“La Vueltita de Tam” | By Irina Werning Why are most pictures of trans people in their rooms? What happens when they take to the streets and connect with people, especially in a very tr…
When I first discovered the work of Rian Dundon, he was deep in the process of photographing the civil unrest in Portland following George Floyd’s murder. Beginning in May 2020, nightly protests engulfed the city for a period of several months. Dundon was there most evenings shooting photos. Occasionally, he ventured further afield to document
Magnum photographer Jacob Aue Sobol made a trek from Moscow to Ulan Bator to Beijing in one month — often making more than 1,000 photographs each day for 28 days straight. He reveals his process in this great 5 minute video interview.
A photographer sought to document the people involved with the underground metal music scene in Germany. Over 90 metalheads have had their portrait taken for Peter Seipke’s Faces of a Scene project, all in a gloomy, black-and-white style.
Kuala Lumpur is the capital city of Malaysia and the birthplace of the 20-year-old photographer Edmond Leong. On his regular forays into the city, he explores aspects both cultural and bizarre – and captures them in impressive pictures.
Amassing an archive of ‘glitches,’ the artist duo Andrea Orejarena and Caleb Stein investigate photography’s dance between truth and fiction through found Internet images and photographs they have taken of the American landscape.
In stark black and white photographs, Enayat Asadi shines a light on those saved from death row in Iran, reflecting on what it is to lead a life lived under the shadow of execution.
Till Brönner is not only a multi-talented musician and photographer, his work also covers a surprising diversity of photographic genres. The Melting Pott exhibition project, launched five years ago in Duisburg, was composed of photographs taken in Germany’s Ruhr district
In this constellation of portraits, Alisa Martynova shines a light on the individual stories of migrants who have come from Africa to Italy and France, set against enigmatic nocturnal landscapes
This week, we will be exploring projects inspired by intimacy and memory. Today, we’ll be looking at Michael Young’s series Maybe Tomorrow. I first came across Michael Young’s work with the series Hidden Glances. His expert use of collage to play with personal concepts between the visible and invisible made me take note. I later
This week, we will be exploring projects inspired by intimacy and memory. Today, we’ll be looking at Hannah Latham’s series Milking Hour. I remember being knocked out by Hannah Latham’s work late last year. We were both in the exhibition Home is Where at FLOAT Magazine, which was published as a zine. Hannah’s work was
A number of years ago, a tall, quietly intelligent artist entered my classroom, driving to Los Angeles from San Diego each week to understand the photographer’s journey. Our journey together lasted several years and then I watched Wayne Swanson and his photographs take flight in remarkable ways. Wayne passed away this week, after a long
Ghosts of Segregation photographically explores the vestiges of America’s racism as seen in the vernacular landscape: Schools for “colored” children, theatre entrances and restrooms for “colored people,” lynching sites, juke joints, jails, hotels and bus stations. What is past is prologue. Segregation is as much current events as it is history. These ghosts haunt us
This week is dedicated to Chilean photographers working across a variety of genres. Today our focus is on Nicolás Marticorena, a journalist, sociologist and photographer whose global practice explores issues of climate change, drought and its effects on the human condition. My body leaves you drop by drop. … I evaporate like moistness from your
I definitely think I dream in black and white, even though dreams are difficult to remember. Black and white makes the soul of things speak, while colours tell the reality. I like to think I can dream with my soul.
Congratulations to Mark Leong for being selected for Blue Earth Fiscal Sponsorship Award recognizing his project, Coming of Age: China’s Post-90s Generation . CENTER is pleased to add the Blue Earth Fiscal Sponsorship to their services for photographers and filmmakers. CENTER sponsors documentary projects that educate the public about critical environmental and social issues and is