Category: Portfolios & Galleries

  • Asian Crossroads in Africa – Lens

    Asian Crossroads in Africa – Lens

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    Showcase: Asian Crossroads in Africa The book, “China Safari: On the Trail of Beijing’s Expansion in Africa,” documents the more than 500,000 people from China who have immigrated to Africa. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/12/11/showcase-91/ As many as 500,000 Chinese have immigrated to Africa, lured by its oil, copper, uranium, wood and other natural resources. Many…

  • Behind the Scenes: Advocate on Ice – Lens

    Behind the Scenes: Advocate on Ice – Lens

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    Behind the Scenes: Advocate on Ice Polar photography requires an understanding of the environment and great patience, Kerri MacDonald notes, traits inculcated in Paul Nicklen by the Inuit. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/12/10/behind-24/ Paul Nicklen is terrified in big cities. Having grown up on Baffin Island in Nunavut, Canada, he feels more at home diving into…

  • lenscratch: Mark Laita

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    Mark Laita’s new exhibition, Created Equal:New Work, opens at the Fahey Klein Gallery in Los Angeles on December 10th and runs through January 23rd, 2010. I first saw Created Equal at Fahey Klein in 2006 and was totally engaged by the large diptycs and the juxtaposition of the subjects. Link: lenscratch: Mark Laita

  • Khaled Hasan, Bangladesh – Feature Shoot

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    Khaled Hasan received his master’s degree in Accounting from the National University of Bangladesh, and recently graduated from Pathshala South Asian Institute of Photography in Bangladesh. He has worked for The Daily Shomokal and Majority World photo agency. Link: Khaled Hasan, Bangladesh – Feature Shoot

  • Showcase: Shifting Sands – Lens

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    Sean Gallagher tasted sand as he focused his camera lens on a masked man who had emerged suddenly from the bright orange cloud that enveloped both of them. Unable to see more than a few yards in front of himself, Mr. Gallagher pressed the shutter and the man disappeared into the sandstorm, as if he…

  • Rimaldas Viksraitis: Grimaces of the Weary Village – The Observer

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    Rimaldas Viksraitis: Grimaces of the Weary Village | Photography review These images of abandonment in depressed rural Lithuania mix reportage and voyeurism to surreal and disturbing effect via the Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2009/dec/06/rimaldas-viksraitis-photography-review These images of abandonment in depressed rural Lithuania mix reportage and voyeurism to surreal and disturbing effect

  • Showcase: Black and Very White – Lens

    Showcase: Black and Very White – Lens

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    Showcase: Black and Very White He’s trekked through glacial storms, fallen through rifts and awakened on ice that’s drifted to sea. But, Miki Meek reports, Ragnar Axelsson keeps coming back. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/12/07/showcase-black-and-very-white/ He’s trekked through glacial storms, fallen through rifts and awakened on ice that’s drifted out to sea. But Ragnar Axelsson just…

  • Rob Galbraith DPI: POY galleries beginning to appear

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    Link: Rob Galbraith DPI: POY galleries beginning to appear

  • The Long Haul – The Digital Journalist

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    by Lucian Read I’ve been to Afghanistan eight times in the last 18 months. My apartment is slowly taking on the look of a caravanserai. I have more friends in Kabul than Manhattan. My mind is full of snippets of Dari, counterinsurgency strategy and half-remembered warlords, major and minor. My son – not yet quite…

  • The Gerry McCarthy Cliché | SportsShooter.com

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    Sports Photography and Photojournalism for Professional Photographers| SportsShooter.com A community for sports photography, sports action, and photojournalism for the professional photographer, student photographer and hobbyist. via SportsShooter: http://www.sportsshooter.com/members.html?id=8040 Funny thing — when I was pulling together images I liked from the last several weeks, I noticed that each fit into one or another cliché I…

  • Showcase: Shining a Light – Lens

    Showcase: Shining a Light – Lens

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    Showcase: Shining a Light Stephen Alvarez is obsessed with opening the world’s eyes to the border areas of Uganda and Sudan, torn apart for more than 20 years by brutal, interlocking wars. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/12/04/showcase-88/ Stephen Alvarez has also been obsessed with making sure that people see a different kind of dark and mostly…

  • lenscratch: Edward Burtynsky

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    The subject of Oil is near and dear to Mr. Burtsynsky, as revealred in an article in the Arts Journal. He has an amazing ability to combine significant documentary work with beautiful imagery, that lures the viewer in for a closer look, only to realize he’s telling us something profound. His images taken in Australia…

  • On Assignment: Afghanistan in Free Fall – Lens

    On Assignment: Afghanistan in Free Fall – Lens

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    On Assignment: Afghanistan in Free Fall Moises Saman has returned to Afghanistan time and again with the hope of documenting the promise of peace and prosperity, which now seem ever more elusive. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/12/01/assignment-17/ KABUL — I was one of the hundreds of young photojournalists who came to this distant country in 2001…

  • petri uutela – passers by | burn magazine

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    petri uutela – passers by [slidepress gallery=’petriuutela_passersby’] Hover over the image for navigation controls Petri Uutela Passers by play multimedia   I don’t know how to analyze or comment som… via burn magazine: http://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2009/12/petri-uutela-passers-by/ I don’t know how to analyze or comment something that personal as my street photography. It’s therapy for me to wander…

  • Mexico: The Walls of Oaxaca… and beyond. | Luceo Images

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    Many of the photos from my first days in Oaxaca are of walls. Photographing the layers of paint and history and decay and culture was natural because of the beauty of the textures and colors, but it also gave my brain a chance to soak in the scene without intruding in a new place where…

  • Showcase: Dubai’s Improbable Tale – Lens

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    A city where anything was possible. Sand too hot? Then build a beach with underground refrigeration. As the orgy of building ground to a halt earlier this year, the photographer Lauren Greenfield set out to tell the story of Dubai and the foreign workers who make up most of its population. Link: Showcase: Dubai’s Improbable…

  • Showcase: Iran, Beyond Stereotype – Lens

    Showcase: Iran, Beyond Stereotype – Lens

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    Showcase: Iran, Beyond Stereotype Having realized “there was much more to Iran than just political turmoil and religious fundamentalism,” Paolo Woods set out to capture it, as Eirini Vourloumis reports. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/30/showcase-84/ “I knew I was on the wrong path photographically,” Paolo Woods recalled. “I had first started photographing by what I had…

  • The gangs of Rio | The Observer

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    The gangs of Rio Corrupt cops, brutal drug lords and a charismatic pastor … photographer João Pina documents the battle to control Rio’s slums via the Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/gallery/2009/nov/29/brazil-drugs-trade Corrupt cops, brutal drug lords and a charismatic pastor … photographer João Pina documents the battle to control Rio’s slums

  • andrei liankevich – belarus portfolio | burn magazine

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    andrei liankevich – belarus portfolio [slidepress gallery=’andreiliankevich_belarusportfolio’] Hover over the image for navigation and full screen controls ESSAY CONTAINS EXPLICIT CONTENT Andrei Liankevich Belarus Portfolio… via burn magazine: http://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2009/11/andrei-liankevich-belarus-portfolio/ Is the story over or are we still in the middle of it somewhere? Is it the country itself? Is it Belarus that makes reality and…

  • 100Eyes: Beware the Consequences of War | 100 Eyes Photo Magazine

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    First I must warn you that this exhibition includes some “graphic images”. These are images that were not composed to conceal the results of violence. I urge you not to recoil and ask you to study these images. Try to conjure them up whenever you see a newspaper headline reporting deaths or injuries. Even if…