Category: Portfolios & Galleries

  • An English Photographer Goes to California for Milk and Ping-Pong Balls

    An English Photographer Goes to California for Milk and Ping-Pong Balls

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    An English Photographer Goes to California for Milk and Ping-Pong Balls A British photographer sheds his “gray, gothic” identity in favor of wandering the streets of California for two new projects. via The 6th Floor Blog: http://6thfloor.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/22/an-english-photographer-goes-to-california-for-milk-and-ping-pong-balls/?partner=rss&emc=rss&pagewanted=all He put down the digital camera he had been using, picked up a 35-millimeter film camera, bought some…

  • jeroen hofman – playground

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    Jeroen Hofman – Playground Jeroen Hofman Playground My new project is called Playground. The Netherlands have several training facilities where members of the Fire Brigade, the Police Force and the Ministry of Defense are tr… via burn magazine: http://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2012/05/jeroen-hofman-playground/ My new project is called Playground. The Netherlands have several training facilities where members of the…

  • Alex Arbuckle’s Complex Relationship with the NYPD

    Alex Arbuckle’s Complex Relationship with the NYPD

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    Caught Between the Protests and the Police When Alex Arbuckle covered the Occupy Wall Street protests, he decided to show a straightforward view of the police. Instead, he found himself arrested. A few days ago, he was vindicated. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/21/caught-between-the-protests-and-the-police/?pagewanted=all “I felt that the depiction of the cops and protesters was mostly sensationalist…

  • Rebecca Norris Webb: ‘My Dakota’

    Rebecca Norris Webb: ‘My Dakota’

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    LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2012/05/21/my-dakota/#1 Looking again at the work now that My Dakota is finally a book, I realize that I was photographing this particularly dark time in my life in order to try to absorb it, to distill it, and, ultimately, to let it…

  • Martin Parr Tourism Inc

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    Link: Martin Parr Tourism Inc | La Lettre de la Photographie For 20 years, Reporters Without Borders has been fighting for freedom of the press. They regularly publish fundraising photo albums devoted to selected photographers, with sales profits going to financing their actions. Martin Parr’s work is being featured in the latest album to be…

  • Country Fair Photos Parade Jolly Brits, Tarts and Chintz

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    Country Fair Photos Parade Jolly Brits, Tarts and Chintz Arnhel de Serra’s photos are like the British equivalent of a good New Yorker cartoon: quirky and insightful. His series on the U.K.’s agricultural shows — which are similar to county fairs here in the U.S. — gives viewers a curious peak into the eccentri via…

  • Magnum 62 : 1970s – 1990s, the mutation

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    Link: Magnum 62 : 1970s – 1990s, the mutation | La Lettre de la Photographie 1970s and 1980s: The world of photojournalism and documentary photography is changing

  • Magnum 62, : the young generation

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    Link: Magnum 62, : the young generation | La Lettre de la Photographie In more recent decades, the photographers of the Magnum agency have been faced with many changes and challenges in the professional and technical sphere of photography. Magnum was founded on ideals of copyright but today, with the impact of digital imaging, popular…

  • Óscar Monzón – Sweet Car

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    Link: 30y3 – spanish photography now » Óscar Monzón – Sweet Car via: Conscientious

  • Damaso Reyes and The Europeans

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    Link: NYTimes.com Damaso Reyes has been photographing the many changes sweeping over the European Union since 2005 as part of his ambitious project, “The Europeans.” Across the Continent, he has been finding moments large and small that strive for nuance and details of everyday life.

  • Forty Years Later, a Photographer Finally Gets His Show

    Forty Years Later, a Photographer Finally Gets His Show

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    Forty Years Later, a Photographer Finally Gets His Show The photographer John Myers rejected the highly technical demands of the darkroom and instead focuses on the “real world”: people and scenery in his hometown of Stourbridge, England. via The 6th Floor Blog: http://6thfloor.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/11/forty-years-later-a-photographer-finally-gets-his-show/?partner=rss&emc=rss&pagewanted=all Recently a photographer friend on Facebook introduced me to the remarkable work…

  • Arthur Tress: San Francisco 1964

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    Link: La Lettre de la Photographie In the summer of 1964, San Francisco was ground zero for a historic culture clash as the site of both the 28th Republican National Convention (the “Goldwater Convention”) and the launch of the Beatles’ first North American tour. The young photographer Arthur Tress arrived at this opportune moment in…

  • Lomography and the ‘Analogue Future’

    Lomography and the ‘Analogue Future’

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    LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2012/05/10/lomography/#1 Matthias Fiegl, one of the original founders of the 20-year-old, pinhole- and fisheye-loving, Vienna-based company, recently visited New York City. He sat down with LightBox at the company’s Greenwich Village store— where signs proclaim the “prophecies of the analogue future” and…

  • Scenes From Spending the Night With Strangers

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    Scenes From Spending the Night With Strangers Photographer Bieke Depoorter has been traveling around Russia and the United States asking random people on the street if she can sleep at their homes on and off for the past three years. The result is a series of eerily intimate photos that capture the i via WIRED:…

  • Marisha Camp

    Marisha Camp

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    Marisha Camp: The Beach I am in love.  Deeply in love. and you’d better get a cup of coffee because I am sharing a bumper crop of photographs today.  Marisha Camp is an amazing portrait photographer, creating full blown operas with her camera. Each photograph has power, has beau via LENSCRATCH: http://www.lenscratch.com/2012/05/marisha-camp.html I am in…

  • Isle of Lost Land (10 Photos)

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    Link: PDN Photo of the Day Over the last six years, Los Angeles-based photographer Stacy Kranitz has been working on a personal project about the Native American community living on the disappearing Isle de Jean Charles in the Louisiana bayous

  • Adam Bartos Dakroom

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    Link: La Lettre de la Photographie Adam Bartos’ recent large-format work documents and explores in equal measure the visual language and ethos of that analogue printing culture before it slips beyond our experience forever. The acrid odor of chemistry, an uncanny stillness hanging in damp air — Bartos records the descriptive aspects and spatial constraints…

  • Photographs Before Climate Change: ‘Moments Before The Flood’

    Photographs Before Climate Change: ‘Moments Before The Flood’

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    LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2012/05/08/moments-before-the-flood/#1 In trying to understand the tension Carl de Keyzer seeks to present in his images of European coastlines, look to the World War II bunkers, tank traps and crumbling walls still present by the shore for starting points. The decaying fortifications,…

  • Eric Dessert’s other China

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    Link: La Lettre de la Photographie Éric Dessert’s work seems to be nourished and regulated by his travels, Romania, Georgia, Estonia, Japan, and here, China, shown at the Camera Obscura Gallery until May 26, 2012. A different China, far from the dazzling changes of the past few decades. Rural China. It is no surprise that…

  • Mumbai : Commuters Chirodeep Chaudhuri

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    Link: La Lettre de la Photographie Chirodeep Chaudhuri presents The Commuters, a series of portraits taken in the trains of suburban Mumbai and exhibited at the former Prince of Wales Museum in Mumbai