Finding Beauty in the Ordinary

May 8, 2021 1:05 PM

"In 2017, I created Women Street Photographers, an Instagram account that highlights and celebrates the work of women who work in what has historically been a male space." Staring is rude, but photographs allow us to gaze endlessly at what we find compelling.
posted by mecran01 (8 comments total)

The original NYTimes link is here for those who can read it.
posted by DarkForest at 1:12 PM on May 8, 2021

It seems like this should link to the instagram account the author started (https://www.instagram.com/womenstreetphotographers/) and the project website
posted by Dip Flash at 1:17 PM on May 8, 2021 [2 favorites]

I wish the original article linked to those things. I love this project, and I hate when news articles don't link to what they're covering. It's such a basic, easy thing to do, a way to give credit to the people doing the thing they deem newsworthy, just as when you're covering a restaurant, you include its address. Yet for various outdated reasons, such as avoiding seeming promotional, or not believing producing articles in a different way than in print matters online, so much traditional media doesn't do it. It's ridiculous.
posted by limeonaire at 1:50 PM on May 8, 2021 [2 favorites]

That was careless of me not to include that link, sorry. It is, in fact, where I learned about the article.
posted by mecran01 at 4:21 PM on May 8, 2021 [1 favorite]

archive.is isn’t resolving for me. Apparently archive.today might be the main domain now?
posted by zamboni at 5:14 PM on May 8, 2021

I'm guessing that the http://archive.is party is over, and ISPs are playing whack-a-mole as the site rotates through different domains. Archive.today resolved to https://archive.ph/iayrM on my end.
posted by mecran01 at 8:47 PM on May 8, 2021

mecran01, no worries. The news article itself should have linked to them and didn't! My critique was of the newspaper article, not of this post, just to be clear.
posted by limeonaire at 9:50 PM on May 8, 2021

Here are links to the Instagram accounts of photographers mentioned in the article:

@gulnara_nyc
@bjanelevine
@betty_goh_photography
@melissaoshaughnessy
@mina_noei
@karine_biz
@marinakoryakin
@priscillafalconmoeller
@nanda_bayler
@lesyakimi
@sandracattaneoadorno
@michellegroskopf
@melbreyer
@sznpkt
@efratsela
@dgold911
@volskaya_nikitina
@graciela_magnoni
@poupaypoto
@ximena_echague
posted by mecran01 at 11:13 AM on May 21, 2021