Category: Portfolios & Galleries
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Gilles Perrin, Masques
In order to understand the work on display, one must try to penetrate ancestral secrets. That is why Gilles Perrin’s photography is slow. He works like an ethnologist, choosing his subjects and studying them in detail
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Junku Nishimura: Street Shooting Set to Music
Junku Nishimura, a Tokyo-based street photographer, shoots with the Leica M5, or as he likes to describe it, he’s a “midnight boozer with Leica M5.” Junku has a distinctly retro style of shooting, which reflects his own reluctance to accept change and let go of his favorite worn in possessions. He is also a member…
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New Tools to Tell an Ancient Story
New Tools to Tell an Ancient Story Migration along the Pan-American Highway is the focus of Kadir Van Lohuizen’s app, Vía PanAm. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/07/07/new-tools-to-tell-an-ancient-story/ His trek alone is noteworthy. The photojournalist Kadir van Lohuizen is spending 40 weeks traveling up the Pan-American Highway from Chile to Alaska. So is his reporting medium: a…
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Into Existence: Southern Sudan on the Eve of Independence
LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2011/07/07/into-existence-southern-sudan-on-the-eve-of-independence/#1 When I arrived in southern Sudan in 2009, I did so with only a general understanding of the dynamics at play. In the almost two years since then, I have been humbled, deeply and repeatedly, by the complexity of the southern…
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Voies Off 2011
Since 1996, the “Voies Off” Festival organizes an event aimed at promoting emergent contemporary photography during the professional week of the Rencontres d’Arles. Arles becomes, for a week, the city of photography.
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Embodiment: A Portrait of Queer Life in America
In 2004, photographer Molly Landreth began a project documenting the diverse lives of queer American
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Six contemporary Mexican photographers
In the series entitled Republic, the Rencontres is presenting six contemporary Mexican photographers: Enrique Metinides, Maya Goded, Dulce Pinzon, Daniela Russell, Inaki Bonillas and Fernando Montiel Klint.
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Fourth of July by all FCDA photographers
Facing Change: Documenting America is a non-profit collective of dedicated photojournalists and writers coming together to explore America and to build a forum to chart its future. Mobilizing to document the critical issues facing America, FCDA teams will create a visual resource that raises social awareness and expands public debate.
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Graciela Iturbide by Christian Caujolle
In the panorama that leads from the Revolution to today, one figure stands out, a part of photographic history, winner of the prestigious W. Eugene Smith and Hasselblad Foundation prizes, and certainly most characteristic above all of what might be considered “Mexican photography”. Her name is Graciela Iturbide.
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Chris Marker Les Coréennes
Koreans is one of the doyennes of the work of Chris Marker featured this year in Arles, telling a story through images and text of a trip to North Korea in the late 1950’s. A walk through the everyday life of people that despise today’s keyhole journalism.
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Quiet, but Telling, Scenes in Pakistan
Muhammed Muheisen, 30, the chief photographer in Pakistan for The Associated Press, has been taking pictures for a decade. His work has been included in Pictures of the Day more than 80 times since the Lens blog began in 2009. But it wasn’t until last year that Mr. Muheisen felt as if he’d truly found…
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Matt Siber: The Untitled Project (8 Photos)
Matt Siber’s Untitled Project transforms images made in the traditional documentary style by stripping away the text of all visible signage, and digitally reconstructing it in an adjacent frame. Link: Matt Siber: The Untitled Project (8 Photos) | PDN Photo of the Day
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Todd Korol: A Pro’s Pro, Part One
Todd Korol, a Canadian who lives with his family in Calgary, Alberta, has spent the last 20 years traversing the world with camera in hand on assignment for international publications including Time, Sports Illustrated and the New York Times and he has worked with corporate clients including Apple, Visa, Rolex and several other household names.…
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Mexico’s Ongoing Drug Violence by Shaul Schwarz
LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2011/06/30/mexicos-ongoing-drug-violence-by-shaul-schwarz/#1 TIME contract photographer Shaul Schwarz writes for LightBox about his experience documenting years of drug-related violence in Mexico.
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To Be Young, Russian, and Rich
To Be Young, Russian, and Rich The German photographer Anna Skladmann’s work in Russia has resulted in several striking bodies of work, including a series of portraits of market … via The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/photobooth/2011/06/anna-skladmann-little-adults.html For her new book, “Little Adults,” Anna Skladmann takes a look at the children of wealthy Russians. Here’s a selection,…
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Jennifer Osborne, Berlin
In photographing these women, both before and after they dress for the day, I wanted to communicate the idea of vulnerability and women’s presentation of one’s self to the world. All of us dress accordingly because we are all vulnerable and want to come across in our respective desired way Link: Art & Photography: Jennifer…
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Jennifer Garza-Cuen, Providence, Rhode Island
Jennifer Garza-Cuen got her start shooting slot champions, tourists and divorce parties at the motel casinos down route 40 in Reno, Nevada. Later she became a cocktail waitress at the Nugget, but perpetual dissatisfaction drove her on the road which landed her in Providence where she recently completed her MFA in Photography at the Rhode…
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Success Stories: Bruce Haley
“The world of Bruce Haley is not for the faint-hearted. Now living in Northern California, Bruce has traveled the globe photographing some of the darkest moments that only the intrepid want to face. “I wander toward the world‘s margins, the dark places, places of solitude, rural landscapes, wasteland. What this says about me is unimportant;…
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Jim Dow Love poem to America
Peripatetic artist Jim Dow has compiled many of his best-known images in this generous love poem to America. On the road, using a large format camera, Dow has catalogued the stadiums, the road signs, the diners, and the ice cream parlors that pepper the landscape. Link: Jim Dow Love poem to America | La Lettre…