Category: Portfolios & Galleries
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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…
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Scenes from the top of the city
Link: Scenes from the top of the city. – Photographs – NYTimes.com It’s one of the unspoken rules of summer in New York: if you can’t get out of the city, go up. In search of open space, better views and relief from the heat and noise, New Yorkers take to the rooftops. These pictures…
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Andy Freeberg, Guardians
Link: lens culture: Andy Freeberg, Guardians photographs by Andy Freeberg In the art museums of Russia, women sit in the galleries and guard the collections. When you look at the paintings and sculptures, the presence of the women becomes an inherent part of viewing the artwork itself. I found the guards as intriguing to observe…
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Patrick Gilliéron Lopreno’s Prison Photo Puzzle « Prison Photography
Link: Patrick Gilliéron Lopreno’s Prison Photo Puzzle « Prison Photography In 2012, Swiss photographer Patrick Gilliéron Lopreno documented – alongside journalist Jean-François Schwab – three prisons: Prison Champ-Dollon and Prison La Brenaz in Geneva and Bochuz Prison in Vaud, Switzerland. The result was the series Puzzle Carcéral.
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Awesome Geek Expo Portraits Showcase Playful American Characters
Link: Awesome Geek Expo Portraits Showcase Playful American Characters | Raw File | Wired.com With an anthropological approach, Warga — who has bylines with This American Life, NPR’s All Things Considered, American Public Media’s Weekend America, and PRI’s The World — has photographed attendees at over a dozen expos and conventions, including cat ladies, comic-book…
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Overburdened: Stockton, CA
Link: Overburdened: Stockton, CA | Luceo Images Earlier this year I visited Stockton to see the effects the bankruptcy was having on its already fragile economy and on its citizens. Crime is up, its social services have been cut. Prostitution and gang violence have been increasing, as have its growing homeless population. Local churches have…
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Chang W. Lee Photographs the London Olympics
Link: Chang W. Lee Photographs the London Olympics – NYTimes.com Making a different picture is one thing, but making a great picture is another. You can use techniques like slow shutter speeds that will make photos look different, but the best pictures are always about the human story. For me, the best picture doesn’t necessarily…
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Jesse Rieser
Link: L E N S C R A T C H: Jesse Rieser You might call Jesse Reiser a Young Gun, at least the Art Director’s Club said so when they selected him as one of the top 50 Emerging Creatives. The 2012 Magenta Foundation also felt he should be a Flash Forward Winner, and…
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Binoculars and iPhone Give Pro Cameras Stiff Competition at Olympics
Link: Binoculars and iPhone Give Pro Cameras Stiff Competition at Olympics | Raw File | Wired.com This year Dan Chung, a staff photographer with The Guardian in England, decided to scale back. All he’s using to document the games are three iPhones, a set of binoculars and some third-party iPhone lenses.
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Feature Shoot Group Show: Photos of Tourist Attractions
Link: Feature Shoot Group Show: Photos of Tourist Attractions | Feature Shoot
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Documenting the Journey of Central American Migrants: an Option of Last Resorts
Link: Documenting the Journey of Central American Migrants: an Option of Last Resorts | Feature Shoot “Destino” is Michelle Frankfurter’s personal project about the journey of Central American migrants across Mexico by rail. A documentary photographer based in Washington DC, she shot this project on Ilford HP5 120 film and a Bronica 6×6 camera –…
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Onward, Africa (5 Photos)
Link: Onward, Africa (5 Photos) | PDN Photo of the Day In Guy Tillim’s “Avenue Patrice Lumumba” the photographer examines modern African society against a backdrop of colonial and post-colonial architecture. Traveling through numerous African countries, including Mozambique, Angola and The Democratic Republic of Congo, Tilliam captures a society in transition, stuck between modern aspirations…
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Stephen Ferry’s Manual of Colombian Conflict
Link: Slide Show: Stephen Ferry’s Manual of Colombian Conflict : The New Yorker For the past ten years, the photographer Stephen Ferry has working on what he calls a “collective photographic record of the Colombian conflict.”
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Part 4 of Stephen Crowley’s ‘Smoke-Filled Rooms’ Series
Link: Part 4 of Stephen Crowley’s ‘Smoke-Filled Rooms’ Series – NYTimes.com In the fourth 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…