Brooklyn based Picture Projects produces exhbitions and new media work - online documentaries and in
Picture Projects is a Brooklyn based studio that collaborates with other artists, photographers, journalists, film makers, technologists and academics to tackle major contemporary and historical social concerns. Picture Projects’s work goes back to 1995, and with our team, the studio has over 70 years of experience developing our own projects and helping non-profit organizations develop and realiz
e their visions. What differentiates Picture Projects from web design and development companies is our approach as artists, and our focus on presenting multiple perspectives and engaging with the complexities and contradictions arising from very different experiences and points of view. Websites, mobile phones and interactive installations have become keynote narrative and dialoguing platforms with the possibility to engage and enable visitors with opportunities to engage and respond to what they know. Picture Projects specializes in bringing to life all the facets of an issue on-line and in exhibition and public spaces. In our current projects, we continue to weave new technologies with smart design into an ongoing exploration of our history and social fabric through first-person stories, dynamic data and participatory storytelling.
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https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-hidden-mothers-of-family-photos
The female image is ubiquitous on social media, yet when it comes to pictures of parents with their children many moms feel disappeared.
https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/meta-girlfriends-nft
Want to pay hard cash for customizable avatars of slender, perfectly coiffed cartoon girls that you can see ‘exclusive’ nudes of? Welcome to the latest wrinkle in the bonkers world of NFTs
GRANT DEADLINE EXTENDED to January 24th: Robert Giard Grant for Emerging LGBTQ+ Photographers. Apply at link:
https://www.queer-art.org/giard-grant
The Robert Giard Grant for Emerging LGBTQ+ Photographers supports the creation of new work by emerging LGBTQ+ photographers whose projects address issues of sexuality, gender, or LGBTQ+ identity.
Community members will weigh in on what mural they'd like to have painted on their wall after seeing 10 projected options...
The community will choose from a selection of interactive murals that are being projected onto the wall.
https://mesopotamia.getty.edu/ A wonderful and dimensional website produced by the Getty with objects from Musée du Louvre, BnF - Bibliothèque nationale de France, The Metropolitan Museum and others: MESOPOTAMIA - An Intimate Look at some Extraordinary Objects from an Exhibition at the Getty Villa.
An intimate 3D look at some extraordinary objects from the Getty Villa exhibition.
AI photo restoration shines a light on life in old Ireland https://www.cnn.com/style/article/old-ireland-color-photos-breslin/index.html
Combining digital technology with painstaking historical research, a new photo project is bringing Irish history to life in unprecedented color.
20 years later, in memory of those who lost their lives on 9/11, our audio archive, SonicMemorial.org is a collaboration with The Kitchen Sisters, NPR, independent radio producers, artists, writers, archivists, historians, and public radio listeners throughout the country. https://sonicmemorial.org/
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/what-gilles-peress-saw-on-911
The Magnum photographer looks back on capturing an “inconceivable event.”
This is an important article: Earlier this month Apple dropped a privacy bombshell. After years of touting its strong commitment to privacy, the company said it would soon start scanning photos stored on your iPhone to identify child sexual abuse imagery.
Dispatches from Editor-in-Chief Julia Angwin
Tulsa Race Massacre video and upcoming installation by Bayeté Ross Smith https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/may/31/tulsa-race-massacre-at-100-act-of-terrorism
It was among the worst acts of violence in US history, and no one was held accountable – how much has changed in the last 100 years?
Siri shortcut "I'm getting pulled over"... "Filming the police is an incredibly important right protected by the First Amendment. In our woefully imperfect system, it is an essential tool in keeping citizens safe and holding law enforcement accountable for their actions."
Filming the police is an incredibly important right protected by the First Amendment. In our woefully imperfect system, it is an essential tool in keeping citizens safe and holding law enforcement accountable for their actions. Unfortunately, it’s…
Global map of wind... not new but recently re-found. Thank you Beth Thielen https://earth.nullschool.net/
See current wind, weather, ocean, and pollution conditions, as forecast by supercomputers, on an interactive animated map. Updated every three hours.
The Original 20 Guantánamo Detainees: A Roster, and Where They Are Now in The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/27/us/politics/guantanamo-bay-detainees-history.html
Starting with the Bush administration, the United States has gradually transferred all but two of the first 20 prisoners at the wartime detention facility to other nations. Here’s who, and where, they are.
NFTs? “I Looked Through All 5,000 Images in Beeple’s $69 Million Magnum Opus. What I Found Isn’t So Pretty — 'Everydays: The First 5,000 Days' is the third-most expensive work ever by a living artist. Not many people have actually looked at it.”
By Ben Davi https://news.artnet.com/opinion/beeple-everydays-review-1951656
Ben Davis on what's actually in Beeple's 'Everydays: The First 5,000 Days,' the digital artwork that sold for $69 million at Christie's.
What a Covid America needs to learn from Dorothea Lange
https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/17/opinions/covid-infrastructure-the-next-dorothea-lange-taylor/index.html
Tess Taylor conjures the echoes between Dorothea Lange's photographs of the Great Depression and the need to record and understand who we are as citizens and human beings after the Covid-19 pandemic. Taylor argues for infrastructure-style investments in the arts, which research shows could promote e...
Video montage presented by the prosecution at Trump's impeachment trial showing both the Jan. 6 attack and Trump’s words during that day. https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4944566/user-clip-house-impeachment-managers-opening-video&campaign
Video presented by Rep. Jamie Raskin (D) of the events of Jan. 6, 2021.
Dying of Covid in a ‘Separate and Unequal’ L.A. Hospital
By Sheri Fink Photographs by Isadora Kosofsky https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/08/us/covid-los-angeles.html
Inside an overwhelmed facility in the worst-hit part of California, where the patriarchs of two immigrant families were taken when they fell sick.
