Category: Portfolios & Galleries
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Werner Bischof: Photographer, Artist, Witness – The Leica camera Blog
Werner Bischof: Photographer, Artist, Witness Creative image-maker, engaged photojournalist and poetic storyteller: the current exhibition at the Ernst Leitz Museum is presenting the full scope of Magnum photographer Werner Bischof’s (1916–1954) oeuvre. Despite his early death in a car accident in the Andes, when he was just 38, the precision of his compositions and the…
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Javier Bertín: La Nueva Esperanza Mennonite Colony – LENSCRATCH
Javier Bertín: La Nueva Esperanza Mennonite Colony – LENSCRATCH Two decades. That’s what Pampino photographer Javier Bertín has spent at the heart of a unique project documenting the daily life of the La Nueva Esperanza Mennonite Colony near Guatraché —deep in the Argentine south. The Mennonites, a Christian denomination that emerged during the 16th century…
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The International Women in Photo Association Awards: Alena Grom: Stolen Spring – LENSCRATCH
The International Women in Photo Association Awards: Alena Grom: Stolen Spring – LENSCRATCH This week Lenscratch is featuring the work of the 2023 winners of the International Women in Photo Association (IWPA) Awards. Today is Alena Grom, a Ukrainian photographer, whose series Stolen Spring was one of four finalists in the Professional Category. A very…
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Black and White War – Photographs by Igor Malijevský | Essay by Marigold Warner | LensCulture
Black and White War – Photographs by Igor Malijevský | Essay by Marigold Warner | LensCulture Describing his work as “visual poetry,” this Czech photographer’s ongoing work in Ukraine evokes the emotional experience of everyday life during war via LensCulture: https://www.lensculture.com/articles/igor-malijevsky-black-and-white-war Describing his work as “visual poetry,” this Czech photographer’s ongoing work in Ukraine evokes…
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The International Women in Photo Awards: Natalia Garbu: Moldova Lookbook – LENSCRATCH
The International Women in Photo Awards: Natalia Garbu: Moldova Lookbook – LENSCRATCH This week Lenscratch is featuring the work of the 2023 winners of the The International Women in Photo Association (IWPA), a French non profit aiming to create global change and reach gender equality and women empowerment, awards prizes to visual storytellers from around…
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Broad Strokes III: Joan Haseltine: The Girl Who Escaped and Other Stories – LENSCRATCH
Broad Strokes III: Joan Haseltine: The Girl Who Escaped and Other Stories – LENSCRATCH The Leica Gallery in Los Angeles has just opened Broad Strokes III, featuring the work of Joan Haseltine, that will run through April 8th. This is the 3rd iteration of Leica exhibitions that celebrate women in photography, and the exhibition also…
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A Begrudgingly Affectionate Portrait of the American Mall | The New Yorker
A Begrudgingly Affectionate Portrait of the American Mall “We’re all being manipulated in the mall,” the photographer Stephen DiRado says. But his photos elicit a certain nostalgia, almost in spite of themselves. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/a-begrudgingly-affectionate-portrait-of-the-american-mall There’s a reason that the mall’s corporate honchos—who had signed a contract giving him free rein to document…
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European Week: Jaume Llorens – LENSCRATCH
European Week: Jaume Llorens – LENSCRATCH Guest Editor and German photographer Melanie Schoeniger shares a week of European photographers whose work she finds inspiring. Schoeniger’s sensibility is translated through the work she shares; all the photographer’s work has a sense of mystery, interconnectedness and wonder. Schoeniger states: Independently from his specific subject, this serene, dreamy,…
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Kazunari Suzuki: Japan Guide Book – LENSCRATCH
Kazunari Suzuki: Japan Guide Book – LENSCRATCH One of the most exciting parts of my recent visit to Japan was working with photographic artists at the T3 Tokyo Photo Festival. I was thrilled to meet Kazunari Suzuki and get to know his fabulous work. Suzuki shared a project that has all the elements that I…
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Interview with Peah Guilmoth: The Search for Beauty and Escape – LENSCRATCH
Interview with Peah Guilmoth: The Search for Beauty and Escape – LENSCRATCH In her recent work, charting the path of her transition from pre to post-HRT; Peah is looking for beauty, escape, decay and blossoming in her surroundings seen through the guise of family, friends, and the rural landscape she inhabits. Within the harnessing of…
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The Zebu War – The Leica camera Blog
The Zebu War While working on his reportage about zebu rustling in Madagascar, photographer Rijasolo dared set foot in regions that normally remain hidden to the general public.
