Category: Portfolios & Galleries

  • Salah Benacer Inclose

    Salah Benacer Inclose

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    Link: Le Journal de la Photographie Salah Benacer, an independent photojournalist, has released his first book, Inclose. The work takes the form of a photographic essay presenting three reports on the theme of confinement.

  • Doug Rickard A New American Picture

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    Link: Doug Rickard A New American Picture | Le Journal de la Photographie Rickard combines several images captured by Google Street View into a single composition. Each image—which the artist does not describe as photography, in the conviction that the work’s concern is equally social and aesthetic—incorporates blurred silhouettes. The stretched lines of bodies wandering…

  • Annabel Clark | JENREN

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    Link: Annabel Clark | JENREN

  • Photaumnales 2012 : Joseph H. Darchinger

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    Link: Photaumnales 2012 : Joseph H. Darchinger | Le Journal de la Photographie Only eight years after Nazi Germany’s surrender, Josef Heinrich Darchinger began his career as a photographer in the Federal Republic of Germany.

  • Kaunas Photo 2012 : Evaldas Butkevičius

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    Link: Kaunas Photo 2012 : Evaldas Butkevičius | Le Journal de la Photographie Evaldas Butkevičius (b. 1953) speaks a visual language that is understandable to everyone. For two decades he has been working as a reporter for one of the largest daily newspaper, facing the dynamic daily life of Kaunas

  • Visions of a Blind Photographer

    Visions of a Blind Photographer

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    Visions of a Blind Photographer Seeking to cope with immense personal tragedy, Sonia Soberats, who lost her vision in between losing a son and daughter, turned to photography. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/18/visions-of-a-blind-photographer/ Sonia Soberats does not rely on capturing a decisive moment. Instead, her technique, called light painting, involves careful planning and imagination.

  • mette frandsen – sin city

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    Mette Frandsen – Sin City Mette Frandsen Sin City ESSAY CONTAINS EXPLICIT CONTENT Mickey I meet Mickey at a traffic light two blocks from the center of Las Vegas. He’s carrying a heavy suitcase and the brutal and inhu… via burn magazine: http://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2012/09/mette-frandsen-sin-city/ The New York Times has assembled a “Convention Storybook,” an online archive…

  • IRIS FINE (NSFW)

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    Link: internet k-hole: IRIS FINE Found photos from the 80s. Again, NSFW.

  • 150 Years after Antietam: Photographs by Alexander Gardner

    150 Years after Antietam: Photographs by Alexander Gardner

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    LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2012/09/17/150-years-later-picturing-the-battle-of-antietam/#1 After the Battle of Antietam, photographer Matthew Brady tacked a sign to the door of his New York City photo studio that read, simply, “The Dead of Antietam.” Inside, he exhibited the work that his assistant, Alexander Gardner, made in the…

  • Review Santa Fe: Carolyn Drake

    Review Santa Fe: Carolyn Drake

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    Review Santa Fe: Carolyn Drake Over the next month, I will be sharing the work of photographers who attended Review Santa Fe in June.  Review Santa Fe is the only juried review in the United States and invites 100 photographers to Santa Fe for a long weekend of reviews, insights, and c via LENSCRATCH: http://www.lenscratch.com/2012/09/review-santa-fe-carolyn-drake.html Carolyn Drake ‘s…

  • “War/Photography”: A Comprehensive New Look at the World in Conflict

    “War/Photography”: A Comprehensive New Look at the World in Conflict

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    Total War: A New Look at Conflict Photography In November, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, will unveil an exhibition on war photography unprecedented in scale and ambition. The origins of … via The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/photobooth/2012/09/war-photography-museum-of-fine-arts-houston.html#slide_ss_0=1 “We didn’t feel there was a real digging into the subject,” Tucker told me. The bodies of work…

  • Catherine Balet, Strangers in the Light

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    Link: lens culture: Catherine Balet, Strangers in the Light Strangers in the Light explores the dominance of media screens in contemporary life, from a connected family gathering to a online confessional. Landscapes or interiors, her images also refer to the narcissistic self-awareness expressed on social networks and the new approach to quick, light mobile photography…

  • At Water’s Edge: Paul Blackmore

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    Link: Melbourne: Paul Blackmore | Le Journal de la Photographie This body of work – spanning 11 years and 14 countries – explores the intimate relationship between humanity and its most vital natural resource. Blackmore’s photographs poignantly illustrate the unfolding drama of the global water crisis and how it is affecting those caught up in…

  • Studio Visit: Platon’s Greece

    Studio Visit: Platon’s Greece

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    Studio Visit: Platon’s Greece The photographer Platon is known for his portraits of powerful leaders such as Vladimir Putin and world-changing figures such as the Little Rock Nine. But … via The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/photobooth/2012/09/studio-visit-platons-greece.html#slide_ss_0=1 As part of the celebration of Photo Booth’s redesign this week, here is the first installment of a new video…

  • Robert Nickelsberg’s Photographs of Wars in Afghanistan

    Robert Nickelsberg’s Photographs of Wars in Afghanistan

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    A Long View of Afghanistan’s Wars The photographer Robert Nickelsberg has been making trips to Afghanistan since 1988. His new book-length project, “A Distant War,” goes past the current, seemingly intractable American invasion to show how a nation has been beleaguered by decades of almos via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/13/a-long-view-of-wars-in-afghanistan/ The reporter who worked most closely…

  • Dan Winters Retrospective by Nick Offerman

    Dan Winters Retrospective by Nick Offerman

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    LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2012/09/12/dan-winters-in-a-thousand-words-an-ode-to-a-friend-by-nick-offerman/#1 I arrived at the location with a canvas army backpack filled with ice and a case of Coronas. To my relief, my new compatriots quickly confirmed that I had acted appropriately in the arena of refreshments, then Dan took one look…

  • Getxo Photo 2012: Margaret M De Lange

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    Link: Getxo Photo 2012: Margaret M De Lange | Le Journal de la Photographie The project began in 1993 and continued until 2002, but the work was not published until they reached adulthood. Margaret wanted to ensure that she first received explicit permission and consent from her daughters. They are moving images that transport us…

  • Getxo Photo 2012: Jeongmee Yoon

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    Link: Getxo Photo 2012: Jeongmee Yoon | Le Journal de la Photographie JeongMee began The Pink and Blue Project with her daughter, when she was five years old. She was crazy about the colour pink, to a point where she only wanted to dress in pink clothes and play with objects of the same colour

  • Getxo Photo 2012: Roger Ballen

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    Link: Getxo Photo 2012: Roger Ballen | Le Journal de la Photographie Textures, compositions, objects, animals, disturbing characters and graphic elements create unique compositions that emotionally captivate the spectator. It would be a futile endeavour to attempt to explain his images, for they come from a way of telling that cannot be translated into another…

  • Photographic Specimen Portraits by Michael Mapes

    Photographic Specimen Portraits by Michael Mapes

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    Photographic Specimen Portraits by Michael Mapes Artist Michael Mapes creates intricate photographic portrait pieces in which photos of the subject are cut up and distributed amongst vials, pins, and via Laughing Squid: http://laughingsquid.com/photographic-specimen-portraits-by-michael-mapes/ Artist Michael Mapes creates intricate photographic portrait pieces in which photos of the subject are cut up and distributed amongst vials, pins,…