Category: Portfolios & Galleries

  • Former Yugoslavia

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    Link: La Lettre de la Photographie in the early 1990s, Yugoslavia explodes, like a return to the origins, April 1992, Sarajevo is under attack from Karadzic’s murderers, Mladic is under the orders of Milosevic in Belgrade. War had already begun in what is now called “former Yugoslavia”. But the siege of Sarajevo, the suffocation of…

  • Eastern Winds Alain Keler

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    Link: La Lettre de la Photographie It was a bad eastern wind that blew Alain Keler’s family out of Poland before the Second World War, and turned him into a Clermont-Ferrand native, Alain Keler, this French 1997 Eugene Smith prizewinner for his early work on Eastern European minorities. 
“After the fall of the Berlin wall,…

  • Aung San Suu Kyi’s Path to Victory by James Nachtwey

    Aung San Suu Kyi’s Path to Victory by James Nachtwey

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    LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2012/04/10/aung-san-suu-kyi-nachtwey/#1 James Nachtwey’s photographs from the campaign trail capture this rapturous moment, but hint, too, at challenges to come

  • neighborhood watch: wrigleyville

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    Link: Shooting from the Hip Since I was assigned my first Cubs’ game of the season last night, I figured I would knock out another neighborhood watch post. Obviously, I photographed Wrigleyville.

  • Junk Yards in No Man’s Land of New York (10 Photos)

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    Link: PDN Photo of the Day “Yonkeros,’ a Spanglish derivative of ‘junk,’ is a term for the people and businesses that strip wrecked cars and sell them for parts or scrap metal. Jaime Permuth’s recent body of work Yonkeros, shot over the course of one year, examines the landscape of the junkyards in the Willets Point…

  • Abir Abdullah’s Photographs of Fires in Bangladesh

    Abir Abdullah’s Photographs of Fires in Bangladesh

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    ‘Death Traps’ in Dhaka Seeking to show how vulnerable an ostensibly up-and-coming modern metropolis is, Abir Abdullah has been chasing the fires that plague Dhaka, Bangladesh. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/04/10/death-traps-in-dhaka/?pagewanted=all A patriot might not readily describe his native city as a “death trap” and a beautiful place in the same breath, but for the Bangladeshi…

  • Martin Roemers Metropolis

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    Link: La Lettre de la Photographie What better city than New York to exhibit a photographic essay on the citizens of these “megalopolises” where the population numbers in the millions. Martin Roemers decided to look beyond the urban West to Asian and Middle Eastern cities like Karachi, Cairo and Istanbul. Through these images, the viewer…

  • ‘Dark Tourism’: Ambroise Tézenas and the Pull of Death

    ‘Dark Tourism’: Ambroise Tézenas and the Pull of Death

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    LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2012/04/09/dark-tourism-ambroise-tezenas-and-the-pull-of-death/#1 It’s not unusual for photojournalists to travel to places that have been scarred by genocide, accident and natural disaster. But photographer Ambroise Tézenas has spent the last few years turning that norm on its head to capture what happens to those…

  • Oded Balilty: The Art of Storytelling

    Oded Balilty: The Art of Storytelling

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    LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2012/04/09/oded-balilty-the-art-of-storytelling/#1 In the same way that he’s trying to find different stories and make different pictures, Balilty says he’s trying to be a different photographer, too. “If I see photographers in one corner, I go away,” he says. “There is no need…

  • San Francisco’s Characters Find a Home in Photo Column

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    San Francisco’s Characters Find a Home in Photo Column Mike Kepka’s photos have soul. From a freelance bunny to a dancing, singing accordion player, the people he’s chosen to profile in his weekly column “The City Exposed” at the San Francisco Chronicle give an honest and loving portrayal of the city. via WIRED: http://www.wired.com/rawfile/2012/04/the-characters-of-san-francisco-come-out-in-multimedia-column/all/1 Mike…

