At 1:23am on April 26th, 1986, operators in the control room of Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant botched a routine safety test, resulting in an explosion, and a fire that burned for 10 days. The radioactive fallout spread over tens of thousands of square miles, driving more t...

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Although I have already met my intermediate Kickstarter goal, I have until March 21st to raise funds. The estimated cost for two weeks of shooting in the highly contaminated Exclusion Zone is $25,000 (a car and driver alone costs $600/day). However, in total, I plan to raise $50,000 ...

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604, 800 : That is how many seconds are in a week. If you consider that it only takes a fraction of that second to take a photograph, you can imagine the number of opportunities they are for a photographer to capture our lives. Yet, most of the millions of images uploaded in a week are eith...

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Jen Davis is one of the decade’s most original photographers. Lee Marks and Aperture will be presenting a joint exhibition of her work during reGeneration2. The book and the exhibition were curated by Nathalie Herschdorfer and William Ewing. This is how she describes her work: ...

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Foundation Foto Colectania presents for the first time in Barcelona the famous serie Women Are Beautiful by Garry Winogrand. The serie includes 85 photographs taken between 1960 and 1975 and collected in the book with the same title by the legendary director of photo...

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“Did you say fashion photography?” Irving Penn, Richard Avedon, Helmut Newton, Guy Bourdin… These names, today famous, belong to photographers that have crafted a particular language to the image of fashion. What is it that makes a photograph beautiful, different, uni...

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