Category: Portfolios & Galleries

  • Mark Lyon’s Photographs of Bucolic Wallpaper Scenes

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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…

  • gaston lacombe – captive

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    Gaston Lacombe – Captive Gaston Lacombe Captive In zoos all around the world, visitors go to admire some of the most beautiful, rare or fierce creatures on Earth, but often fail to notice the deplorable habitats in which t… via burn magazine: http://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2012/09/gaston-lacombe-captive/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+burnmag+%28burn+magazine%29 In zoos all around the world, visitors go to admire some of…

  • Carolyn Drake

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    Link: Carolyn Drake | JENREN

  • The Green Book Project by Jehad Nga

    The Green Book Project by Jehad Nga

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    LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2012/09/27/the-green-book-project-by-jehad-nga/#1 Following the fall of Muammar Gaddafi’s regime last year, photographer Jehad Nga set out to explore the former dictator’s political and military philosophies within the framework of an underlying and contrasting Libyan culture. Here, Nga he writes for LightBox about his…

  • Switzerland: Biel festival of Photography

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    Link: Switzerland: Biel festival of Photography | Le Journal de la Photographie Hélène Joye-Cagnard’s and Catherine Kohler’s selection welcomes photographers from 10 countries – among them Iran, the US, China, Spain and Switzerland – and congregates the multiple facets of a red-hot topic into a coherent image.

  • La Chronique de Pauline Auzou #2

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    Link: La Chronique de Pauline Auzou #2 | Le Journal de la Photographie If Henri Cartier-Bresson were to peruse this online collection of photos, would he recognize his “decisive moment”?

  • Looking at the Land From the Comfort of Home

    Looking at the Land From the Comfort of Home

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    LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2012/09/26/looking-at-the-land-from-the-comfort-of-home/#1 If there is a dominant theme in the show it probably is that irony—it’s the absurd juxtaposition of nature and culture. Rather than preach at the spectator I rather make them think about that absurdity or see that disconnect through humor.…

  • The Work of Chilean Photographer Tomás Munita

    The Work of Chilean Photographer Tomás Munita

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    Losing Fear and Learning to See On a demanding assignment off Peru’s coast, in search of a coveted guano, the reporter Simon Romero couldn’t stomach more than an afternoon. The Chilean photographer Tomás Munita, undaunted, stayed weeks. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/26/losing-fear-learning-to-see/ I lasted an afternoon on Isla de Asia on that assignment in 2008, nauseated…

  • It’s Personal: 13 Photographic Visions

    It’s Personal: 13 Photographic Visions

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    It’s Personal: 13 Photographic Visions For the last twelve years, it have had the pleasure to teach at the Julia Dean Photo Workshops in Los Angeles, under the leadership of the amazing Julia Dean. Starting in January at JDPW, I began working with a group of thirteen talented Los Angeles photo via LENSCRATCH: http://www.lenscratch.com/2012/09/its-personal-13-photographic-visions.html The…

  • Alex Webb

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    Link: Alex Webb | JENREN

  • Kosuke Okahara’s Photos of Fukushima’s Aftermath

    Kosuke Okahara’s Photos of Fukushima’s Aftermath

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    Fragments of Fukushima Eighteen months after the Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan, the photographer Kosuke Okahara has created a collection of haunting images of a land irreparably altered and the people who stayed behind. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/25/fragments-of-fukushima/ Okahara has traveled to Fukushima Prefecture almost every month. On Sept. 6, at the Visa pour l’Image…

  • Braga 2012 : Raimond Wouda

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    Link: Braga 2012 : Raimond Wouda | Le Journal de la Photographie

  • Gaspésie 2012 Gabor Szilasi

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    Link: Gaspésie 2012 Gabor Szilasi | Le Journal de la Photographie “I photograph the moment in the present, but as soon as the shutter clicks, we are suddenly in the past.

  • Gaspésie 2012 Martin Beaulieu

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    Link: Gaspésie 2012 Martin Beaulieu | Le Journal de la Photographie A paradox in this era of globalization is that we continue to build walls to mark the borders between countries. Since the fall of the Berlin Wall, man has continued erecting walls across the world. Martin Beaulieu traveled along the border between the United…

  • Julia Tikhomirova Wandering Times

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    Link: Julia Tikhomirova Wandering Times | Le Journal de la Photographie The project “Wandering Times” has started as a sort of photographic diary during the years Tikhomirova lived in Italy after her emigration from the homeland Russia