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  • Juxtapoz Magazine – Anastasia Samoylova and Walker Evans: A Photo-Dialogue on Florida Past and Present

    Juxtapoz Magazine - Anastasia Samoylova and Walker Evans: A Photo-Dialogue on Florida Past and Present

    Juxtapoz Magazine – Anastasia Samoylova and Walker Evans: A Photo-Dialogue on Florida Past and Present

    Sunshine state. Swampland paradise. Tourist aspiration. Real-estate racket. Refuge of excess. Political swing-state. Sub-tropical fever dream. With fo…

    Link: https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/photography/anastasia-samoylova-and-walker-evans-a-photo-dialogue-on-florida-past-and-present/

    Sunshine state. Swampland paradise. Tourist aspiration. Real-estate racket. Refuge of excess. Political swing-state. Sub-tropical fever dream. With forms of nature and culture found nowhere else, Florida is unique. It is also among the most elusive and misunderstood of places. Anastasia Samoylova has photographed Florida on intensive road trips. Walker Evans (1903–75) photographed it over four decades. Twisting the visual clichés, these two remarkably discerning observers convey Florida’s dizzying combination of fantasy and reality.

  • Russia’s Republic of Grief | The New Yorker

    Russia’s Republic of Grief

    Russia’s Republic of Grief

    One of the country’s poorest regions, Dagestan, is also the region that has lost the most men to the war in Ukraine.

    via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/russias-republic-of-grief

    The Moscow-based photographer Nanna Heitmann recently travelled to Dagestan to talk with families and friends of the deceased. She found people who were deeply traumatized by loss, but who for the most part kept up a patriotic front. Parents, in particular, were adamant that their sons had died in a heroic cause. They spoke, as the Kremlin has done, about Ukrainian fascism and decadence—to some extent, perhaps, authentically, as Dagestan is a deeply religious and conservative society. More than one family mentioned Stalin as a man who could have handled this situation properly.

  • A Buffalo Photographer’s Dignified Look at the Passage of Time | The New Yorker

    A Buffalo Photographer’s Dignified Look at the Passage of Time

    A Buffalo Photographer’s Dignified Look at the Passage of Time

    In three decades, Milton Rogovin and his wife, Anne, captured changes in one upstate neighborhood, while also reaching deep into grand abstractions of nature and time.

    via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/a-buffalo-photographers-dignified-look-at-the-passage-of-time

    Milton’s photographs from the neighborhood originated in 1972, when he was invited to visit the home of a patient, and continued as he and Anne developed relationships with others they met. The elements of personal connection and social history, implicit in Milton’s earlier images, are rendered explicit in his series “Lower West Side Triptychs” and “Lower West Side Quartets.” For those projects, the Rogovins sought out people Milton had photographed in the nineteen-seventies and photographed them again during the course of three decades

  • Tropic of violence | By Tommaso Protti – burn magazine

    Tropic of violence | By Tommaso Protti

    Tropic of violence | By Tommaso Protti

    Tropic of violence | By Tommaso Protti Violence has become a familiar facet of Brazil’s identity, a tragic routine that affects all layers of Latin America’s biggest country. According to the Unite…

    via burn magazine: https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2022/07/tropic-of-violence-by-tommaso-protti/

    While most commonly known in popular culture for beaches, carnival, samba and football, Brazil remains one of world’s most violent countries, a tropical paradise of blood and sorrow.

  • Striking Black-and-White Photographs of Postwar Germany

    Striking Black-and-White Photographs of Postwar Germany

    Striking Black-and-White Photographs of Postwar Germany

    Working in fashion and reportage, the photographer Sibylle Bergemann cultivated a distinctive visual language—and documented decades of change in Berlin.

    via Aperture: https://aperture.org/editorial/in-postwar-germany-sibylle-bergemanns-window-onto-history/

    Working in fashion and reportage, the photographer cultivated a distinctive visual language. Her retrospective is a window into history in Berlin.

  • A Trove of Snapshots from a Sly Master of Collage | The New Yorker

    A Trove of Snapshots from a Sly Master of Collage

    A Trove of Snapshots from a Sly Master of Collage

    An exhibit and book showcase Ray Johnson’s photography from the last years of his life.

    via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/a-trove-of-snapshots-from-a-sly-master-of-collage

    An exhibit and book showcase Ray Johnson’s photography from the last years of his life.

