Category: Portfolios & Galleries
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Mattheiu Paley’s Photographs of the Kyrgyz of the Wakhan in Afghanistan
Link: Mattheiu Paley’s Photographs of the Kyrgyz of the Wakhan in Afghanistan – NYTimes.com Few Westerners have visited the far end of the Wakhan corridor, an area that the Kyrgyz call the “roof of the world.” Among the handful of photographers who have been there, Matthieu Paley probably knows them best. He has made the…
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Climate Fury: Devastation in the Sundarbans, Bangladesh
Climate Fury: Devastation in the Sundarbans The Bangladeshi photographer Ismail Ferdous has been documenting the fallout from the cyclones in the Sundarbans since 2011—the struggle to live off … via The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/photobooth/2013/02/climate-fury-devastation-in-the-sundarbans-bangladesh.html#slide_ss_0=1 The Bangladeshi photographer Ismail Ferdous has been documenting the fallout from these cyclones since 2011—the struggle to live off salinated land;…
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Remembering the Career of Times Photographer Librado Romero
Link: Remembering the Career of Times Photographer Librado Romero – NYTimes.com Eager to work on bigger things — and not content to have his farthest travel limited to Staten Island — Lee left the paper. It is rumored that bosses told him they were grooming him for photo editor. His reply: “Who cares?”
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Jehad Nga: The Green Book
Link: Jehad Nga: The Green Book | Le Journal de la Photographie In this series, Jehad Nga technically applies to images the same treatment that Gaddafi inflicted on his people
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Pictures from Mike Brodie’s A Period of Juvenile Prosperity
Mike Brodie’s “A Period of Juvenile Prosperity” Mike Brodie’s images—of trains with the earth flying by, of a tender sleeping embrace—are touching and terrifying, exciting and raw. via The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/photobooth/2013/01/slide-show-pictures-from-mike-brodies-a-period-of-juvenile-prosperity.html#slide_ss_0=1 Mike Brodie says that he never really wanted to be an artist. But he’s travelled over fifty thousand miles by train, lived with…
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Sebastian Liste’s Photographs of Venezuela Under Chavez
The Tower of David: A Look at Venezuela Under Chávez The Spanish photographer Sebastian Liste described the experience of photographing the world’s tallest slum in what he says is a hostile, unpredictable … via The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/photobooth/2013/01/sebastian-listes-photographs-of-caracas.html#slide_ss_0=1 Liste described the experience of photographing the world’s tallest slum in what he says is a hostile,…
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The Sam Abell Library: Life and Still Life
LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2013/01/28/the-sam-abell-library-life-and-still-life/#1 “His process is built on the virtue of patience. He looks for structure in a scene, starting almost with a still-life. He dwells on the parts and composes meticulously. Then he waits. Minutes, days, weeks he waits, coming and going for…
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The Conflict in Mali
The Conflict in Mali via The Atlantic: http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2013/01/the-conflict-in-mali/100446/ Two weeks ago, the French military launched Operation Serval, intervening in a complicated, months-old conflict in northern Mali.
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Long Exposures Capture Three Years of New York City Life in One Image
Link: Long Exposures Capture Three Years of New York City Life in One Image | Feature Shoot When you hear the term “long exposure”, you probably don’t expect it to mean a long exposure process that takes 2-3 years to complete. But in the case of Berlin-based photographer Michael Wesely, a long exposure photo is…
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Chicago’s Freezing Fire
Chicago’s Freezing Fire via The Atlantic: http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2013/01/chicagos-freezing-fire/100445/ On Tuesday night, a huge vacant warehouse on Chicago’s South Side went up in flames. Fire department officials said it was the biggest blaze the department has had to battle in years and one-third of all Chicago firefighters were on the scene at one point or another trying…
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Portraits of Metalheads by Jorg Bruggemann
Link: Portraits of Metalheads by Jorg Bruggemann | Feature Shoot Photographer Jorg Bruggemann’s book ‘Metalheads’ begins with a Susan Sontag quote: “It’s good because it’s awful.”
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Yang Seung-woo’s Images of Korea’s Gang World
Looking Back, With Nostalgia and Pain After spending his youth on the fringes of the gang circuit in South Korea, Yang Seung-woo decided he did not want to be affiliated with them — he wanted to document them. So he followed the lives of four close friends to create a record of their gang lif…
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Set Adrift in Western China: John Francis Peters
LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2013/01/22/set-adrift-in-western-china/#1 It was early summer and another bus ride on our three-month journey around western China. My companion Wang Qian and I had no pre-planned route. Our only goal was to connect with people and places by relying on a process that…
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Trapped Between Africa and Saudi Arabia
Trapped Between Africa and Saudi Arabia As the son of Spaniards who moved to find work, Samuel Aranda knows the sacrifices parents make for a better life. For Africans in Yemen whom he has photographed, it’s a tough way station. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/01/22/trapped-between-africa-and-saudi-arabia/ From dusty villages overrun by poverty and violence to modern cities…
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Corey Arnold’s Photos of a Life at Sea
Eat, Sleep, Fish, Click Corey Arnold is a fisherman, photographer and photographer of fishermen. In frigid Alaska, he documents the rugged lives of those who make their living from the water. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/01/21/eat-sleep-fish-click/ “Fishing comes a lot easier to me than photography,” Mr. Arnold said. “The mental stress of trying to be creative…
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Rafal Milach Explores Beauty and the Mundane of Russia
Russia, in Three Cities and ‘7 Rooms’ To capture Russia’s rapid changes and vast territory, Rafal Milach went small, delving into the lives of seven people reconciling their country’s past with its ever-evolving future. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/01/18/russia-in-three-cities-and-7-rooms/ Contradictions lie at the heart of Rafal Milach’s “7 Rooms,” a project that took Mr. Milach, a…
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Photographer Duo Use GPS Coordinates to Track Down and Photograph Location of Tweets
Link: Photographer Duo Use GPS Coordinates to Track Down and Photograph Location of Tweets | Feature Shoot Geolocation is a project by photographer team Larson & Shindelman in which they connect locations to Twitter posts. They searched through the millions of tweets that are generated everyday and used publicly available GPS metadata to track the…
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A Retrospective of David Seymour: Chim
Chim: A Vivid Retrospective of Europe David Seymour, known as Chim, didn’t shine in the spotlight like his more famous Magnum colleagues. But a retrospective opening this week shows him to have been a master chronicler of 20th century Europe. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/01/17/chim-a-vivid-retrospective-of-europe/ Chim — born Dawid Syzmin and later known as David Seymour…
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PhotoNOLA: Dennis Church
PhotoNOLA: Dennis Church This week I am sharing more work seen at PhotoNOLA…Dennis Church has a unique way of seeing. He views the world with a technicolor sensibility, but also takes visual chaos and layered planes of perception and flattens them. The results make for a two d via LENSCRATCH: http://www.lenscratch.com/2013/01/photonola-dennis-church.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+lenscratch%2FZAbG+%28L++E++N++S++C++R++A++T++C++H%29 Dennis Church has a unique…