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Looking at Appalachia Anew – NYTimes.com
Looking at Appalachia Anew Fifty years after the war on poverty highlighted need in Appalachia, Roger May set out to dispel stereotypes and redefine how the region was portrayed in photographs. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/05/20/looking-at-appalachia-anew/?module=BlogPost-Title&version=Blog Just ask Roger May. He is a photographer who proudly calls himself an “Appalachian American.” Born in Kentucky and raised…
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Jeffrey Milstein photographs cruise ships in his series, “Cruise Ships.”
Looking Down at the Decks of Massive Cruise Ships From water level, cruise ships can look like confounding, imposing towers—but in Jeffrey Milstein’s series of aerial photographs, “Cruise Ships,” the… via Slate Magazine: http://www.slate.com/blogs/behold/2015/05/19/jeffrey_milstein_photographs_cruise_ships_in_his_series_cruise_ships.html From water level, cruise ships can look like confounding, imposing towers—but in Jeffrey Milstein’s series of aerial photographs, “Cruise Ships,” the…
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Boston : Cig Harvey at Robert Klein Gallery – The Eye of Photography
Boston : Cig Harvey at Robert Klein Gallery Robert Klein Gallery presents Cig Harvey’s solo show through , Gardening at Night, whiches explores family, time, and nature through the eyes of a new mother. With the artist’s dreamlike text grounded by details of daily life, Gardening at Night is foremost a sensorial experience.
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The first 45 years, a retrospective by Abbas in Germany – The Eye of Photography
The first 45 years, a retrospective by Abbas in Germany For almost 45 years I have roamed the world, in search of images of upheaval; initially political and social, then later, religious. Retrospectives are best done when the photographer is no longer around – there will be no surprises then. Or so I thought until…
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Chester Higgins’s Homage to Ethiopia – NYTimes.com
Chester Higgins’s Homage to Ethiopia Of all the African countries he has visited, Ethiopia holds a special place for Chester Higgins Jr. It is there, far from the cities, that he is able to meditate on the intertwined strands of his life and art. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/05/19/chester-higgins-homage-to-ethiopia/?module=BlogPost-Title&version=Blog Chester Higgins Jr. has traveled to Africa…
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Kurdish Syrians, Beyond the Border Crossing – NYTimes.com
Kurdish Syrians, Beyond the Border Crossing Still, Esa Ylijaasko, a Finnish documentary photographer, was ambivalent. He was intrigued by the unrest but felt little need to photograph the same things so many were already doing, until he discovered a blighted Istanbul enclave that was home to Kurdish refugees fleeing Syria’s civil war.
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Sevil Alkan – Mobile Street Stories: H-artcollective | LensCulture
Mobile Street Stories: H-artcollective – Photographs by members of the H-artcollective | LensCulture Mobile photography makes it easier than ever to document the world—and in new, inventive ways via LensCulture: https://www.lensculture.com/articles/sevil-alkan-mobile-street-stories-h-artcollective Street Stories, the H-artcollective groups the best of their street photography to show the impact that mobile photography can have. At its core, H-artcollective…
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Violence, Protests, and a Potential Coup in Burundi – The Atlantic
Violence, Protests, and a Potential Coup in Burundi The president of Burundi, Pierre Nkurunziza, recently decided to run for a third term, despite a constitutional law prohibiting anyone from serving more than two terms. Violent protests erupted over the decision, leading to widespread clashes with police via The Atlantic: http://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2015/05/violence-protests-and-a-potential-coup-in-burundi/393287/ There was so much crime…
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Ad Agency and Photographer Work to Highlight the Home Front | TIME
Using Photography to Bring the Reality of War Home David Guttenfelder photographed the front lines of an unexpected war zone. via Time: http://time.com/3855779/mission-22/ David Guttenfelder photographed the front lines of an unexpected war zone
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Marc Prüst – North Korean Perspectives | LensCulture
North Korean Perspectives – Curated by Marc Prüst | LensCulture Isolated, embargoed and widely misunderstood—this exhibition looks at North Korea from multiple viewpoints, attempting to bring outsiders closer to understanding the complex identity of this country via LensCulture: https://www.lensculture.com/articles/marc-prust-north-korean-perspectives Parsing national identity is complex. However, attempting to grasp North Korean identity is even more so.…
