Category: Portfolios & Galleries

  • A Warm Feeling for the Arctic

    A Warm Feeling for the Arctic

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    A Warm Feeling for the Arctic For 30 years, the photographer Bill Hess has moved happily — sometimes by dog sled — among the Inupiat people of Arctic Alaska. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/06/10/a-warm-feeling-for-the-arctic/ To many Americans, Wasilla, Alaska, seems like a very distant corner of the national map. For the photographer Bill Hess, 60, it…

  • Justin Maxon: When the Spirit Moves

    Justin Maxon: When the Spirit Moves

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    LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2011/06/10/justin-maxon-when-the-spirit-moves/#1 I’ve witnessed a tremendous amount of tragedy in Chester and have often felt like a helpless bystander with a camera, never seeing any examples of how my work was tangibly benefiting the community.

  • Fotokonbit: Putting Cameras in Haitian Hands

    Fotokonbit: Putting Cameras in Haitian Hands

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    LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2011/06/10/fotokonbit-putting-cameras-in-haitian-hands/#1 Some of best images at this year’s LOOK3 Festival of the Photograph were not made by professionals, but by amateurs — participants in “social photography workshops” in Haiti run by the non-profit organization Fotokonbit.

  • A Click Away: Review Santa Fe

    A Click Away: Review Santa Fe

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    A Click Away: Review Santa Fe Last weekend I attended Review Santa Fe, an annual juried portfolio-review event in New Mexico. A hundred photographers were selected to participate, and … via The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/photobooth/2011/06/a-click-away-review-santa-fe.html Last weekend I attended Review Santa Fe, an annual juried portfolio-review event in New Mexico. A hundred photographers were selected…

  • Alejandro Chaskielberg: The High Tide (6 Photos)

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    Alejandro Chaskielberg’s project, The High Tide, depicts life in the remote community of the Paraná River Delta region in Argentina, where the river tides determine the activities and movements of its Link: Alejandro Chaskielberg: The High Tide (6 Photos) | PDN Photo of the Day

  • Another World, Another Planet: Alaska’s North

    Another World, Another Planet: Alaska’s North

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    Another World, Another Planet: Alaska’s North What Sebastião Salgado sees in places untouched by humanity. Link: http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/06/12/magazine/alaska-sebastiao-salgado.html?partner=rss&emc=rss Seeking a pristine land untouched by humanity, Sebastião Salgado photographed the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in northeastern Alaska. Porcupine caribou, named for the Porcupine River, on the flatlands between Kaktovik village (on the Arctic Ocean coast) and the…

  • A Distinctive Voice on Instagram

    A Distinctive Voice on Instagram

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    A Distinctive Voice on Instagram Richard Koci Hernandez has won more than 17,000 followers with his film-noir photo stream, Kristen Joy Watts reports. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/06/09/a-distinctive-voice-on-instagram/ The Instagram photo-sharing app for iPhones, around only seven months, has already given rise to remarkably creative picture streams. It’s no surprise, given his reputation as an innovator,…

  • Another Cuba, A Different Fidel

    Another Cuba, A Different Fidel

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    Another Cuba, a Different Fidel Ernesto Bazan has found echoes of long-ago Sicily in Cuba’s western countryside, as David Gonzalez describes. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/06/08/another-cuba-a-different-fidel/ Ernesto Bazan’s images of the Cuban countryside are remnants of a tropical dream — suffused with tenderness, color and a hint of mystery. You can almost touch the damp earth,…

  • First Glance: LOOK3 Festival of the Photograph

    First Glance: LOOK3 Festival of the Photograph

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    LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2011/06/08/first-glance-look3-festival-of-the-photograph/#1 Each year’s festival centers around three core photographers, called INSight artists, who present an exhibition and participate in on-stage interviews to speak about their process, inspiration and work. This year’s honorees are Antonin Kratochvil, Massimo Vitali, and Nan Goldin, —all artists…

  • Home From Afghanistan to New Battles

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    Ms. Trieb, 28, said she found it far more daunting to photograph the effects of post-traumatic stress disorder among the same soldiers when they returned to Fort Drum in upstate New York in December 2009. “Almost every soldier I talked to said they were having problems,” she said. These included drug abuse, binge drinking, attempted…

