Our Top 10 Blog Posts from 2021
2021 has come and gone quickly. As vaccinations were administered and we all emerged from the pandemic, the photographic industry began its rebound.
This year, we covered how the inauguration was captured by professional photographers; discussed Bernie Sanders’ viral photo meme; raised concerns over Super Bowl coverage quality; discussed one of the latest AI advances; and debated Instagram’s focus on e-sales rather than photographs as useful to photographers.
All throughout our discussions we had ethical issues to deal with such as who should own photos of enslaved people; discussed how photography can assist Indigenous people to reclaim their identities; and provided our input into Apple’s latest initiatives to combat child sex abuse imagery.
Let’s not forget our discussions around photo mentorship and visual storytelling techniques that attract more clients, how LinkedIn can become your go-to platform, and what photo editors suggest can make your photo career stand out.
Check out our top ten blog posts of 2021 below, and prepare to make a splash in 2022.
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Street Photography as Snakes on a Train
A recent image showing a mother wearing a short dress riding the New York City subway raised ethical issues and the outrage of some Twitter commentators, unlike those involving “newsworthy” images or the First Amendment. But what made this image so divisive?
Retoucher Alters the Expressions of Genocide Victims From 1975-1978, Cambodia experienced an immense genocide at the hands of Khmer Rouge forces that claimed 25% of its population and was documented at Tuol Sleng school which became a torture facility. Retoucher Matt Loughrey decided inexplicably to alter some of these images by coloring and altering expressions into smiles; many found this outrageous. As can be expected, people were outraged.
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One student plagiarized an African Artist. Later, His Work Was Exhibited at Milan Photo Festival.
Simon Njami engaged Ethiopian artist photographer Aida Muluneh for an exhibition at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African Art entitled The Divine Comedy: Heaven, Purgatory and Hell Revisited by Contemporary African Artists in 2014. Muluneh’s “The 99 Series” depicted a model set against a light gray mottled background with her body covered with white paint and her hands painted red; one iconic image featured four red hands reaching in from outside to grasp her as she placed both hands against her cheek and her chest as other red hands reached in from outside to grasp her at various points throughout her series of shots.
African Women in Photography’s Twitter account noticed an image created by Italian photo student Andrea Sacchetti that appeared as part of a group exhibition at Milan Photo Festival 2021.
Sacchetti plagiarized Muluneh. Unfortunately, however, the Festival seems indifferent…