Category: Portfolios & Galleries

  • Ed Kashi’s Reflections on His Photos, in Diaries and Letters

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    Link: Lens Ed Kashi’s new book “Witness Number 8: Photojournalisms” (Nazraeli Press 2012) is a collection of images, diary entries and letters to his wife, Julie Winokur. Mr. Kashi spoke about the book with James Estrin this month at the National Press Photographers Association’s Northern Short Course in Fairfax, Va. Their conversation has been edited.

  • Bruce Haley’s Panoramic Landscapes

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    Bruce Haley’s Panoramic Landscapes Colin Pantall’s blog about photography, writing, art and politics Link: http://colinpantall.blogspot.com/2012/03/bruce-haleys-panoramic-landscapes.html Bruce Haley’s  book, Sunder, (published by Daylight) is a fascinating and quite poetic take on the demise of the Soviet Union and communism. I see it and am instantly drawn to the landscapes,  the combination of complete environmental and industrial…

  • Hiding in the City With Liu Bolin

    Hiding in the City With Liu Bolin

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    LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2012/03/20/liu-bolin/#1 For Bolin, the most important element of his images is the background. By using iconic cultural landmarks such as the Temple of Heaven, the Great Wall, or the remains of Suo Jia Village where his studio was housed, Bolin seeks to direct…

  • Inside Syria: Photographs by Rodrigo Abd

    Inside Syria: Photographs by Rodrigo Abd

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    LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2012/03/19/inside-syria-photographs-by-rodrigo-abd/#1 AP cameraman Ahmed Bahaddou and I sneaked into Syria from Turkey, traveling with the rebels’ Free Syrian Army. Our aim was to understand and cover the conflict in the country’s northwest region, as well as in the hard-hit Homs neighborhood of…

  • Pete Pin’s Photographs of Cambodian-Americans

    Pete Pin’s Photographs of Cambodian-Americans

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    After Camps, New Horizons Pete Pin spent five months photographing a small Cambodian community in the Bronx. For him, the work is personal: he was born in a refugee camp in Cambodia. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/03/17/after-camps-new-horizons/?pagewanted=all Pete Pin spent five months last year photographing a small Cambodian community that has settled in the Bronx. The…

  • New Show Celebrates Opening of A.P. Pyongyang News Bureau

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    Link: Lens David Guttenfelder is now the only Western photographer able to photograph on a regular basis there. He has used all of his extensive talents – and added a new one: acting as an unofficial diplomat between North Korea and the United States. “I represent the U.S. and the outside world to them,” he said.…

  • Fabrik Jakob Tuggener

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    Link: La Lettre de la Photographie Jakob Tuggener’s Fabrik, published in Zurich in 1943, is considered to be a milestone in the history of photography books. The series of 72 photographs in this Photo Epos of Technology is oriented toward the expressionist aesthetic of the silent movie. It imparts a sceptical view of the destructive…

  • From Argentina to Cambodia, Picturing the Disappeared

    From Argentina to Cambodia, Picturing the Disappeared

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    From Argentina to Cambodia, Picturing the Disappeared In this week’s issue, Francisco Goldman writes about the forced disappearance of as many as thirty thousand people by the military junta that ruled … via The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/photobooth/2012/03/the-disappeared.html?currentPage=all Gervasio Sánchez’s book “Disappeared” explores the nightmare of forced disappearance not just in South America but around the…

  • Stephen Crowley Photos: Sarah Palin and ‘Game Change’

    Stephen Crowley Photos: Sarah Palin and ‘Game Change’

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    Watching Palin The third picture essay in “Smoke-Filled Rooms” — a documentary, presented in serial form. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/03/14/watching-sarah/?pagewanted=all This is the third picture essay in a series for Lens called “Smoke-Filled Rooms” — a documentary, presented in serial form, that strives to move beyond restrictions, spin and control of the contemporary American political game…

  • One Year Later: The Story of Eugene Richards’ ‘War is Personal’ Continues

    One Year Later: The Story of Eugene Richards’ ‘War is Personal’ Continues

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    LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2012/03/14/richards-war/#1 It’s been years since the book, War is Personal, hit shelves in September 2010, and even longer since Richards completed the project. In honor of that anniversary, LightBox caught up with Richards to discuss the way that photographs can follow a…

