for each of the ten categories – from news and wildlife to sport and landscape – were also unveiled at the awards ceremony, held at London’s Somerset House.
Standouts included Alessio Romenzi’s harrowing photo of Libyan fighters locked in battle with ISIS in the war-torn country’s Al Jiza neighbourhood – which won in the news and current affairs category.
Others capture a panda cub in China’s Bifengxia breeding base, a brothel worker in Bangladesh and a ten-year-old bullfighter in Mexico City.
Eugene Richards: A Life in Photography
The George Eastman Museum in Rochester will open the first museum retrospective of the work of the photographer Eugene Richards on June 10. The exhibit, “Eugene Richards: The Run-On of Time,” covers his career as a photojournalist and documentary photographer from 1968 to the present and was produced in collaboration with the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, Mo. Curated by April Watson and Lisa Hostetler, the retrospective includes 146 photographs, 15 books, and selected videos. It is accompanied by a catalog distributed by Yale University Press.
Mr. Richards spoke with James Estrin about the exhibit and his career. The conversation has been edited for clarity and brevity.
A free Lecture with Documentary Photographer David Thoreson
Villanova University will host a lecture by accomplished documentary photographer, sailor and Arctic explorer David Thoreson, Senior Advisor for Geospatial Exploration at the Geoversiv Foundation, Tuesday, April 25. The talk, titled “Over the Horizon: The New Era of Climate Exploration,” will begin at 2:30 p.m., in the PWC Auditorium in Bartley Hall (Room 1011)
“David Thoreson’s visit to Villanova will provide a visually stunning opportunity to engage this daring explorer and gifted storyteller, as he shares his experience of the regions of our world that are changing most rapidly and most radically,” said Amanda Grannas, associate vice provost for Research. “David will also bring the Geoversiv narrative of active multidisciplinary engagement with the process of climate exploration that is at the heart of the ethical call facing this generation.”