  • While Standing My Ground – Photographs and text by Rima Maroun | LensCulture

    While Standing My Ground - Photographs and text by Rima Maroun | LensCulture

    While Standing My Ground – Photographs and text by Rima Maroun | LensCulture

    Self-portraits from above: an ongoing series of photographs documenting the landscapes of Beirut during the isolation of Covid, catastrophic explosions, and crippling inflation

    via LensCulture: https://www.lensculture.com/articles/rima-maroun-while-standing-my-ground

    Self-portraits from above: an ongoing series of photographs documenting the landscapes of Beirut during the isolation of Covid, catastrophic explosions, and crippling inflation.

  • Lost Film Rolls of the Fall of the Soviet Union Developed 26 Years Later | PetaPixel

    Lost Film Rolls of the Fall of the Soviet Union Developed 26 Years Later

    Lost Film Rolls of the Fall of the Soviet Union Developed 26 Years Later

    Photographer Dean Sewell documented the fall of the Soviet Union in 1996 but did not develop his film for 26 years.

    via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2022/07/17/lost-film-rolls-of-the-fall-of-the-soviet-union-developed-26-years-later/

    Australian photographer Dean Sewell spent 15 months in Russia after the breakup of the former USSR. When Russia invaded Ukraine, he was suddenly reminded that he still had more than two dozen undeveloped B&W film rolls from 1996 to 1997.

  • Photographer Documents All 12,795 Items That She Owns | PetaPixel

    Photographer Documents All 12,795 Items That She Owns

    Photographer Documents All 12,795 Items That She Owns

    That’s a lot of stuff.

    via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2022/07/08/photographer-documents-all-12795-items-that-she-owns/

    Iweins found that blue is the dominant color in her house, accounting for 16 percent of all items, while 22 percent of her clothes are black. 43 percent of items in her bathroom are made from plastic, while some 90 percent of the cables in her house are never used, and 19 percent of her books remain unread.

  • Before It’s Gone – Photographs and text by M’hammed Kilito | LensCulture

    Before It’s Gone - Photographs and text by M’hammed Kilito | LensCulture

    Before It’s Gone – Photographs and text by M’hammed Kilito | LensCulture

    A look at the fragile ecosystems of oases around Morocco — real humid microclimates favorable to the development of plants — which are disappearing at an alarming rate

    via LensCulture: https://www.lensculture.com/articles/m-hammed-kilito-before-it-s-gone

    A look at the fragile ecosystems of oases around Morocco — real humid microclimates favorable to the development of plants — which are disappearing at an alarming rate.

  • Uncovering Iraq | By Alessio Mamo – burn magazine

    Uncovering Iraq | By Alessio Mamo

    Uncovering Iraq | By Alessio Mamo

    Uncovering Iraq | By Alessio Mamo Doctor Zaid and Mister Dhia together with their teams had travelled all over Iraq in the past ten years, from Basra in the South to Sinjar in the North, passing th…

    via burn magazine: https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2022/07/uncovering-iraq-by-alessio-mamo/

    Doctor Zaid and Mister Dhia together with their teams had travelled all over Iraq in the past ten years, from Basra in the South to Sinjar in the North, passing through Tikrit and the river Tigris. But their journeys were the most painful and challenging missions ever: guiding their team in excavating mass graves and exhumation of dead bodies.

  • Meryl Meisler: QUIRKYVISION – LENSCRATCH

    Meryl Meisler: QUIRKYVISION - LENSCRATCH

    Meryl Meisler: QUIRKYVISION – LENSCRATCH

    I love photographs of New York City in the 1970’s and 80’s, when the city was at its worst and at its best, filled with a raw energy, graffiti covered subway cars, fueled by cocaine and poppers, throbbing nightclubs providing endless nights of fantasy and nights of abandon and connection. Fortunately, photographer Meryl Meisler was

    via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2022/07/meryl-meisler-quirkyvision/

    I love photographs of New York City in the 1970’s and 80’s, when the city was at its worst and at its best, filled with a raw energy, graffiti covered subway cars, fueled by cocaine and poppers, throbbing nightclubs providing endless nights of fantasy and nights of abandon and connection. Fortunately, photographer Meryl Meisler was there to document the craziness, the clubs, and well, all the rest.

  • Until The Corn Grows Back – The Leica camera Blog

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    I choose to photograph using a fixed lens, as it demands a proximity to my subjects that a zoom lens does not. Proximity, especially among vulnerable populations, is a privilege that must be earned through meaningful consent and trust building. I seek to understand the lives of the people whom I photograph in order to portray them as truthfully as possible. The intimacy I aim to capture through images can only be achieved if people trust me to share their stories; this requires collaboration. This is my approach to visual storytelling, and it allows me to amplify in a dignified way the voices of people who experience hunger.

