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NYC Photo Community @nycphotocommunity.bsky.social · 16d

If the wedding photography doesn't work out...https://www.npr.org/sections/goats-and-soda/2025/10/13/g-s1-92391/landmines-hilton-humanitarian

NYC Photo Community @nycphotocommunity.bsky.social · Sep 26

Great discussion around photo sequencing with photographer Reuben Radding and a workshop student of his (and strong photographer!) Marshall Scott. www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFFu...

Stop Sequencing by Favorites — Office Hours with Reuben Radding

YouTube video by Paulie B

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NYC Photo Community @nycphotocommunity.bsky.social · Sep 22

www.newyorker.com/culture/phot...

Picturing a Chinatown Family Across Twenty-two Years

More than two decades ago, the Lams invited Thomas Holton, a photographer, to their apartment for dinner. He’s been part of the family ever since.

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NYC Photo Community @nycphotocommunity.bsky.social · Sep 16

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Experience the benefits of accessible technology with Be My Eyes. Connect with volunteers for real-time assistance via video.

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NYC Photo Community @nycphotocommunity.bsky.social · Sep 12

Critic Parul Sehgal explores the ethical challenges artists and writers face when they use their children as subjects or source material for their art or words. No matter where you land on these knotty issues, I think artists have to ask themselves the questions. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/12/m...

Is It Abusive to Make Art About Your Children?

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NYC Photo Community @nycphotocommunity.bsky.social · Sep 9

Mann, 74, is now publishing her second memoir, “Art Work: On the Creative Life,” a front-porch chatty reminiscence for artists and writers seeking their footing, by “an old woman,” Mann writes, “close to handing in my dinner pail.” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/a...

Sally Mann, in Her Golden Hour, Faces Fresh Culture Wars

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NYC Photo Community @nycphotocommunity.bsky.social · Sep 8

Katy Grannan talking about a new body of portrait work made in California's Humboldt County, and opening in an exhibition at the Fraenkel Gallery in San Francisco this week. vimeo.com/1109521177

Katy Grannan: Mad River

This is "Katy Grannan: Mad River" by Fraenkel Gallery on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

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NYC Photo Community @nycphotocommunity.bsky.social · Sep 8

Advice to artists: “If I could say one thing, it’s to always have another body of work waiting in the wings that you’re equally excited about,” she says. “It’s so easy to get discouraged when you finish a body of work, you think you’ll never do anything as good. www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

‘I never hold back’: Sally Mann on her controversial family photos and becoming a writer

The celebrated US photographer was catapulted into America’s culture wars with her photobook Immediate Family. Now she’s written a book of ‘how not-to’ advice for artists

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NYC Photo Community @nycphotocommunity.bsky.social · Sep 4

Something Personal Print Sale
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Something Personal Print Sale

From 9/4-10/4

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NYC Photo Community @nycphotocommunity.bsky.social · Sep 1

"I understood from the beginning that a camera doesn’t point, it frames. I also understood the gap between the world of the photograph and the world we experience – the world of the photograph has to make sense on its own, out of context.” www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

Teenage clicks: how child photographer Stephen Shore turned everyday New York moments into magic

Before he found fame at 17 photographing Andy Warhol’s Factory, Shore roamed the city with his camera. He talks about the joy of those early 60s pictures – and why they never made him rich

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NYC Photo Community @nycphotocommunity.bsky.social · Aug 24

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/23/a... (with pictures of Shore by Daniel Arnold)

Stephen Shore Started Taking Photos at 8 Years Old and Never Stopped

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NYC Photo Community @nycphotocommunity.bsky.social · Aug 12

Suggests something about the possible power of photographs? www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/t...

The Mere Sight of Someone Sick Triggers an Immune Response, Study Suggests

Researchers equipped study participants with virtual reality headsets and observed how their brains and immune systems reacted to avatars with signs of illness

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NYC Photo Community @nycphotocommunity.bsky.social · Aug 6

Be the photographer for the U.S. Senate. Applications close in two days! www.usajobs.gov/job/841791600

Photographer #508

The Senate Sergeant at Arms is seeking a Photographer. The complete vacancy announcement and application can be found on the United States Senate Career Page at https://sen.gov/J5NY. This vacancy anno...

