This week on the web: #bringbackourgirls and a controversial web campaign, tributes to Camille Lepage, Cannes 2014: when Wim Wenders films Sebastiao Salgado, an interview with Ryan McGinley, nudes in nature and a superb aurora borealis.
– #BringBackOurGirls photos go viral and draw criticism
Michelle Obama and other celebrities have taken to social networks to raise awareness about 270 high-school age girls kidnapped in mid-April in Nigeria. The approach has raised questions. Is the power of social networks starting to overtake traditional media? And will the campaign succeed in bringing back our girls?
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– Tributes to Camille Lepage by National Geographic and Konbini
Lynsey Addario wrote an article for National Geographic on the death of photographer Camille Lepage in the line of duty and the role and risks journalists take in the field. And a series of photos on Konibi demonstrate Lepage’s talent, professionalism and positivity.
Photos of Camille Lepage on Konbini
– Cannes 2014: Salt of the Earth, Wim Wenders photographs Sebastiao Salgado, Interviews and Excerpts
Wim Wenders presents The Salt of the Earth for his fourth participation at Un Certain Regard. A portrait of the great travelling photographer Sebastião Salgado, in collaboration with his son, Juliano Ribeiro Salgado.
During the last forty years, the photographer Sebastião Salgado has been travelling through the continents, in the footsteps of an ever changing humanity. He has witnessed the major events of our recent history ; international conflicts, starvations and exodus… He is now embarking on the discovery of pristine territories, of the wild fauna and flora, of grandiose landscapes : a huge photographic project which is a tribute to the planet’s beauty.
Sebastião’s Salgado’s life and work are revealed to us by his son, Juliano, who went with him during his last journeys, and by Wim Wenders, a photographer himself.
Check out the best photos from Cannes 2014 so far here
– Interview of Ryan McGinley about his exhibition Vertical Color of Sound, Chine
The wilderness of America—its unruly flower meadows, great lakes and black caves— are bathed in a wash of surreal color in the euphoric images of New York photographer Ryan McGinley’s latest exhibition,Vertical Color of Sound, with naked models swirling in the midst of a Bacchanalian frenzy. “I like to photograph other artists. The people in my photos are always painters, dancers, poets, sculptors, and musicians,” says McGinley, whose new series is exhibited at Galerie Perrotin’s Chinese outpost, on the 17th floor of a Hong Kong skyscraper. “I only shoot at dawn and dusk to get soft light on the body and those pinks and purples in the sky.” Read the rest here. Galerie Perrotin, Hong Kong, May 13th – June 21st, 2014.
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– PORTFOLIO: Nude in nature by Daniel Gonzàlez, Colombia
Colombian photographer Daniel González captures the simple, joyful and freeing experience of being naked and one with each other and with nature. Through juxtaposing scenic, untouched landscapes and nude bodies, the artist creates parallels between the natural state of our bodies and the genuine beauty of untreated sceneries. Not only are his protagonists liberated from any restraining materials, they are also moving freely in vulnerable, relaxed poses. All indicative of becoming who they truly are, in the most natural way possible.
– Photo of the Day, Nouvel Observateur (May 19th: A Giant Aurora Borealis in Norway)
A grandiose vision of a frozen lake reflecting a gigantic aurora borealis in Lofoten, Norway. German photographer Christian Bothner specializes in landscapes.
