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Alexa Cushing: Due West – LENSCRATCH

Projects featured this week were selected from our most recent call-for-submissions. I was able to interview each of these artists to gain further insight into the bodies of work they shared. Today, we are looking at the series Due West by Alexa Cushing.

Post date November 26, 2020
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These Street Photographs Show a Joyful Parade of Life in Pre-COVID New York

Joel Meyerowitz reflects on Melissa O'Shaughnessy's pictures of incandescent revelation.

Post date November 25, 2020
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Jacob Aue Sobol’s Intimate Chronicle of the Trans-Siberian Railway

In dramatic black-and-white images, the photographer documents contemporary Chinese, Russian, and Mongolian lives.

Post date November 25, 2020
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The Vintage Beauty Of Soviet Control Rooms

Just for the pleasure, a selection of vintage control rooms dating back to the Soviet era! A beautiful collection of control rooms filled with large buttons and analog dials, long before the democratization of computers and screens. More info: Present

Post date November 25, 2020
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Seth Johnson: Keep Those Bad Guys Out – LENSCRATCH

Projects featured this week were selected from our most recent call-for-submissions. I was able to interview each of these artists to gain further insight into the bodies of work they shared. Today, we are looking at the series Keep Those Bad Guys Out by

Post date November 24, 2020
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A vibrant ode to Liverpool in the ’80s and ’90s

Photographer Tom Wood remembers shooting the pubs, club and bus rides in Liverpool through the 70s to the 90s and finding meaning in everyday scenes.

Post date November 24, 2020
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Juxtapoz Magazine – New York Street Photography by David Godlis

David Godlis has been taking photographs on the streets of New York for the past 40 years. “I am a Street Photographer. I walk around with a camera an...

Post date November 20, 2020
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An unexpected call launched JR into his latest project, set in a Californian maximum-security prison | 1854 Photography

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Post date November 20, 2020
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Black Sun: Photos of Starling Flocks Darkening the Sky Over Denmark

Black Sun is an ongoing project by Danish photographer Søren Solkær, who began visiting the marshlands of southern Denmark a few years ago to capture the

Post date November 19, 2020
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Juxtapoz Magazine – Narelle Autio Captures the Sublime Moment of Plunging into the Water

The call of the ocean has long been a focus of Narelle Autio’s work. Spending her childhood growing up in sun-soaked Australia she has had a lifetime...

Post date November 18, 2020
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How a Chinese American Photographer Navigates Queer Identity and Resilience

For Mengwen Cao, who came out to their parents on FaceTime, images anchor queer life in everyday spaces.

Post date November 17, 2020
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Asmara – portrait of a city – The Leica camera Blog

Somewhere between improvisation and imperialistic insignia: equipped with a Leica Q, Clara Vannucci travelled back through time in Asmara, the capital of Eritrea.

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Post date November 16, 2020
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Girl Pictures – Photographs by Justine Kurland | Book review by Emily Shapiro | LensCulture

Justine Kurland’s take on the classic American tale of the runaway takes us on a wild ride of freedom, memorializing the fleeting moments of adolescence and its fearless protagonists

Post date November 16, 2020
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Lori Hawkins – A Day in the Life of an Imam – burn magazine

A Day in the Life of an Imam Lori Hawkins This is a story of a Muslim community in Brooklyn that was ensuring the Muslim funeral rites were performed – washing, shrouding, prayer and burial during …

Post date November 13, 2020
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Juxtapoz Magazine – Philippe Dudouit: The Dynamics of Dust

Philippe Dudouit documents the new relationships that historically nomadic indigenous Saharan inhabitants of the Sahelo Saharan band have forged with...

Post date November 12, 2020
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An unflinching portrait of 1980s Birmingham

In the late 1980s, photographer Richard Davis set forth to document Birmingham's working-class neighbourhoods and to spotlight injustices that were too often ignored.

Post date November 12, 2020
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Angie Smith: The States Project: Idaho – LENSCRATCH

Angie Smith is an accomplished editorial photographer whose images document stories of hope and community strength. Whether she is photographing refugees and their new lives away from their unsettled home, children returning to school during the pandemic,

Post date November 11, 2020
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Frozen Are the Winds of Time – Photographs by Wang Lu | Text by Justin Herfst | LensCulture

Returning to her hometown in China after many years away, Wang Lu’s images grapple with time and change, from her personal relationship with her father to the shifting cityscape outside his window

Post date November 10, 2020
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Poetic Shades of Black and White – The Leica camera Blog

Zurich photographer Philipp Weinmann was one of the first given the opportunity to try out the Leica Q2 Monochrom.

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Post date November 10, 2020
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Laurie Blakeslee: The States Project: Idaho – LENSCRATCH

Laurie Blakeslee’s photography is a poignant look inside family, memory and loss, capturing moments of her aging parents and their consuming passions. Laurie was the first person I met when I moved to Idaho from Arkansas. Actually, we met before I moved

Post date November 10, 2020
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