Website on mounting COVID deaths in prisons: memorials and action https://www.mourningourlosses.org/ 1 in 5 people in prison have been infected with COVID-19
A space to honor and remember those who died while living or working behind bars during the COVID-19 pandemic. Submit a memorial Mourning Our Losses is a crowd-sourced memorial to honor the lives of people who died in prisons, jails, and immigration detention facilities in the United States during t...
The team at Law And Disorder Radio did a special show on Michael Ratner and his forthcoming memoir “Moving the Bar: my life as a radical lawyer.” It is published by OR Books and is available at https://www.orbooks.com/catalog/moving-the-bar/
You can hear this show on WBAI radio this coming Sunday evening, Jan 7 at 6 PM. 99.5 FM. Or live-stream it at wbai.org.
You can also get it on the website: lawanddisorder.org.
Michael Ratner was one of America’s leading human rights lawyers. In a career that spanned five decades up to his death in 2016, Ratner was involved in a wide range of high-profile cases. From working with William Kunstler in pursuing justice after the notorious prison massacre at Attica, to repre...
It's time to apply for the School of Visual Arts - DSI - MFA in Design for Social Innovation Dsi.sva.edu/apply
Design for Social Innovation at SVA is the first MFA program in the rapidly growing field of social impact design.
exposure for less than 5 minutes, more than 15 feet away...
What we can learn from the latest indoor dining study
Worth revisiting: Instead of Prisons: A Handbook for Abolitionists, 1976 https://www.prisonpolicy.org/scans/instead_of_prisons/index.shtml
A Handbook For Abolitionists, Online book, Originally published 1976
I am insisting to remember... https://rec-on.org/video/InsistingToRemember241020.mp4
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Picture Projects' Director, Alison Cornyn is grateful to receive the encouraging grant and a lucky red backpack from GlobalGiving and The Red Backpack Fund backed by SPANX and the Sara Blakely Foundation -- dedicated to elevating and supporting women through entrepreneurship. Thank you! And congratulations to the other women who received this generous and supportive assistance during COVID.
https://www.spanx.com/the-red-backpack-fund
Reimagining Higher Education Through Socially Engaged Art... A great article by Gregory Sholette...
The answer to what happens next for City University of New York (CUNY) post-pandemic will depend on expanding the ideals of low-cost, high-quality liberal studies in which culture, self-reflection, and interdisciplinary learning enrich democratic values.
Visualizing the racial disparities in mass incarceration from the Prison Policy Initiative https://www.prisonpolicy.org/blog/2020/07/27/disparities/
Racial inequality is evident in every stage of the criminal justice system - here are the key statistics compiled into a series of charts.
For more information about New York's Child Victim's Act "lookback window" visit the informational site we created with Incorrigibles. The last day to file a civil suit for child sexual abuse in NY (for anyone over age 51) has been extended until January 14, 2021, due to COVID. https://www.childvictimsactny.org/
How To Get Your Documentary On Netflix: 4 "Must-Haves"
There are Four Filters Netflix executives use to determine if a documentary is a good fit...
Dr. Robin DiAngelo discusses her book 'White Fragility' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45ey4jgoxeU
University of Washington professor Dr. Robin DiAngelo reads from her book "White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism," explains...
Created by lead artist Marisa Morán Jahn, social justice lawyers, and immigrant justice groups, Volador is a toolkit of playful illustrations informing full-time, part-time, temp and gig workers — including undocumented immigrants, artists, parents — about their rights to sick leave and government economic relief. In English and Spanish. Download and share...
https://www.studiorev.org/volador
seems to be the perfect day to share the latest web project we produced with the , an organization that exists to continue the creative and investigative spirit of the artists (1938-2014) and (1938-73). It has truly been a privilege to work with these two artists incredible .
https://holtsmithsonfoundation.org/
"This fall students in Bard College's Human Rights program teamed up with CUNY School of Law students to make short video presentations that accompanied the petitions filed by three men incarcerated in New York State who were seeking clemency from Governor Andrew Cuomo. Unfortunately, the Governor did not use his power to free any of them.
The has hit New York jails and prisons hard, and one of the men the students worked with, David Sell, has been an eyewitness to the catastrophe unfolding inside . The students reached him on the phone earlier this week, and within 48 hours produced a video that conveys his story. BuzzFeed News properly
describes it as "harrowing." You can watch it, and the longer appeal for that they produced with David in the fall, here":
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/melissasegura/prison-inmates-covid-19-coronavirus
or directly at https://vimeo.com/405593537
In a harrowing video, David Sell describes his experience in a situation that health experts say is a “tinderbox” just waiting to ignite.
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Like/Follow this page! We met Steven over 20 years ago. At the time, when we learned about the devastation of the environment in Ecuador by Texaco (now Chevron) we produced a website to bring attention to the plight of the Ecuadorans and their Amazon. For his dedication to righting this wrong, he is currently under house arrest... Read this article and... Free Steven Donziger
“It should be nothing short of terrifying for any activist challenging corporate power and the oil industry in the U.S.,” said Paul Paz y Miño, associate director of Amazon Watch, an organization devoted to the protection of the rainforest and Indigenous people in the Amazon basin. “They’ve made it clear there’s no amount of money that’s too much to spend on this case,” he said of Chevron. “They will stop at nothing.”
Friends at UnionDocs have extended the deadline for their Summer Documentary Lab which is now accepting remote participation for 2020. These Labs incubate documentary features in early stages of production in tightly structured environments where a select group of emerging filmmakers from the US and abroad can be inspired and challenged to think through every aspect of a work-in-progress.
Learn more + Apply Today: https://uniondocs.org/summer-documentary-lab/
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