Category: Editor’s Choice

  • Atlanta: Arthur Grace America 101

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    Link: Atlanta: Arthur Grace America 101 | Le Journal de la Photographie In America 101, Grace draws 101 pictures from his rich personal archive of the United States to assemble a visual crash course on what defines and represents us as Americans.

  • The Street Gangs of Caracas

    The Street Gangs of Caracas

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    LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2012/10/04/the-street-gangs-of-caracas/#1 The black-and-white photographs of Oscar B. Castillo, a Caracas-based photojournalist, accompany Padgett’s bleak dispatch. Documenting the violence of the barrio put Castillo at immense risk—from both gang members and the police.

  • Brenda Ann Kenneally’s Photos of a Young Bushwick Neighbor

    Brenda Ann Kenneally’s Photos of a Young Bushwick Neighbor

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    In Drug-Riddled Bushwick, Revisiting a Steadfast Friend Brenda Ann Kenneally moved to crime-ridden Bushwick, Brooklyn, in the ’90s, and befriended a troubled but sweet boy named Andy, whom she photographed for a time. Now an adult, he is her subject once again. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/10/04/in-drug-riddled-bushwick-revisiting-a-steadfast-friend/ When he first saw the book “Money Power Respect,”…

  • 30 Years of BAD Pictures (Bruce Albert Dale)

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    30 Years of BAD Pictures (Bruce Albert Dale) – A Photo Editor Relive the glory days though Bruce Dale’s career at Geographic. via A Photo Editor: http://www.aphotoeditor.com/2012/10/02/30-years-of-bad-pictures-bruce-albert-dale/ Relive the glory days though Bruce Dale’s career at Geographic.

  • 25 Years of the Eddie Adams Workshop

    25 Years of the Eddie Adams Workshop

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    LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2012/10/03/fostering-the-next-generation-the-eddie-adams-workshop-at-25-years/#1 I was an 18 year-old kid from the sticks who had discovered photography a couple of years before. It seemed like a chance at a little adventure. But those few days in upstate New York were when I started to realize…

  • Visions of a Blind Photographer

    Visions of a Blind Photographer

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    Visions of a Blind Photographer Seeking to cope with immense personal tragedy, Sonia Soberats, who lost her vision in between losing a son and daughter, turned to photography. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/18/visions-of-a-blind-photographer/ Sonia Soberats does not rely on capturing a decisive moment. Instead, her technique, called light painting, involves careful planning and imagination.

  • Convention Storybook

    Convention Storybook

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    Convention Storybook Link: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/09/17/us/politics/convention-storybook.html#/?slide=index The New York Times has assembled a “Convention Storybook,” an online archive of the conventions. It is a look inside the two parties as they sought to articulate their platforms and positions as clearly as possible, without interference. The “Convention Storybook” presents photographs by Stephen Crowley, Josh Haner, Todd Heisler, Doug…

  • At Water’s Edge: Paul Blackmore

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    Link: Melbourne: Paul Blackmore | Le Journal de la Photographie This body of work – spanning 11 years and 14 countries – explores the intimate relationship between humanity and its most vital natural resource. Blackmore’s photographs poignantly illustrate the unfolding drama of the global water crisis and how it is affecting those caught up in…

  • Dan Winters Retrospective by Nick Offerman

    Dan Winters Retrospective by Nick Offerman

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    LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2012/09/12/dan-winters-in-a-thousand-words-an-ode-to-a-friend-by-nick-offerman/#1 I arrived at the location with a canvas army backpack filled with ice and a case of Coronas. To my relief, my new compatriots quickly confirmed that I had acted appropriately in the arena of refreshments, then Dan took one look…

  • Through a Thwarted Cinematographer’s Eye, China’s Cultural Revolution

    Through a Thwarted Cinematographer’s Eye, China’s Cultural Revolution

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    A Panoramic View of China’s Cultural Revolution The photographer Li Zhensheng documented China’s Cultural Revolution for his local paper in Harbin, but soon started taking pictures that didn’t align with the Community Party dogma and, fearing retribution, hid them. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/10/through-a-thwarted-cinematographers-eye-chinas-cultural-revolution/ Li Zhensheng’s photographs of the Chinese Cultural Revolution are perhaps the most…

