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Oct. 20: Week in Photography
Welcome to your weekly JPG newsletter! 📸Your lens to the internet's most powerful photographs 📸 MOST POWERFUL PHOTO OF THE WEEK There was perhaps no picture from this past week that better encapsulated the divisiveness on Capitol Hill than this one shared by President Donald Trump on his personal Twitter account. The photo shows House Speaker Nancy Pelosi exchanging heated arguments with the president during a congressional briefing on the military situation in Syria.
To Trump, this picture represents the temperament of House Democrats; to his opposition, it shows a democratic leader standing up to an unstable president. Whatever the case, it's likely that more pictures like this arise as the impeachment inquiry heats up and the 2020 election gets underway. SEE THE FULL STORY
This week’s BuzzFeed News photo stories offer historical context for the world we live in today. First up, a new exhibition at the Annenberg Space for Photography shows how walls have long been used as tools for division and ideologies, followed by a visit to the Bronx Museum where photographer Henry Chalfant takes us back to the '70s to witness the birth of hip-hop and street art. We end with former BuzzFeed News reporter Mike Giglio and the photographers who accompanied him in the field as he reported on the Kurds in their fight against ISIS.
Here are more photo essays published by our friends elsewhere.
DEFEND, DETER, DELINEATE: WALLS THROUGH HISTORY Jen Sudul Edwards, curator of W|ALLS: Defend, Divide, and the Divine, shares a selection of photographs from the show and discusses the significance of walls in this period of unprecedented divisiveness. SEE THE FULL STORY
STYLE WARS: THE BIRTH OF HIP-HOP AND STREET ART Photographer Henry Chalfant was witness to an explosion of artistic creativity in New York City during the 1970s and '80s. He set out to capture the faces of this movement and soon developed his own unique style of capturing the graffiti on the sides of subway cars. SEE THE FULL STORY
SHATTER THE NATIONS: KURDS AND THE WAR AGAINST ISIS
Before the US joined the war on ISIS, before Trump abandoned them, the Kurds were waging a lonely fight against the jihadis in a forgotten patch of Syria. This is their origin story. SEE THE FULL STORY
FOR YOUR 👀 ONLY: A WORD WITH LEGENDARY PHOTOGRAPHER ANNIE LEIBOVITZ 📸 Annie Leibovitz, who has taken portraits of everyone from Meryl Streep to Queen Elizabeth, partnered with Google to create a portrait series on the Pixel 3 and Pixel 4 phones. She agreed to speak with BuzzFeed News about this project, which can be seen online here.
Annie Leibovitz: Google came to me and I thought that was interesting, because while I really do believe that the camera phone could be a viable camera option, I thought that the ones that are out there are built for the consumer instead of for photographers.
I have to tell you, I love the work. I originally thought I was just going to drive across the country and do the Robert Frank Guggenheim thing. [laughs] Then we started to think about portraits, and it was interesting to think of a project where I was photographing people who mattered and names that I felt helped make change. And they all said yes, which is shocking, you know?
I had a very simple idea to do two photographs instead of one for each person. So there’s a portrait of the person and then something else that is part of their lives, and that creates the portrait together like a diptych.
A good example of this is Sarah Zorn, who is one of the first female commanders out of the Citadel. When I met her, it was a week before graduation and she pointed out a pair of boots that she’d worn every single day for four years and for all that marching and training in those boots. I said, “Oh my God, we have to photograph that.”
People are so hopeful and so happy to be a part of a series of people doing really good things.
Probably not, although I was very aware of light. Most of this was done in natural light. Toward the end, I started to use some bounce boards and some gobos, and I had a tiny little light that I would sometimes use, but the idea was that it was a great exercise for looking at light and where it is.
Sometimes you want to just look. There’s still work on my part in these images, but it was a pleasure to forget part of it and just compose, and the people were so wonderful. I did ask Google to let me have a RAW file so I had the choice of that or JPG. It’s not standard for them to have a RAW file, but they’ve been a real nice partnership.
Did you find anything about the phone that was easier than with a traditional camera? I’ve always believed that it’s about content. What’s great about the phone is you put it in your pocket and walk around, and it’s definitely less intimidating. For a photographer, it doesn’t matter what you use — it really matters how you see. It’s not particularly because of this phone.
I love that everyone can take pictures; it’s fantastic! It’s a language. Photography has such latitude, and it’s wonderful for young people to use it as a mirror for themselves. My girls use their phones and they see what their world looks like. It’s wonderful that this is possible today.
It’s different if you’re a photographer because you’re then being thoughtful and careful about what you want to look at and what you see, and we have other kinds of responsibilities, but it’s wonderful that this language is available to everyone and anyone.
📸YOUR WEEKLY PALATE CLEANSER: Let us take a moment to celebrate the colors of autumn with this stunning picture by Reuters photographer Lisi Niesner of the Waxeggkees glacier above the Berliner Hütte in Ginzling, Austria. "That's it from us for now. See you next week! —Gabriel and Kate “Which of my photographs is my favorite? The one I’m going to take tomorrow.”
đź“ť This letter was edited and brought to you by the News Photo team. Gabriel Sanchez is the photo essay editor based in New York and loves cats. Kate Bubacz is the photo director based in New York and loves dogs. You can always reach us here.
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