The Sunday Still: Death on the Rio Grande

Photojournalist Patrick Farrell has joined the blog with his weekly feature, The Sunday Still. Farrell selects one image each week that showcases the best photojournalism by photojournalists from around the world. The feature runs weekly in The Sunday Long Read. The goal of the newsletter, edited by Don Van Natta Jr. and Jacob Feldman, is to put the week’s best journalism in your hands every Sunday morning.

The Sunday Still from Patrick Farrell

Death on the Rio Grande  Washed up in the reeds of the Rio Grande, Óscar Alberto Martínez Ramírez and his 23-month-old daughter Valeria shed their anonymity on June 24, when a photo of their final embrace turned a policy debate about immigration into a personal account of one young Salvadoran family’s destruction. It’s the intimate details – the toddler’s arm draped around her father’s shoulders, her diaper swollen with water – that make the horrifying photograph by La Jornada journalist Julia De Lucso powerful. In the past, a defining visual of a policy’s cruel toll on the vulnerable had the power to rally public opinion. Remember Nick Ut’s “Napalm Girl” and its impact on the Vietnam War? “We used to think photos like this could change the world,” Washington Post art critic Philip Kennicott wrote in his column. Media outlets slapped a “sensitive content” warning on the image. But the warning should have read, “Are we still sensitive?” ______________________________________________________________ Close Up  Photojournalists often run toward dangerous news scenes while a crowd runs the other way, but Dallas Morning News photographer Tom Fox took professional bravery to a new level on June 17, when he photographed a masked gunman outside a federal building in downtown Dallas. Fox’s quick reaction and steady hand provided a rare chance to look into the eyes of an active shooter.  A downtown resident in an apartment above him captured the moment on video, showing Fox hiding behind a pillar just feet from the stalking gunman, 22-year-old Brian Clyde, who was killed after exchanging gunfire with officers. Patrick Farrell, the curator of The Sunday Still, is the 2009 Pulitzer Prize-winner for Breaking News Photography for The Miami Herald, where he worked from 1987 to 2019. He is currently a Lecturer in the Department of Journalism and Media Management at the University of Miami School of Communication.

MIami Marlins catcher Jorge Alfaro gets his beard tugged

Miami Marlins catcher Jorge Alfaro (38) gets his beard tugged at by Philadelphia Phillies Vince Velasquez (21) as he sets up to bat. The Marlins went on to defeat the Phillies at Marlins Park 6-2 on Friday, June 28, 2019. I used the Canon EOS 1D-X and the Canon EF 200-400mm f/4L IS USM Extender 1.4x Lens mounted on the 3 Legged Thing ALAN Professional Carbon Fibre Monopod.  Miami Herald Sports https://www.miamiherald.com/…/miami-m…/article232098737.html

Women Photographers in the Republic, Women of the Cuban Photography Club

"Last Wednesday of the Month" Lecture "Women Photographers in the Republic" Wednesday, June 26; 6:30 - 8:30pm This lecture offers an unprecedented approach to the role of women as a modernizing force in Cuban society, focusing on the existence of the Photographic Club of Cuba between 1935 and 1962.  Aldeide Delgado, Founder and Director of Women Photographers International Archive, will discuss her findings while conducting research for her project, Catalog of Cuban Women Photographers.  Conceived in 2013, this initiative aims to document and recognize the work of women photographers in Cuba. It is a platform for the investigation on women who contributed to the development of Cuban photography, the historical conditions of their artistic participation, and the topics in their works beginning in 1853 with the recovery of the first Cuban female photographer to the present. Women Photographers International Archive is a nonprofit organization that researches, promotes, supports and educates about the role of women and those identified as women in photography $5 Members / $10 Non-Members RSVP by June 21 to dayana@coralgablesmuseum.org or 305.603.8067.   This lecture is presented with the additional support of  Arts Connection and Women Photographers International Archive.

