Category: Portfolios & Galleries

  • PhotoNOLA: Meg Griffiths

    PhotoNOLA: Meg Griffiths

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    PhotoNOLA: Meg Griffiths This week I am sharing more work seen at PhotoNOLA….Unfortunately I didn’t get to review with Meg Griffiths at the PhotoNOLA portfolio reviews.  I spotted her work in a corner of the portfolio walk, tucked away, maybe even spread out on top of a piano ( via LENSCRATCH: http://www.lenscratch.com/2013/01/photonola-meg-griffiths.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+lenscratch%2FZAbG+%28L++E++N++S++C++R++A++T++C++H%29 Her brilliantly photographed and printed images…

  • STRATA: Shared Passion For The Still Image

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    Link: STRATA: Shared Passion For The Still Image « The Leica Camera STRATA is a photography collective based out of Washington D.C. and San Francisco, CA. Bill Bramble (B), Matt Dunn (M), Steve Goldenberg (S), Michael Hicks (H), Chris Suspect (C) and Aziz Yazdani (A).  They brought their talents together in an effort to take…

  • Oscar B. Castillo: Documenting The Bloody Reality of Riots And Gangs In Caracas

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    Link: Oscar B. Castillo: Documenting The Bloody Reality of Riots And Gangs In Caracas « The Leica Camera First I wanted to witness a really hard and difficult situation for Caracas inhabitants. While working on the subject, I felt the need to get closer and closer to the different protagonists of this bloody reality to…

  • Stranded Motorist Photos Are Metaphor for Hurricanes, Recession and Loneliness

    Stranded Motorist Photos Are Metaphor for Hurricanes, Recession and Loneliness

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    Stranded Motorist Photos Are Metaphor for Hurricanes, Recession and Loneliness If you’re ever broken down on the side of an American highway and a woman with a light meter around her neck stops her car and approaches you, don’t be afraid. She’s not there to rob or hurt you. It’s just Amy Stein, and all…

  • Thomas Michael Alleman: Dancing in the Dragon’s Jaws

    Thomas Michael Alleman: Dancing in the Dragon’s Jaws

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    Thomas Michael Alleman: Dancing in the Dragon’s Jaws Sometimes the work we create, though powerful at the time, continues to be relevant, historical, and just plain interesting over the course of time. Thirty years ago, Los Angeles photographer, Thomas Michael Alleman, was a freelance newspaper reporter in via LENSCRATCH: http://www.lenscratch.com/2013/01/thomas-michael-alleman-dancing-in.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+lenscratch%2FZAbG+%28L++E++N++S++C++R++A++T++C++H%29 Thirty years ago, Los Angeles photographer, Thomas Michael…

  • Massif Management: Surf Photographers

    Massif Management: Surf Photographers

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    Massif Management: Surf Photographers I’m not sure that surf photography has a discernible style, as opposed to an established iconography, but the best of this work carries with it a spirit … via The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/photobooth/2013/01/massif-management-surf-photographers.html#slide_ss_0=1 They make salty pictures

  • The Mississippi Delta

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    Link: The Mississippi Delta (10 Photos) | PDN Photo of the Day Documentary photographer Magdalena Solé spent a year living in the Mississippi Delta, photographing the people and places that make this area in the Southern United States so unique

  • Manuel Vazquez

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    Link: Manuel Vazquez | JENREN

  • Zen Sekizawa

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    Link: Zen Sekizawa | JENREN

  • PhotoNOLA: Brandon Thibodeaux

    PhotoNOLA: Brandon Thibodeaux

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    PhotoNOLA: Brandon Thibodeaux For the next few weeks, I will be sharing work that seen at PhotoNOLA….Brandon Thibodeaux’s evocative and beautifully executed work was awarded 2nd place in the PhotoNOLA portfolio review awards. Brandon is one of those old souls in a young self, brough via LENSCRATCH: http://www.lenscratch.com/2013/01/photonola-brandon-thibodeaux.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+lenscratch%2FZAbG+%28L++E++N++S++C++R++A++T++C++H%29 When Morning Comes is a reflection of life…

