Podcast: Diana Markosian’s “Santa Barbara” & Instagram’s Latest Update
Diana Markosian’s latest project, Santa Barbara, is named after the 80s soap opera which she watched as a child in the Soviet Union. Little did she know that a short while later, her mom became a mail order bride in order to move the U.S. amid economic collapse in the USSR. In addition to an Aperture monogram, Markosian is releasing a film – a semi-autobiographical account of her early life in America.
Also, Women Photograph’s Mentorship Class of 2021, the Alexia Foundation announces its grant winners, Evgenia Arbugaeva’s latest arctic dream for NatGeo, Instagram moves the Activity button out of reach of your thumb, and fashion photographer Norman Jean Roy trades in his camera for a bakery.
We mention the following photographers, articles, and websites in this episode:
- Women Photograph Mentorship Class of 2021
- Winners announced in the 30th annual Alexia Grant competition
- Cornell Watson Photography
- Photographing a Nursing Home Where All Residents Are COVID Positive
- Ami Vitale’s Prints for Nature Sale
- Gun-Toting Couple Billed by Photog for Using Viral Photo on Greeting Cards (via PetaPixel)
- Gun-Toting Couple Sues Photographer, Demands Copyright to Viral Photo (via PetaPixel)
- In Russia’s far north, legends and lives are frozen in time by Evgenia Arbugaeva (@evgenia_arbugaeva)
- Is it Soap Opera or Real Life? It’s Both. by Diana Markosian (@markosian)
- Diana Markosian’s family history laid bare in Santa Barbara (via WeTransfer)
- Inventing My Father — Diana Markosian
- Mornings With My Father (via NYT)
- Diana Markosian: Santa Barbara book (via Aperture)
- Instagram’s Redesign (via TheHustle)
- Keyword search is coming to Instagram (via The Verge)
- The Fashion Photographer Who Traded Film for Flour (via NYT Style Magazine)
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