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Saving a nation’s photographic history: Spain’s most noted photographers are pushing for a national center to catalog, protect, and promote the country’s diverse photographic history. Juan Manuel Castro Prieto, who won the national prize for photography, tells stories of archives being left to rot in chicken coops and of photographers tossing their lives’ works into rtrash bins because they don’t have the storage space. Spain is one of the few countries in the EU without an archive dedicated to photography, the Guardian reports.
Using photography for good: When a wastewater spill threatened the water sources of the Navajo Nation, a photographer raised on a reservation in northern Arizona jumped into action. Mylo Fowler sold prints of his photography to buy drinking water for Navajo families. Fowler, and his efforts, are documented in a new film, PetaPixel reports.
Long before Stonewall: With her camera, Kay Tobin Lahusen documented the early days of the gay rights movement and depicted lesbians when they were virtually absent from popular culture. Her goal, she said in 1993: “Taking our minority out from under wraps, and what you might call the normalization of gay.” Lahusen, who was 91, died May 26, the New York Times reports.
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