Category: Portfolios & Galleries

  • on self-assignments (with a side of mud, booze, and rednecks)

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    Chip Litherland: What’s the point?  The photography business can be a rat race.  There are tens of thousands of photographers out there doing exactly what you and I do. Everyone has one unique thing – a vision.  That vision can be driven by ego, competition, passion, fear, curiosity, artistry, adversity, and talent.  What drives yours?…

  • Platon’s Portraits of Egyptian Revolutionaries

    Platon’s Portraits of Egyptian Revolutionaries

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    Platon’s Portraits of Egyptian Revolutionaries In April, Human Rights Watch brought our staff photographer Platon to Cairo to photograph revolutionaries in Tahrir Square and other Egyptians. This … via The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/photobooth/2011/07/platon-egypt-revolution.html

  • Newsweek publishes some of Tim Hetherington’s final images from Libya

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    Newsweek has published some of Tim Hetherington’s final photos taken before he and Chris Hondros were killed in April covering the civil war in Libya.

  • Off the Dictated Path in North Korea

    Off the Dictated Path in North Korea

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    Off the Dictated Path in North Korea North Korea in surprising, multifaceted and nuanced views by David Guttenfelder of The Associated Press. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/07/26/off-the-dictated-path-in-north-korea/ This year, David and I have been granted unprecedented access. We traveled into the countryside, accompanied by North Korean journalists, not government minders. We had a cellphone, Internet access…

  • Stefano Giogli

    Stefano Giogli

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    Mexico: another journalist killed Today, another reporter was murdered in Mexico: Yolanda Ordaz, a crime reporter who was investigating the murder of her boss at Notiver, the daily newspaper where she worked. Her body “was fo… via Boing Boing: http://boingboing.net/2011/07/26/mexico-mapping-attacks-on-journalists.html Today, another reporter was murdered in Mexico: Yolanda Ordaz, a crime reporter who was investigating…

  • Random Act of Photos

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    Kevin German, LUCEO Been a pretty random two weeks since my return from the States and Venezuela. Really just been trying to get back on track with my projects. But it’s been nice to explore Vietnam with a refreshed sense of inquisitiveness.

  • A Los Angeles Suburb Is Home and Subject

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    photographer Tom M. Johnson wanders his neighborhood, camera in hand, in search of serendipity. In Lakewood, 20 miles outside of Los Angeles, Mr. Johnson has spent the past decade documenting a town in transition, capturing the intimate details of homes and their inhabitants for his project, “Lakewood: Portraits of a Sacred American Suburb.”

  • LOOK3 Guest Series: Refreshed and Inspired

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    In late May I drove from San Francisco to Charlottesville to attend the LOOK3 Festival of the Photograph. LOOK3, which is the festival that offered an award that began my relationship with Leica, is probably the most intimate and intense photo festival in America

  • A Space Album From Planet Earth

    A Space Album From Planet Earth

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    A Space Album From Planet Earth Shuttle missions have been depicted in intimate detail by Philip Scott Andrews and his father, Scott Andrews. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/07/21/a-space-album-from-planet-earth/ Given the great distance that separates photographers from the launching pad, the only way to get close is to use remote cameras. “A lot of people don’t realize…

  • The Young Slovenian, Jošt Franko

    The Young Slovenian, Jošt Franko

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    LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2011/07/20/the-young-slovenian-jost-franko/ Franko started taking pictures when he was 14 and won his first award when he was 16 with a moving series of photographs of his newly widowed grandmother. The series was awarded “Best Reportage” by the jury of the Slovenian Press…

  • Jason Larkin's Mistake of Nature

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    BJP: London-based photographer Jason Larkin’s Mistake of Nature takes us to the former Soviet republic of Karakalpakstan, a semi-autonomous enclave of Uzbekistan and the site of one of the biggest man-made environmental disasters – the near-disappearance of the Aral Sea.

  • Mil Besos: Ruven Afanador’s Women of Flamenco

    Mil Besos: Ruven Afanador’s Women of Flamenco

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    Mil Besos: Ruven Afanador’s Women of Flamenco In this week’s issue, Ruven Afanador photographed Tyne Daly and Alexandra Silber for Hilton Als’s review of “Master Class,” a play by Terrence … via The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/photobooth/2011/07/ruven-afanador-mil-besos.html In this week’s issue, Ruven Afanador photographed Tyne Daly and Alexandra Silber for Hilton Als’s review of “Master Class,”…

  • A Western Photographer in Hama, Syria

    A Western Photographer in Hama, Syria

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    Moises Saman says that his trip into Syria with Anthony Shadid was one of the craziest things he’s d

  • Stephen Shames: Bronx Boys

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    Feature Shoot: For over two decades (1977-2000), Stephen Shames photographed a group of boys coming of age in the Bronx in a neighborhood ravaged by drugs, violence and gangs.

  • Food and the Inner City: A Product Of Our Environment

    Food and the Inner City: A Product Of Our Environment

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    LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2011/07/19/food-and-the-inner-city-a-product-of-our-environment/#1 For his project “A Product of Our Environment,” photographer Will Steacy documented how food is marketed and sold in New York City neighborhoods, many of which have reported high rates of poverty, obesity, diabetes and people living without health insurance.

  • Worth a look: Jim Mortram’s “Market Town”

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    DVAFoto: Jim Mortram’s “Market Town” is wide-ranging and ambitious. The work is an ongoing process, started nearly 2 years ago. A mixture of documentary, portraiture, and interviews, the project tells the story of those “often overlooked and unseen by the people around them or seen and judged without the care for the stories that are…

  • Leland Bobbé: New York City's Seamy 70s

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    Leland Bobbé: New York City’s Seamy 70s Introduced to me when I was still at the photo agency I ran for many years, Leland Bobbé had a virtually-unseen archive of classic shots from the heyday of CBGB’s. Going through his archives recently he came across another cache: long-forgotten photograph via aCurator: http://www.acurator.com/blog/2011/07/leland-bobbe-new-york-citys-seamy-70s.html Introduced to me…

  • Summertime at Duncan Miller Projects

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    Sixteen Los Angeles photographers: Nancy Baron, Michael Cannon, Marian Crostic, Karen Florek, Cat Gwynn, Bootsy Holler, Liz Huston, Kelli Knack, Stella S. Lee, Gray Malin, Ann Mitchell, Steven Rood, Aline Smithson, Charley Star, and Ashly Stohl, will be on exhibition. The show opens this Thursday, July 21st and runs through September 3rd. The gallery is…

  • Keith Davis Young, Austin

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    Keith Davis Young was born in a small town known as Bryan, TX. After picking up a degree from Baylor University and getting his fill of fluorescent lighting, boardrooms, and 5 years in ad agency experience, he struck out on his own as a full-time freelancer.

  • william daniels – faded tulips

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    William Daniels – Faded Tulips William Daniels Faded Tulips ESSAY CONTAINS EXPLICIT CONTENT I remember seeing images of Kyrgyzstan for the first time on television, in March 2005. There were scenes of excited Asian-looking men r… via burn magazine: http://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2011/07/william-daniels-faded-tulips/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+burnmag Since late 2007 I have traveled several times to Kyrgyzstan to work on an ongoing…