Link: La Lettre de la Photographie

Adam Bartos’ recent large-format work documents and explores in equal measure the visual language and ethos of that analogue printing culture before it slips beyond our experience forever. The acrid odor of chemistry, an uncanny stillness hanging in damp air — Bartos records the descriptive aspects and spatial constraints of the darkroom but also visualizes the lab as a site of limitless creative potential, invested with as much aura as a photographic print

Link: LightBox

In trying to understand the tension Carl de Keyzer seeks to present in his images of European coastlines, look to the World War II bunkers, tank traps and crumbling walls still present by the shore for starting points.

The decaying fortifications, much like the human response to rising ocean tides as examined by de Keyzer in his new book, Moments Before The Flood, are telling. They anticipate a massive threat, but cannot hope to prevent it: rising sea levels that would submerge entire countries in Europe present an overwhelming challenge to which most solutions are futile.

Link: La Lettre de la Photographie

Éric Dessert’s work seems to be nourished and regulated by his travels, Romania, Georgia, Estonia, Japan, and here, China, shown at the Camera Obscura Gallery until May 26, 2012. A different China, far from the dazzling changes of the past few decades. Rural China. It is no surprise that from 2002 to 2009, Eric Dessert visited four rural provinces of China, Sichuan, Guizhou, Xinjiang and Ganau, for, as he comments, “The notion of rural seemed essential, not only for China, but for what remains elsewhere. All of my pictures for the past 25 years have dealt with this issue.”

Link: La Lettre de la Photographie

Chirodeep Chaudhuri presents The Commuters, a series of portraits taken in the trains of suburban Mumbai and exhibited at the former Prince of Wales Museum in Mumbai

Link: La Lettre de la Photographie

Éric Dessert’s work seems to be nourished and regulated by his travels, Romania, Georgia, Estonia, Japan, and here, China, shown at the Camera Obscura Gallery until May 26, 2012. A different China, far from the dazzling changes of the past few decades. Rural China. It is no surprise that from 2002 to 2009, Eric Dessert visited four rural provinces of China, Sichuan, Guizhou, Xinjiang and Ganau, for, as he comments, “The notion of rural seemed essential, not only for China, but for what remains elsewhere. All of my pictures for the past 25 years have dealt with this issue.”

Link: Lens

“Family is complicated,” the photographer Joseph Rodriguez said. “That’s all.”

Mr. Rodriguez was talking about “Migrantes,” his long-term project following several immigrant families as they journeyed from rural Mexico, past the border in Arizona and on to various parts of the American South. They encounter hardship – even death – as they go on to accept menial, backbreaking jobs on farms. But they face all these challenges together, as family.

Link: LightBox

Joakim Eskildsen’s new body of work, Home Works, explores the poetry of place through the five different homes to which he has moved his family over the past six years. His pictures are painter-like, discovering different moods and seasons, a quiet thoughtfulness, an overwhelming beauty and a love of landscape. His family’s final move to a new home in Germany, just this month, will dictate the last pictures in the project.

Link: LightBox

Photographer Jeffrey Stockbridge, who lives in the city, says that there is one neighborhood of which many Philadelphians are only vaguely aware: Kensington, in the city’s northeast, an area with high poverty and crime rates. Stockbridge has been photographing the denizens of Kensington and recording their stories since the winter of 2008, as part of a long-term project that he hopes to conclude this summer

Link: PDN Photo of the Day

Argentinian photographer Juan Travnik captured the remnants of the 1982 Malvinas (Falklands) War through his haunting landscapes taken on the islands and the portraits of the conscripts and low grade military who fought there. Travnik says, “I was looking to show the effect of the passing of time on the bodies of its protagonists: their physiognomy and attitudinal gestures after so many years of having undergone the critical experience of war, the links and similarities which may or may not weave these photographed faces together, and the way they construct their image in the eyes of ‘the other’.”

Link: Lens

Jimmy Williams is not certain what captivated him first, but after speaking to Mr. Holeman about his love for his guitar and his daily struggles to survive, Mr. Williams knew he wanted to tell the guitarist’s story.