Category: Portfolios & Galleries
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Stefano Giogli
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…
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Random Act of Photos
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.
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A Los Angeles Suburb Is Home and Subject
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.”
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LOOK3 Guest Series: Refreshed and Inspired
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
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A Space Album From Planet Earth
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…
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The Young Slovenian, Jošt Franko
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…
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Jason Larkin's Mistake of Nature
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.
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Mil Besos: Ruven Afanador’s Women of Flamenco
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,”…
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A Western Photographer in Hama, Syria
Moises Saman says that his trip into Syria with Anthony Shadid was one of the craziest things he’s d
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Stephen Shames: Bronx Boys
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.
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Food and the Inner City: A Product Of Our Environment
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.
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Worth a look: Jim Mortram’s “Market Town”
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…
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Leland Bobbé: New York City's Seamy 70s
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…
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Keith Davis Young, Austin
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.
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william daniels – faded tulips
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…
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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…