Category: Portfolios & Galleries

  • Collateral Crisis: The Catastrophic Famine in Somalia

    Collateral Crisis: The Catastrophic Famine in Somalia

    LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2011/08/25/collateral-crisis-the-catastrophic-famine-in-somalia/#1 In a world with more than enough to feed itself, all hunger is an unnecessary tragedy—but this year’s famine in southern Somalia is a true scar on the world’s conscience. Over six days in Mogadishu in early August, TIME contract photographer…

  • Same Same But Different: Tourism in Southeast Asia

    Same Same But Different: Tourism in Southeast Asia

    LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2011/08/24/same-same-but-different-tourism-in-southeast-asia/#1 Photographer Jörg Brüggemann joined the backpacker trail in South and Southeast Asia: a stretch of turf that has been densely charted already by Lonely Planet, that is lined with tours and scams ready to swallow up the unsuspecting, and that is…

  • Libyan Rebels Storm Qaddafi Compound

    Libyan Rebels Storm Qaddafi Compound via The Atlantic: http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2011/08/libyan-rebels-storm-qaddafi-compound/100134/ Earlier today, rebel Libyan forces stormed into Bab al-Aziziya, the fortified compound of Muammar Qaddafi in Tripoli, Libya. Qaddafi loyalists put up a fierce firefight for a time, but rebels were able to take control of the compound by this afternoon. Qaddafi himself and his sons…

  • Jerry Downs

    Jerry Downs

    Jerry Downs I came across the work of Jerry Downs when he submitted to the LENSCRATCH Pranks and Puns Exhibition . His site reflected a number of terrific images with humorous juxtaspostions and I thought I’d share more of his work. When I thanked him for sending me via LENSCRATCH: http://www.lenscratch.com/2011/08/jerry-downs.html Jerry was born in…

  • Astronaut Suicide Photos Inspired by Shuttle Program’s End

    Astronaut Suicide Photos Inspired by Shuttle Program’s End

    Astronaut Suicide Photos Inspired by Shuttle Program’s End The space shuttle Atlantis completed its final flight last month, bringing pride and bittersweet nostalgia to many Americans. But what about our beloved, symbolic astronaut? What will he do now that he’s out of the hero business? Piggy-backing on the mixe via WIRED: http://www.wired.com/rawfile/2011/08/astronaut-suicide-photos-inspired-by-shuttle-programs-end/ Piggy-backing on the…

  • Incognito

    VII Magazine: With the summer movie season in full swing we thought it would be fun to take a look at the unique portrait style of Antonin Kratochvil as he turns his lens on movies stars, pop singers and others.

  • Fukushima: First photojournalist inside plant captures daily life of cleanup workers

    Fukushima: First photojournalist inside plant captures daily life of cleanup workers

    Fukushima: First photojournalist inside plant captures daily life of cleanup workers 25-year old Kazuma Obara (Twitter), a native of Japan’s tsunami-hit Iwate prefecture, is the first photojournalist to enter the Fukushima Daiichi plant and photograph what conditions are like… via Boing Boing: http://boingboing.net/2011/08/19/fukushima.html 25-year old Kazuma Obara (Twitter), a native of Japan’s tsunami-hit Iwate prefecture,…

  • Six Months of Civil War in Libya

    Six Months of Civil War in Libya via The Atlantic: http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2011/08/six-months-of-civil-war-in-libya/100130/ Gathered here are images from the past several weeks of the civil war in Libya as it appears to be reaching a turning point

  • Yann Gross: Uganda’s Homegrown Skate Park

    Yann Gross: Uganda’s Homegrown Skate Park

    LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2011/08/17/yann-gross-ugandas-homegrown-skate-park/#1 During a vacation in Uganda in 2008, Swiss photographer Yann Gross heard rumors that a skateboarding half-pipe had been built in a suburb of Kampala

