Category: Portfolios & Galleries

  • The Human Toll of Everyday Commodities

    The Human Toll of Everyday Commodities

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    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…

  • Why Occupy? Here’s Why – Susannah Breslin

    Why Occupy? Here’s Why – Susannah Breslin

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    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…

  • Olya Ivanova – Offbeat

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    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

  • Few and Far Between

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    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…

  • Jean-Marc Caracci: Homo Urbanus Europeanus

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    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”

  • Damir Sagolj’s Photos of Hunger in North Korea

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    lens: Damir Sagolj, a Bangkok-based Reuters photographer, was among a group of journalists invited last week by North Korea’s Economy and Trade Information Center to document the food crisis in the country’s farm belt. North Korea has appealed for food aid after a harsh winter and a series of summer floods and storms, but so…

  • Evicted in Colorado by John Moore

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    37th frame: heart-wrenching essay about a family being evicted from their home in Colorado

  • Tom M. Johnson

    Tom M. Johnson

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    Tom M. Johnson I recently received this e-mail from my friend Tom M. Johnson:If you happen to find yourself in Paris next month I invite you to My Private Art Room in the Marais for a glass of champagne. I am having a solo show where I will be exhibiting work from both via LENSCRATCH:…

  • Photo Booth: Norwegian Black Metal : The New Yorker

    Photo Booth: Norwegian Black Metal : The New Yorker

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    Norwegian Black Metal From the teased mullets of hair metal to the corpse-paint of the darker categories, heavy metal music and its subgenres have long been reinforced by visual… via The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/photobooth/2011/10/norwegian-black-metal.html?currentPage=all Over a period of six years, the photographer Peter Beste documented the secretive, insular community of black-metal musicians and fans, with…

  • David Kasnic’s “Give Me Time”

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    dvafoto: David Kasnic shared his work with me a few months ago, and we had a beer at a nice seedy Ukrainian bar in New York when I was last in town. He’s from the Pacific Northwest originally, like myself, and he is finishing a degree in photojournalism at Western Kentucky University. I wanted to…

  • Guido Steenkamp and Seconds 2 Real

    Guido Steenkamp and Seconds 2 Real

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    Guido Steenkamp and Seconds 2 Real I love street photography and the German and Austrian collective, Seconds 2 Real, is one of my favorites. Guido Steenkamp shared that Seconds 2 Real will be opening an exhibition, Facination Street, in Berlin on October 15th. The show will run for two wee via LENSCRATCH: http://www.lenscratch.com/2011/10/guido-steenkamp-and-seconds-2-real.html I love…

  • Tyler Hicks: A Decade in Afghanistan

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    lens: There are places and times where the politics that drive wars fade and then fade more, becoming abstractions to the people who fight or who are in a fight’s way. And there are moments when politics entirely disappear, and more elemental actions and emotions replace them. These are the seams and the instants that…

  • A Family Revisited

    A Family Revisited

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    LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2011/10/03/a-family-revisited/#1 While studying abroad in Istanbul in 2002, Swedish photographer Stefan Bladh had a friend show him neighborhoods on the outskirts of the city to get a fuller view of Turkish society. One morning, they passed a motorway bridge and saw a…

  • giulio di sturco – war at the edge of heaven

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    Giulio Di Sturco – War at the Edge of Heaven Giulio Di Sturco War at the Edge of Heaven In August 2008, thousands of Muslims filled the streets of Srinagar, the capital of Indian-ruled Kashmir, shouting “azadi” (freedom) and raisi… via burn magazine: http://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2011/10/giulio-di-sturco-war-at-the-edge-of-heaven/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+burnmag+%28burn+magazine%29 In August 2008, thousands of Muslims filled the streets of Srinagar,…

  • Ken Shung Local Community

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    la lettre: I have been making photographs since I was 17 years old, so after putting over 30,000 hours into this, I still find it to be something that makes me feel magical at the moment I snap that shutter at something that moves me emotionally in an event or interacting in a portrait sitting.

  • New Photography in Korea (5 photos)

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    PDN: New Photography in Korea II is now on view in Paris at Galerie Paris Beijing. The exhibition features works by a dozen young Koreans “on the cusp of international recognition,” according to the curators. “[Their work] represents principal currents in contemporary Korean photography: Urbanisation, globalisation, consumption, identity, culture, memory, family, sexuality, the fabric of…

  • Rediscovering the Urban Palette

    Rediscovering the Urban Palette

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    Rediscovering the Urban Palette From the earliest hand-tinted postcards to kinetic, digital images, the sidewalks of New York have been muse and model to countless color photographers. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/09/30/rediscovering-the-urban-palette/ “New York in Color” is just that – a hefty tome spanning a century of Gotham in photographs, from hand-tinted postcards to tack-sharp and…

  • Josef Koudelka’s Gypsies, Revisited

    Josef Koudelka’s Gypsies, Revisited

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    I know of few photographers knowledgeable of the work of Josef Koudelka who do not look upon his lif

  • Exhibition: Harry Callahan at 100

    Exhibition: Harry Callahan at 100

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    LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2011/09/28/exhibition-harry-callahan-at-100/#1 Harry lived to make photographs. Nobody took greater delight in seeing what things looked like when photographed than Harry Callahan. He would use his particular vision to transform simple things into really compelling photographs that intensified the subject matter. He had…

  • Michael Dweck Habana Libre

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    la lettre Almost immediately upon his arrival in Cuba for the first time, American photographer Michael Dweck was swept up in a cultural bohemia reminiscent of 1930’s Paris salons. His unprecedented (and unrestricted) access to this hidden society of keenly observant artists, writers, musicians and glamorous models had never before been experienced by anyone in…