Category: Portfolios & Galleries
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Out of the Sky | The New Yorker
Out of the Sky In remote Kazakhstan, the photographer Andrew McConnell captured the places where astronauts return to Earth. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/out-of-the-sky What I see in McConnell’s photographs is the Soviet empire receding. In its wake it leaves monuments to its hubris and carelessness. Chernobyl, in Ukraine, is one such monument; the naval…
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Susan Lapides: St. George: Ebb and Flow – LENSCRATCH
Susan Lapides: St. George: Ebb and Flow – LENSCRATCH Susan Lapides brings a lifetime of deep seeing to her photographs, straddling the editorial and fine art arenas with finesse and humanity. Her multi-year project of territory close to home, St. George: Ebb and Flow, opened as an exhibition at the Beaverbrook Art Gallery on August 2nd…
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“La Vueltita de Tam” | By Irina Werning – burn magazine
“La Vueltita de Tam” | By Irina Werning “La Vueltita de Tam” | By Irina Werning Why are most pictures of trans people in their rooms? What happens when they take to the streets and connect with people, especially in a very tr… via burn magazine: https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2022/06/la-vueltita-de-tam-by-irina-werning/ Why are most pictures of trans people in their…
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Photographers on Photographers: Blake Andrews in Conversation with Rian Dundon – LENSCRATCH
Photographers on Photographers: Blake Andrews in Conversation with Rian Dundon – LENSCRATCH When I first discovered the work of Rian Dundon, he was deep in the process of photographing the civil unrest in Portland following George Floyd’s murder. Beginning in May 2020, nightly protests engulfed the city for a period of several months. Dundon was…
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Arrivals and Departures – Video interview with Magnum photographer Jacob Aue Sobol | LensCulture
https://www.lensculture.com/articles/jacob-aue-sobol-arrivals-and-departures Magnum photographer Jacob Aue Sobol made a trek from Moscow to Ulan Bator to Beijing in one month — often making more than 1,000 photographs each day for 28 days straight. He reveals his process in this great 5 minute video interview.
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Photographer Captures Stark Portraits of German Underground Metal Fans | PetaPixel
https://petapixel.com/2024/08/10/photographer-captures-stark-portraits-of-german-underground-metal-fans/ A photographer sought to document the people involved with the underground metal music scene in Germany. Over 90 metalheads have had their portrait taken for Peter Seipke’s Faces of a Scene project, all in a gloomy, black-and-white style.
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City of Diversity – The Leica camera Blog
City of Diversity Kuala Lumpur is the capital city of Malaysia and the birthplace of the 20-year-old photographer Edmond Leong. On his regular forays into the city, he explores aspects both cultural and bizarre – and captures them in impressive pictures.
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American Glitch – Photographs by Andrea Orejarena and Caleb Stein | Book review by Magali Duzant | LensCulture
https://www.lensculture.com/articles/orejarena-and-stein-american-glitch Amassing an archive of ‘glitches,’ the artist duo Andrea Orejarena and Caleb Stein investigate photography’s dance between truth and fiction through found Internet images and photographs they have taken of the American landscape.
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Survivors of Death Row – Photographs by Enayat Asadi | Essay by Magali Duzant | LensCulture
https://www.lensculture.com/articles/enayat-asadi-survivors-of-death-row In stark black and white photographs, Enayat Asadi shines a light on those saved from death row in Iran, reflecting on what it is to lead a life lived under the shadow of execution.
