Category: Portfolios & Galleries
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Christine Back: PV Revisited – LENSCRATCH
Christine Back: PV Revisited – LENSCRATCH This week we are looking at the work of artists who submitted projects during our most recent call-for-entries. Today, Christine Back and I discuss PV Revisited. Christine Back is a New Jersey-based photographer and educator who grew up at the Jersey Shor via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2023/09/christine-back-pv-revisited/ I also shared the growing…
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Virginia Villacisla: Presencio & The Rural Kids – LENSCRATCH
Virginia Villacisla: Presencio & The Rural Kids – LENSCRATCH This week we are looking at the work of artists who submitted projects during our most recent call-for-entries. Today, Virginia Villacisla and I discuss Presencio & The Rural Kids. Virginia Villacisla was born in Burgos, a medium-sized town in northern Sp via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2023/09/virginia-villacisla-presencio-the-rural-kids/ Virginia’s personal experiences…
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Devil’s Rib – Photographs by Mateusz Kowalik | Book review by Erik Vroons | LensCulture
Devil’s Rib – Photographs by Mateusz Kowalik | Book review by Erik Vroons | LensCulture Turning his lens on people who have chosen to live in remote Poland, Mateusz Kowalik’s award-winning book explores the lure of the wild and the tensions that arise when one turns their back on the comforts of modernity via LensCulture:…
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A Photographer’s Search for the Sweet Life in Southern Italy
A Photographer’s Search for the Sweet Life in Southern Italy Drawing inspiration from Fellini and Pasolini, Sam Youkilis finds a seductive—sometimes humorous—vision of “la dolce vita.” via Aperture: https://aperture.org/editorial/la-dolce-vita-according-to-sam-youkilis/ Drawing inspiration from Fellini and Pasolini, the photographer finds a seductive—sometimes humorous—vision of Italy.
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Liz Albert and Shane VanOosterhout: Instant Classic – LENSCRATCH
Liz Albert and Shane VanOosterhout: Instant Classic – LENSCRATCH I was thrilled to see Liz Albert’s name on my line-up for the New England Portfolio Reviews as we had previously shared her project, Family Fictions and I am a fan of her work. She shared a new collaborative project with me, Instant Classic, created with…
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Evelyn Hofer’s Tender Gaze
Evelyn Hofer’s Tender Gaze A retrospective in London showcases the brilliance and breadth of the photographer’s sensitive portraiture. via Aperture: https://aperture.org/editorial/evelyn-hofers-tender-gaze/ A retrospective in London showcases the brilliance and breadth of the photographer’s sensitive portraiture.
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Unearthing the History of Anaheim | The New Yorker
Unearthing the History of Anaheim William Camargo’s photographs confront the city’s racist past, provoking controversy in the present. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/unearthing-the-history-of-anaheim William Camargo’s photographs confront the city’s racist past, provoking controversy in the present.
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An Artist Digs for Fossils in the West Texas Desert
In the Footsteps of Her Grandfather, An Artist Digs for Fossils Following in her grandfather’s footsteps, the photographer Sarah Wilson digs for fossils in the West Texas desert. via Feature Shoot: https://www.featureshoot.com/2023/08/in-the-footsteps-of-her-grandfather-an-artist-digs-for-fossils/ The photographer Sarah Wilson’s grandfather, Dr. John A. Wilson, was a paleontologist whose work took him to some of the most remote and…
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A Photographer’s Frank, Tender Portrait of Her Parents’ Final Year | The New Yorker
A Photographer’s Frank, Tender Portrait of Her Parents’ Final Year When the pandemic came, Becky Wilkes moved her enfeebled mom and dad into her own home. Her series “Till Death Do Us Part” documents that time. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/a-photographers-frank-tender-portrait-of-her-parents-final-year When the pandemic came, Becky Wilkes moved her enfeebled mom and dad into her…
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Beautiful Paradox – The Leica camera Blog
Link: William Keo’s powerful images reveal how he perceives the outskirts of Paris: a place of contrasts.