  • Tomasz Wiech’s Photographs of Poland’s Misplaced Landscapes

    Tomasz Wiech’s Photographs of Poland’s Misplaced Landscapes

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    Poland’s Great Adventure Tomasz Wiech sought to capture the tug between Poland’s socialist past and the country’s free-market present. Melancholy and minimalist, his pictures portray “a land of the giant question mark.” via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/03/13/polands-great-adventure/?pagewanted=all “Poland is a country of endless Carnival and great disappointment. The Carnival is obvious, and the disappointment is explicable,…

  • Japan’s White Day with Joseph Maida

    Japan’s White Day with Joseph Maida

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    LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2012/03/13/celebrate-japans-white-day-with-joseph-maida/#1 Joseph Maida, an American photographer who has been working on a Japan-based project since 2007, was in a department store in Kyoto when he first saw the little plastic miniatures of Western consumer goods. The toys sparked nostalgia but were clearly…

  • 20 Now: Contemporary Photographers

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    Link: La Lettre de la Photographie 20 Now: Contemporary Photographers is a book that presents 20 western photographers to South East Asia. From Adam Fuss to David Hilliard’s Panoralic photography, the book shows different approaches and ideas to the medium of contemporary photography.

  • Misha Friedman

    Misha Friedman

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    Misha Friedman: Donbass Romanticism After I discovered Misha Friedman’s photographs on The Forward Thinking Museum’s website, I began to see his name everywhere. Misha is the FTM’s winner of their first quarter 2011 photography contest, as the JGS Annual Artist and recipient of a $15,000 aw via LENSCRATCH: http://www.lenscratch.com/2012/03/misha-friedman.html After I discovered Misha Friedman’s photographs…

  • stacy kranitz – the other

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    Stacy Kranitz – The Other Stacy Kranitz The Other My project engages with history, representation, biography, personal narrative, and otherness in the documentary tradition. Each year in Pennsylvania, 500 people come togeth… via burn magazine: http://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2012/03/stacy-kranitz-the-other/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+burnmag+%28burn+magazine%29 Each year in Pennsylvania, 500 people come together to reenact the Battle of the Bulge. During the reenactment, I…

  • Founders of Houston’s Fotofest on Decades of Documenting Change

    Founders of Houston’s Fotofest on Decades of Documenting Change

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    Partners in Words, Pictures and Life Fred Baldwin and Wendy Watriss sought to change the world through words and pictures. Their influence has been felt in the United States and abroad, as they encourage photographers and inspire photo festivals. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/03/08/partners-in-words-pictures-and-life/?pagewanted=all Before Fred Baldwin and Wendy Watriss became chroniclers of American rural life…

  • Escape from Syria: Photographs by William Daniels

    Escape from Syria: Photographs by William Daniels

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    LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2012/03/08/escape-from-syria/#1 When we arrived in Bab Amr, we began to send emails to editors saying we were there. We were excited, happy. Of course we were scared of the situation but we were happy. Then on the first morning, the shelling began…

  • Vojtech V. Slama

    Vojtech V. Slama

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    Vojtech V. Slama Tonight, a not-to-be-missed exhibition opens at the Klompching Gallery in Brooklyn, showcasing two wonderful talents, the amazing Ken Rosenthal, and brilliant Vojtech V. Slama. I featured Ken’s work on Lenscratch recently, but was not familiar with the wo via LENSCRATCH: http://www.lenscratch.com/2012/03/vojtech-v-slama.html Tonight, a not-to-be-missed exhibition opens at the Klompching Gallery in Brooklyn,…

  • ‘Smoke-Filled Rooms’: Stephen Crowley’s Politics Photos, Part 2

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    Link: Lens This is the second photo essay in a Lens series called “Smoke-Filled Rooms,” which examines the processes and consequences of contemporary American politics. At the end of the series — the length of which has yet to be determined — Lens will publish a PDF of the images in sequence.

  • Yvette Marie Dostatni

    Yvette Marie Dostatni

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    Yvette Marie Dostatni Willis Grieger, a Chesterton, Indiana farmer and folk artist, with a concrete companion he made. Behind his barn is another of his creations, a man falling from a telephone pole. You’ve got to love someone who is a little bit Harper Lee, a little bit Mart via LENSCRATCH: http://www.lenscratch.com/2012/03/yvette-marie-dostatni.html You’ve got to…