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Identity – Landscape Europe – The Leica camera Blog
Identity – Landscape Europe Till Brönner is not only a multi-talented musician and photographer, his work also covers a surprising diversity of photographic genres. The Melting Pott exhibition project, launched five years ago in Duisburg, was composed of photographs taken in Germany’s Ruhr district
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Nowhere Near — Liminal Spaces of Migration – Photographs by Alisa Martynova | Text by Sophie Wright | LensCulture
Nowhere Near — Liminal Spaces of Migration – Photographs by Alisa Martynova | Text by Sophie Wright | LensCulture In this constellation of portraits, Alisa Martynova shines a light on the individual stories of migrants who have come from Africa to Italy and France, set against enigmatic nocturnal landscapes via LensCulture: https://www.lensculture.com/articles/alisa-martynova-nowhere-near-liminal-spaces-of-migration In this constellation…
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A Japanese Photographer’s Outsider View of Northern Ireland
A Japanese Photographer’s Outsider View of Northern Ireland In the 1960s, Akihiko Okamura series “The Memories of Others” recorded the Troubles with understated eloquence. via Aperture: https://aperture.org/editorial/akihiko-okamuras-outsider-view-of-northern-ireland/ Okamura singles out low-key moments, discovering worlds within worlds. He seems to be, as W. G. Sebald once said of his fellow writer Robert Walser, a “clairvoyant of…
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Michael Young: Maybe Tomorrow – LENSCRATCH
Michael Young: Maybe Tomorrow – LENSCRATCH This week, we will be exploring projects inspired by intimacy and memory. Today, we’ll be looking at Michael Young’s series Maybe Tomorrow. I first came across Michael Young’s work with the series Hidden Glances. His expert use of collage to play with personal concepts between the visible and invisible…
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Hannah Latham: Milking Hour – LENSCRATCH
Hannah Latham: Milking Hour – LENSCRATCH This week, we will be exploring projects inspired by intimacy and memory. Today, we’ll be looking at Hannah Latham’s series Milking Hour. I remember being knocked out by Hannah Latham’s work late last year. We were both in the exhibition Home is Where at FLOAT Magazine, which was published…
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In Memoriam: Wayne Swanson: From the Workshop – LENSCRATCH
In Memoriam: Wayne Swanson: From the Workshop – LENSCRATCH A number of years ago, a tall, quietly intelligent artist entered my classroom, driving to Los Angeles from San Diego each week to understand the photographer’s journey. Our journey together lasted several years and then I watched Wayne Swanson and his photographs take flight in remarkable…
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Rich Frishman: Ghosts of Segregation: Racism, Hidden in Plain Sight – LENSCRATCH
Rich Frishman: Ghosts of Segregation: Racism, Hidden in Plain Sight – LENSCRATCH Ghosts of Segregation photographically explores the vestiges of America’s racism as seen in the vernacular landscape: Schools for “colored” children, theatre entrances and restrooms for “colored people,” lynching sites, juke joints, jails, hotels and bus stations. What is past is prologue. Segregation is…
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Intermission – The Leica camera Blog
Intermission – The Leica camera Blog: With dream-like and purely associative images, Natalia Neuhaus explores emotional states and everyday situations.
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A Drying Heartland: The Arid Photographs of Nicolás Marticorena – LENSCRATCH
A Drying Heartland: The Arid Photographs of Nicolás Marticorena – LENSCRATCH This week is dedicated to Chilean photographers working across a variety of genres. Today our focus is on Nicolás Marticorena, a journalist, sociologist and photographer whose global practice explores issues of climate change, drought and its effects on the human condition. My body leaves…
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The Gay Space Agency – Photographs and text by Mackenzie Calle | LensCulture
The Gay Space Agency – Photographs and text by Mackenzie Calle | LensCulture The Gay Space Agency imagines an alternative history for NASA, which would allow LGBTQ+ astronauts to fly in space via LensCulture: https://www.lensculture.com/articles/mackenzie-calle-the-gay-space-agency The Gay Space Agency imagines an alternative history for NASA, which would allow LGBTQ+ astronauts to fly in space. https://www.lensculture.com/articles/mackenzie-calle-the-gay-space-agency
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Elegia Fantastica – The Leica camera Blog
Elegia Fantastica I definitely think I dream in black and white, even though dreams are difficult to remember. Black and white makes the soul of things speak, while colours tell the reality. I like to think I can dream with my soul.