Category: Portfolios &amp; Galleries

The Lenscratch Father’s Day Exhibition celebrates our fathers, our grandfathers, and the fathers of our children: the men who made us who we are. I thank you for sharing your families, your images, and your stories. Link: L E N S C R A T C H: Happy Father’s Day

lens culture: Hans Malm

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I have photographed the street life on negative black-and-white film. I then rewound the film and exposed the entire roll once again in another city somewhere else in the world. Link: lens culture: Hans Malm

anton kusters – odo yakuza tokyo

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in Books, Portfolios & Galleries

anton kusters – odo yakuza tokyo LIMITED EDITION (SOLD OUT) Anton Kusters Odo Yakuza Tokyo Below is an excerpt of my conversation with Anton Kusters, talking about the birth of his first book. We are sitting on my front porch during a beautiful sunri… via burn magazine: http://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2011/06/anton-kusters-odo-yakuza-tokyo/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+burnmag an excerpt of my conversation with…

Exploring the Great East-West Divide

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Jason Eskenazi, formerly the most important photographer working as a museum guard (when we visited him in September 2009), is now the former museum guard with the most important photographic project: “The Black Garden” — a personal exploration of the great East-West divide in Eurasia. Link: Jason Eskenazi Sets Out to Document an Ancient Chasm…

Weekly Collection 89

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Link: MJR

Modern Agonies in Ancient Mexican Villages

Jun 16, 2011

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Modern Agonies in Ancient Mexican Villages To find out more about the immigration crisis in California, Matt Black traveled — arduously — through a remote region south of Mexico City. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/06/16/modern-agonies-in-ancient-mexican-villages/ Matt Black, 40, who has spent years documenting the migrant population in the Central Valley (“Oaxacan Exodus“), could very well see…

Jan Grarup: Leica Oskar Barnack Award Winner 2011

Jun 15, 2011

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in Contests, Editor’s Choice, Interviews, Portfolios & Galleries

Over the course of his 18-year career, acclaimed Danish photojournalist Jan Grarup has covered many of recent history’s defining human rights and conflict issues with his camera. His work reflects his belief in photojournalism’s role as an instrument of witness and memory to incite change and the necessity of telling the stories of people who…

Theater of War: Inside Gaddafi’s Libya

Jun 15, 2011

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in Portfolios & Galleries, War

From February 26th to April 7th, 2011, Moises Saman, on assignment for The New York Times, was one of the few western photographers allowed to work in Tripoli—as a “guest” of the Gaddafi regime. Link: Theater of War: Inside Gaddafi’s Libya – LightBox

Corey Arnold’s Fish Work

Jun 14, 2011

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Well before Corey Arnold ever thought about photography, he fished. As a child, he dressed as a fish

Chasing Stigma in Indonesia

Jun 14, 2011

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Chasing Stigma in Indonesia Andrea Star Reese is looking for images of mental illness in Indonesia. But what she’s really chasing is stigma. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/06/14/chasing-stigma-in-indonesia/ The photographer Andrea Star Reese dealt obliquely with issues of mental illness in her first project, “The Urban Cave,” on homelessness in Harlem. She is dealing with it…

A Soviet Coney Island: Yelena Yemchuk’s “Gidropark”

Jun 14, 2011

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A Soviet Coney Island: Yelena Yemchuk’s “Gidropark” Before the Ukranian-born photographer Yelena Yemchuk emigrated to the U.S., at the age of eleven, she spent her summers in Gidropark, a recreational area … via The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/photobooth/2011/06/elena-yemchuk-gidropark.html Before the Ukranian-born photographer Yelena Yemchuk emigrated to the U.S., at the age of eleven, she spent her…

Beijing, Li Hu, a Chinese revelation 2

Jun 13, 2011

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There were other Chinese photographers that covered the same topic of coal miners, and I realized that it was very important to find my own voice apart from other photographers. I was compelled to create more work using different styles of expression. Link: Beijing, Li Hu, a Chinese revelation 2 | La Lettre de la…

Chasing the Mladic Story through Serbia and Bosnia

Jun 12, 2011

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spent a week covering the breaking news that Bosnian Serb General Ratko Mladic was finally captured after nearly 16 years on the run, in a village an hour north of Belgrade in the early morning of May 26. On assignment for The New York Times and the International Herald Tribune I had the interesting experience…

Beauty and Wisdom: current photos of American women from another era

Jun 12, 2011

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LensCulture – Contemporary Photography Discover and share the best in contemporary photography via LensCulture: http://www.lensculture.com/webloglc/mt_files/archives/2011/06/beauty-wisdom.html Beauty and Wisdom documents a fast disappearing aspect of American culture (Americana) as well as a diminishing population of women who are part of a generation that is often overlooked. More important than their weekly ritual of going to the…

lens culture: Michael Wolf, A Series of Unfortunate Events

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Photojournalism was yet-again re-defined earlier this year when Michael Wolf was awarded an honorable mention in the World Press Photo competition for photographs he took of his computer screen. Link: lens culture: Michael Wolf, A Series of Unfortunate Events

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

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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

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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

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