Thursday, June 24
Streaming on YouTube
Join us for a special, one-of-a-kind online variety show hosted by photographer Jason Fulford, as we celebrate the release of the new book
Photo No-Nos: Meditations on What Not to Photograph (Aperture, 2021). During this event, artists from around the world contributors to the book will present ideas, thoughts, jokes, dreams, and more.
About
Photo No-Nos:
Photographers often have unwritten lists of subjects they tell themselves not to shoot things that are cliché, exploitative, derivative, sometimes even arbitrary.
Photo No-Nos, edited by Jason Fulford, features ideas, stories, and anecdotes from many of the world’s most talented photographers and photography professionals on what they choose to avoid, and how they contend with their own self-imposed rules without being paralyzed by them.
Aaron Sorkin
Great art will be made from this time, about this time, inspired by this time. While we wait for that to emerge, we asked 75 artists to open up about their creative travails and triumphs a year into the pandemic.
The questions we asked them are ones you may be asking yourself: Did you make anything that mattered? Who and what comforted you? Which moments will you remember? Which ideas would you like to forget? What would a do-over look like? And what’s still on your to-do list as “normal” comes into focus?
Through interviews and written answers, edited and collected here, they let us into the life of a creative mind in quarantine. But they asked to share one caveat: “Obsessing over what it did to
Drew Reynolds
Jerry Francois is a born-and-raised New Yorker scratch that a born-and-raised Brooklynite. Very little intimidates him.
But in the aftermath of Ahmaud Arbery’s murder, when the 25-year-old was shot and killed while out for a run in South Georgia last March, Francois began to fear going out for his nightly runs in the Bed-Stuy neighborhood where he lives.
“It hit me hard,” he tells
Runner’s World. “His life was taken for doing something that I m sure that he just enjoyed to do. It was literally taken away. That was literally his last mile.” Related Stories
Francois worried about being targeted and not making it home to see his first child born. (His wife, Ashley, gave birth to their son, Jaxx, in July.) So he switched his runs to mornings and took to wearing neon in place of his usual black attire.
A place of refuge, Lydia Goldblatt’s new series is a gentle contemplation on loss and uncertainty
Unequivocally relevant, Fugue is an empathetic lockdown project that lenses themes of family and motherhood.
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“Photographing felt liberating and intuitive,” says Lydia Goldblatt of the moment she first picked up a camera. It was while visiting her father’s birthplace with her family that she initially laid her hands on one, before being completely taken aback by the medium’s immediacy in documenting “things newly seen, even if the picture itself turned out to be rubbish.”
At the time, the now-London-based photographer was studying languages at university, thinking that she’d later pursue a career in journalism. Writing was a “hard-won and extremely slow’ and “torturous affair” though and so she shortly steered away from that goal. It’s no wonder she, therefore, jumped to the device of a camera for its fast-paced ability to capture the world around her.