Category: Portfolios & Galleries
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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,…
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Top Photos of 2023 – Jonesblog
Top Photos of 2023 All that stress took a toll I think on my creativity. I am reasonably happy with my top 9 images for this year, but I can feel my creative juices atrophying some. Every creative process is variable, and people have strong and weak periods. My hope is to concentrate a little…
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The Favorite Photograph You Took in 2023 Exhibition – LENSCRATCH
The Favorite Photograph You Took in 2023 Exhibition – LENSCRATCH Happy New Year! Thank you for sharing your favorite photographs and being part of our community. A HUGE thank you to Emily Wall and Kassandra Eller for helping me upload hundreds and hundreds of photographs. We hope 2024 will be a year of creativity, joy,…
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Nashville 2023 in photos: Tennessean’s Nicole Hester picks top images
Tennessean photojournalist Nicole Hester’s top images from 2023 Tennessean photojournalist Nicole Hester picks her top images of 2023. via The Tennessean: https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/2023/12/28/tennessean-photojournalist-nicole-hester-picks-favorite-images-of-2023-photojournalism-photography/72020946007/ I’m very humbled to work here, and be embraced by Nashville. https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/2023/12/28/tennessean-photojournalist-nicole-hester-picks-favorite-images-of-2023-photojournalism-photography/72020946007/
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Xuan-Hui Ng: Transcendent Winter Magic – LENSCRATCH
Xuan-Hui Ng: Transcendent Winter Magic – LENSCRATCH Every Christmas I like to feature work that is inspiring in its beauty and soul-filling in its subject matter. Xuan-Hui Ng‘s exquisite capture of natural wonders is a balm for all the sadness and stress in the world. She helps us reset our our psyche’s, lower our blood…
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Jesse Rieser: Christmas In America: Happy Birthday, Jesus! – LENSCRATCH
Jesse Rieser: Christmas In America: Happy Birthday, Jesus! – LENSCRATCH Merry Christmas/Happy Holidays! I have to admit that I’m not a religious person, but I’m all in when it comes to Christmas. The lights, the decorations, the tree, the fantasy of Santa and the reindeer are wonderful distractions from politics and the end of the…
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Cultural Changes at the Coldest Place on Earth — A Photo Story from Yakutsk – Photographs by Alex Vasyliev | Essay by Marigold Warner | LensCulture
Cultural Changes at the Coldest Place on Earth — A Photo Story from Yakutsk – Photographs by Alex Vasyliev | Essay by Marigold Warner | LensCulture Photographer Alexey Vasyliev offers an intimate look into the life and changing culture of the Evens, an indigenous tribe in his hometown of Yakutsk — one of the coldest…
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2023 in Photos: A Weary World – The New York Times
2023 in Photos: A Weary World Photographers captured historic moments of war, grief and wonder that defined the year. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/world/year-in-pictures.html Every year, our photo editors try to capture the best photojournalism in one intense presentation. The Year in Pictures is a way to commemorate the big news events from January to December: the ones…
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Gruzja – The Leica camera Blog
https://leica-camera.blog/2023/12/18/gruzja/ The journey through Georgia (Gruzja in Polish) in 2016 was a first for the Polish photographer. With eyes wide open and his camera always on hand, he covered a lot of ground on foot or moved around in taxis and small buses (marshrutka). His route took him from Tiflis in the east, via Batumi…
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Collective Week: Burn My Eye Collective – LENSCRATCH
Collective Week: Burn My Eye Collective – LENSCRATCH In the past few years, the term artist collective has become common, especially in larger cities where hubs of creativity form. At first, I did not know the purpose of a collective – they had been mentioned to me often but I had no idea what a…
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As We Rest in the Shadows – Photographs by Andriana Nativio | Text by Marigold Warner | LensCulture
As We Rest in the Shadows – Photographs by Andriana Nativio | Text by Marigold Warner | LensCulture Through an intimate portrait of sisters Jae and Jenni, Andriana Nativio recalls her own girlhood bond with nature, while commenting on the forces that seek to disrupt it via LensCulture: https://www.lensculture.com/articles/andriana-nativio-as-we-rest-in-the-shadows Through an intimate portrait of sisters…
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The Year in New Yorker Photography | The New Yorker
The Year in New Yorker Photography A visual tour of 2023 in news, culture, and beyond. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/2023-in-review/the-year-in-new-yorker-photography Among many other powerful documentary photographs this year are David Guttenfelder’s stark silhouette of soldiers on a wooded battlefield in Ukraine; Philip Montgomery’s instantly iconic image of United Auto Workers strikers in Toledo, Ohio;…
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An-My Lê’s Uncanny Images of War | The New Yorker
An-My Lê’s Uncanny Images of War The Vietnamese-born photographer charts how conflict embeds itself in both physical and psychological terrains. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/an-my-les-uncanny-images-of-war For the ongoing project “Silent General,” Lê turned her lens to the mainland, travelling from the sites of Confederate monuments and border crossings along the Gulf Coast and Rio Grande…
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Living in the Transition – Photographs by Shunta Kimura | Text by Magali Duzant | LensCulture
Living in the Transition – Photographs by Shunta Kimura | Text by Magali Duzant | LensCulture Traveling through Gabura Union in Bangladesh, Shunta Kimura documents impact, adaptation, and resilience in his quiet photographs of everyday life on the frontlines of rapid climate change via LensCulture: https://www.lensculture.com/articles/shunta-kimura-living-in-the-transition Traveling through Gabura Union in Bangladesh, Shunta Kimura documents…
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An-My Lê on Vietnam, the Chaos of War, and the Tangibility of Memory
An-My Lê on Vietnam, the Chaos of War, and the Tangibility of Memory An-My Lê speaks with Hilton Als about about how she uses photography to examine her personal history and the legacies of US military power. via Aperture: https://aperture.org/editorial/an-my-le-on-vietnam-the-chaos-of-war-and-the-tangibility-of-memory/ For the past two decades, An-My Lê has used photography to examine her personal history…