  • Visa pour l’image 2012: Stephanie Sinclair

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    Link: Visa pour l’image 2012: Stephanie Sinclair | Le Journal de la Photographie Stephanie Sinclair’s first encounter with child marriage occurred in 2003 while doing a story on self-immolation in Afghanistan. All the victims she met had been married very young, some only 9 years old, and to much older men. Meigon in Herat told…

  • Joseph Michael Lopez’s “Dear New Yorker”

    Joseph Michael Lopez’s “Dear New Yorker”

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    Breaking Down the Beast Joseph Michael Lopez’s New York street photography shows the city as a beast of chaos that New Yorkers attempt to contain, or at least live with, on a daily basis. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/05/breaking-down-the-beast/ Joseph Michael Lopez’s photography is fundamentally about his New York. He presents street scenes, people and everyday…

  • alejandro olivares – living periferia

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    Alejandro Olivares – Living Periferia Alejandro Olivares Living Periferia ESSAY CONTAINS EXPLICIT CONTENT How many times can a person face death in their lives? Sense it. Feel it. Smell it. Maybe once? Twice? Four times? The people cap… via burn magazine: http://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2012/08/alejandro-olivares-living-periferia/ The people captured in “Living Periferia” live with it every day of their…

  • The New Economics of Photojournalism: The rise of Instagram

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    The New Economics of Photojournalism: The rise of Instagram Instagram, the brainchild of software engineers Kevin Systrom and Michel Krieger, was launched in October 2010 to almost little notice. At the time, the iPhone app was competing against Hipstamatic, which enjoyed particular popularity even in the photojou via British Journal of Photography: http://www.bjp-online.com/british-journal-of-photography/report/2202300/the-new-economics-of-photojournalism-the-rise-of-instagram Instagram has…

  • Instagram and Murder

    Instagram and Murder

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    Instagram and Murder – Reading The Pictures There has been quite a bit of discussion about the Instagram photos of shooting victims at the Empire State Building yesterday, with as much debate on the actual photo threads as off. Much of the discussion involves propriety, with suggestions in media th via Reading The Pictures: http://www.bagnewsnotes.com/2012/08/instagram-and-murder/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Bagnewsnotes+%28BAGnewsNotes%29…

  • Gregory Heisler Interview

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    Link: Gregory Heisler Interview Grayson: On the opposite side of the spectrum from being subject-proof, do you have photo shoots that fail from time to time? Gregory: I think they all suck. The picture I was hoping for is never the picture I get, but yeah, I think they fail all the time. Fortunately my…

  • In the Footsteps of Ghosts

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    Link: In the Footsteps of Ghosts | Luceo Images

  • The Afronauts : Christina De Middel

    The Afronauts : Christina De Middel

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    Review Santa Fe: Cristina De Middel Over the next month, I will be sharing some of the photographers who attended Review Santa Fe in June.  Review Santa Fe is the only juried review in the United States and invites 100 photographers to Santa Fe for a long weekend of reviews, insights, and c via LENSCRATCH: http://www.lenscratch.com/2012/08/review-santa-fe-christina-de-middel.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+lenscratch%2FZAbG+%28L++E++N++S++C++R++A++T++C++H%29 The…

  • David Griffin – What it Takes

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    Link: David Griffin – What it Takes – The Photo Society There are many people taking photographs. There are some who are very good. But there are only a few who are great. Your first task is to move yourself from the many, to the few, since NGM only works with the latter. To become…

  • American Photographs by Walker Evans

    American Photographs by Walker Evans

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    LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2012/08/15/walker-evans-american-photographs/#1 Like the work of most great artists, the best of Walker Evans’ pictures are marvels of contradiction. Or, rather, they acquire their power through the contradictions they deftly reconcile. One especially striking example: a photograph from 1930 (slide 11 in this…