Category: Portfolios & Galleries

  • Behind the Cover: Obama Makes His Way to the DNC

    Behind the Cover: Obama Makes His Way to the DNC

    LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2012/08/30/behind-the-cover-obama-hits-the-road-in-new-hampshire/#1 Photographer Callie Shell has documented Barack Obama for more than eight years. This week, her pictures of the President campaigning in New Hampshire are featured in TIME’s special Democratic Convention Issue. The photojournalist began documenting Obama first as a junior Senator,…

  • A Photographer’s Journey from Behind Bars to Behind the Lens

    A Photographer’s Journey from Behind Bars to Behind the Lens

    LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2012/08/29/a-photographers-journey-from-behind-bars-to-behind-the-lens/#1 This spring, with funding from the Dart Society, Rodriguez photographed Jesse De La Cruz, a former gang member turned author and activist in Stockton and Woodlake, Calif. The similarities between subject and photographer are striking: while Rodriguez found salvation through a…

  • Arnhel de Serra

    Link: Arnhel de Serra | JENREN

  • Greg Miller

    Greg Miller

    Link: Greg Miller | JENREN

  • RNC Day One

    the life of m Link: http://thelifeofm.com/?p=553 Finally. After months of planning and prepping and stressing for the Republican National Convention in Tampa, I’m finally getting around to the fun part — documenting

  • L E N S C R A T C H: 2012 LENSCRATCH Hometown Exhibition

    L E N S C R A T C H: 2012 LENSCRATCH Hometown Exhibition

    2012 LENSCRATCH Hometown Exhibition This is a 4 part post, after the first two posts, click on “Older Post” to see the last two…My Home is in my Head by Susan BarnettThank you for your wonderful submissions that show us where you came from or where you live now…these insights and interp via LENSCRATCH: http://www.lenscratch.com/2012/08/2012-lenscratch-hometown-exhibition_27.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+lenscratch%2FZAbG+%28L++E++N++S++C++R++A++T++C++H%29 Strangely, this…

  • Jonathan Slack: Capturing China With The Leica M Monochrom

    Link: Jonathan Slack: Capturing China With The Leica M Monochrom « The Leica Camera I just love taking images; they are the punctuation marks in my existence. If I can make a simple thing seem fascinating, or catch an expression which amplifies a character or find a feature of the landscape mirrored in a cloud…

  • Aaron Ruell

    Aaron Ruell

    7. Aaron Ruell Aaron Ruell (born June 23, 1976) in Fresno, California, is an American director and photographer. He is also noted fo… Link: http://listbyjon.blogspot.com/2012/08/7-aaron-ruell.html We see things unfold through other’s filters, through the filter of their life experience and world view, their varying cultural references, and that ‘view’ gives a certain flavour to their…

  • Around the World with Paolo Pellegrin

    Around the World with Paolo Pellegrin

    Around the World with Paolo Pellegrin The Magnum photojournalist Paolo Pellegrin has documented many of this generation’s major conflicts and disasters, from wars to revolutions to tsunamis. … via The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/photobooth/2012/08/around-the-world-with-paolo-pellegrin.html#slide_ss_0=1 The Magnum photojournalist Paolo Pellegrin has documented many of this generation’s major conflicts and disasters, from wars to revolutions to tsunamis. “I…

  • Benedicte Kurzen’s Photos of Conflict in Restive Nigeria

    Link: Benedicte Kurzen’s Photos of Conflict in Restive Nigeria – NYTimes.com Benedicte Kurzen, a French photographer who has been based in Johannesburg since 2005, came to Nigeria last year with a Pulitzer Center grant and a sense of the roiling tensions there: long-seeded resentments, rooted in the breathtaking disparity of wealth, widespread corruption and a…

  • Happy Birthday, Henri Cartier-Bresson

    Happy Birthday, Henri Cartier-Bresson

    Happy Birthday, Henri Cartier-Bresson Henri Cartier-Bresson travelled the world for four decades, both documenting and participating in the art, political, and social movements that would move … via The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/photobooth/2012/08/happy-birthday-henri-cartier-bresson.html#slide_ss_0=1 Today, in honor of Cartier-Bresson’s birthday, we take a look at some of the more celebratory photographs from his extraordinary career.

  • Polaroid Brings Back Large Format Instant Film

    Link: Polaroid Brings Back Large Format Instant Film – NYTimes.com In the world of photography, innovation has a shelf life. By 2008, some 60 years after Edwin Land’s invention of the Polaroid camera, analog photography had been usurped by the power of the digital age. The shuttering of instant film production left a community of…

  • Photographs of People and Landscapes in Israel

    Link: Photographs of People and Landscapes in Israel – TIME LightBox – LightBox a photo project he has worked on for the past decade, crystallized in a new book, The Quest for the Man on the White Donkey. Israel’s pictures are the product of years of wanderings in Israel, in the Occupied Territories and in…

  • Goran Tomasevic’s Photos in Syria

    Link: Goran Tomasevic’s Photos in Syria – NYTimes.com Honestly, I didn’t have any expectations. I didn’t know how the urban environment would look, but I wasn’t surprised by the things I saw. I knew there was going to be some destruction because of the scale of bombardment. I also knew there would be guys running…

  • Part 5: Stephen Crowley’s Smoke-Filled Rooms

    Link: Part 5: Stephen Crowley’s Smoke-Filled Rooms – NYTimes.com In the fifth installment of the “Smoke-Filled Rooms” series, Stephen Crowley, a staff photographer at The New York Times, continues to look beyond the restrictions, spin and control of the contemporary American political process. With an unorthodox presentation of photographs and text, Mr. Crowley examines the…

  • Julie Glassberg on Photographing the Notorious and Unpredictable Black Label Bike Club

    Link: Julie Glassberg on Photographing the Notorious and Unpredictable Black Label Bike Club | Feature Shoot Julie Glassberg is a French born, award winning photographer currently living and working in New York. Her work is mainly based on the diversity of world cultures; subcultures; portraits; documentary projects. These images are from her series, Bike Kill,…

  • Tour de Volcanoes

    Link: Tour de Volcanoes (10 Photos) | PDN Photo of the Day In July, cyclists Alban Aubert and Hans Rey biked to and around five different volcanoes in Ecuador in just five days. Swiss photographer Patrice Schreyer documented the trip along with his wife, Floriane Boss, who captured the journey on video. Schreyer says the…

  • Walter Astrada’s Photos of Violence Against Women

    Link: Walter Astrada’s Photos of Violence Against Women – NYTimes.com Norway has a well-deserved reputation as one of the wealthiest, safest, best-educated and most democratic countries in the world. But this is precisely why Walter Astrada chose Norway as the place to complete his magnum opus on violence against women.

  • Women and Violence in El Salvador

    Women and Violence in El Salvador

    Guerreras: Women and Violence in El Salvador Four months ago, President Mauricio Funes negotiated a truce between his country’s two largest street gangs, Mara Salvatrucha and Mara Calle 18, bringing… via The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/photobooth/2012/08/guerreras-women-and-violence-in-el-salvador.html#slide_ss_0=1 Four months ago, President Mauricio Funes negotiated a truce between his country’s two largest street gangs, Mara Salvatrucha and Mara…

  • In the Footsteps of Ghosts

    Link: In the Footsteps of Ghosts | Luceo Images