Category: Portfolios & Galleries
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The Afro-Esotericism of Awol Erizku | The New Yorker
The Afro-Esotericism of Awol Erizku The prolific artist knows that contemporary Blackness, made and unmade on the stage of capitalism, is as much defined by its spiritual reckonings as it is by the elemental stuff. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/the-afro-esotericism-of-awol-erizku The prolific artist knows that contemporary Blackness, made and unmade on the stage of capitalism,…
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CENTER Excellence in Multimedia Storytelling Award – Harvey Castro – Los Olvidados – LENSCRATCH
CENTER Excellence in Multimedia Storytelling Award – Harvey Castro – Los Olvidados – LENSCRATCH Congratulations to Harvey Castro for being selected for CENTER’s Excellence in Multimedia Storytelling Award recognizing his project, Los Olvidados. The Excellence in Multimedia Storytelling Award recognizes outstanding storytellers using lens-based media via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2023/06/center-excellence-in-multimedia-storytelling-award-harvey-castro-los-olvidados/ These stories are a powerful reminder of…
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Life Along Israel’s Separation Wall | The New Yorker
Life Along Israel’s Separation Wall The photographer Ofir Berman captures two entangled realities. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/life-along-israels-separation-wall Israelis are forbidden from crossing the wall to Palestinian city centers, yet the Israeli photographer Ofir Berman has managed to find a way to her subjects, through Palestinian friends she met while working in a refugee camp…
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CENTER Me&Eve Grant: Mykle Parker – Rage 4 Rights – LENSCRATCH
CENTER Me&Eve Grant: Mykle Parker – Rage 4 Rights – LENSCRATCH Congratulations to Mykle Parker for being selected for CENTER’s Me&Eve Grant recognizing their project, Rage 4 Rights. The Me&Eve Grant provides financial support to a woman, female-identified, non-binary, transgender, gender non-conforming, or two-spirit via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2023/05/center-meeve-grant-mykle-parker-rage-4-rights/ Rage 4 Rights is an ongoing series documenting…
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In Visible Light – Street Photography Awards 2021 Winner | LensCulture
In Visible Light – Street Photography Awards 2021 Winner | LensCulture In these award-winning photographs by Sam Ferris, intense golden sunlight bounces off the steel-and-glass urban canyon walls of Sydney’s Central Business District — illuminating passersby and setting the stage for countless fleeting encounters on the city via LensCulture: https://www.lensculture.com/solo-exhibition/sam-ferris-in-visible-light In these award-winning photographs by…
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Sin City: Las Vegas Photography, Through the Decades
Sin City: Las Vegas Photography, Through the Decades From Harry Gruyaert’s photos from the 1980s to Christian Lutz’s documentation of the City of Lights, explore Las Vegas photography over time. via Feature Shoot: https://www.featureshoot.com/2023/05/sin-city-las-vegas-photography-through-the-decades/ Geoffrey Ellis captures the spirit of Las Vegas in the 1970s and 80s, while Markus Altmann photographs the city in the…
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Rachel Demy: between, everywhere – LENSCRATCH
Rachel Demy: between, everywhere – LENSCRATCH To be a tour manager and a photographer is to be attuned to the slightest of details. The exact time every band member needs to be on stage for sound check; ensuring that every piece of gear is on the tour bus at the end of the night. The…
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The 2023 MOTHER Exhibition – LENSCRATCH
The 2023 MOTHER Exhibition – LENSCRATCH What a complete pleasure to spend time with your hundreds of submissions and see all the considerations of MOTHER. Thank you for joining in this 5 part exhibition, so keep scrolling. For those who celebrate, Happy Mother’s Day, and for those who don’t, th via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2023/05/the-2023-mother-exhibition-part-3/ What a…
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Arrivals and Departures America – The Leica camera Blog
Link: Images as a way to connect with people: photographer Jacob Aue Sobol’s pictures have captured numerous encounters. Arrivals and Departures America is a journey through all of the 50 United States. However, the series is primarily an encounter between the people there and Sobol himself.
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A Photographer’s Brutal Images of Small Pro-Wrestling Shows | PetaPixel
A Photographer’s Brutal Images of Small Pro-Wrestling Shows The glamor of WWE it is not. via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2023/05/03/photographers-brutal-images-from-small-pro-wrestling-shows/ Photographer Michael Watson has spent the last decade traveling to small, independent wrestling shows capturing the brave men and women who put their bodies on the line night after night.
