Category: Portfolios & Galleries
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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…
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Photographs of Yemen in Transition
Link: Photographs of Yemen in Transition | Feature Shoot Alex Potter is an emerging photojournalist who has worked primarily in Minneapolis, MN and Yemen. After graduating university with a nursing degree she decided to follow her calling rather than the advice of others and turned to a life in photography.
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The Afronauts : Christina De Middel
Review Santa Fe: Cristina De Middel Over the next month, I will be sharing some of the 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/2012/08/review-santa-fe-christina-de-middel.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+lenscratch%2FZAbG+%28L++E++N++S++C++R++A++T++C++H%29 The…
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On The Beach With Martin Parr
On the Beach with Martin Parr For over forty years, Martin Parr has photographed beach culture around the globe. From the world-famous waterfronts of Cannes and Copacabana to the lesser… via The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/photobooth/2012/08/on-the-beach-with-martin-parr.html#slide_ss_0=1 As part of our Swimsuit Issue, come relax and lose your inhibitions with this sandy slide show of Parr’s beach…
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John Langmore: Photographing the Mystery of Oaxaca
Link: John Langmore: Photographing the Mystery of Oaxaca « The Leica Camera John Langmore is an Austin, Texas based photographer most noted for his long-term work on East Austin and Oaxaca, Mexico. He grew up in a family of great photographers – most notably his father, Bank Langmore, who established himself as one of the preeminent…
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American Photographs by Walker Evans
LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2012/08/15/walker-evans-american-photographs/#1 Like the work of most great artists, the best of Walker Evans’ pictures are marvels of contradiction. Or, rather, they acquire their power through the contradictions they deftly reconcile. One especially striking example: a photograph from 1930 (slide 11 in this…
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“Going Home,” Muge’s Journey Along the Yangtze River
Daylight Photo Awards: Muge’s “Going Home” Earlier this month, I served as a juror for the annual Daylight Photo Awards, which, along with a winner—Aaron Vincent Elkaim, for his body of work … via The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/photobooth/2012/08/daylight-photo-awards-mu-ge-going-home.html#slide_ss_0=1 The Three Gorges Project looms large over “Going Home.” As I told Daylight, Muge’s images have an…
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A Cast of Characters Photographed Across America
Link: A Cast of Characters Photographed Across America | Feature Shoot Roger Kisby: With no money coming in and gas prices at an all-time high, I took off on a cross-country road trip. I didn’t have a set plan of where to go or what to shoot; I just knew that I wanted to travel…
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Syria, ‘on the Verge of Collapse’
Syria, ‘on the Verge of Collapse’ via The Atlantic: http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2012/08/syria-on-the-verge-of-collapse/100352/ Nearly a year and a half after Syria’s uprising began back in the Arab Spring, it has devolved into a violent civil war with fractious rebel forces continuing their efforts to remove President Bashar al-Assad from power. Earlier today, Riad Hijab, Syria’s Prime Minister who…
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Yard Sale Photos Reveal Our Insatiable Need for Stuff
Yard Sale Photos Reveal Our Insatiable Need for Stuff When most of us look at yard sales we see piles of junk and the occasional deal. But when photographer Greg Ruffing looks at yard sales he sees the sociological underpinnings of America. via WIRED: http://www.wired.com/rawfile/2012/08/greg-ruffing-yard-sales/ When most of us look at yard sales we see…
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Photographs of the U.S. Space Program
LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2012/08/13/last-launch-dan-winters-and-the-shuttle-program/#1 Dan Winters, who grew up during the golden age—the Cronkite Age—of space reporting, is one of the photographers who has mastered the craft best. As the images that follow—taken from his new book, Last Launch—show, he has proven himself a virtuoso…
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Gail Albert Halaban’s Many Windows on Private Lives
They Know They Are Being Watched? The photographer Gail Albert Halaban takes pictures of people through their windows, with their permission. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/08/11/they-know-they-are-being-watched/ The photographs here come from her continuing project/obsession, “Out My Window,” taken from the apartments of people who like to look into their neighbors’ lives. Fifty images from the series…
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Portraits of ‘Preppers’ Readying for the Apocalypse
Link: Portraits of ‘Preppers’ Readying for the Apocalypse | Feature Shoot Emil Hartvig, a documentary/art photographer based in Copenhagen, recently returned from the Midwest where he photographed ‘preppers’ in their homes and surrounds. Preppers are those who are actively preparing for the end of the world—for society as we know it to collapse
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Overburdened: Central Falls, RI | Luceo Images
rentnLink: Overburdened: Central Falls, RI | Luceo Images As I develop this project and continue to visit more cities in bankruptcy to speak with the people who live there, I am touched by the sheer weight of burden and the levity in small moments of daily life used to get by. Meals shared amongst neighbors,…
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2012 London Olympics: The Final Week
Link: 2012 London Olympics: The Final Week – In Focus – The Atlantic The 2012 Summer Olympics come to their conclusion this weekend, and the 10,000 athletes from 200 national Olympic committees around the globe who have gathered in London for the 17-day event will soon be returning home. Collected here are some small glimpses…