Link: Maggie Steber’s 25-Year Quest to Photograph Haiti’s Beauty – NYTimes.com

To much of the outside world, the image of Haiti — when it pops up at all — is one of catastrophes, both natural and man-made. Violence, grinding poverty, flood, earthquakes all leave a lingering image of a benighted nation bereft of tender moments.

Maggie Steber thinks that’s nonsense — and she has the pictures to prove it.

Don’t be misled, they aren’t all tender quiet moments, the photos are…

1. a funeral
2. pilgrims
3. dancing
4. looting
5. a slum resident weeping
6. a presidential inauguration
7. a voodoo spirit of death ceremony
8. crying mourners at funeral
9. a schoolgirl
10. a dead man in an alcove
11. a country market
12. “when the man reached the shore, another policeman shot him in the head, and his body was thrown into the back of a truck.”
13. cart pullers resting
14. market day
15. homeless boys in voodoo temple
16. a boy
17. Haitians searching the rubble for valuables
18. residents of a state-run home for the aged, whose dormitory collapsed

Link: L E N S C R A T C H: Carl Corey

We are a country of entrepreneurs, self-starters, and determined individuals that make up the core of our American dream.  Long before the Fortune 500′s, there were mom and pop day-to-day desires to carve out a living, and a life on one’s own terms.  Carl Corey takes a look at those self-starters who have created family businesses in Wisconsin and have managed to stay afloat for 50 years or more.

Link: New York – Tokyo-Ga : Ensemble c’est tout | La Lettre de la Photographie

In solidarity with the recent events that have shaken Japan, the curator Naoko Ohta has conceived a large-scale photography project. One hundred photographers roamed the streets of Tokyo to take the pulse of this bustling metropolis turned gathering place.

Link: La Lettre de la Photographie

In the summer of 1964, San Francisco was ground zero for a historic culture clash as the site of both the 28th Republican National Convention (the “Goldwater Convention”) and the launch of the Beatles’ first North American tour. The young photographer Arthur Tress arrived at this opportune moment in the city’s history and found himself in the midst of large-scale civil rights demonstrations and chaotic political pageantry. With a unique sensibility perfectly attuned to this quirky metropolis, he set about to capture the odd spectacle of San Francisco.

Link: Raw File

Photographer Bieke Depoorter has been traveling around Russia and the United States asking random people on the street if she can sleep at their homes on and off for the past three years.

The result is a series of eerily intimate photos that capture the inside lives of people and families throughout these two countries.

Link: La Lettre de la Photographie

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