  • Larry Fink Hollywood Parties

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    For ten years Larry Fink was the magazine’s official party photographer. Schirmer/Mosel has just brought out the illustrated book The Vanities. Hollywood Parties 2000-2009; with more than 90 full-page images it provides an intensive insight into the magnificent photographs Larry Fink garnered: Shot for shot a hit! Link: Larry Fink Hollywood Parties | La Lettre…

  • dominic bracco II – life and death in the northern pass

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    dominic bracco II – life and death in the northern pass [slidepress gallery=’dominicbracco_lifeanddeathinthenorthernpass2′] Hover over the image for navigation and full screen controls ESSAY CONTAINS EXPLICIT CONTENT EPF 2011 Finalist Domini… via burn magazine: http://www.burnmagazine.org/epf-2011-finalists/2011/06/dominic-bracco-ii-life-and-death-in-the-nothern-pass/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+burnmag Dominic Bracco II specializes in documenting the effects of Mexican and North American policies on the border region where he…

  • michael christopher brown – the libyan republic

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    michael c. brown – the libyan republic [slidepress gallery=’michaelchristopherbrown_thelybianrepublic’] Hover over the image for navigation and full screen controls  ESSAY CONTAINS EXPLICIT CONTENT EPF 2011 Finalist Mic… via burn magazine: http://www.burnmagazine.org/epf-2011-finalists/2011/06/michael-christopher-brown-the-lybian-republic/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+burnmag Since arriving in Libya, I have tried to understand the situation. People swap facts, predictions and rumors, but the complexity of the conflict makes…

  • John Stanmeyer: Volcano Gods

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    John Stanmeyer: Volcano Gods travel photographer Link: http://thetravelphotographer.blogspot.com/2011/06/john-stanmeyer-volcano-gods.html It was tough to choose what to feature of John’s work because all his work is truly spectacular, but I decided on his Volcano Gods, which he shot for the National Geographic.

  • LOOK3 Guest Series: Flailing Love Affair with Photography

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    I’ve always felt my relationship with photography had an element of tension, even hostility. I would be lying if I said I still love photography. It is not an entity I fully respect or am faithful to, in fact the two of us are constantly on the brink of abusing one another. Link: LOOK3 Guest…

  • Dispatch from Yemen: Photographs by Yuri Kozyrev

    Dispatch from Yemen: Photographs by Yuri Kozyrev

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    LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2011/06/02/dispatch-from-yemen-photographs-by-yuri-kozyrev/#1 Kozyrev’s photos shine a light on a country convulsed by violence, steeped in danger, seeking a way out.

  • Misha Friedman: Postcard from Donetsk Oblast

    Misha Friedman: Postcard from Donetsk Oblast

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    Misha Friedman: Postcard from Donetsk Oblast Last summer, Misha Friedman began photographing in Donetsk Oblast, a province in eastern Ukraine, where he sought to document the health effects of coal … via The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/photobooth/2011/06/misha-friedman-donbass-romanticism.html Last summer, Misha Friedman began photographing in Donetsk Oblast, a province in eastern Ukraine, where he sought to document…

  • Look 3 Festival of the Photograph (6 Photos)

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    Managing Director of the LOOK3 Festival, Andrew Owen, explains: “LOOK3 is HOME. That’s the theme this year chosen by our curators, but it also signifies what we stand for: bringing the photography community together, celebrating our heroes, and inspiring the next generation. The Festival is designed to recharge you creatively and connect you to a…

  • Ben Sklar, Austin

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    This work is from the ongoing project, ‘Serenity’, in which he writes, ‘In the early spring of 2008 Aimee and her husband Jeff decided they were fed up.  They wanted to free themselves from the constraints of the mundane, routine everyday lifestyle in urban America that so many have become conditioned to call normal Link: Ben Sklar,…

  • Father, Son, Husband, War Photographer

    Father, Son, Husband, War Photographer

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    Father, Son, Husband, War Photographer With a three-year-old son to think about, Christopher Anderson steps away from conflict photography. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/06/01/father-son-husband-war-photographer/ Christopher Anderson’s “Son” is indeed a love poem to his wife, Marion Durand (a photo editor at Newsweek); their three-year-old son, Atlas; and Mr. Anderson’s father, Lynn.