Category: Portfolios & Galleries
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Photoville 2012: Noorderlicht | La Lettre de la Photographie
Link: Photoville 2012: Noorderlicht | La Lettre de la Photographie A gripping look behind prison walls. By request of Noorderlicht, guest curators Hester Keijser and Pete Brook have brought together work by eleven women photographers, presenting quite unexpected photography of great variety, revealing life behind bars. Artists include: Araminta de Clermont, Amy Elkins, Alyse Emdur, Christiane Feser,…
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Photoville 2012: Rock Paper Photo
Link: Photoville 2012: Rock Paper Photo | La Lettre de la Photographie The exhibition features a body of outstanding music photography by 25 photographers who are represented by Rock Paper Photo
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Rebecca Norris Webb’s “My Dakota”
Prairie, Poetry and Loss Rebecca Norris Webb had begun a photography project in South Dakota, the land of her youth, when her brother died unexpectedly. All of a sudden, “My Dakota” became a process of grieving, rediscovery and poetry. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/06/21/grieving-a-loss-with-prairie-and-poetry/?pagewanted=all It’s taken me much of life to understand and accept that my…
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Public Assembly: The Photographs of Mike Sinclair
LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2012/06/21/public-assembly-the-photographs-of-mike-sinclair/#1 For more than 30 years, Sinclair has documented places where people gather, like state fairs, sporting events and parks. “I grew up in the heyday of LIFE and photojournalism. I realized early on that I was better at visual things,” he…
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Life’s a Blast: Linda Forsell’s Photographs of Israel and Palestine
Life’s a Blast: Linda Forsell in Israel and Palestine This week’s fiction piece, “Means of Suppressing Demonstrations,” by Shani Boianjiu, instantly made me think of the photographer Linda Forsell’s … via The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/photobooth/2012/06/lifes-a-blast-linda-forsell-in-israel-and-palestine.html Linda Forsell’s project “Life’s a Blast.” The photographs, which Forsell made in Israel and Palestine from 2008 to 2010, were…
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Memories of an Italian Beach: Gabriele Micalizzi’s “Pane e Pomodoro”
Memories of an Italian Beach As we anticipate the summer’s first heat wave, it’s the perfect time to take in the work of Gabriele Micalizzi, who went back to his childhood summer … via The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/photobooth/2012/06/gabriele-micalizzi-pane-e-pomodoro.html As we anticipate the summer’s first heat wave, it’s the perfect time to take in the work…
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Mark Leong’s Photos From Hong Kong
In Post-Colonial Hong Kong, Finding Whimsy and Menace Mark Leong’s cinematic photos reveal an uneasy relationship between old and new, order and chaos in Hong Kong, 15 years after its handover from Britain. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/06/19/in-post-colonial-hong-kong-finding-whimsy-and-menace/ During the months he spent trekking through this city for National Geographic magazine, Mark Leong was on a…
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Ryan McGinley: Fan Stories
Link: Ryan McGinley: Fan Stories | La Lettre de la Photographie During the past four years, American photographer Ryan McGinley captured the faces of enthusiastic fans massed during concerts and music festivals
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Cuba – Eric Kruszewski Photography
Link: Cuba – Eric Kruszewski Photography via ::: The Travel Photographer :::: Eric Kruszewski: Cuba
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Otherworldly B&W Photographs of a Beach in Wales
Link: Otherworldly B&W Photographs of a Beach in Wales | Feature Shoot For the past 5 years, Jackson has been creating a body of work titled ‘Other Small Worlds’ based on visiting and recording a single beach in South Wales – Poppit Sands. “My work on Poppit Sands beach has changed over the years. I…
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Dina Kantor Photographs the Demise of Treece, Kansas
Dina Kantor Photographs the Demise of Treece, Kansas Treece, Kansas, was a thriving mining town during the First and Second World Wars. It’s now been almost entirely abandoned due to major pollution. For … via The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/photobooth/2012/06/dina-kantor-photographs-the-demise-of-treece-kansas.html Treece, Kansas, was a thriving mining town during the First and Second World Wars. It’s now…
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Frédéric Brenner: The Diaspora
Link: Frédéric Brenner: The Diaspora | La Lettre de la Photographie Frédéric Brenner was born in Paris in 1959. He studied anthropology and sociology at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris. For 25 years, he has traveled the globe photographing the Jewish people on five continents, creating the first visual anthology…
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Zun Lee’s Scenes of Fathers and Children
Exploring African-American Fatherhood A family secret set Zun Lee on a path to go beyond the simple stereotypes and explore the lives of African-American fathers. The results, he said, have been redemptive. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/06/15/exploring-african-american-fatherhood/ His goal is to show an everyday, ordinary love between children and fathers. The kind of moments that get…
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Underage: A Group Exhibition of Young Photographers at Photoville (NYC)
Link: Underage: A Group Exhibition of Young Photographers at Photoville (NYC) | Feature Shoot Feature Shoot is pleased to present the group exhibition, Underage, at this year’s Photoville Festival in Brooklyn, featuring work by six young photographers who document the joys and travails of growing up: a time of first loves, experimentation, and the search…
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Robert King’s Photos of Syrian Violence
A Rare View of Conflict in Syria While the conflict in Syria has made it increasingly difficult for journalists and photographers to gain access, Robert King is frustrated with the flagging interest of his media clients. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/06/13/a-rare-view-of-conflict-in-syria/ For one shot of an infant injured by shrapnel, Mr. King zeroed in on the…
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Yan Morvan: “Reporter de guerres”
Link: Yan Morvan: “Reporter de guerres” | La Lettre de la Photographie Yan Morvan was, of course, a war correspondent. He even won the World Press Photo award in the “Spot News” category for his coverage of the war in Beirut. Not to mention the Robert Capa Gold Medal. “He’s the only one who had…
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Michael Von Graffenried: Inside Cairo
Link: Michael Von Graffenried: Inside Cairo | La Lettre de la Photographie Michael von Graffenried’s works realized in Algeria and Cairo represented a further development in his desire as an artist to get inside these particular societies where photographers were viewed with great suspicion, which itself demanded solutions enabling him to take photographs unnoticed. In…