Ben Brody

Nov 27, 2024 | thegroundtruthproject.org | Ben Brody

Less than a mile from where I grew up north of Boston, Connors Farm hosts a popular 7-acre corn maze in the fall. Normally this is of interest only to locals, but in 2011, the farm made national news after a family called 911 when they couldn’t find their way out in a timely manner. They were found by police 25 feet from the parking lot.

Oct 9, 2024 | thegroundtruthproject.org | Ben Brody

When you look at a photograph, you are essentially looking through the eyes of the photographer as they point something out. Their sense of artistry and structure should be clear to see, but also their biases, and their power dynamic with their subjects. In southern California’s Riverside, Report for America corps member and CatchLight fellow Aryana Noroozi has been reporting on the city’s unhoused population for Black Voice News.

Sep 6, 2024 | thegroundtruthproject.org | Ben Brody

Photojournalists often will move kinetically through a scene. Like a postmodern dancer interpreting society’s hunger for visual stimuli, they’ll get close to their subjects, then quickly move far away, take a vertical for the magazine cover, then back to horizontals, leap down to get a low shot, climb to a high shot, a detail, a portrait, a left-facing action shot, then right. To make a picture essay have rhythm and flow, it needs variety.

Aug 16, 2024 | thegroundtruthproject.org | Ben Brody

Far removed from the harsh glare of supermarket aisles, a gentle light permeates Emily Kenny’s photographs of farm life, articulating a lifelong experience of working the land. While some of her images might appear like Norman Rockwell paintings of a pastoral utopia, others describe the technological advancements in agriculture, and some simply linger on the gleaming steel knives that cut our meat and vegetables.

Jul 12, 2024 | thegroundtruthproject.org | Ben Brody

When you look at KT Kanazawich’s photojournalism, it is defined by intimacy, as if you were invited into the inner circle of whomever she’s working with that day. If you ask KT what her secret is to get such close access to her subjects, she’ll shrug and say, “I hang out.” A closer look at one of her personal projects, a 15-year documentation of the punk and hardcore scene in her native Binghamton, NY, reveals the depth of her commitment to this approach.