Category: Portfolios & Galleries
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The Year in New Yorker Photography | The New Yorker
The Year in New Yorker Photography A visual tour of 2023 in news, culture, and beyond. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/2023-in-review/the-year-in-new-yorker-photography Among many other powerful documentary photographs this year are David Guttenfelder’s stark silhouette of soldiers on a wooded battlefield in Ukraine; Philip Montgomery’s instantly iconic image of United Auto Workers strikers in Toledo, Ohio;…
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An-My Lê’s Uncanny Images of War | The New Yorker
An-My Lê’s Uncanny Images of War The Vietnamese-born photographer charts how conflict embeds itself in both physical and psychological terrains. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/an-my-les-uncanny-images-of-war For the ongoing project “Silent General,” Lê turned her lens to the mainland, travelling from the sites of Confederate monuments and border crossings along the Gulf Coast and Rio Grande…
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Living in the Transition – Photographs by Shunta Kimura | Text by Magali Duzant | LensCulture
Living in the Transition – Photographs by Shunta Kimura | Text by Magali Duzant | LensCulture Traveling through Gabura Union in Bangladesh, Shunta Kimura documents impact, adaptation, and resilience in his quiet photographs of everyday life on the frontlines of rapid climate change via LensCulture: https://www.lensculture.com/articles/shunta-kimura-living-in-the-transition Traveling through Gabura Union in Bangladesh, Shunta Kimura documents…
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An-My Lê on Vietnam, the Chaos of War, and the Tangibility of Memory
An-My Lê on Vietnam, the Chaos of War, and the Tangibility of Memory An-My Lê speaks with Hilton Als about about how she uses photography to examine her personal history and the legacies of US military power. via Aperture: https://aperture.org/editorial/an-my-le-on-vietnam-the-chaos-of-war-and-the-tangibility-of-memory/ For the past two decades, An-My Lê has used photography to examine her personal history…
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Xuan-Hui Ng In Conversation with Huibo Hou – LENSCRATCH
Xuan-Hui Ng In Conversation with Huibo Hou – LENSCRATCH Huibo Hou is a landscape photographer based in San Diego, California. She fell in love with photography about 25 years ago as a hobbyist while working in the wireless communication industry. Then life got in the way and she had to set aside her pursuit of…
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TIME’s Top 100 Photos of 2023 | TIME
TIME’s Top 100 Photos of 2023 These are the photographs that capture the year via TIME: https://time.com/6337364/top-100-photos-2023/ Below is the 2023 Greatest Hits version of “Did you see this photo??”: an unranked collection of 100 of the images that moved us the most. We hope that you’ll take some time to reflect on the year…
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Yesterday You Said Tomorrow – Photographs by Dave Coyle | Text by Magali Duzant | LensCulture
Yesterday You Said Tomorrow – Photographs by Dave Coyle | Text by Magali Duzant | LensCulture In the quiet, lonely hours of dawn, Dave Coyle faces his personal struggle while plotting a path towards the future in atmospheric meditations on the landscape of the Pacific Northwest via LensCulture: https://www.lensculture.com/articles/dave-coyle-yesterday-you-said-tomorrow In the quiet, lonely hours of…
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Michael Kenna: Collecting Light, Photographs 1973-2023 – LENSCRATCH
Michael Kenna: Collecting Light, Photographs 1973-2023 – LENSCRATCH The Center for Photographic Art recently opened Collecting Light, Photographs 1973-2023, a solo exhibition by renowned photographer Michael Kenna. In celebration of Kenna’s fiftieth year as a photographer, CPA partnered with Nazraeli Press to create this retrospective exhibition which includes some of the artist’s most beloved images…
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Meryl Meisler: Simply Scintillating: A Retrospective – LENSCRATCH
Meryl Meisler: Simply Scintillating: A Retrospective – LENSCRATCH My entire life I have wanted to visit New York, not only to see the sights but to connect with the people who choose to call this fanciful city home. Although I have not physically stepped foot on New York soil, Meryl Meisler’s photographs makes it seem…
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European Street Photography Week: Greg Mo: Streets of India – LENSCRATCH
European Street Photography Week: Greg Mo: Streets of India – LENSCRATCH I met Greg Mo while attending an artist talk by Harry Gruyaert of Magnum on Bastille Day in Marseille this summer. He mentioned his keen interest in the work of Gruyaert and informed me that he had just come from Arles where one of…
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European Street Photography Week: Kristen Van den Eede: A Limit to the Dark – LENSCRATCH
European Street Photography Week: Kristen Van den Eede: A Limit to the Dark – LENSCRATCH While investigating the array of European photographers involved in diverse collectives focused on street photography, I came across Kristin Van den Eede‘s eerie and engaging world view. What intrigues me about her work as a street photographer is her preference…
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Calm Before the Storm – The Leica camera Blog
Link: https://leica-camera.blog/2023/10/23/calm-before-the-storm/ The photo book, ‘Calm before the Storm. How we lived at normalization. Photos from the 70s and 80s’, by Czech photographer Jaroslav Kučera, is an impressive testimony to the decades known as “normalization”.
