The Weekly Diary
In the end, we'll all become stories
The 5th edition of The Weekly Diary is here, featuring my weekly findings from around the internet.
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10 photographers you should follow in 2023
I recently featured two lists of some of my favorite photographers you should follow in 2023.
10 photographers you should follow in 2023 working in Black & White
10 photographers you should follow in 2023 working in color
Nearest Truth Year-Long Photobook Course 2023/2024
I am thrilled to announce that I will be doing a talk as part of the Nearest Truth Year-Long Photobook Course 2023/2024 this summer.
I will be joining a long list of instructors including Adrianna Ault, Tom Booth Woodger, Federico Clavarino, Jörg M. Colberg, Deanna Dikeman, Max Ferguson, Brad Feuerhelm, Matthew Genitempo, Elena Helfrecht, Todd Hido, Pieter Hugo, Nadav Kander, Jeffrey Ladd, Mårten Lange, Maria Lax, Tom Lecky, Dewi Lewis, Adam Meeks, Hannah Modigh, Mark Steinmetz and many more.
The Nearest Truth Year-Long Photobook Program emphasizes the photobook as a medium. We aim to recognize and promote the photobook as an essential form of expression in the 21st Century. We recognize that it has its own codes of production, its own intentions and interpretations, and its own methodologies to its pedagogical approach that separates it from the general discipline of photography. We aim to encourage the production of more photobooks while also trying to expand its history.
The medium of the photobook is expansive, and though some university programs are beginning to consider the medium as a serious form of investigation, the general terrain suggests that alternative models may be explored outside of the institution. Our course defers to the photobook as a medium and not a subordinate form of practice. We employ the most relevant and contemporary thinkers and makers in our course. From publishers to writers and practitioners, our annual program offers a comprehensive view of the medium with a focus on producing a book. Our extensive list of instructors suggests an unparalleled discourse from a plethora of voices that aim to mine the medium with participants to engage and enlarge the discussion surrounding the photobook.
With the dramatic rise of the photobook both as a self-publishing venture and with its more commercially oriented and established publishing firms, the medium of the photobook has seen an unprecedented rise to the forefront of photographic thinking and discussion. It has been established as more than a fad, with more and more artists using the medium as a term of expression independent of the art market. Showing few signs of slowing down, the photobook medium offers artists an independent way to express their concerns in the 21st Century. Wide-ranging and malleable, the medium is just beginning its trajectory into the annals of serious scholarship and understanding. Our program offers the tools for artists to get more involved with the medium, from the novice to the artist who has already published.
The Last Residents of Hyde Park Flats, Sheffield, 1988
Photographer Bill Stephenson documented the last residents of Hyde Park Flats, Sheffield in 1988. This important body of social documentary photography make up his acclaimed 'Streets in the Sky' series.
everyday.photo
Noah Kalina has faithfully photographed his face once a day starting from January 11th, 2000. The project continues to be a work in progress and now has its own website where you can access every single photo from his epic project.
Fellowship Lectures — Alessandra Sanguinetti
Fellowship Lectures is a series of artist talks with artists working and/or collected by the Fellowship trust. In this episode Alessandra Sanguinetti talks about The Adventures of Guille and Belinda and working a long term project with the book's characters.
Pentax launches new 35 mm film camera
Ricoh Imaging Company, Ltd. is pleased to announce a new project involving the research and development of new PENTAX-brand film camera products. There has been a rebirth in interest in film cameras recently; we want to use the film camera skills and technologies developed over the years by Ricoh Imaging/PENTAX (the PENTAX Division of RICOH IMAGING COMPANY, LTD.) and provide camera enthusiasts around the world with new film camera products. We will be developing and launching new products and providing aftercare services so that experienced film camera users and younger photographers who want to try these cameras for the first time can fully enjoy the experience of film photography.
Books
First publication of 2023 The Hawk by Jakub Szachnowski, published by RUST Publishing — a contemporary photography collective and self-publishing house based in Poland.
Riding Through Compton by Melodie McDaniel
Riding Through Compton pairs three years of documentary photographs and formal portraits by Melodie McDaniel with interviews by Amelia Fleetwood conducted with participants of the Compton Jr Posse riding program.
Outsiders is a book about homelessness – the culmination of a six year project Marc Davenant undertook to highlight the serious and growing problem in Britain – one of the most affluent nations in the world. There are hundreds of thousands of people living in temporary accommodation and on the streets – often in dangerous and hostile conditions. Outsiders is a glimpse into their world – in their own words This is their testimony to the hardship they face – the hunger, discomfort, uncertainty and danger – and also the way they are ignored and treated by society who see them as less than human.
Maya Deren, Choreographed for Camera by Mark Alice Durant
Deren received the first Guggenheim Fellowship ever awarded for creative filmmaking, using the funding to travel to Haiti where she became a devotee of Vodou. In 1953, she pubished Divine Horsemen, a ground-breaking ethnographic study of Haitian religious culture. Although Deren completed only six short films in her lifetime, her impact on the history of cinema is immeasurable. She has become the patron saint of 20th century experimental film. The aura that suffuses Deren’s legend emanates from the power of her films, magnified by her bohemian glamour and visionary intelligence.
This is the first full biography of Deren. Based on years of research, interviews with some of Deren’s closest collaborators, and generously illustrated with film stills and photographs, author Mark Alice Durant creates a vivid and accessible narrative exploring the complexities and contradictions in the life and work of this remarkable and charismatic artist.
The Texas Hill Country by Edward Thompson
Fifteen years ago Edward Thompson photographed a long-term photo project about the Texas Hill Country. It was shot entirely on medium format film. He’d only been a photographer for five years at that point.
Happy Springs by Patrick Biernert
These photographs were taken across Ukraine between 2015 and 2020, during spring and summer. They form a collective portrait of Ukrainian youth, and were taken on the way to the sea, along the banks of the Dnipro River to the beaches of the Black Sea; and further, on to the Arabat Spit, a mineral hot spring in a small village near the Sea of Azov called “Shchaslyvtseve”, which means “happy” in Ukrainian.
Happy Birthday Sanderson Texas by Eric Ryan Anderson
Photographed over the span of thirteen years in his native state, Happy Birthday Sanderson Texas reveals a wandering exploration on lineage, legacy and legend as seen via landscape, portraiture and abstraction. After spending a quarter century immersed in Texas culture and narrative, Eric left the state. Only in the ensuing years, through conversations around the world, did he start to see what “Texas” meant to people and how that clashed with the reality of his upbringing. Thus, a sometimes-sporadic exploration of the state began. This project began as a study on roots and family lineage, morphed into an exploration of death and life and resurrection, and ultimately found nuance and value in a quiet little town called Sanderson.
Images of the Week
That’s it for this 5th edition of The Weekly Diary — a shorter more frequent newsletter for subscribers of Nowhere Diary.
If you have any suggestions for interviews, features, topics, interesting work or books that I should check out, don’t hesitate to reach out!
Stay safe and keep shooting.
Kim
great stuff as always!!!
Great photographs and info. Also, perhaps you write nowhere, but Minor's is Devil's Slide, San Mateo County