Gallery: This Week in Photography: A Legend Dies, Russia Cracks Down, and #Selfies
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Our latest edition of This Week in Photography starts with sad news, but we promise it gets better as you read on. For example, we end with news that photographers sometimes win big; like $625,000 big. Enjoy. Bill Eppridge Dies at 75 ------------------------ Bill Eppridge, a legendary Life Magazine photographer, died this week. During his career, Eppridge captured many of America’s most iconic images, including the shocking image of [Robert F. Kennedy lying on the floor of the Ambassador Hotel](http://stag-komodo.wired.com/rawfile/2011/11/hard-boiled-photog-blends-the-old-with-the-new/) moments after he was shot. The photo, which is forever burned in our collective memory, shows a busboy leaning over Kennedy in an attempt to comfort him, a dense crowd surrounding them both, with a bright flash casting ink-like shadows across the floor. Eppridge is also famous for his photos of the Beatles’ arrival in the United States, his photos of Woodstock and the Olympics. Many of us knew Eppridge as a fixture of the Eddie Adams Workshop -- a prestigious four-day event that offers 100 of the world's best students a chance to learn from leading photographers. Everyone at Raw File sends our deepest condolences to Bill’s family and friends. His legacy will no doubt live on in his pictures and in the pictures of those he mentored. *Bill Eppridge at the [Eddie Adams Workshop](https://www.facebook.com/EddieAdamsWorkshop) XXIII (Barnstorm 2010). By [Melissa Lyttle](http://www.melissalyttle.com/)*
02Rob Hornstra / The Sochi Project
Photographer Working on Olympics Project Denied Visa to Russia -------------------------------------------------------------- Earlier this week, Dutch photographer Rob Hornstra was [denied an entry visa](http://www.themoscowtimes.com/news/article/dutch-journalist-says-denied-entry-for-sochi-reporting/486846.html) by the Russian authorities. Hornstra and writer Arnold van Bruggen have been working on *[The Sochi Project](www.thesochiproject.org/en/)*, which aims to document the huge changes that have taken place in and around Sochi as the region prepares for the Olympic Games. Russia's decision is curious given Hornstra's constant travel in and out the country over the past four and a half years. It's safe to assume that Hornstra and Van Bruggen's nuanced and often critical view of changes in Sochi and the North Caucasus is behind the decision. Between the forcible relocation of locals, the use and then [round-up of immigrant labor](http://abcnews.go.com/Sports/wireStory/rights-group-protests-sochi-workers-detentions-20462138), and Russia's new laws that have effectively criminalized homosexuality, the Sochi Winter Games are not without their [controversies](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concerns_and_controversies_at_the_2014_Winter_Olympics ). Van Bruggen will hear about his visa application shortly. He anticipates a refusal, too. *Photo: 'Smokers' Albert Petrovich (57) & Sergey Ivanovich (53). Greater Sochi sprawls for some 145 kilometers along the shoreline, attracting predominantly Russian holiday-makers, who come for the sun, sea, sand, and nightlife. By Rob Hornstra.*
03Eugene Richards
A Legend Turns To Crowdfunding To Self-Publish Photobook -------------------------------------------------------- Eugene Richards has spent his long and storied career documenting poverty, race, war, injury and inequality in America. This week, Richards launched a Kickstarter to fund a proposed photo book called *[Red Ball of a Sun Slipping Down](http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/eugenerichards/red-ball-of-a-sun-slipping-down)*. The book brings together his recent color photographs and his 40-year-old black and white images of the South. We didn't expect to find an old-school documentary photographer on Kickstarter, but Richards really believes in the platform's ability to create community. *Photo: Reverend and Mrs. Landers, Hughes, AR, 1969. By Eugene Richards.* [#iframe: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/eugenerichards/red-ball-of-a-sun-slipping-down/widget/video.html](660x495)||||||
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MJR Photo Collective Adds Three New Members ------------------------------------------- [MJR](http://wearemjr.com/), the photo collective that [every up-and-comer wants to join](http://stag-komodo.wired.com/rawfile/2012/05/photo-collectives/#slideid-44851), this week added three fresh faces to their roster: [Adrienne Grunwald](www.adriennegrunwald.com), a freelancer based in New York City, whose images are reminiscent of classic art photography; [Noah Rabinowitz](http://noahrabinowitz.com/), a documentary photographer and filmmaker also based in New York, who is an editor for the art magazine OSMOS; and [Ling Ang](http://wearemjr.com/2013/08/14/ling/), little sister to MJR member Ying Ang, whose gritty photography might remind some people of work by Nan Goldin, Sandy Kim and Jason Nocito. Ying Ang says the collective was in conversation with the three new members for more than a year before the decision to include them was made. For those of you who are curious about the loss of former member Julius Metoyer, you'll be glad to know it was an amicable break. You can keep up with his film and advertising work over at [Everynone/Epoch.](http://www.epochfilms.com/everynone-joins-the-epoch-family-2/) *Photo: Untitled from the series, Suburbia, New Jersey. By Adrienne Grunwald*
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New Book: *Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea* --------------------------------------------------- We’ve been following [Preston Gannaway’s](http://www.prestongannaway.com/) project, [Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea](http://stag-komodo.wired.com/rawfile/2012/03/photos-of-ocean-community-mix-grit-and-beauty/), for almost two years so we were excited to hear that she’s now turning it into a book via [Kickstarter](http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/gannaway/between-the-devil-and-the-deep-blue-sea). The project tracks the changes facing a working class, seaside neighborhood in Norfolk, Virginia where Gannaway used to live. It’s a complicated story to tell with photos, but one that Gannaway, a Pulitzer Prize-winner, pulls off with grace. *Photo: Nicole Stanley is baptized by fellow members of the Ambassadors For Christ church in the water of the Chesapeake Bay in Ocean View in Norfolk, Va. By Preston Gannaway.* [#iframe: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/gannaway/between-the-devil-and-the-deep-blue-sea/widget/video.html](660x495)||||||
