Category: Portfolios & Galleries

  • Katrin Korfmann

    Katrin Korfmann

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    Katrin Korfmann Link: http://www.itsnicethat.com/articles/katrin-korfmann?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+itsnicethat%2FSlXC+%28It%27s+Nice+That%29 Nothing beats the feeling of being up on a roof and looking down at ant-like people scuttling below. Luckily for us, Katrin Korfmann has harnessed this sensation in the form of enormous, intricate photographs of crowds of people from high above

  • Incredible Photo Collages Combine Traditional Chinese Art with Modern Shanghai Life

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    Link: Feature Shoot Yang Yongliang is a young photographer and artist from Shanghai. For ten years he studied traditional Chinese painting and calligraphy which have greatly influenced his work. His photo collages combine elements of traditional Chinese art with modern life in Shanghai

  • London Photos in The New York Times Magazine

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    Link: Lens The task of illustrating an overillustrated city fell to Kathy Ryan, who receives an editing credit on the cover of what is the magazine’s first “photography issue” in many years. Alongside Mr. Khan, five other London-based artists and photographers are featured, including Mark Neville, Chris Levine, Nadav Kander, Gareth McConnell and Stephen Gill,…

  • Arthur Tress captures witty and surreal moments in ’60s-era San Francisco.

    Arthur Tress captures witty and surreal moments in ’60s-era San Francisco.

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    LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2012/02/28/california-dreaming-in-1964-arthur-tress-san-francisco/#1 Tress took this same approach with him to San Francisco, trying to create a collection of images that would reflect the old and new aspects of the city. “I was thinking as a kind of amalgam, all these little bits and…

  • Senegalese Election Photographs by Dominic Nahr

    Senegalese Election Photographs by Dominic Nahr

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    LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2012/02/28/senegal-spring/#1 They’re using a new type of tear gas in Senegal. It chokes you, blinds you, but it also burns and stings, like it’s been mixed with pepper spray. It’s a sensation with which more and more Senegalese are becoming familiar as…

  • Cig Harvey: You Look At Me Like An Emergency

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    Link: La Lettre de la Photographie Fine-art photographer Cig Harvey’s monograph You Look At Me Like An Emergency is the title of Schilt Publishing’s most recent publication. This crafted book, with its catchy red cover, fuses seventeen short vignettes written by the artist, with seventy-four vividly colored photographs, which take the viewer on a literal…

  • Todd Heisler’s Photos of Dementia in a California Prison

    Todd Heisler’s Photos of Dementia in a California Prison

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    Behind Bars and Beginning to Forget Todd Heisler spent four days photographing the members of a unique program at the California Men’s Colony that pairs inmates with dementia with caretakers — other inmates. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/25/behind-bars-and-beginning-to-forget/?pagewanted=all There are constant reminders of the outside world at the California Men’s Colony. The prison, nestled in the…

  • Backyard Oasis: The Swimming Pool in Southern California Photography

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    Link: Feature Shoot Backyard Oasis: The Swimming Pool in Southern California Photography celebrates the nexus of these two phenomena in a one-of-a-kind collection that features more than two hundred works by more than forty postwar artists and photographers. Thematically grouped into topics ranging from the rise of celebrity culture, suburbia and dystopia, avant-garde architectural landscape…

  • Mark Murrmann: Just a Performance

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    Link: The Leica Camera There’s an element of trying to capture a realness, a kind of spontaneity to both that’s appealing. But of course in punk, like just about anything else, there’s definitely an element of performance, controlled chaos and building off of what’s come before. To that end, covering music, especially larger bands, reminds…

  • Jeff Liao’s Urban Panoramas: Photos of New York City

    Jeff Liao’s Urban Panoramas: Photos of New York City

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    Big Pictures for a Big City “It’s not real, but your brain says it’s real.” Jeff Chien-Hsing Liao’s urban panoramas are huge, intricate prints full of light, textures and a hyper-real perspective. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/24/big-pictures-for-a-big-city/?pagewanted=all Jeff Chien-Hsing Liao loved documentary and street photography — until an internship at Magnum Photos led him to a…

