Category: Portfolios & Galleries
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Photo Essay: Breathing Dust – Gaza Strip
VII says: Trauma, frustration and violence has become part of the identity of the people who live trapped in this man-made vacuum. Via dvafoto
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Cholera in the Time of Mugabe – The Digital Journalist
Will Baxter says: Most foreign journalists are banned from reporting in Zimbabwe, and strict media censorship is practiced by the government. After Mugabe’s statements regarding the end of cholera in Zimbabwe, orders were sent to cemetery employees not to allow any journalists to photograph funerals. CLICK NOTE: Article by the photographer is at this link.
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G20 Protests: Outside the Bank of England – The Digital Journalist
Billy Macrae says: What greeted me as I approached the aptly named area of “Bank” was a small crowd of disgruntled protesters flanked by a veritable wall of riot vans and police in luminous yellow outfits. On the other side, at the far end of the street behind several layers of hefty police, I could…
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Fleeing Swat Valley Fighting – Refugees in Pakistan
Captured says: At least 45,000 residents of the Swat Valley in Pakistan have fled the region as Pakistani troops are battling Taliban militants. The militants are estimated to be around 7,000 strong and are armed with rocket propelled grenades and are skilled in combat. The Pakistan government has sent in around 15,000 troops to confront…
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Magenta Foundation Flash Forward 2009 Award | My Waking Life
David Walter Banks says: I just got a call that I was one of the selected artists from the USA recognized in this year’s Magenta Foundation Flash Forward 2009 census of emerging photographers from Canada, the UK, and USA. The work will be viewable in the 2009 Flash Forward book that will be published later in the…
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Magnum Blog / Detroit: The Troubled City
Bruce Gilden says: My work on foreclosed homes in Detroit has actually been a continuation of a project that started in Fort Myers, Florida in September 2008. For me the major concentration of the work is on the houses or what’s left of the houses. I chose to photograph them mostly straight on like my…
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lori vrba – safekeeping | burn magazine
Lori Vrba says: I’ve spent the last year exploring the desire to protect that which is, or is perceived to be, vulnerable or sacred. As a mother to three young children I am present not only to the maternal urge to lock away the sensuality of a young girl or the exposed emotions of an…
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Dima Gavrysh – uganda’s forgotten war
burn magazine says: For over two decades a sectarian rebel group known as the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) and its infamous leader, Joseph Kony, have been waging a war against the Ugandan people and government, burning villages, mutilating civilians, and abducting children. Based in Sudan and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the LRA has continued…
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Ellen Rennard
lenscratch says: Ellen Rennard’s series, The Downs at Alburquerque, brings the viewer into a world of horses and people that are disappearing in American culture.
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lenscratch: Reiner Riedler
lenscratch says: Austrian photographer, Reiner Riedler was at Photolucida to promote his new body of work, Fake Holidays. The series has been widely exhibited in Europe, and made the Critical Mass top 50.
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Worth a look: John Francis Peters – Just a Dream
From dvafoto: There’s been no shortage of coverage of the current economic crisis affecting the US, but John Francis Peters‘ “Just a Dream” project has really drawn me in. Check it out here
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Capture Images Blog: North Carolina and Virginia
From Capture Images: I have been lucky to get to travel a lot recently. Vacations are on a unlimited supply for those who are unemployed… Check it out here
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A Photo Editor – SPD Photography Award Nominees Online Now
From A Photo Editor – SPD Photography Award Nominees Online Now: I love seeing incredible photography in a well designed page. In the end the design can make or break the impact of the photography. There’s some great designers out there but it usually comes down to whether or not the editor will let them…
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Inside The Mexican Suitcase
From The New York Times: Robert Capa’s “Mexican Suitcase,” actually three flimsy cardboard valises containing thousands of negatives of pictures that Capa and others took during the Spanish Civil War before he fled Europe for America in 1939, has now been opened. Check it out here via dvafoto .
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Human landscapes from above
From The Big Picture: Photographer Jason Hawkes returns to The Big Picture once more, this time venturing away from London (seen previously here and here). Recently, Hawkes has been carrying his Nikon D3 aboard helicopters around the world, hanging out the doorway and capturing landscapes – most somehow affected by humans – below. Check it…
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Backstage at Galliano
From PDN Photo of the Day: Today we present seven psychedelic fashion photos from photographer Mark Leibowitz’s current “Backstage at Galliano” exhibit, which opened as a private event April 25 in downtown Manhattan. The show includes 17 limited-edition prints created backstage at John Galliano’s fall-winter ’08 and spring-summer ’09 ready-to-wear shows in Paris. Check it…