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Missouri Photo Workshop ----------------------- More than 40 photographers recently spent a week in Trenton, Missouri documenting the community as part of the 65th Missouri Photo Workshop. Known for its commitment to teaching in-depth, intimate visual storytelling, the workshop just posted the photos from Trenton area on its website. The list of alumni from the MPW reads like a who’s who in today’s photo world, so we look forward to watching photographers from this year’s batch take over the reins in the years to come. *Above photo: As he practices for rodeo competition, Kidridge Griffin, 10, flips his goat Miss Kay, a frequent practice buddy at his family's farm in Trenton. Kidridge enjoys the thrill of rodeo and is already starting to compete in more adult rodeo competitions, including team roping with his father Ethan. [By Roger Nomer](http://www.joplinglobe.com/tornado_columns/x1592793298/Image-a-revelation-for-photographer).*  *Above photo: Soap operas have become one of Cindy Hanes's favorite pastimes since being couch-bound after her double mastectomy in June. Hanes's chemotherapy treatments often leave her exhausted and she spends time resting during the day to be able to keep up with her kids when they come home from school. By [Eve Edelheit](http://eveedelheit.com/).*
07I Am A Man
Gallery Opening: Ernest C. Withers ---------------------------------- Ernest C. Withers took several of the most important Civil Rights pictures, including the photo of Martin Luther King, Jr. riding one of the first desegregated buses in Montgomery, Alabama and the photo of black sanitation workers carrying “I Am a Man” signs in Memphis in 1968. Withers, an African American photographer from Memphis, died in 2007, but in 2010, *The Commercial Appeal* newspaper in Memphis revealed he had been an [F.B.I. collaborator in the 1960s.](http://www.commercialappeal.com/withers-exposed/#part-1) This week the [Monroe Gallery of Photography](http://www.monroegallery.com/showcase) in Santa Fe, New Mexico opens its new show, "Ernest Withers: A Life's Work" which looks back at the important, but complicated, legacy of this photographer. The show runs through November 24th and the gallery is open daily 10am to 5pm. *Photo: Copyright Ernest Withers, Courtesy of Monroe Gallery*
08SELFIE
The National #Selfie Portrait Gallery ------------------------------------- Artists [Kyle Chayka](http://kchayka.tumblr.com/) and [Marina Galperina](http://animalnewyork.com/author/marina-galperina/) have announced the founding of *The National #Selfie Portrait Gallery*. If you don't think the selfie is a legitimate art form, [think again](http://www.psmag.com/culture/in-praise-of-selfies-from-self-conscious-to-self-constructive-62486/). Van Gogh, Warhol, Friedlander, Sherman; we're not short of artists obsessed with their own image. Don't be tempted to dismiss this as a hipster indulgence of irony. A recent poll by Samsung found that 30 percent of photos made by 18 to 24 year olds are of [themselves](http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/10123875/Family-albums-fade-as-the-young-put-only-themselves-in-picture.html). The *National #Selfie Portrait Gallery* brings together artists from both sides of the pond in a group show of short-form video selfies. For us, the star of the show is [trickster](http://kimasendorf.com/fickr/), Glitch-Art [dilettante](http://kimasendorf.com/mountain-tour/) and [GIF wizard](http://kimasendorf.com/first-gif-sent-into-deep-space/), [Mr. Kim Asendorf](http://kimasendorf.tumblr.com/). Asendorf's gone the extra mile to help you with your #bathroomselfie with the creation of a [Selfie Template](http://kimasendorf.tumblr.com/post/55412948943/selfie-template-mirl). Here's Kim, with a little smirk, [putting his template to use](https://twitter.com/kimasendorf/status/356430897823748096). You, too, can take part with a #NationalSelfiePortraitGallery hashtag on Instagram or Vine. The *National #Selfie Portrait Gallery* is on show at the Moving Image Contemporary Video Art Fair, The Bargehouse, London. Oct 17–20. *Image: [ANIMAL](http://www.animalnewyork.com/2013/national-selfie-portrait-gallery-at-the-moving-image-contemporary-video-art-fair-in-london/)* > Selfie Template <https://t.co/aLnmY7GYca> > > — Kim Asendorf (@kimasendorf) [July 14, 2013](https://twitter.com/kimasendorf/statuses/356430897823748096) <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script>
John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation09Carrie Mae Weems
Carrie Mae Weems Receives a Genius Grant ---------------------------------------- Photographer, filmmaker and artist [Carrie Mae Weems](http://carriemaeweems.net/) has won a [MacArthur Fellowship, which comes with a $625,000 stipend](http://www.macfound.org/fellows/905). Given the thousands of disciplines pursued by millions of brilliant folks, to see a photographer among [this year's 24 fellows](http://www.macfound.org/fellows/class/2013/) is cause for celebration. Weems deals with African American identity, class, and culture in the United States. Her works range from subtle and allegorical images of domestic groupings to Pre-Civil War portraits of Black slaves overlaid with jarring statements about ownership and punishment. In all cases, Weems is walking us through the centuries-old struggle for racial equality, human rights, and social inclusion in America. Never one to divorce art from social justice, Weems has established training programs in visual art for youth and recently founded [Operation Activate](http://carriemaeweems.net/galleries/operation-activate.html), a public art campaign that aims to create awareness about and stop gun violence. *Photo: Courtesy of the John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.* //www.youtube.com/embed/oLHzpH\_\_-Rk
