Category: Portfolios & Galleries
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Showcase: The War’s Long Shadows
JAMES ESTRIN – Lens Blog – NYTimes.com: Nina Berman is not an objective photojournalist. And she doesn’t want to be. “I don’t believe in the notion of the objective photographer, that somehow a photo is balanced and you’re dispassionate,” she said. “I don’t think that would have value. That’s like a security camera.”
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cristina faramo – in the mood for love [EPF Finalist] | burn magazine
Cristina Faramo: My project, “In the Mood for Love,” examines the celebration of love through the intimacy of couples. I recently started making photos of couples during their daily life: when they are working, sharing private moments, experiencing pain, anger or joy, and when they are passionate.
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Bruce Gilden: The Resurgence of Hate Groups in the United States
Slate: The Resurgence of Hate Groups in the United Statesvia duckrabbit
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carl kiilsgaard – the white family
Carl Kiilsgaard – burn magazine: For more than three years I have documented rural poverty in eastern Kentucky through the eyes of the White family. Their roots in Whitesburg run deep through the generations and into the depths of the mines. Richard White, his wife Tammy, their three children, and Richard’s nephew Derrick Collins all…
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Tim Hussin: Shootout
Tim Hussin: I just got back to NYC from the shootout. They gave us about 2 and a half days to shoot. The story topic was rituals and the single topics were architecture and cable car. I’ll post some more words later when I have time, but I just wanted to get the photos up…
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marco improta – nordeste [EPF Finalist] | burn magazine
Marco Improta: This essay portrays one of the families living in “Sertão do Ceará”, an arid region in the Nordeste of Brasil.
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Spring Loaded – Josh Spear, Trendspotting
Josh Spear says: Photographers Steven Brahms, Emiliano Granado and Stephen K. Schuster went on a search for the American institution called “Spring Break,” in which tender youths put down their books temporarily in order to wrestle in vats of Jello, put pictures of their breasts on the internet, and wake in hospital beds, half-dead with…
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Fashion 360 at the 2009 MTV Movie Awards
MTV Photo Gallery 360 degree shots.Click Note: Some of these are really, really boring. Still, this technique would be useful somewhere.
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lance rosenfield – thirst for grit [EPF Finalist] | burn magazine
Lance Rosenfield – burn magazine says: With ‘Thirst for Grit’ I offer a vignette of modern-day, small-town rodeo cowboys in Texas. I traveled endless hot and dusty miles crisscrossing this oft-lonely expanse, following the itinerant ways of these men who live a life of legend and little. They share a special bond, a camaraderie with…
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a black and white night « shooting from the hip
Scott Strazzante says: My current excitement for street photography continued but instead of exploiting the color of day, I felt in a black and white mood leading to most of my photographs depicting the loneliness of the night.
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Pinhole Photography of Incarcerated Girls
Prison Photography says: When working with the incarcerated youth of Washington State, Steve Davis used the camera in different ways and to different ends. He conducted his own long-term portrait project concurrently with workshops offered to the detained youth.
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Secrets and lies – Tomas van Houtryve in North Korea
panos.co.uk says: Adopting the persona of a Belgian chocolate magnate, complete with disguise and funny accent, Tomas van Houtryve made his second trip to North Korea in February 2008. Despite his credentials as a foreign businessman keen to invest in the country, he faced hours of interrogation, was threatened by apparatchiks, and at one point…
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Readers’ Photos: Polaroid Gallery – Lens Blog
Lens Blog – NYTimes.com says: In all, Josh Haner, a Times photographer and picture editor, found that he could not winnow the selection to any fewer than 406 exceptional Polaroids, all of which are presented here. The gallery itself makes the case. This much creative energy ought to be given the film it needs to…
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Fighting for control of Somalia – The Big Picture
The Big Picture says: While Somalia recently has been in the news for its notorious pirates, back on-shore the country continues to struggle through a years-long war that has intensified lately, and to seek some sort of functional unifying government.
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Showcase: The Ghosts of Armenia
Lens Blog – NYTimes.com says: The shadow of a train runs along the Baghdad Railway, used by the Turkish government to deport thousands of Armenians in 1915. In the window, there is a figure of a traveler, the photographer herself: Kathryn Cook. The image, among the first in her photo essay, “Memory of Trees,” conveys…
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New photographic series: "Belmont"
Belmont Series – Images by Kathryn Wagner Via Kathryn Wagner: Photographer: New photographic series: “Belmont”
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michael christopher brown – sakhalin [EPF Finalist]
burn magazine says: Photographed predominantly in the broken, rusted, skeletons of communities around Sakhalin Island, Russia, these images explore the wintry atmosphere of a remote land and its people, long scarred from the Soviet era and left behind in modern times.
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Showcase: A Wide View of a Hellish World
Lens Blog – NYTimes.com says: These compelling Widelux views of an Arkansas prison farm were taken in 1975 by Bruce Jackson, an academic who accidentally became a photographer.
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Photo portraits of real characters from a gold-mining town in Alaska
lens culture says: Photographer Laura Domela, who often works in fashion photography, found a new project when she visited her brother Jason in a small gold-mining town in Alaska. Domela was delighted to encounter his large extended group of fun friends living there in Girdwood: roughnecks, eccentrics, pioneers, rugged individualists and a few misfits.
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PDN Photo Annual 2009 Winners Gallery
PDN says: We proudly present the winners of the 2009 PDN Photo Annual. The images in this gallery were submitted from an international group of exceptional photographers. Even though we’re in the daily business of pictures, the entries we receive for the Photo Annual never cease to amaze us. We at PDN applaud this group…