  • Bronx Boys: A Digital Monograph by Stephen Shames

    Bronx Boys: A Digital Monograph by Stephen Shames

    LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2011/08/16/bronx-boys-a-digital-monograph-by-stephen-shames/#1 What started out for Stephen Shames as an assignment for Look magazine back in 1977 turned into an epic twenty two year project documenting the lives of young boys in the Bronx, New York. He was assigned by former Look editor…

  • Balkanization (6 Photos)

    PDN: Matt Lutton has been living and working in the Balkans since early 2009. His project “Only Unity” is an exploration of Serbia’s relationship with its history and a psychological portrait of the Serbian people adjusting to a radically changed landscape with physically contracting borders.

  • On the Road, Embracing the Distance

    On the Road, Embracing the Distance

    On the Road, Embracing the Distance When Mustafah Abdulaziz drove across America to ask himself questions, he didn’t find the answers. Here is what he did find. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/08/12/on-the-road-embracing-the-distance/ While his essay, “Memory Loss,” is set to the tune of an American road trip, for him, it is much more than that. The…

  • Thomas Hoepker: Views of a Vanished Country

    Thomas Hoepker: Views of a Vanished Country

    LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2011/08/11/thomas-hoepker-views-of-a-vanished-country/#1 Magnum photographer Thomas Hoepker’s upcoming book Views of a Vanished Country contains photographs of East Germany shot over a period of some 30 years. It gives a unique look into the daily life of East Germans from the time the Berlin…

  • SPF 77

    Scott Strazzante: New York is an amazing place for street photography, but I still failed much more often than I was successful. I guess that’s up for debate.

  • Things Less Extraordinary

    Matt Slaby, Luceo: 30 days, five planes, six states, 25 Polaroids.  Travel can be broken down into fragments, its broader purpose described with the broader vision of something less disposable than business card-size Polaroids (er, Fujifilm).  These are not written as epics.  They are individual words to be strung together to make up the phrasings…

  • Ernst Haas: Color Corrections

    Ernst Haas: Color Corrections

    LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2011/08/10/ernst-haas-color-corrections/?iid=lb-late1#1 Haas’s Color Corrections will be released by Steidl in the United States this month. 

  • Riots in London

    Riots in London via The Atlantic: http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2011/08/riots-in-london/100124/ Riots that erupted in London neighborhoods over the weekend spread to four other cities yesterday, as hundreds were arrested and at least one person was killed. What began as a protest against the police shooting of Tottenham resident Mark Duggan spread quickly into general rioting and opportunistic looting…

  • Nathan Ellis Perkel: X-Games Athletes (6 photos)

    PDN: Nathan Ellis Perkel worked with ESPN’s photo editor Joe Rodriguez on a feature called, “Home Cookin” for their fan issue. Perkel says, “I had the pleasure of spending a few weeks in May and June traveling around the country shooting these five portraits of X-Games athletes in their private training facilities

  • Michael Philip Mannheim for Documerica: Noise Pollution Under Logan Airport Flightpath

    Michael Philip Mannheim for Documerica: Noise Pollution Under Logan Airport Flightpath

    Michael Philip Mannheim for Documerica: Noise Pollution Under Logan Airport Flightpath If you don’t know about Documerica on Flickr yet, you should. “For the Documerica Project (1971-1977), the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) hired freelance photographers to capture… via Prison Photography: http://prisonphotography.wordpress.com/2011/08/08/michael-philip-mannheim-for-documerica-noise-pollution-under-logan-airport-flightpath/ “For the Documerica Project (1971-1977), the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) hired freelance photographers to…

  • Pakistan Floods, One Year Later

    Pakistan Floods, One Year Later via The Atlantic: http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2011/08/pakistan-floods-one-year-later/100121/ One year ago, record-breaking floods submerged one fifth of Pakistan’s total land area for months, affecting some 20 million residents and causing some $10 billion in damage. Eleven million Pakistanis were left homeless, and the aid organization Oxfam estimates that more than 800,000 remain without permanent…