I don’t think I’m looking for certain things. It is more the other way around, that something grabs my attention. There are times when my senses are totally focused on what’s going on around me, like someone just put me on a drug that intensifies everything. When I’m in that mode, many photos happen instinctively. Looking at my scans, in most cases I remember why I took a photo, even if I had no time to think about it when I shot it. I guess that instinct is simply an honest way of photographing strangers. I try not to judge people by taking their photo or compromising anyone’s privacy. I’m simply interested in life on the street.
Category: Editor’s Choice
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Severin Koller: Revealing the Truth in Unforgettable Images
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Brian Ulrich: Copia—Retail, Thrift and Dark Stores (8 Photos)
Later this month the Cleveland Museum of Art will present the first major museum exhibition of work by contemporary photographer Brian Ulrich. “Copia—Retail, Thrift, and Dark Stores, 2001-11,” is a decade-long examination of the American consumer psyche. From the Latin word for “plenty,” the artist’s “Copia” series explores economic, cultural and political implications of commercialism and American consumer culture. The exhibition, featuring 60 photographs, will be on view from August 27, 2011 to January 16, 2012, in the museum’s east wing photography galleries.
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Picturing the American Drought: George Steinmetz
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TIME commissioned renowned aerial photographer and photojournalist George Steinmetz to document the effects of the drought in Texas, New Mexico, and Georgia. On his journey, Steinmetz quickly found that even in the driest sections of the country, the cliched idea of the bowl of cracked earth and dust was neither common nor representative of the crisis
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Composite Characters: Peter Funch’s Fictionalized New York
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As a Danish transplant living in New York, photographer Peter Funch began creating a series of panoramic, composite images on the streets of his adopted city in 2006. The result is his project Babel Tales Redux, now on display at the V1 Gallery in New York. The 40 photographs represent a five-year meditation on human behavior, coincidence, repetition and the interstitial area between fiction and reality.
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sebastian liste – urban quilombo
Sebastian Liste – Urban Quilombo
Sebastian Liste Urban Quilombo ESSAY CONTAINS EXPLICIT CONTENT This work is a witness about a place that no longer exists. I lived there almost everything that one can live. I learned there the dar…
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Eight years ago sixty families occupied the “Galpao da Araujo Barreto”, an abandoned chocolate factory in Salvador de Bahia, Brazil. Before that, these families lived in the dangerous streets of the city until they decided to come together and occupy this factory in ruins and turn it in a home.
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Halloween Photos of New York, Not on Halloween
When the City Was a House of Horrors
In the late 1970s and early 1980s New York as a whole resembled a haunted house. The photographer John Conn spent those years documenting the subway system — which is to say, the dungeon in the haunted house’s basement.
via Lens Blog: https://archive.nytimes.com/lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/10/29/when-the-city-was-a-house-of-horrors/
The late 1970s and early 1980s — when buildings were burning, fiscal crises were raging and the Dead Boys were playing at CBGB — were a macabre time in New York City’s history, a period when it could be said that the city resembled a haunted house.
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Rodrigo Abd’s Photos of Guatemala
In a Fragile Nation, Visible Realities
The Associated Press photographer Rodrigo Abd sees the photos in his projects on Guatemala — many of which are shot alongside traditional wire assignments — as chapters in the history of the country’s postwar period.
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/11/03/in-a-fragile-nation-visible-realities/
Rodrigo Abd seeks out the places in Guatemala that most people avoid — hospital wards, prisons, crime scenes and mass graves. He forgoes the country’s lush volcanic landscapes for cinderblock walls and grimy alleys, seeing in each scene an echo of the nation’s recent past, where 36 years of civil war gave way to equally devastating gang and drug violence.
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2011: The Year in Photos, Part 1 of 3
2011: The Year in Photos, Part 1 of 3
via The Atlantic: http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2011/12/2011-the-year-in-photos-part-1-of-3/100203/
2011 was a year of global tumult, marked by widespread social and political uprisings, economic crises, and a great deal more. We saw the fall of multiple dictators, welcomed a new country (South Sudan), witnessed our planet’s population grow to 7 billion, and watched in horror as Japan was struck by a devastating earthquake, a tsunami, and a nuclear disaster. From the Arab Spring to Los Indignados to Occupy Wall Street, citizens around the world took to the streets in massive numbers, protesting against governments and financial institutions, risking arrest, injury, and in some cases their lives. Collected here is Part 1 of a three-part photo summary of the last year, covering 2011’s first several months
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Magical Photos From a Small Town in Northern Russia
Siberian Memories, Warm and Real
Evgenia Arbugaev returned to her childhood home intent on recapturing the memories of a snow-covered landscape that loomed large in her life. But as she traveled to Siberia she wondered, was it real?
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Evgenia Arbugaeva has warm memories of a very cold place.
She grew up in Tiksi, a port town on Siberia’s Arctic coast — to her, a magical realm of wonder and discovery where she reveled in the “little miracles” of her endless natural playground
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Happy Birthday Duane Michals
For eighty years—eight decades—he gave it his all, selecting his own (mostly unknown) images and writing his own texts. He loves to write and he does it well. As a protean artist, Duane has played many characters in his life. That’s only natural for someone who claims that photography is nothing but a lie.
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Russian Photographers Featured at FotoFest 2012
A Festival for Talent and Possibility
After decades of research and carefully nurtured relationships, Fred Baldwin and Wendy Watriss are mounting an ambitious exhibition of contemporary Russian photography at FotoFest 2012 in Houston.
via Lens Blog: https://archive.nytimes.com/lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/03/14/a-festival-for-talent-and-possibility/
Long interested in the tradition of photography in the former Soviet Union and the Eastern Bloc, they have centered this year’s festival, which begins Friday in Houston, on contemporary Russian photography. About 40 photographers will be coming from Russia to give talks and show their work, some of them placing their images up for auction for the first time.
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Quirky Photographs of a Fictitious Olympic Team
Oli Kellett is a London-based photographer who earned his degree from St. Martins Art College. He worked at several London ad agencies as an art director before leaving in 2008 to pursue photography full time. His recent project is entitled ‘Team Vodkovia’ and features a digitally-designed team of olympic hopefuls from the fictitious country of Vodkovia.
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The 2012 Pulitzer Prize Winner: Massoud Hossaini
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Columbia University has announced the 2012 Pulitzer Prize winners—and they include Afghan photographer Massoud Hossaini, whose picture of a girl reacting to a suicide bombing took the title in the category of breaking news photography.