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Erinn Springer: Dormant Season – LENSCRATCH
Erinn Springer: Dormant Season – LENSCRATCH In her debut photobook, Dormant Season, from Charcoal Press, Erinn Springer returns to her roots in rural Wisconsin to photograph a familiar but evolving agrarian landscape. Set against the stark winter terrain, Springer leads us to witness the raw contrasting realities of modern Midwest life, a realm where past…
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Edwin Averette III: The American Family Cemetery – LENSCRATCH
Edwin Averette III: The American Family Cemetery – LENSCRATCH This week, we will be exploring projects inspired by place. Today, we’ll be looking at Edwin Averette III’s series The American Family Cemetery. Edwin Averette III was an undergraduate photography student while I was at East Carolina University. He was one of the most hardworking and dedicated…
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Tamara Reynolds: XX – LENSCRATCH
Tamara Reynolds: XX – LENSCRATCH Tamara Reynolds is a documentary photographer born and raised in Nashville, Tennessee who exhibits her work nationally and internationally. She will be returning as a visiting Lecturer to Vanderbilt University in Nashville for the spring semester of 2024. Reynolds began her career as a commercial photographer for 25 years. Although…
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Landry Major: Keepers of the West – LENSCRATCH
Landry Major: Keepers of the West – LENSCRATCH The Center for Photographic Art, in conjunction with PhotoLucida, is pleased to announce the 2023 Critical Mass Solo Exhibition Award. This year’s recipient is Landry Major. The artist will be exhibiting a large selection of gelatin silver prints from her long-term project, Keepers of the West and…
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Anna Reich: This Land – LENSCRATCH
Anna Reich: This Land – LENSCRATCH This week, we will be exploring projects inspired by place. Today, we’ll be looking at Anna Reich’s series This Land: Landscape, Memory, and Identity on the Plains. Sioux Falls, South Dakota, has a small but spirited art community. Anna Reich is one of th via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2023/09/anna-reich-this-land/ My artistic…
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The Playful and Provocative Images of “Christian Tourism” | The New Yorker
The Playful and Provocative Images of “Christian Tourism” The jarring juxtapositions of Jamie Lee Taete’s collection showcase the sometimes fine line between gimmickry and genuine belief. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/the-playful-and-provocative-images-of-christian-tourism It was a billboard in Branson for “Noah” that caught the British photographer Jamie Lee Taete’s eye, with the patriarch’s name floating beside his…
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Benjamin Briones Grandi: Memories – LENSCRATCH
Benjamin Briones Grandi: Memories – LENSCRATCH Benjamin Briones Grandi‘s sleek series of photomontages, Memories, transforms Chile’s awe-inspiring geography into surreal dream works that speak to the profound spiritual essence of the natural world. From lush forests to arid deserts, the Chilean photog via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2023/09/benjamin-briones-grandi-memories/ Benjamin Briones Grandi‘s sleek series of photomontages, Memories, transforms Chile’s…
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Mark Kitsawaeng: Forgotten Space – LENSCRATCH
Mark Kitsawaeng: Forgotten Space – LENSCRATCH This week we are looking at the work of artists who submitted projects during our most recent call-for-entries. Today, Mark Kitsawaeng and I discuss Forgotten Space. Phanuphan (Mark) Kitsawaeng is a photographer from Thailand, currently living in Los Ange via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2023/09/mark-kitsawaeng-forgotten-space/ Forgotten Space is a set of photographs of…