Category: Portfolios & Galleries

  • 2012: The Year in Pictures

    2012: The Year in Pictures

    2012: The Year in Pictures Colum McCann reflects on the images — disturbing, inspired and absurd — that shaped our collective consciousness this year. Link: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/12/30/sunday-review/2012-year-in-pictures.html?hp Here are 20 unforgettable moments I experienced as a photographer for The Salt Lake Tribune in 2012.

  • Arthur Meyerson: The Color of Light (10 Photos)

    12 Ways of Looking at North Korea David Guttenfelder, Tomas van Houtryve, Ari Hatsuzawa, Seung Woo Back and Joao Rocha are among the photographers in “North Korean Perspectives” at Museum of Contemporary Photography. via PDN Photo of the Day: http://pdnphotooftheday.com/2012/12/18253 During a 40-year career as a commercial photographer, Arthur Meyerson has continuously created personal images…

  • 2012 best feature photos

    Link: 2012 best feature photos – Shooting from the Hip

  • 2012: A Year of Photographers in the Picture

    2012: A Year of Photographers in the Picture

    LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2012/12/27/a-year-of-photographers-in-the-picture/#1 The abundance of camera phones and inexpensive digital cameras has changed the photographic landscape in countless and still-incompletely understood ways, and it’s not just the North Korean government trying to find ways around the hoards of photographers making their way into…

  • Alan Laboile’s Family Photos, Thrown Before the World

    Link: Alan Laboile’s Family Photos, Thrown Before the World – NYTimes.com In his series of carefully composed black-and-white images that make up “La Famille,” the French photographer Alain Laboile has captured a sense of youthful freedom through the exploits of his six children.

  • Tim Franco’s Photos of Chongqing

    Tim Franco’s Photos of Chongqing

    In Western China, Steep Highs and Steep Lows Shanghai-based photographer Tim Franco made frequent trips to Chongqing, China, to capture the bustling and notorious megacity. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/12/24/vertical-communism/ This sprawling megacity, the locus of scandals and political machinations, has fixed the interest of Tim Franco, a Shanghai-based French photographer. With his ongoing series, “Vertical…

  • North Korea photographs by David Guttenfelder

    North Korea photographs by David Guttenfelder

    Snapshots from a secret state: Panoramic pictures of North Koreans at work and play give an extraordinary glimpse of everyday life Award-winning photographer David Guttenfelder, has made a dozen trips into North Korea since 2000, trying to capture the country as accurately as possible for outsiders. via Mail Online: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2252102/North-Korea-photographs-David-Guttenfelder.html “For this project, I used…

  • 2012: The Year in Silhouettes

    2012: The Year in Silhouettes

    LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2012/12/21/2012-the-year-in-silhouettes/#1 “Definitely his ‘Daddy’s Girl’, Addison has struggled greatly with the loss of her father.”

  • 12 from 2012: Portrait Photography in The New Yorker

    12 from 2012: Portrait Photography in The New Yorker

    Twelve from 2012: Portraits in The New Yorker Here’s a selection of twelve standout portraits that ran in The New Yorker in 2012, and the profiles that ran with them, along with words from the … via The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/photobooth/2012/12/12-new-yorker-portraits-from-2012.html#slide_ss_0=1 “Here’s a selection of twelve standout portraits that ran in The New Yorker in…

  • O Canada (10 photos)

    12 Ways of Looking at North Korea David Guttenfelder, Tomas van Houtryve, Ari Hatsuzawa, Seung Woo Back and Joao Rocha are among the photographers in “North Korean Perspectives” at Museum of Contemporary Photography. via PDN Photo of the Day: http://pdnphotooftheday.com/2012/12/18222 “photographer Naomi Harris took a road trip in the summer of 2011 to photograph Canadians…

  • TIME Picks the Most Surprising Photos of 2012

    TIME Picks the Most Surprising Photos of 2012

    LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2012/12/19/time-picks-the-most-surprising-photos-of-2012/#1 The Sony Cybershot RX1 meets the definition of the word unique. It is a 24 Megapixel full-frame camera that comfortably fits in a coat pocket and which features an integrated 35mm f/2 silent leaf shutter Carl Zeiss lens. It shoots video at…