The Sunday Still: Haiti through a Haitian photographer’s lens

Photojournalist Patrick Farrell has joined the blog with his weekly feature, The Sunday Still. Farrell selects one image each week that showcases the best photojournalism by photojournalists from around the world. The feature runs weekly in The Sunday Long Read. The goal of the newsletter, edited by Don Van Natta Jr. and Jacob Feldman, is to put the week’s best journalism in your hands every Sunday morning. The Sunday Still from Patrick Farrell

Haiti through a Haitian photographer’s lens  Born in Haiti, AP photographer Dieu Nalio Chery grew up learning his craft in his uncle’s photo studio. Today, if an image from Haiti stops you in your tracks, it’s likely it was shot by Chery, a 2015 Magnum Foundation Human Rights Fellow. Whether it’s young men learning to swim, commuting families piled on motorcycles or breaking news, Chery has an eye for composition and natural beauty. On June 9, he captured the anger of thousands of Port-au-Prince street protestors demanding the resignation of President Jovenel Moïse, who has been implicated in government audits for the misuse of billions of dollars in Venezuelan oil aid given to fight poverty in Haiti. Framed by burning vehicles and chaos in the background, one woman conveys a country’s frustration with its government in her anguished face and outstretched arms. Patrick Farrell, the curator of The Sunday Still, is the 2009 Pulitzer Prize-winner for Breaking News Photography for The Miami Herald, where he worked from 1987 to 2019. He is currently a Lecturer in the Department of Journalism and Media Management at the University of Miami School of Communication.

The Sunday Still: They’ll Never Walk Alone

Photojournalist Patrick Farrell has joined the blog with his weekly feature, The Sunday Still. Farrell selects one image each week that showcases the best photojournalism by photojournalists from around the world. The feature runs weekly in The Sunday Long Read. The goal of the newsletter, edited by Don Van Natta Jr. and Jacob Feldman, is to put the week’s best journalism in your hands every Sunday morning. The Sunday Still from Patrick Farrell

They’ll Never Walk Alone When shooting a parade, you can go tight or wide. Award-winning Press Association photographer Danny Lawson has great instinct for standing back and waiting to tell the story. He captured the Sunday Still a year ago when he shot a glowing Meghan Markle as she walked through shafts of light during the Royal Wedding. He nailed it again on June 2, when the Liverpool Football Club brought home for the sixth time the Champions League Trophy, the biggest prize in European football. Parading through Liverpool and a sea of celebrants perched on lamp posts, street signs and shoulders, the team’s bus crawled through red flare smoke and a “Where’s Waldo” crowd scene. Lawson’s photo conveys joy without showing a single person’s face. Patrick Farrell, the curator of The Sunday Still, is the 2009 Pulitzer Prize-winner for Breaking News Photography for The Miami Herald, where he worked from 1987 to 2019. He is currently a Lecturer in the Department of Journalism and Media Management at the University of Miami School of Communication.

PHOTO EXHIBIT: The Art of Compassion Friday, June 7 Coral Gables Museum

Grand Opening 

Friday, June 7th until Sept. 23

Coral Gables Museum, 285 Aragon Ave

Coral Gables, FL 33134

Erika Blanco, Steven Burton, Donato Di Camilo, Karli Evans, CW Griffin, Ekaterina Juskowski, Mary Beth Koeth, Allison Langer, Irina Lawton, Ashlyn Mckibben, Adrian Mesa, Milcho, Michelle Polissaint, Johanne Rahaman, Leesa Richardson, Starr Sariego, Mateo Serna, Sharon Socol,  Maggie Steber, and Alexandra Vivas

This exhibition compiles the work of twenty local and nationally renowned photographers who have been paired with formerly incarcerated women and asked to make a portrait of them while they are in the process of re-integration to society.  Artists delve on these women’s sense of belonging and on their concept of home. Their powerful photographs reveal the real women – mothers, daughters, and wives, who ended up behind bars. Photographs are complemented by the subjects’ powerful testimonies.

The Art of Compassion is curated by photographer and producer Starr Sariego and it is part of “The Compassion Project”. This initiative aims to redefine the preconceptions about formerly incarcerated women through photography, film, an interactive app, and a rich educational curricula, and works in collaboration with LEAP, an organization that empowers women to put prison in the past.