Category: Portfolios & Galleries
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60 preview photos: Biennial of World Images in Paris – lens culture
Link: 60 preview photos: Biennial of World Images in Paris – lens culture photography weblog: Photoquai, the biennial festival of photography based in Paris aims to to raise the international profile of artists previously unexhibited or little-known in Europe. It also aims to foster cultural exchange — and the vibrant interchange of different world views.
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lenscratch: Matt Stuart
Link: lenscratch: Matt Stuart: There’s nothing more fascinating than looking at candid shots of the unassuming public. Those shots become even more interesting when a skilled street photographer finds the sweet spot timing of the perfect juxtaposition. Matt Stuart, is one of those photographers.
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glenn campbell – homelands | burn magazine
Link: Glenn Campbell – homelands | burn magazine: The smells, the children so excited, desperate for the diversion that the tall white fella provided from the crushing boredom of a life without hope, the adults, shamed into lethargy by their inability to pull themselves out of a mire not of their own making… I’d seen…
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Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere | dvafoto
Link: Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere | dvafoto: Matt Lutton: I’ve been trying for the last two weeks to put together some sort of introduction to my ongoing project about the destruction of a large Roma camp here in Belgrade, and words have really failed me.
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Showcase: Deadly Streets – Lens Blog
Link: Showcase: Deadly Streets – Lens Blog – NYTimes.com: “Capitolio,” the new book on Venezuela by Magnum photographer Christopher Anderson, offers a stunning view into Caracas’s descent from its perch as one of Latin America’s most economically advanced, if unequal, cities into a place gripped by low-intensity chaos and fear.
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lenscratch: Arianna Sanesi
Link: lenscratch: Arianna Sanesi: Italian photographer Arianna Sanesi, currently lives in Milan, after studying photography in Bologna and traveling through France and the U.S. She is at the beginning of her career, working as an assistant to Magnum photographer Ferdinando Scianna, but has already found a photographic voice. Arianna has an interesting series featured below,…
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Boogie: His Camera, His Self – Lens Blog
Link: Showcase: His Camera, His Self – Lens Blog – NYTimes.com: Boogie hurried past me, chasing a butterfly. He waved his camera ahead of him as he attempted to catch a picture of it in flight. His shutter clicked ferociously as he focused on his mission with the glee of a child. For Boogie, a…
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jazmine’s goodbye | Redlights and Redeyes
Link: jazmine’s goodbye | Redlights and Redeyes: I was sent to cover the final memorial and funeral for Jazmine Thompson – the Bayshore High School cheerleader who was shot and killed last Friday night while riding with friends in a car after her school’s football game. A lot has happened since then. The suspect, 18…
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Showcase: TriBeCa Chiaroscuro – Lens Blog
Link: Showcase: TriBeCa Chiaroscuro – Lens Blog – NYTimes.com: Donna Ferrato’s raw, energetic black-and-white images capture shadowy figures walking alone on wet pavement. There are compelling scenes of construction workers seen through steam and dust hammering Belgian block pavement, and of celebrities and everyday New Yorkers strolling down side streets as if they were fashion…
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44 Days: A Revolution Revisited – David Burnett
CLICK NOTE: Click on FEATURE GALLERY to see the photos. It’s VERY EASY to miss.Link: 44 Days: A Revolution Revisited – The Digital Journalist: In the case of these photographs, they have lived happily, cared for in the file cabinets at Contact Press Images in New York for the past three decades. Now and then…
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Ian Fisher – American Soldier | The Denver Post
Link: Ian Fisher – American Soldier | The Denver Post | From Basic Training to Iraq and Back: Photographer Craig F. Walker chronicled the two-year journey of Ian Fisher from high school to Army boot camp to Fort Carson to deployment in Iraq.
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Nayan Sthankiya | 100 Eyes Photo Magazine
Nayan Sthankiya | 100 Eyes Photo Magazine: I decided to tackle my introduction to North Korea at face value and present what I saw how I saw it, without embellishment leaving it up to the viewer to draw their own conclusions.
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Stratos Kalafatis – The Black Snapper
The Black Snapper: Far from a simple recording, Stratos Kalafatis seems to be using photography to highlight moments of an experiential relationship with the world around him, idiosyncratic splinters of colour composing a fragmented diary of his life on the island of Skopelos or his short residence in Japan.
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Photos by Charles Harbutt
Photos by Charles Harbutt – Down on the Street: Awesome set of photos by Charles Harbutt, someone I had never heard of until this morning.
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Showcase: Neighborly Hatred – Lens Blog
Showcase: Neighborly Hatred – Lens Blog – NYTimes.com: PERPIGNAN, France — If you want to understand why Justyna Mielnikiewicz has spent eight years photographing border disputes and ethnic conflicts in the South Caucasus, you should know two stories from her childhood.
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Showcase: Uneasy Congo – Lens Blog
Showcase: Uneasy Congo – Lens Blog – NYTimes.com: He has slept in churches in Congo for safety while photographing refugees fleeing their own homes. Though he is only 25 years old, Dominic Nahr’s photographs of those refuges and of Congo’s brutal conflict are being exhibited in Perpignan at Visa pour l’Image, the most important international…
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dispatches / Water Rights – Balazs Gardi
dispatches / Water Rights: Balazs Gardi, a Hungarian freelance photographer with VII Network, focuses on everyday life in communities facing humanitarian crises. Although he has won numerous awards for conflict photography, he is on a long-term project to capture water-related social tension and geopolitical disputes.
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dispatches / The Ark – Philip Blenkinsop
dispatches / The Ark: Philip Blenkinsop of NOOR agency, since settling in Asia in 1989, has pursued forgotten conflicts: in East Timor with Falintil guerrillas; in Borneo among tribal wars and cannibals; deep in Laos where Hmong veterans seek refuge. After picturing China’s Yellow River basin for Paris Match, he shifted to the environment. Critics…
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ara oshagan – father:land
Ara Oshagan – father:land | burn magazine: My father died in June 2000. A few years before that, he and I decided to embark on a project about Karabagh: a remote mountainous area next to Armenia. A region where the Armenians fought and won a fierce war of independence after the collapse of the Soviet…
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Showcase: Not Peace, but Not Always War
Showcase: Not Peace, but Not Always War – Lens Blog – NYTimes.com: In his project, “Uncertain Identity,” the photographer Dhiraj Singh seeks to document a Kashmir that is defined by more than the decades-long dispute between India and Pakistan over the area.