  • A Killing on Coney Island Boardwalk Photographed by Miles Dixon

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    Link: Feature Shoot ‘The shooting happened on the Coney Island boardwalk, in June 2011. I happened to be there with my wife, my camera, and two rolls of 120 film (24 shots total), and I made these photographs. It was the first time I had ever seen anyone shot, or stabbed, or mased. It was…

  • Gilles Peress, Twenty Years After Bosnia

    Gilles Peress, Twenty Years After Bosnia

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    Gilles Peress, Twenty Years After the Siege of Sarajevo Twenty years ago today, Suada Dilberovic and Olga Sucic were killed by Serb snipers while at a peace rally in Sarajevo. Their deaths are considered by many… via The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/photobooth/2012/04/farewell-to-bosnia-gilles-peress.html?currentPage=all Gilles Peress, who has worked with The New Yorker on many occasions, photographed in…

  • 20 Years Later: The Bosnian Conflict in Photographs

    20 Years Later: The Bosnian Conflict in Photographs

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    LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2012/04/05/bosnia/#1 The photographs in the gallery above are from the book Bosnia 1992 – 1995, available July 2012. The book will be self-published by the photographers who covered the Bosnian conflict—which began 20 years ago today—and printed in Bosnia. The captions below these photographs…

  • Generation Iraq: The Journalists Who Covered America’s War

    Generation Iraq: The Journalists Who Covered America’s War

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    Generation Iraq: The Journalists Who Covered America’s War “From the American invasion of Iraq nine years ago this spring through occupation and the official end of the U.S. mission last December, a generation of… via The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/photobooth/2012/04/generation-iraq-americas-war-and-the-photographers-who-covered-it.html?currentPage=all On Wednesday, Shapiro will moderate “Generation Iraq: Journalists Confront America’s War,” a conversation among five reporters…

  • The Search for the Best New Black-and-White Photographers

    The Search for the Best New Black-and-White Photographers

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    LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2012/04/02/the-search-for-the-best-new-black-and-white-photographers/#1 Desienna says great new digital, black-and-white photography has added to the exquisite and timeless world that monochrome images create. “We don’t see the world in black and white so this is probably why we are so attracted to it,” he says.…

  • marc shoul – brakpan

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    Marc Shoul – Brakpan Marc Shoul Brakpan Brakpan is a small town that lies on the East Rand of Gauteng, sandwiched between Boksburg, Benoni and Springs. A once-prosperous mining community, today there are pawnshops, roa… via burn magazine: http://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2012/03/marc-shoul-brakpan/ Here there is a peacefulness and relaxed country town feel, without the stress about what tomorrow…

  • Khaled Hasan – Terror beat of Acid

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    Link: La Lettre de la Photographie As a photographer I have been documenting underprivileged communities and social injustice in Bangladesh for the last 5 years. My reportage shows the horrors of acid attacks, while sensitively portraying the victims as survivors

  • Mary Ellen Mark Documents the Prom

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    Link: Lens Nearly half a century after her own prom night, Mary Ellen Mark and her husband, the filmmaker Martin Bell, went to 13 proms across the United States from 2006 to 2009 for their project “Prom.”

  • Dimitri Mellos Notices What He Sees

    Dimitri Mellos Notices What He Sees

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    Finding the Moments New Yorkers Ignore While others try to lose themselves on their commutes, Dimitri Mellos finds his pictures. He’s trained himself to notice what others block out of their minds. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/03/29/finding-the-moments-new-yorkers-ignore/?pagewanted=all Most New Yorkers try to block out the crowds. They wear headphones, gaze at their cellphones, do anything to…

  • Sol Neelman’s Quest for Oddball Sports

    Sol Neelman’s Quest for Oddball Sports

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    The Weird World of Sports What possesses grown men to dress like movie monsters and destroy miniature cities? Sol Neelman, the quintessential weird sports photographer, aims to find out. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/03/28/the-weird-world-of-sports/?pagewanted=all While other sports photographers head to Florida for spring training, Sol Neelman drives through the mountains of Idaho looking for K-9 keg…