Exploring for a Meaningful Second: A Q&A with 2021 Hal Prize Images Judges Coburn and Tad Dukehart

You have possible seen Tad Dukehart’s title in the internet pages of the Peninsula Pulse, most notably for his pictures of fire phone calls and county functions. But just before he retired to Ephraim and began capturing the county’s history, he expended 40 decades recording heritage in Baltimore and Washington, D.C. — from Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Aspiration Speech,” to Spiro Agnew’s resignation deal with, to the Million Person March. He bore witness to vital moments in our nation’s background and from time to time took along his daughter, Coburn Dukehart, who grew up with an interest in capturing and sharing historical past as

Stumbling upon Greatness: Exploring Sergio Larrain

Back in 1977, performing in my initial journalism career, I picked up a few of LPs that caught my eye on the “slush pile” of publicists’ mailings, took them household, and read with amazement the intoxicating songs of the English singer-songwriter Nick Drake, who died in 1974. Obsessed, I traveled to England and wrote the initially entire-duration magazine write-up on him in this nation, thrilled that I could spread the fantastic information.

I experienced the very same jolt of discovery extra not too long ago when I stumbled on the pictures of Sergio Larrain. Sadly, like Drake he was currently long gone by the time I uncovered him. The event was the publication in 2013, a year following Larrain’s demise, of a detailed commemorative reserve of his pictures by the Aperture Foundation. Aperture followed up that deeply extraordinary quantity with a e-book of photos taken by Larrain in the Chilean