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Ocho Puntas – The Leica camera Blog
Link: The Ocho Puntas in Barcelona can be seen as an outdoor altar. Spanish photographer David Salcedo chose this meeting place for his artistic series with the Leica Q2.
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A Coming of Age in New York City’s Underground | The New Yorker
A Coming of Age in New York City’s Underground Adam Zhu’s book “Nice Daze” depicts amorphous social configurations, fleeting experiments in style and thrill-seeking, and elevated forms of doing nothing. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/a-coming-of-age-in-new-york-citys-underground Two varieties of nostalgia merge in Adam Zhu’s photo book “Nice Daze.” The imagery, shot between 2013 and 2020, beginning…
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Fire / Flood – Photographs by Gideon Mendel | Essay by Joanna L. Cresswell | LensCulture
Fire / Flood – Photographs by Gideon Mendel | Essay by Joanna L. Cresswell | LensCulture A powerful outdoor exhibition in London reflects on the manifold ways the climate emergency is affecting communities across the world—and how we can visualize these urgent stories of devastation via LensCulture: https://www.lensculture.com/articles/gideon-mendel-fire-flood A powerful outdoor exhibition in London reflects…
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I Can’t Wipe Sunrise Down My Jumper to Get Rid of Fingerprints – Photographs by Jacob Black | Essay by Joanna L. Cresswell | LensCulture
I Can’t Wipe Sunrise Down My Jumper to Get Rid of Fingerprints – Photographs by Jacob Black | Essay by Joanna L. Cresswell | LensCulture Using photography to come to terms with a concussion, Jacob Black’s images teeter between clarity and confusion to explore the dreamlike way he sees the world post-accident via LensCulture: https://www.lensculture.com/articles/jacob-black-i-can-t-wipe-sunrise-down-my-jumper-to-get-rid-of-fingerprints…
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Earth Week: Becky Wilkes: Ditched – LENSCRATCH
Earth Week: Becky Wilkes: Ditched – LENSCRATCH The bodies of work that I will be sharing during Earth Week are linked by this thematic lens: making the often-invisible nature of the global climate and the ecological crisis more visible using conceptual, lens-based art techniques. Each body of work spe via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2023/04/earth-week-becky-wilkes-ditched/ “Ditched” explores the…
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Photographer’s Powerful Portraits of LA’s Notorious Skid Row | PetaPixel
Photographer’s Powerful Portraits of LA’s Notorious Skid Row ‘I champion the underdog because I grew up as one’ via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2023/04/04/photographers-powerful-portraits-of-las-notorious-skid-row/ Suitcase Joe has invested time getting to know and photographing the often vulnerable people who live in tents that line the streets immediately east of downtown L.A.
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The Hand in Nature: Margaret LeJeune – LENSCRATCH
The Hand in Nature: Margaret LeJeune – LENSCRATCH The Hand in Nature: a week of photographs that manipulates how we see and foresee our environment. Photographs help us process what is happening in the world, and this week we’ll be following photographers whose work inspects humans’ impact on the earth. via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2023/04/margaret-lejeune-thirteen-hours-to-fall/ Climate grief, curiosity,…
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Photography from Appalachia: 5 Projects Explore a Complex Place
Photography from Appalachia: 5 Projects Explore a Complex Place Five photographers reveal a complex and ambivalent portrait of a mysterious place in this collection of photography from Appalachia. via Feature Shoot: https://www.featureshoot.com/2023/04/photography-from-appalachia-5-projects-explore-a-complex-place/ “I’m certainly aware of the stereotypes, clichés, and exploitation this area has been exposed to by many entities,” the photographer Rich-Joseph Facun once…
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Paloma Lounice: Ramona – LENSCRATCH
Paloma Lounice: Ramona – LENSCRATCH This week we are looking at the work of artists who submitted projects during our most recent call-for-entries. Today, Paloma Lounice and I discuss Ramona. Mexican and American photographer Paloma Lounice explores intimate themes in her work such as famil via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2023/04/paloma-lounice-ramona/ Mexican and American photographer Paloma Lounice explores…