  • Communism(s): A Cold War Album — Blind Magazine

    Communism(s): A Cold War Album — Blind Magazine

    Communism(s): A Cold War Album — Blind Magazine

    Autocracy is on the rise. An obvious statement maybe, but one rooted more and more firmly in the present albeit with a shaky-hand salute to the past. From Attila the Hun and Genghis Khan, through Napoleon, Stalin, and Hitler, and more recently, Hussein, Assad, and Orban, autocratic rule has caught fire and threatens the order of sovereign nations across the globe. Add to that a troubling set of indicators in the volatility presently in the US political system, and it’s clear that autocracy has never left.

    via Blind Magazine: https://www.blind-magazine.com/en/news/communisms-a-cold-war-album/

    Upon first viewing of the classic, black-and-white, observe-and-capture images in Grace’s book, one familiar element is the public displays of larger-than-life portraits dotting the bland concreteness of the cities Grace traveled through. Stern visages of elected officials and members of the various politburos who maintained the status quo of communism overlaid on society created a sense of menace, as if Big Brother was watching everyone’s every move.

  • In Photos: The Spectacle of the Jan. 6 Hearings Consumes Washington – The New York Times

    The Spectacle of the Jan. 6 Hearings Consumes Washington

    The Spectacle of the Jan. 6 Hearings Consumes Washington

    One photographer’s account of the commotion surrounding the biggest investigation in Washington since Watergate.

    Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/23/us/politics/jan-6-hearings-photos.html

    One photographer’s account of the commotion surrounding the biggest investigation in Washington since Watergate.

  • Living on the Streets in One of America’s Richest Cities — Blind Magazine

    Living on the Streets in One of America’s Richest Cities — Blind Magazine

    Living on the Streets in One of America’s Richest Cities — Blind Magazine

    For six years, Robert Gumpert documented the unhoused in San Francisco. Division Street is the culmination, named for the street where the project began. Combining first-person narratives, found text and Gumpert’s photographs, it is the story of lives lived on the streets in one of the richest cities in America.

    via Blind Magazine: https://www.blind-magazine.com/en/news/living-on-the-streets-in-one-of-americas-richest-cities/

    “I began walking the streets and thinking about what I was seeing. Walking home from the jail I would sometimes run into people living on the street who I ‘knew’ from jail. Some of them wanted copies of their jail photos; or a new one, which I did.”

  • The Long Hunt – The Leica camera Blog

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    In his long-term project, Adrian Alvarez reveals the thinly populated area of northern Spain.

  • My Wonderland – The Leica camera Blog

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    I’m not a big fan of sitting in front of my computer processing my images in Lightroom; so I do my best to get near to optimal settings when I’m on the street. Then, I spend less than two minutes processing an image. I always add a little bit of luminosity, and luminance, and adjust the colours slightly; but all this is very fast.

  • Polar Night | by Mark Mahaney – burn magazine

    Polar Night | by Mark Mahaney

    Polar Night | by Mark Mahaney

    Polar Night | by Mark Mahaney  71.2906° N, 156.7886° W Utqiaġvik, Alaska Top of the world they call it. Don’t feel that way. Feels like the bottom. So dark there’s no end. So cold there’s no feel. …

    via burn magazine: https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2022/05/polar-night-by-mark-mahaney/

    Mark Mahaney’s Polar Night is a passage through a rapidly changing landscape in Alaska’s northernmost town of Utqiagvik. It’s an exploration of prolonged darkness, told through the strange beauty of a snowscape cast in a two month shadow. The unnatural lights that flare in the sun’s absence and the shapes that emerge from the landscape are unexpectedly beautiful in their softness and harshness. It’s hard to see past the heavy gaze of climate change in an arctic town, though Polar Night is a visual poem about endurance, isolation and survival.

  • Juxtapoz Magazine – Adger Cowans: Sense and Sensibility

    Juxtapoz Magazine - Adger Cowans: Sense and Sensibility

    Juxtapoz Magazine – Adger Cowans: Sense and Sensibility

    Adger Cowans is a celebrated photographer whose wide-ranging work includes the civil rights movement, jazz musicians, landscape, and artistic stu…

    Link: https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/photography/adger-cowans-sense-and-sensibility/

    Adger Cowans is a celebrated photographer whose wide-ranging work includes the civil rights movement, jazz musicians, landscape, and artistic studies of the human form, water, and light. He is also one of the founding members of Kamoinge, a Black photographers collective whose mission is to ‘Honor, document, preserve and represent the history and culture of the African Diaspora with integrity and respect for humanity through the lens of Black Photographers.’