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Searching for Identity in China’s Outer Lands – NYTimes.com
Searching for Identity in China’s Outer Lands Now, Mr. Sakamaki has turned to China’s fringe provinces — Xinjian, Yunnan, Liaoning and others — where his project, “China’s Outer Lands,” catalogs marginalized minority groups that are rapidly becoming strangers in the territories they call home
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Dying Couldn’t Stop Ethan Arbelo From Living — Vantage — Medium
Dying Couldn’t Stop Ethan Arbelo From Living What happens when the cusp of adulthood meets cancer via Medium: https://medium.com/vantage/dying-couldn-t-stop-ethan-arbelo-from-living-937a26c4a7b9 “He really wanted to go skydiving but he wasn’t old enough. He wanted a piercing but he couldn’t risk an infection. He didn’t want to die a virgin, but he did. He wanted to grow up,…
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The Mediterranean Migrant Crisis: Risking Everything for a Chance at a Better Life – The Atlantic
The Mediterranean Migrant Crisis: Risking Everything for a Chance at a Better Life People from impoverished and war-torn countries in Africa, the Middle East and central and south Asia, continue to flee their homes in huge numbers, making perilous journeys to Europe, hoping for security, opportunity, and a new home. via The Atlantic: http://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2015/05/the-mediterranean-migrant-crisis-risking-everything-for-a-chance-at-a-better-life/392957/ People…
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Gillian Laub’s “Southern Rites” | PDN Photo of the Day
Gillian Laub’s “Southern Rites” In 2002, photographer Gillian Laub traveled to Georgia to document a racially segregated high school prom, the start of what would later become “Southern Rites,” her longterm photography and documentary film project investigating issues of race and equality in the town of Montgomery County, GA.
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Robb Hill: HomeLands | LENSCRATCH
Robb Hill: HomeLands Robb Hill is a documentary photographer specializing in long term projects that explore how people create community. For his project, HomeLands, Robb returns to a community he knows well, his hometown of Utica, Indiana in hopes of capturing a place in tra via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2015/05/robb-hill/ Robb Hill is a documentary photographer specializing…
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Photographs of Everyday African-American Pride in Queens – NYTimes.com
Photographs of Everyday African-American Pride in Queens A photographer goes back to St. Albans, a Queens neighborhood that has been a proud middle-class African-American enclave. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/05/08/photographs-of-everyday-african-american-pride-in-queens/?module=BlogPost-Title&version=Blog Elias Williams began photographing life in the southeastern Queens neighborhood of St. Albans, where he grew up, after the foreclosure crisis wrecked much of the largely…
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Juxtapoz Magazine – The work of Matt Reamer
Juxtapoz Magazine – The work of Matt Reamer In his downtime, when he’s not traveling around or living out of his van, Matt Reamer can be found residing in San Francisco. The Baltimore-born… Link: http://www.juxtapoz.com/photography/the-work-of-matt-reamer In his downtime, when he’s not traveling around or living out of his van, Matt Reamer can be found residing…
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Chuck Close, Collaborating in a Big Way – NYTimes.com
Chuck Close, Collaborating in a Big Way A new exhibit of Chuck Close’s photos shows not just mastery of everything from daguerreotypes to 20×24 Polaroid images, but also his penchant for collaboration. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/05/07/chuck-close-collaborating-in-a-big-way/?module=BlogPost-Title&version=Blog Not every photograph Chuck Close makes ends up as a painting, but every painting Chuck Close creates starts out…
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View the PDN Photo Annual 2015 Winners’ Gallery
View the PDN Photo Annual 2015 Winners’ Gallery | PDNPulse PDN is proud to present the winners of the 2015 Photo Annual. via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.pdnonline.com/2015/05/view-the-pdn-photo-annual-2015-winners-gallery.html Over 200 winners have been honored in this year’s competition, in addition to six special award winners presented by The Arnold & Augusta Newman Foundation, the Marty Forscher Fellowship Fund…
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The Chinese Art of the Crowd – The Atlantic
The Chinese Art of the Crowd After viewing news photographs from China for years, one of my favorite visual themes is “large crowds in formation.” via The Atlantic: http://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2015/05/the-chinese-art-of-the-crowd/392531/ After viewing news photographs from China for years, one of my favorite visual themes is “large crowd formations.” Whether the subject is military parades or world-record…