Category: Portfolios & Galleries
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Photos of Juvenile Inmates Around the World
Lens: Lizzie Sadin started researching her project “Children Behind Bars” in 1999 — though it took her more than a year to be allowed to shoot inside a prison in Russia. By then, she had no plans to seek out prisons in other countries.
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Pakistan’s Unwanted Children
the life of m Link: http://thelifeofm.com/?p=505 I read a small blurb on cnn.com about the rise of infanticide in Pakistan. I was equal parts horrified and fascinated. Kept it in the back of my mind as something to look into while there. Seems the numbers of unwanted kids keep going up as Pakistani youth are…
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Photos of Tuvalu, an Island in Danger
Lens: There was a lot of talk about climate change in general. Yet it was difficult to envision a moving portrayal of something that has yet to happen. “I was trying to figure out how, in everyday life, people were affected,” Amelia Holowaty Krales said. She soon learned.
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Peter Dench’s England
lens: Enlivened by this contrast, Peter Dench began his 10-year project to document the English. “England Uncensored,” shown at Perpignan, France, this summer during the Visa Pour l’Image Festival, is a selection from that project. Unabashedly English — with a French edit and a German influence.
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Protests in Paris
Andrew Burton: we ran into a separate protest: French residents with ties to the Ivory Coast were protesting the French involvement in the Ivory Coast civil war, calling French President Nicolas Sarkozy a war criminal
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Seconds2Real: The Formation of a Collective
The Leica Camera: Guido Steenkamp is a member of the street photography collective Seconds2Real. Beginning initially as a Flickr group aimed at promoting street photography in both Germany and Austria, it has since grown from an online organization to a real-life collective with the first exhibition to be opened on October 14th in Berlin. Guido…
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Postcard From Marrakech: A Conflicted Photo Festival
Postcard From Marrakech: A Conflicted Photo Festival via WIRED: http://www.wired.com/rawfile/2011/10/marrakech/ The Images Affranchies exhibition – curated by former director of the Arab World Institute, Brahim Alaoui – collects work completed by Arab artists between the years 2006-2010. The demonstrations and revolts in the Arab world have given a new context and relevance to the collection,…
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At Gleason’s Gym, Images of a Bruised Beauty
The Sweet Science of Body and Soul Jules Allen went to Gleason’s Gym to train. He stayed to make pictures of a smoke-filled world where boxing champs duked it out daily amid dreamers and hustlers, the up and coming and the down and out. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/10/14/the-sweet-science-of-body-and-soul/ Jules Allen — no stranger to the…
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Sicarios: Latin American Assassins
La Lettre de la Photographie Sicarios: Latin American Assassins, by Javier Arcenillos, takes the viewer into the underworld of the assassin in Guatemala, where society has been savaged by a culture of murder for hire.
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Rania Matar’s Portraits of Teenage Girls in their Bedrooms
LensCulture – Contemporary Photography Discover and share the best in contemporary photography via LensCulture: http://www.lensculture.com/webloglc/mt_files/archives/2011/10/teenage.html For her series A Girl and Her Room, Rania Matar photographed teenage girls in the privacy of their rooms as a sort of lyrical commentary and analysis of girls in transition to womanhood.
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Jack Delano’s Farm Security Administration Photographs
Lens: Jack Delano’s touchstone as a documentary photographer was Paul Strand’s imperative that one had to have “a real respect for the thing in front of him.” Through his long career – photographing everything from coal miners, sharecroppers, railroad men and Puerto Rican canecutters – he conveyed a deep respect for not just the travails…
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Donovan Wylie Outposts in Afghanistan
LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2011/10/13/capturing-the-buildings-of-war-before-theyre-gone/#1 Donovan Wylie’s new book, Outposts: Kandahar Province and an accompanying exhibition at the U.K.’s National Media Museum show us some of the tiniest such bases in the remote areas of southern Afghanistan. Built by Canadian and American troops over a five year…
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My Diving Bell: San Francisco
Luceo Images: The bottom line is that if the car can’t get there, the picture can’t get made. Logistically speaking, the practice of trying to negotiate a car into a place where it doesn’t belong makes trying to arrange lesser access seem that much more attainable. The result is that the practice of making these…
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The Human Toll of Everyday Commodities
The True Price, With a Hidden Cost Sugar with your coffee? An international photography project examines how some everyday items exact an unseen toll half a world away. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/10/12/the-true-price-with-a-hidden-cost/ The next time you dip your spoon into the sugar bowl or grab a few free packets for your morning coffee, think about…
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Why Occupy? Here’s Why – Susannah Breslin
Why Occupy? Here’s Why Occupy Wall Street protestors in Chicago talk about why they’re there. via Forbes: http://www.forbes.com/sites/susannahbreslin/2011/10/11/why-occupy-heres-why/ Is the Occupy Wall Street movement a revolution or a mess? That all depends on who you ask. On a recent day, I traveled to downtown Chicago, where I talked to those who had joined Occupy Chicago…
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Olya Ivanova – Offbeat
LPV Magazine: In these portraits I tried to convey the complexity of adolescent identity and hign intense feeling that adults will never be able to feel again. Both emotionally and physically these people feel like aliens, strangers, freaks
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Few and Far Between
Few & Far Between Stills | LUCEO Link: http://blog.luceoimages.com/2011/10/few-and-far-between-project/ This collection of photographs represents LUCEO’s first installment in a group project focusing on industrial and population changes in rural America. We will examine the a profound shift in nonmetropolitan areas from agrarian roots to an economy where, presently, no more than 6% of its residents…
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Jean-Marc Caracci: Homo Urbanus Europeanus
The series Homo Urbanus Europeanus is the fruit of 3 years travelling in the whole Europe. 31 European capitals have been visited in the frame of this project… so I can say it is about the “Man in the City in Europe”