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Focus on Aging: Beate Sass: I Belong to You and You to Me – LENSCRATCH
Focus on Aging: Beate Sass: I Belong to You and You to Me – LENSCRATCH Introduction to Aging Series I met Aline Smithson at a portfolio review in the fall of 2023 when I showed her my project about my father. When Aline generously offered me the opportunity to curate a collection of four other…
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Awaiting the Rain – The Leica camera Blog
Awaiting the Rain The selection process has been a long one. Over the years your photography changes the way you see things. That applies to editing as well. You may go through your contact sheets and be drawn to an image you took 20 years ago that wouldn’t have perked your interest back then. There…
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Sage Sohier: Passing Time – LENSCRATCH
Sage Sohier: Passing Time – LENSCRATCH Many artists spent the pandemic revisiting family archives, digging into familial legacies in boxes covered in dusty attics, but other artists finally found the time to revisit their own archives. The indefatigable Sage Sohier is one of those artists, who has a long legacy of documenting the human (and…
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Allison McCauley: Anywhere But Here – LENSCRATCH
Alison McCauley: Anywhere But Here – LENSCRATCH This week we feature projects that explore the psychological landscape. There are always fears and inhibitions that we as people carry with us throughout our lives. Some are small and others are large, but there are nagging thoughts that stick out in our minds and mold our perception.…
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Ian Howorth: A Country Kind of Silence – LENSCRATCH
Ian Howorth: A Country Kind of Silence – LENSCRATCH This week we feature projects that explore the psychological landscape. Sometimes the psychological landscape is something that is formulated in the artist’s mind from an early age. Adolescence and the struggles we all feel to fit in can be a driving factor in how we engage…
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What Garry Winogrand Saw in Color | The New Yorker
What Garry Winogrand Saw in Color A rarely seen body of Winogrand’s work is more inviting than his black-and-white pictures, but no less layered or sly. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/what-garry-winogrand-saw-in-color His pictures look perfectly artless, the opposite of the decisive moment and the epitome of the snapshot aesthetic. Working outdoors, mostly on the urban…
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The Oakland Tribune’s First Black Photojournalist Captured Black Women’s Style | KQED
The Bay Area’s Top Pastrami Shop Has Closed Delirama’s pastrami sandwiches were the closest thing the Bay Area had to a Katz’s or Langer’s. Link: https://www.kqed.org/arts/13950832/delirama-pastrami-berkeley-solano-closed “Toward a Black Aesthetic: Kenneth P. Green Sr.’s Photographs of the 1960s and 70s” is on view at San Francisco’s Main Public Library through April 21. A related author…
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Daniel Sackheim: Unseen – LENSCRATCH
Daniel Sackheim: Unseen – LENSCRATCH This week are featuring work seen at the Los Angeles Center of Photography Exposure Reviews. Daniel Sackheim is a visual storyteller of the best kind. His photographs bring decades of seeing through his career as a director and producer, working on productions that dig deep into dark psyches. His project,…
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Review Santa Fe: Harvey Castro: Los Olvidados – LENSCRATCH
Review Santa Fe: Harvey Castro: Los Olvidados – LENSCRATCH Today, we are continuing to look at the work of artists with whom I met at Review Santa Fe in November 2023. Up next, we have Los Olvidados by Harvey Castro. Harvey Castro (b. Nicaragua) is a documentary photographer and multidisciplinary artist who employs a variety of mediums,…