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NYC Photo Community @nycphotocommunity.bsky.social · Aug 3

Sebastian Siadecki breaks down all the components commonly used in contemporary (and a few vintage) photobooks in this great video. Super helpful if you think you might make one someday! www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhb8...

The Anatomy of the Photobook

YouTube video by Sebastian Siadecki Photography

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NYC Photo Community @nycphotocommunity.bsky.social · Aug 1

"In a photograph, a girl rapidly transforming into an adult can pause her own evolution, if only for a frame. Nearly all photos contain this illusory stillness, despite the unrest of the actual. But Woodman denies us this temporary serenity." openspace.sfmoma.org/2012/01/gann...

Untitled, Providence, Rhode Island, 1976 - Francesca Woodman A contact sheet with an image of a blurred figure in a light background dancing. Drawn marks on the contact sheet make it appear as if the figure is leaping or moving through portals

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NYC Photo Community @nycphotocommunity.bsky.social · Jul 29

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Who needs a car? Los Angeles by foot – in pictures

Most people wouldn’t dream of traversing LA without a vehicle – yet Ayda Gragossian’s beautiful images, taken while walking through the city, invite us to slow down and take it all in

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NYC Photo Community @nycphotocommunity.bsky.social · Jul 27

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Under Suspended Rupture: Community and Isolation Beneath LaGuardia

David Rothenberg’s long-term visual study of Landing Lights Park exposes how the proximity of landing planes shapes the lived experience of East Elmhurst—where infrastructure divides bodies and commun...

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NYC Photo Community @nycphotocommunity.bsky.social · Jul 27

"Salinger wanted “In My Room: Teenagers in Their Bedrooms” to be seen in an art context. But she also didn’t want her work, in which she shot teens from the early eighties into the nineties, to be inaccessible to the kind of young people whose lives it portrayed" www.newyorker.com/teen-agers-i...

Teen-Agers in Their Bedrooms, Before the Age of Selfies

Adrienne Salinger’s cult photography book from the nineties makes a comeback.

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NYC Photo Community @nycphotocommunity.bsky.social · Jul 26

A nice long walk (and photo essay) along a planned new train route from Brooklyn to Queens: www.nytimes.com/2025/07/26/o...

Opinion | New York Is Planning a Train Line to Connect Its Transit Deserts. We Walked All 14 Miles of It.

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NYC Photo Community @nycphotocommunity.bsky.social · Jul 20

"Along with that inner aficionado, Meyerowitz recognized his larger vocation as an aficionado of public existence, photographing the transient flares of emotion and surreptitious congruences that once defined civic spaces, imbuing them with dynamic unpredictability." granta.com/the-artist-a...

The Artist as Aficionado

‘Meyerowitz’s subjects frequently appear enmeshed in some variegated social context where anything might happen.’

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NYC Photo Community @nycphotocommunity.bsky.social · Jul 11

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At The Beach In Los Angeles, 1975 - 1988 - Flashbak

“I think that part of what these pictures are about is the difference between our preconceptions of a place and what, when we get there, that place turns out to be.” – Tod Papageorge, at the beach ...

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NYC Photo Community @nycphotocommunity.bsky.social · Jun 17

For when you get tired of photography
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/12/s...

John Wells, 64, Who Fled New York for the Solitude of the Desert, Dies

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NYC Photo Community @nycphotocommunity.bsky.social · Jun 15

www.nytimes.com/2025/06/12/a...

Diane Arbus, Everything Everywhere All at Once

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NYC Photo Community @nycphotocommunity.bsky.social · Jun 13

"...yes, he [Robert Frank] was there, and no, they didn’t like it, and yes, he’s going to publish the photo anyway, because exploitation is part of photography’s métier, and if he’s going to indulge in it he might as well make it part of the picture’s point." yalereview.org/article/san-...

San Francisco, 1956

A photograph and its afterlife

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NYC Photo Community @nycphotocommunity.bsky.social · Jun 13

Good news for the best free photo editing phone app petapixel.com/2025/06/13/s...

Snapseed Updated With Film-Inspired Filters and Redesigned Edit Experience

Google-owned iPhone editor Snapseed has received its first major update in years, and it packs a new design and film-inspired filters.

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