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The Photographer Searching for Freedom in Palestine
The Photographer Searching for Freedom in Palestine Adam Rouhana’s images oscillate between moments of beauty and scenes of colonization, providing an intimate view of life under Israeli occupation. via Aperture: https://aperture.org/editorial/the-photographer-searching-for-freedom-in-palestine/ Adam Rouhana’s images oscillate between moments of beauty and scenes of colonization, providing an intimate view of life under Israeli occupation.
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Isolationism in Photography: William Mark Sommer: The Loneliest Highway – LENSCRATCH
Isolationism in Photography: William Mark Sommer: The Loneliest Highway – LENSCRATCH What does it mean to be alone? To be isolated from the people and things we hold dearest? Since the pandemic, it seems like we all have an answer to this very question. Some people embraced the mandatory isolation while others struggled being forced…
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Agnès Varda’s Storyboard of French Village Life | The New Yorker
Agnès Varda’s Storyboard of French Village Life A new exhibition showcases the filmmaker’s startlingly original form of incidental portraiture. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/agnes-vardas-storyboard-of-french-village-life A new exhibition showcases the filmmaker’s startlingly original form of incidental portraiture.
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Ari Salomon: 6 Feet Apart – LENSCRATCH
Ari Salomon: 6 Feet Apart – LENSCRATCH This week we are featuring projects seen at the Medium Photo Portfolio Reviews. If a future anthropologist were to go back in time to 2020 and look for clues to a world wide pandemic, the masks and gloves and hand sanitizers would be deep into landfills, via LENSCRATCH:…
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My Mom Wants To Go Back Home – Photographs by Hanna Hrabarska | Interview by Sophie Wright | LensCulture
My Mom Wants To Go Back Home – Photographs by Hanna Hrabarska | Interview by Sophie Wright | LensCulture Documenting her journey from Ukraine to The Netherlands with her mother, Hanna Hrabarska’s visual diary grapples with the experience of being forced to leave one’s home in the face of war—and the challenges of arriving in…
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The Lower East Side’s Folk Historian | The New Yorker
The Lower East Side’s Folk Historian For four decades, Clayton Patterson has been the neighborhood’s most dogged artist-archivist. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/the-lower-east-sides-folk-historian Patterson’s photographs served as plainspoken time capsules of the community. In a 2008 documentary called “Captured,” which chronicles his life on the Lower East Side, he says, “Looking out on the street…
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Marcia Bricker Halperin: Kibbitz & Nosh: When We All Met at Dubrow’s Cafeteria – LENSCRATCH
Marcia Bricker Halperin: Kibbitz & Nosh: When We All Met at Dubrow’s Cafeteria – LENSCRATCH Opening Kibbitz & Nosh: When We All Met at Dubrow’s Cafeteria is like stepping through the revolving doors of that now-defunct establishment, into the world of New York’s vanished cafeteria culture. Marcia Bricker Halperin’s evocative black and white phot via…
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Independence Day celebrations in Philadelphia are special to this Inquirer photographer
An extra special Fourth | Scene Through the Lens Staff photographer Tom Gralish looks back at four decades at The Inquirer. via https://www.inquirer.com: https://www.inquirer.com/photo/pulitzer-photojournalism-tom-gralish-photographer-newspaper-photographer-20230703.html This year the holiday is extra special for me as it also marks my 40th anniversary at The Inquirer.
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South of the River – Photographs by Nico Froehlich | Text by Joanna L. Cresswell | LensCulture
South of the River – Photographs by Nico Froehlich | Text by Joanna L. Cresswell | LensCulture Doused in bright sunlight, friends and strangers are immortalized in front of Nico Froehlich’s lens, coming together to form “South of the River” — a fond portrait of the area of London where he grew up via LensCulture:…
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CENTER Blue Earth Fiscal Sponsorship: Matilde Simas – Woman Rising, Surviving Human Trafficking – LENSCRATCH
CENTER Blue Earth Fiscal Sponsorship: Matilde Simas – Woman Rising, Surviving Human Trafficking – LENSCRATCH Congratulations to Matilde Simas for being selected for Blue Earth Fiscal Sponsorship Award recognizing her project, Woman Rising: Surviving Human Trafficking. CENTER is pleased to add the Blue Earth Fiscal Sponsorship to their services for photographers via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2023/06/center-blue-earth-fiscal-sponsorship-matilde-simas-woman-rising-surviving-human-trafficking/ At the core of…