Category: Portfolios & Galleries
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Showcase: Iran, Beyond Stereotype – Lens
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…
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The gangs of Rio | The Observer
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
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andrei liankevich – belarus portfolio | burn magazine
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…
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100Eyes: Beware the Consequences of War | 100 Eyes Photo Magazine
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…
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Split Second Staccato: hooks against od
hooks dan had four hooks pierced into his back and suspended himself on a rope, so they could donate a grave marker for their friend who died of a… Link: http://djamilagrossman.blogspot.com/2009/11/suspension-against-overdose.html dan had four hooks pierced into his back and suspended himself on a rope, so they could donate a grave marker for their friend…
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Showcase: Kinship, Close Up – Lens
His close-up style, influenced by Bernd and Hilla Becher, puts all of his subjects — no matter their status — on equal footing, revealing similarities as well as differences. Though well known for photographing the famous, Mr. Schoeller has always been attracted to a broader range of subjects. Link: Showcase: Kinship, Close Up – Lens…
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Showcase: Emptied but Still Secret – Lens
If one hears ghostlike murmurs while looking through Christopher Payne’s photographs in “Asylum: Inside the Closed World of State Mental Hospitals,” it may be because the people who once occupied these imposing and forbidding places are still among us. But they no longer dwell within the fortresses — or were they sanctuaries? — into which…
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aaron joel santos – orphans of agent orange | burn magazine
aaron joel santos – orphans of agent orange [slidepress gallery=’aaronjoelsantos-orphansofagentorange’] Hover over the image for navigation and full screen controls Aaron Joel Santos Orphans of Agent Orange play this essay … via burn magazine: http://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2009/11/aaron-joel-santos-orphans-of-agent-orange/ The Vietnam Friendship Village is an Agent Orange orphanage and care center founded in 1998 by George Mizo, an American…
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On Assignment: Asia in the Blink of an Eye – Lens
photos By STEPHEN CROWLEY President Obama, whose motorcade has been as long as 71 vehicles, is always at least 30 cars ahead of the four-person photo pool trailing him as he tours Asia. I really wanted a whimsical picture of the president as he walked past the “No Smoking” sign in the Forbidden City, but…
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Manhattan – A Closer Look (5 Photos) | PDN Photo of the Day
tilt-shift photos by Tim Grimshaw Link: Manhattan – A Closer Look (5 Photos) | PDN Photo of the Day
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lenscratch: Toni Greaves
Photographer Toni Greaves was born and raised in Australia, lived in the UK and now splits her time between Portland and New York. Her career as an Art and Creative Director has helped shaped her design sense, and recently, Toni was named one of the “30 Emerging Photographers to Watch” by PDN Magazine. She has…
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Showcase: The Sport of Photography – Lens Blog – NYTimes.com
Showcase: The Sport of Photography Walter Iooss and Neil Leifer have had good and bad games. Like athletes, Nicholas Loomis reports, they got better through intense competition. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/16/showcase-78/ As Walter Iooss and Neil Leifer will tell you, sports photographers have good games and bad games. Like athletes, they get better through intense…
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lenscratch: Maria Luisa Morando
I remember when I first came across Maria Luisa Morando’s exquisite work. It was in 2008 at Photo LA, in the photoeye Gallery booth. Her large, all white prints were framed in white and a contrast to the riot of imagery that surrounded it. The images were quiet, bleached out, as if looking at a…
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heavyglow: Fight Night
This is an unpublished and ongoing story about mixed martial arts culture. Link: heavyglow: Fight Night
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64th College Photographer of the Year | Winning Images
Link: 64th College Photographer of the Year | Winning Images
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Showcase: A Room of Everyone’s Own – Lens Blog
Michael Wolf’s project, “Architecture of Density,” focused on Hong Kong’s exteriors, but when people began to ask him what the insides of the buildings he photographed look like, he decided to bring his camera indoors. Through a friend, he met a social worker who took him around Shek Kip Mei, which was scheduled to be…
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Showcase: See and Be Seen – Lens Blog
Showcase: See and Be Seen Yes, it’s a bad time for aspiring photojournalists. But it’s not the worst of times. And David Alan Harvey is among those who are trying to make it better. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/12/showcase-76/?src=tw On the other hand, it’s a wonderful time to be a young photographer. Multimedia storytelling allows you…
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Bieke Depoorter, Belgium – Feature Shoot
Bieke Depoorter was born in Kortrijk and graduated from KASK in 2009 with a series on Russia, which won the Magnum Expression Award and the Photo Academy Award for GUP magazine. Of this series, Oe Menia, Depoorter writes: ‘For three periods of one month, I have let the Trans-Siberian train guide me alongside forgotten villages,…
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Philip Scott Andrews: Steel Frontier at Pangea Photo Blog
Those who choose life as transients often face prejudice and risk death, but a group of self-proclaimed hobos embrace these hardships as they travel the country on one of its last free rides: the freight train. Link: Philip Scott Andrews: Steel Frontier at Pangea Photo Blog
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lenscratch: Byron Wolfe and Mark Klett
Mark Klett and Bryon Wolfe have been collaborating on a series, Charting the Canyon, since 2007. The photographers have been re-photographing a variety of iconic views of the Grand Canyon and using digital technology to present old images in new contexts. The old images, which include paintings and drawings as well as photographs, are superimposed…