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Link: Jeff Johnson: Rebel with a Cause « The Leica Camera

Practically nothing in this world is black-and-white, only film. So it has this specific look that dates all the way back to the very first photographs. It’s timeless. Timelessness is key for me

Link: Portraits of Teens Explore Awkwardness, Insecurity, and the Need to Be Cool | Feature Shoot

We talked to London-based photographer David Stewart last year about his series Teenage Pre-occupation, of which at that time was in the design stage of becoming a book

Link: West Africa, as Seen From Its Barbershops – NYTimes.com

Andrew Esiebo, 34, a Nigerian photographer, is fascinated by the nuances of this relationship and how men present themselves to the world. He has traveled through seven West African countries to explore how barbers and their shops function

Link: The Myth and Mystery of the Sunshine State – LightBox

Reality, on the other hand, is a different matter all together. Perhaps our fantasized version of Florida does exist, but if so, it is masked under layers of lines and litter, overpriced tourist traps and drunk teens who would steal the shirt off your back – This literally happened to me while photographing Spring Break. If anything is my charge while on the road for this project, it is peeling back these layers.

Link: diana markosian – my father the stranger | burn magazine

This is my attempt to piece together a clearer picture of a familiar stranger.

Link: Autolandscapes of the American Road – LightBox

Mayes, who defines her aesthetic, in part, as a “Walt Whitman approach” to photography — i.e., embracing influences found in “everything and in nothing