Category: Portfolios & Galleries

  • 2011: The Year in Photos, Part 2 of 3

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    2011: The Year in Photos, Part 2 of 3 via The Atlantic: http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2011/12/2011-the-year-in-photos-part-2-of-3/100204/ 2011 was a year of global tumult, marked by widespread social and political uprisings, economic crises, and a great deal more. We saw the fall of multiple dictators, welcomed a new country (South Sudan), witnessed our planet’s population grow to 7 billion,…

  • Timeless black and white portraits by Nelli Palomaki

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    Feature Shoot The complexity of portraiture is based on its power relationships. Each and every portrait I have taken is a photograph of me too. What I decide to see, or more likely, how I confront the things I see will inevitably determine the final image. But more than that, the intensity of the moment…

  • Readers’ Photographs: Picturing 7 Billion

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    Lens Here it is: A visual time capsule, capturing our world at seven billion people — and counting. Below, you’ll find a virtual quilt that weaves together about 400 of the more than 1,000 photographs we received. There is little rhyme or reason to the order you see. We sought a mega-snapshot of our world…

  • André Cypriano’s Photos of Rocinha, a Rio de Janeiro Slum

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    Lens The photographer André Cypriano went searching for the same answers some years ago, spending 30 days and nights in the slum, capturing its essence in black and white. Mr. Cypriano wound up there as a guest of Rocinha’s notorious drug lord at the time, Luciano Barbosa dos Santos, who went by the affable nickname…

  • The Old One Two: Underground Boxing in New York

    The Old One Two: Underground Boxing in New York

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    LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2011/12/06/the-old-one-two-underground-boxing-in-new-york/#1 Photographer Devin Yalkin first heard about underground boxing the way many legendary things are passed along—through the grapevine.

  • Christopher Cadbourne

    Christopher Cadbourne

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    Christopher Chadbourne Looking at portfolios from Critical Mass 2011…Christopher Chadbourne is a visual storyteller. His series, State Fair, is a series of narratives that add up to a kalidescope of color, captured moments, and off kilter relationships, creating a photographi via LENSCRATCH: http://www.lenscratch.com/2011/12/christopher-cadbourne.html Christopher Cadbourne is a visual storyteller. His series, State Fair, is a…

  • Happy Valley, Utah: Brian Shumway Reflects on his Mormon Upbringing

    Happy Valley, Utah: Brian Shumway Reflects on his Mormon Upbringing

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    LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2011/12/05/happy-valley-a-photographer-reflects-on-his-mormon-upbringing/#1 It’s beyond cliché to say, “You can never go home again.” For the last 10 years, photographer Brian Shumway has been doing his best to turn this time-honored adage on its head, returning to his native Utah, a place known as…

  • The Body Beautiful: Arno Rafael Minkkinen’s Self-Portraits

    The Body Beautiful: Arno Rafael Minkkinen’s Self-Portraits

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    LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2011/12/05/the-body-beautiful-arno-rafael-minkkinens-self-portraits/#1 For Arno Rafael Minkkinen, nudity is akin to spirituality. “I don’t want to be seen as a nudist,” he says. “But there is something about how close you get to the act of creation by walking around by yourself in some…

  • Samuel Aranda’s Weeks in Sana and Elsewhere

    Samuel Aranda’s Weeks in Sana and Elsewhere

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    In Yemen, a Photographer With No Name Samuel Aranda worked anonymously for weeks in Yemen, where he was the only Western photographer shooting for a number of weeks. Last week, his name began to appear with his images published in The New York Times. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/12/02/in-yemen-a-photographer-with-no-name/ It has been hard much of this…

  • Egypt’s “Second” Revolution: Photographs by Yuri Kozyrev

    Egypt’s “Second” Revolution: Photographs by Yuri Kozyrev

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    LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2011/12/02/egypts-second-revolution-photographs-by-yuri-kozyrev/#1 On November 19, thousands of Egyptians took to Tahrir Square once again in what many called a “second” revolution—or even the “real” revolution

  • mikolaj nowacki – odra

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    Mikolaj Nowacki – Odra Mikolaj Nowacki Odra Odra is the second largest river in Poland. Its waters joins three countries: Czech, where it starts, Poland and Germany. I grew up on the banks of this river in the communist … via burn magazine: http://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2011/11/mikolaj-nowacki-odra/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+burnmag+%28burn+magazine%29 Odra is the second largest river in Poland. Its waters joins…

  • Kaushal Parikh: Breaking Free from Banking

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    The Leica Camera Kaushal Parikh describes himself as an ex-banker turned street photographer. He has shot street photography seriously for the last three years, drawing inspiration from Magnum photographers, as well as members from the In-Public collective. After shooting in what he describes as a bubble, he is in the process of building up an online/offline…

  • Photographs of Daily Life in Iraq

    Photographs of Daily Life in Iraq

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    Life in Baghdad: An Intimate Portrait Playful, sad, poignant and optimistic, Marieke van der Velden’s photos of Baghdad portray a deeply human dimension of the sweltering, bomb-shattered city. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/11/30/life-in-baghdad-an-intimate-portrait/ Marieke van der Velden’s recent photographs of daily life — not death — in Baghdad make you feel. Taken in August, the project, “Baghdad…

  • Where in the World? A Google Earth Puzzle

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    Where in the World? A Google Earth Puzzle via The Atlantic: http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2011/11/where-in-the-world-part-2-a-google-earth-puzzle/100197/ Looking at the world through via Google Earth offers striking images of the diversity of our planet and the impact that humans have had on it. Today’s entry is a puzzle — part 2 in a series (part 1 here), this time offering…

  • Harvey Wang’s Neighborhood Chronicle

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    Lens Harvey Wang was a young photographer when he moved into a fifth-floor Chinatown walk-up in 1979. It was an easy bike ride from the East Village clubs where he took pictures of strobe-lit dance floors and bohemian debauchery — and besides, rent was only $140 a month.

  • Religion Road: Liz Hingley’s Under Gods

    Religion Road: Liz Hingley’s Under Gods

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    LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2011/11/29/religion-road-liz-hingleys-under-gods/#1 For photographer Liz Hingley, one of the most familiar locales was also one of the most uncharted. The images in her series “Under Gods” capture cultures from all parts of the globe, many in various states of religious practice

  • POV: Moises Saman And Cairo Undone

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    POV: Moises Saman And Cairo Undone travel photographer Link: http://thetravelphotographer.blogspot.com/2011/11/moises-saman-and-cairo-undone.html The photo essay (it’s really a gallery as there’s no storyline nor timeline) is of snapshots (I use this term very respectfully) of daily life in Cairo…the gritty, the edgy, the incomprehensible, the political and the anachronisms that dominate this teeming city.

  • black and white friday

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    Redlights and Redeyes I need an intervention.  I went to land of red – Super Target – and converted everything to black-and-white.  I must be in a post-turkey, up all night haze.

  • Photos of Mental Illness in Africa by Robin Hammond

    Photos of Mental Illness in Africa by Robin Hammond

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    A Sense of Urgency in Africa Robin Hammond hopes to hit people hard with his photographs of the mentally ill in Africa, “Condemned.” via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/11/25/a-sense-of-urgency-in-africa/ Robin Hammond’s study of the mentally ill in Africa, “Condemned,” started with a chance encounter.

  • Giving Thanks

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    L E N S C R A T C H: In an effort to spend time with the many relatives who have come west for Thanksgiving this year, I am re-running last year’s Lenscratch Thanksgiving Exhibition on Family