Category: Portfolios & Galleries

  • kadir van lohuizen – vía panam

    Kadir Van Lohuizen – Vía PanAm Kadir Van Lohuizen Vía PanAm In 2011, Kadir started a visual investigation on migration in the Americas. In 12 months, he traveled along the Pan-American Highway from Terra del Fuego in Patagonia t… via burn magazine: http://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2012/10/kadir-van-lohuizen-via-panam/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+burnmag+%28burn+magazine%29 In 12 months, he traveled along the Pan-American Highway from Terra del…

  • Timothy Egan on the Life and Work of Edward S. Curtis

    Link: Timothy Egan on the Life and Work of Edward S. Curtis – NYTimes.com I’m a third-generation Westerner, so the photographs of Edward S. Curtis have been as much a part of my landscape as a desert mesa or a mountain glacier. I took him for granted: those faces of Native Americans, those everyday tasks,…

  • BredaPhoto 2012 Teun Voeten

    Link: BredaPhoto 2012 Teun Voeten | Le Journal de la Photographie Photojournalist and anthropologist Teun Voeten (the Netherlands, 1961) studied Cultural Anthropology at Leiden University. Voeten covered wars all over the word for various magazines. Currently, he is writing a PhD thesis on extreme drug violence in Mexico. His book on this conflict called Narco…

  • Obama Photographer on Documenting Presidency in Digital Era

    Obama Photographer on Documenting Presidency in Digital Era

    LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2012/10/08/pete-souza-portrait-of-a-presidency/#1 As the President runs for a second term, LightBox asked Souza to reflect on his time photographing Obama and share an edit of his favorite images that he and his staff made during the President’s first term; the photographs offer a…

  • Matt Black’s “After the Fall”

    Matt Black’s “After the Fall”

    Weighed Down by History, a Town Slides in Mexico The photographer Matt Black shot a remote town in southern Mexico that’s sliding down a mountain — a heart-wrenching story that illustrates the consequences of colonialism and modernity. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/10/08/a-dust-bowl-for-columbus-day/ The photographer Matt Black has been seeking stories of the indigenous tribes of southern…

  • Gypsies. Different People, Just Like Us.

    Link: Gypsies. Different People, Just Like Us. | Feature Shoot Beyond the stereotypes and cliches, little is known to most of the world of the customs and traditions of the Gypsies. Traditionally perceived as strangers, surrounded by distrust, they have always existed in isolated groups on the margins of developing European communities. But their contribution…

  • Atlanta: Arthur Grace America 101

    Link: Atlanta: Arthur Grace America 101 | Le Journal de la Photographie In America 101, Grace draws 101 pictures from his rich personal archive of the United States to assemble a visual crash course on what defines and represents us as Americans.

  • Sarah Wilmer

    Link: Sarah Wilmer | JENREN

  • The Street Gangs of Caracas

    The Street Gangs of Caracas

    LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2012/10/04/the-street-gangs-of-caracas/#1 The black-and-white photographs of Oscar B. Castillo, a Caracas-based photojournalist, accompany Padgett’s bleak dispatch. Documenting the violence of the barrio put Castillo at immense risk—from both gang members and the police.

  • Afghan Faces, by Mikhail Galustov

    Afghan Faces, by Mikhail Galustov

    Mikhail Galustov’s Afghan Faces “In Afghanstan, everyone has war-related stories to tell,” the photographer Mikhail Galustov told me. “Every family has been hurt by the war in one … via The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/photobooth/2012/10/afghanistan-faces-by-mikhail-galustov.html#slide_ss_0=1 “In Afghanistan, everyone has war-related stories to tell,” the photographer Mikhail Galustov told me. “Every family has been hurt by the…

  • Anthony Suau

    Link: Anthony Suau | JENREN

  • Alex Webb

    Link: Alex Webb | JENREN

  • Lorenzo Cicconi Massi

    Link: Lorenzo Cicconi Massi | JENREN

  • Brenda Ann Kenneally’s Photos of a Young Bushwick Neighbor

    Brenda Ann Kenneally’s Photos of a Young Bushwick Neighbor

    In Drug-Riddled Bushwick, Revisiting a Steadfast Friend Brenda Ann Kenneally moved to crime-ridden Bushwick, Brooklyn, in the ’90s, and befriended a troubled but sweet boy named Andy, whom she photographed for a time. Now an adult, he is her subject once again. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/10/04/in-drug-riddled-bushwick-revisiting-a-steadfast-friend/ When he first saw the book “Money Power Respect,”…

  • Mark Lyon’s Photographs of Bucolic Wallpaper Scenes

    Link: Mark Lyon’s Photographs of Bucolic Wallpaper Scenes – NYTimes.com “We’re in our offices all day,” said Mr. Lyon, 33. “The fact that we feel this need to allow ourselves to feel like we’re someplace else — I don’t know if it’s this discontent for what many people feel, maybe jobs or chores maybe not…

  • Fernando Brito Lost in the Landscape

    Link: Fernando Brito Lost in the Landscape | Le Journal de la Photographie It’s hard to know what to make of the photographs of Fernando Brito. On one hand he is what one might term a straight documentary photographer working through a human-interest story – the project being a survey of the dead bodies dumped…

  • ICP : Rise and Fall of Apartheid

    Link: ICP : Rise and Fall of Apartheid | Le Journal de la Photographie The International Center of Photography is the first museum to offer a major retrospective of images of racial and ethnic separation in South Africa. More than five hundred documents make this a must see exhibition.

  • Red Thistle by Davide Monteleone: The Rhythm of Life in the Caucasus

    Red Thistle by Davide Monteleone: The Rhythm of Life in the Caucasus

    LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2012/10/02/red-thistle-the-rhythm-of-life-in-the-caucasus/#1 Over the next five years, Monteleone would return to Chechnya and the surrounding regions of the Caucasus Mountains as often as once a month. “A lot of work had been done on the wars and the human rights abuses,” he said. “We wanted…

  • Medium Festival: Kurt Simonson

    Medium Festival: Kurt Simonson

    Medium Festival: Kurt Simonson Featuring photographers seen at the Medium Festival in San Diego…. Sometimes the best part of attending a Photography Festival is not just the lectures, workshops, exhibits, and reviews, it’s simply sitting next to someone you don’t know while enjoying via LENSCRATCH: http://www.lenscratch.com/2012/10/medium-festival-kurt-simonson.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+lenscratch%2FZAbG+%28L++E++N++S++C++R++A++T++C++H%29 Northwoods Journals, work that explores “the tensions surrounding our ideas…

  • Photographs From Prisons in Russia and Ukraine

    Photographs From Prisons in Russia and Ukraine

    LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2012/10/01/sailboats-and-swans-the-prisons-of-russia-and-ukraine/#1 In her latest body of work,  Sailboats and Swans, Israeli photographer Michal Chelbin challenges viewers to re-imagine the answer to this question. Working with her husband and co-producer, Oded Plotnizki, Chelbin spent three years photographing prisons in Ukraine and Russia from 2008…