Category: Portfolios & Galleries
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Peering into North Korea
From The Big Picture: photographs from North Korea are still restricted and hard to come by. One way around that has been for photographers to peer inside from across the border, a pastime that has also spurred a level of curious tourism in both neighboring South Korea and China. Collected here are a some recent…
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Guy Tillim
From lens culture: Tillim spoke with me at length about his work and philosophy when we first met in Paris in November 2008. You can listen to an 18-minute edited audio recording of that conversation here. Check it out here.
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Scarlett Coten
From lens culture: It’s six in the morning and in this month of February I’m crossing a border on foot for the first time! It gives me a real sense of adventure. I leave Taba in a crowded taxi, radio cassette playing in the background, and let myself be carried away, totally alert, toward the…
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Pulitzers Announced; Patrick Farrell’s Images of Haiti : Captured
Check it out here.
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Ed Kashi – Three
From Visura Magazine: It came to me in a dream… I was laying in bed one morning and three images from a story in Brazil flowed through my mind’s eye like a cinematic strip. This idea of three images… seeing in threes… became a focal point for combing through my more than twenty years of…
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The Disturbing Beauty Of Oversaturated Pictures and Lomography
From Smashing Magazine: “Lomography” is a term quite unknown to most of us, but many practice it. The name was inspired and derived from the Russian “LOMO” cameras. Lomography not only refers to photographs taken with the LOMO camera, but can also apply to casual photography taken with any ordinary camera. The characteristics of Lomo…
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Tim Hussin: Leo
From Tim Hussin: I found Leo. He is the founder of a small-town camera shop in Klamath Falls, Oregon called Leo’s Camera Shop. Check it out here.
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sigurd fandango – fast food heroes | burn magazine
burn magazine: They may not be paid very well, and the hours might be long. But behind the counters of McDonalds, Rays Pizza and other more anonymous fast food joints I found the workers to have a certain pride in their job. Photographs: Sigurd Fandango Check it out here.
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Driving While Standing Still – The Morning News
From Driving While Standing Still – The Morning News: Begun in 1989, Andrew Bush’s “Vector Portraits” combine performance with portraiture and a disconcerting measure of intimacy in a series where the artist took portraits of other drivers—often at 70 miles per hour—with a medium-format camera attached to the passenger side of his car. An exhibition…
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V1 GALLERY artist Peter Funch
Danish photographer Peter Funch stakes New York City street corners out for two weeks at a time, taking pictures of passersby from the very same spot. He then uses Photoshop to composite the results into single images. Check it out here. via BoingBoing.
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lens culture: Suburban Slovakia by Andrej Balco
From lens culture: Suburban Slovakia by Andrej Balco: This is the point of departure in this photo-essay by the Slovak photographer Andrej Balco. Who are these people in these prefab buildings? Is there a prevailing type, perhaps even a prefab person? These unavoidable questions, automatic reflexes, are a natural response to something as stereotypical as…
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lens culture: Obama's People by Nadav Kander
From lens culture: Obama’s People by Nadav Kander: Shortly after the 2008 election of Barack Obama — but prior to his inauguration — The New York Times Magazine commissioned a series of 52 portraits of the advisers, aides, cabinet secretaries-designate, and other key people who were being assembled to become members of Obama’s incoming administration.…
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Sol Trek: The Search for Whales at THE WILD WEIRD WORLD OF SPORTS
From Sol Trek: The Search for Whales at THE WILD WEIRD WORLD OF SPORTS: My favorite Star Trek movie is IV: The Voyage Home. And I thought about it all the time while searching for sumo in Tokyo. Check it out here.
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Josh Poehlein (Conscientious)
From Josh Poehlein (Conscientious): It seems like I’m finally seeing some of those visual remixes that I have been asking for for so long: Josh Poehlein’s Modern History. Check it out here.