  • Japan Earthquake: Before and After

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    Japan Earthquake: Before and After via The Atlantic: http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2012/02/japan-earthquake-before-and-after/100251/ In just over two weeks, Japan will be observing the one-year anniversary of the disastrous magnitude 9.0 earthquake and tsunami that struck its east coast in March of 2011. The destruction was unprecedented and the loss of life and property were staggering — more than 15,800…

  • Jonnie Begood

    Jonnie Begood

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    Jonnie Begood Link: http://www.itsnicethat.com/articles/jonnie-begood?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+itsnicethat%2FSlXC+%28It%27s+Nice+That%29 His projects take him through Japan and Norway and Australia and America, capturing the fascinatingly mundane lives of an intercontinental brotherhood of breast-loving, beer-drinking, car-show-attending hedonists

  • A triumph in Paris for Ai Weiwei

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    Link: La Lettre de la Photographie The Ai Weiwei exhibition Entrelacs at the Jeu de Paume contemporary art museum in Paris is the first of its kind in France. Press coverage of this multi-talented artist tends to emphasize his work’s subversive aspects and his frequent run-ins with the police and government

  • In These Dark Canyons Part IV

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    Link: Andrew Burton

  • Rémi Ochlik Tribute in Images

    Rémi Ochlik Tribute in Images

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    LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2012/02/22/remi-ochlik/#1 Oct. 23, 2011. French photojournalist Remi Ochlik in Misrata, Libya. Ochlik was killed Feb. 22, 2012, by Syrian shelling of the opposition stronghold Homs.

  • Smoke Filled Rooms: Stephen Crowley’s Politics Photos

    Smoke Filled Rooms: Stephen Crowley’s Politics Photos

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    President Obama’s 1 Percent Solution This is the first picture essay in a new series for Lens called “Smoke-Filled Rooms.” The series will examine the processes and consequences of contemporary American politics. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/22/president-obamas-one-percent-solution/?pagewanted=all This is the first picture essay in a new series for Lens called “Smoke Filled Rooms.” The series will…

  • Marc Shoul: Looking for Complex Images That Transport

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    Link: The Leica Camera Marc Shoul is a South African photographer, born in 1975 in Port Elizabeth. Interested in exploring social issues, four years ago he began photographing the city of Brakpan, which is a 45-minute drive from Johannesburg. Street scenes and more intimate portraits compose a personal portrayal of a place that is “anchored…

  • Leslie Thomas and Art Works Projects

    Leslie Thomas and Art Works Projects

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    Turning Art Into Activism A photograph from a crisis half a world away enraged Leslie Thomas. Then she took action. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/20/turning-art-into-activism/?pagewanted=all Ms. Thomas,  an architect turned activist,  is the founder of Art Works Projects, which uses photography to raise awareness of human rights concerns and spur action. Over the last five years…

  • Eric Tabuchi: FAT ( A French American Trip)

    Eric Tabuchi: FAT ( A French American Trip)

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    Eric Tabuchi: FAT ( A French American Trip) Eric Tabuchi has just released a new book, FAT, A French American Road Trip, published by Matmos Press in Montreal. It’s a wonderful collection of images that bring humor to the idea of our globalized world, where the homoginization of cultural landmarks via LENSCRATCH: http://www.lenscratch.com/2012/02/eric-tabuchi-fat-french-american-trip.html Eric is…

  • Jim Kazanjian

    Jim Kazanjian

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    Jim Kazanjian Link: http://www.itsnicethat.com/articles/jim-kazanjian?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+itsnicethat%2FSlXC+%28It%27s+Nice+That%29 Upon first look you’d think Jim Kazanjian was a photographer, albeit you’d probably also be scratching your head trying to figure out how the heck these photos have been made. I thought the same, but I was wrong – apparently he never touches a camera and would more readily call his…