Category: Portfolios & Galleries
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{illtown}: here we go.
This post has been long overdue. Fitting I write about this on the day one of America’s best newspapers, the Rocky Mountain News, published it’s final edition. The economy and the newspaper business is in utter turmoil. Last month, I found myself on the wrong end of an involuntary staff reduction. I’ve got nothing to…
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POYi Magazine Photographer of the Year
First Place Uriel Sinai, Getty Images Check it out here.
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Jérôme Brunet – Riding Shotgun with Texas Sheriffs « Prison Photography
Jérôme Brunet’s photo essay Riding Shotgun with Texas Sheriff’s is a ferocious document of police activity and procedure in America’s ‘love-to-hate’ lone star state. I am in deep admiration of this project for it connects the dots and marries everything in a police officer’s routine from violent confrontation to mundane paperwork. Check it out here.
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Wandering Light: Mental Illness III
I am now working with a translator which helps me understand the specifics of a project more clearly and enables me to find the more personal side to my subjects. Check it out here.
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Christopher LaMarca, San Francisco
Christopher LaMarca has been photographing these activists and loggers since the summer of 2003 Check it out here.
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Dana Popa (Conscientious)
Dana Popa photographed a shelter there for women who had been freed from their ‘handlers’ and returned to their country. Check it out here.
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From My Inbox: João Pina – A Photography Blog.
Once in a while I get a staggering email from a photographer. The latest greeted me when I returned from Paris; ten images in my inbox from Portuguese photographer João Pina, from his new series about the incredible violence that plagues Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Check it out here.
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james chance – the dead at burn magazine
In the middle of the bustling Philippine city of Manila, home to almost 11 million people, lies the North Cemetery. Founded in 1904, it is the final resting place for several Filipino Presidents, celebrities, and hundreds of thousands of the city’s Catholic dead. However, since the 1960’s a new, living population has grown. In this…
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lens culture: David LaChapelle
American Pop photographer David LaChapelle is in the art-world spotlight this year, with a big mid-career retrospective exhibition in Paris (February 6 – May 31), and a simultaneous solo show that just opened in Mexico City. Check it out here.
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Ghana Street Portraits
West Africa-based freelance photographer Olivier Asselin has a nice series of Ghana street portraits. Check it out here.
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Supremely odd vintage photo collection – Boing Boing
Joanna of Morbid Anatomy found delight and wonder, as I now have, in this collection of vintage photos that are bizarre by their nature, juxtaposition, or just the lack of context. Check it out here.
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Paolo Pellegrin Turns in a Great Performance of His Own
Pellegrin traveled around the world to capture these movie stars in various locations. He also had the help of a post production team in Europe and the US to retouch the images. But I don’t think it dimishes the images — we want our movie stars to look immaculate and mythological. And these pictures do…
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lens culture: Dita Pepe
Czech photographer Dita Pepe uses self-portrait photography to explore ideas of how personal identity can seem to change dramatically in relationship to the other people in our lives, and the surrounding circumstances. Check it out here.
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Sounds Cooler if you Call it the Pre-After After Party
Sundance is over,…within minutes after the awards are given, the chairs disappear, the lights dim and DJ’s, caterers, and a wide range of dance moves, both awful, haunting and beautiful begin to appear. Check it out here.
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My LIfe at f/22: Best of '08: Sports
Photos by Chris Detrick Here are my favorite sport-related pictures from 2008. The first ten pictures are what I included in my sports portfolio for various contests this year. Check it out here.