FlakPhoto Digest #19 — Gotta Groove Records • The Future of Animation • On Digital Reading • Pictures & Words • Creative Documentary
Visual culture for curious minds / July 30, 2016
Hey Gang! Like you, I look at a ton of photography. And these days, it’s harder than ever to pay attention to the firehose of images flooding through my news feeds. Right? That’s part of what FlakPhoto Digest is about: Showcasing the good stuff that comes across my desk so you can slow down, relax, and enjoy it. Believe it or not, the Digest helps me make sense of the many fascinating things I want to spend time with from week to week. Finding signal in the noise is the challenge .
The response to my Siskind Foundation Fellowship post has been incredible — more than 3,000 of you spent a few minutes of your day looking into these artists, which is awesome — so I’m brainstorming a new idea to launch a recurring feature here on Medium with a goal of highlighting the photographers that catch my eye. Format is probably something similar — think, “5 photographers to watch” or something along those lines. Does that sound interesting? Email me hello@flakphoto.com and tell me what you think of the idea. And, if you’d be interested in being featured in a project like that, let me know that too.
Everyone’s always crying “Print is dead!” and I never really know if that’s true or not. I’ll say this for the power of a postcard: GRAIN Images sent a promo over this week, handsomely printed images from the collective’s members, and I found myself spending 20 minutes on their website and following each of their members on Twitter. You should do same → Find them @GrainImages. Point is: print is still vital for photographers, no matter what they say. Drop by their site when you have a sec.
I mentioned last week that I’m going to include photo opportunities here from time to time. Drop me a line if you’re promoting a call for work, a job opening, or artist residency and I’ll consider it for broadcast. And please, share these links with your creative colleagues:
- IDFA DocLab & IDFA Crossmedia Forum Lab — Deadline is August 1
- The Anamorphous Prize — Deadline is September 1
- Arnold Newman Prize for New Directions in Portraiture — Deadline is October 16
Finally, have you seen Found Polaroids? Kyler Zeleny is doing something really special with this project — the site pairs creative writing with images from his vernacular photography collection and the results can be really moving. He’s on Instagram too. That’s it for now — Happy Weekend 🤓
Readable / 10 things I’m thinking about this week
- Aaron Schuman: Remote Hereditary Object-hood in FOLK — American Suburb X
- The Spy Is a Camera — Real Life
- A Telephone Conversation With Mike Mandel — Lavalette Studio
- Tilda Swinton: States of Being — Jefferson Hack
- High Museum Curator of Photography talks creative documentary photography — YIELD Magazine
- Do students lose depth in digital reading? — The Conversation
- There is no difference between computer art and human art — Aeon Ideas
- Lost in Space: Re-Claiming Awe in the Age of Social Media — Pacific Standard
- The Future of Animation As A Video Feed — The Animation Anomaly
- The picture that captures why Jack Kerouac will last forever — The Spectator
PS: I’m sharing photo/arts links on Twitter every day @FlakPhoto
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