  • Lausanne: Aesthetics of the Photomaton

    Link: Lausanne: Aesthetics of the Photomaton | Le Journal de la Photographie Digital photography wiped out everything in its way. The funerals of silver films were expedited to avoid any resistance. The more the technology seemed outdated, the more its ghosts reappeared in nostalgic interrogations

  • Gideon Mendel’s Instagram photos of Nigerian Floods

    Gideon Mendel’s Instagram photos of Nigerian Floods

    Old-Timer Joins Instagram, Schools Everyone With Poignant Flood Photos Gideon Mendel doesn’t have a Facebook account. He “never really found a voice on Twitter” and his website doesn’t have a bio. But his use of Instagram to cover the Nigerian floods that were being largely overlooked by (American) media has been brilliant. via WIRED: http://www.wired.com/rawfile/2012/12/gideon-mendel-nigerian-floods/?pid=4416&viewall=true…

  • 2012: A Year of Deja Vu

    2012: A Year of Deja Vu

    LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2012/12/18/2012-a-year-of-deja-vu/#1 “With this gallery, TIME embarks on an anthropological dig through our collective visual memory, unearthing images from the last twelve months that awakened in us that singular, familiar sense that we’ve seen them somewhere before. Haven’t we? “

  • New York City Panoramas

    New York City Panoramas

    Link: New York City Panoramas | Le Journal de la Photographie “Sylvia Plachy seeks and finds her images wherever she goes. She captures fleeting moments in time with her roaming eye. She says the panoramic frame intensifies her perceptions. It allows her to get close to her subjects, to be inside their space, and to…

  • Jon Lowenstein’s Photos of Mexican and Central American Migrants’ Stories

    Jon Lowenstein’s Photos of Mexican and Central American Migrants’ Stories

    Link: Jon Lowenstein’s Photos of Mexican and Central American Migrants’ Stories – NYTimes.com “‘Ultimately, you want something to happen from your pictures,’ said Mr. Lowenstein, 42. ‘What’s great about photography is that it can be amorphous. It can be different to each person, and you can use it many different ways, both for good and…

  • Corruption in Russia (5 Photos)

    12 Ways of Looking at North Korea David Guttenfelder, Tomas van Houtryve, Ari Hatsuzawa, Seung Woo Back and Joao Rocha are among the photographers in “North Korean Perspectives” at Museum of Contemporary Photography. via PDN Photo of the Day: http://pdnphotooftheday.com/2012/12/18179 Misha Friedman‘s new project “Photo51: Is Corruption in Russia’s DNA?” is about photography’s power to…

  • Portraits of Russian Prisoners ‘Locked Up in a World Devoid of Hope’

    Link: Portraits of Russian Prisoners ‘Locked Up in a World Devoid of Hope’ | Feature Shoot Israeli born and based photographer Michal Chelbin fostered connections along the way that gained her rare access to the prisoners. Her portrait sittings sometimes lasted for hours, Chelbin never asking about the crime committed until after the portrait was…

  • From the Front Lines: Syria by Narciso Contreras

    From the Front Lines: Syria by Narciso Contreras

    LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2012/12/17/from-the-front-lines-syria-by-narciso-contreras/#1 But over and over again, one photographer in particular, a Mexican-born freelancer named Narciso Contreras, has managed to illuminate and distill the horrors of the signature battle of our time — the intractable Syrian civil war — more consistently than any…

  • Sarah Stankey interviews Mark Brautigam

    Sarah Stankey interviews Mark Brautigam

    Sarah Stankey interviews Mark Brautigam Introducing editorial assistant Sarah Stankey as she shares a recent interview she conducted with Mark Brantigam… In October, I was met with the great opportunity to work with Aline and LENSCRATCH. Currently, I am a senior photography student at the Mil via LENSCRATCH: http://www.lenscratch.com/2012/12/sarah-stankey-interviews-mark-brautigam.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+lenscratch%2FZAbG+%28L++E++N++S++C++R++A++T++C++H%29 A great benefit to me in…