  • Alex Webb’s Career in Street Photography

    Alex Webb’s Career in Street Photography

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    Alex Webb: Rendering a Complex World, in Color and Black-and-White For the Magnum photographer Alex Webb, how a picture turns out isn’t always up to him. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/01/08/alex-webb-rendering-a-complex-world-in-color-and-black-and-white/ For someone who says 99 percent of street photography is about failure, Alex Webb has had a notably successful career. From his early work in…

  • Maika Elan’s Photos of Gay Couples in Vietnam

    Maika Elan’s Photos of Gay Couples in Vietnam

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    Real Faces, Real People, Real Love in Vietnam At an exhibition of Vietnam’s gay and lesbian community, Maika Elan was displeased by what she saw. The images were stereotypical — even harsh — depictions of love. Some subjects even turned their backs to the camera. So, she decided to tackle the subject via Lens Blog:…

  • Sights of 2012

    Sights of 2012

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    Sights of 2012 I’ve seen a lot of amazing sights this past year, feeling blessed and excited for what’s to come in 2013. Just got home from a holiday trip… Link: http://elysebutler.blogspot.com/2013/01/sights-of-2012.html “I’ve seen a lot of amazing sights this past year, feeling blessed and excited for what’s to come in 2013. Just got home…

  • The Wrong Side: Jerome Sessini’s Photographs of Mexico

    The Wrong Side: Jerome Sessini’s Photographs of Mexico

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    “The Wrong Side” From 2008 to 2011, the photojournalist Jerome Sessini submerged himself in some of the most violent Mexican cities—Culiacán, Tijuana, and Ciudad … via The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/photobooth/2013/01/the-wrong-side-jerome-sessinis-photographs-of-mexico.html#slide_ss_0=1 From 2008 to 2011, the photojournalist Jerome Sessini submerged himself in some of the most violent Mexican cities—Culiacán, Tijuana, and Ciudad Juárez—and documented their increasing…

  • Discussing Honesty in Imagery

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    Link: Discussing Honesty in Imagery – NYTimes.com “The American Society of Media Photographers recently discovered the transcript of an interview of W. Eugene Smith, conducted by the great portraitist Philippe Halsmann and the society’s first president”

  • PhotoNOLA: Ben Marcin

    PhotoNOLA: Ben Marcin

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    PhotoNOLA: Ben Marcin For the next few weeks, I will be sharing work that seen at PhotoNOLA….   Photographer Ben Marcin was born in Augsburg, Germany which might explain his nod to creating typologies that have their roots in Bernd and Hilla Bechers’ territory.  Ben has a nu via LENSCRATCH: http://www.lenscratch.com/2013/01/photonola-ben-marcin.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+lenscratch%2FZAbG+%28L++E++N++S++C++R++A++T++C++H%29 “Photographer Ben Marcin was born in Augsburg,…

  • A Look Inside North Korea

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    A Look Inside North Korea via The Atlantic: http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2013/01/a-look-inside-north-korea/100432/ The photos of North Korea gathered here were taken recently either by official photographers, or by western photographers under government supervision, their subjects and movement restricted

  • Nereo López, One of Colombia’s Most Accomplished Photographers

    Nereo López, One of Colombia’s Most Accomplished Photographers

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    Colombia’s Traveling Storyteller An itinerant photojournalist, Nereo López is arguably one of the most accomplished Colombian photographers of his generation. At 92, he’s living in New York, and still active. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/01/02/colombias-traveling-storyteller/ Yet at 92, Nereo López is arguably one of the most accomplished Colombian photographers of his — or any — generation,…

  • The 4th Annual FAVORITE PHOTOGRAPHS of 2012 Exhibition

    The 4th Annual FAVORITE PHOTOGRAPHS of 2012 Exhibition

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    LENSCRATCH 4th Annual Favorite Photographs of 2012 Exhibition How did the year go by so fast?  2012 went by in the blink of an eye and the snap of a shutter, but it was a year rich in imagery, ideas, and community. I have to begin this exhibition with a big thank you to all…

  • 366: The Year in Photographs, 2012

    366: The Year in Photographs, 2012

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    LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2013/01/01/366-the-year-in-photographs-2012/#1 “Hundreds of photographers sent in images and there are 5 pages of posts….at the end of each page click on ‘Older Posts’ to keep going. I hope you are inspired by today’s offerings and look forward to what next year will…