Close to Home – Photographs by Kalum Ko | Essay by Magali Duzant | LensCulture:
Periodically returning from New York to his hometown in British Columbia, Kalum Ko’s keenly observed ongoing series charts the emotional push and pull of the community he grew up in.
Istanbul — A Mosaic of Dreams – Photographs and text by Andrei Furnea | LensCulture:
Amidst chaotic beauty, tales of trials echo through alleyways, reflecting the human spirit, vibrant colors, and dynamic stories of Istanbul.
Rocío – Photographs by Austin Quintana | Text by Marigold Warner | | LensCulture:
Austin Quintana’s documentation of life in New Mexico taps into a sense of timelessness, picturing a place that feels as though it hasn’t changed in centuries.
The exhibition “American Job“ at ICP contends with the roles of images, policy, and activism in forming the American Dream.
via Aperture: https://aperture.org/editorial/how-have-photographs-shaped-our-idea-of-work/
An exhibition contends with the role of images, policy, and activism in forming our relationship to labor and the American Dream.
https://aperture.org/editorial/how-have-photographs-shaped-our-idea-of-work/
We would like to thank everyone who submitted to the inaugural Lenscratch Art + History Competition. We were impressed by the enormous number of compelling bodies of work, making it challenging to select just five outstanding projects. History and Art have been deeply intertwined for centuries. The winning projects we are featuring this week had a clear connection to history—exploring
via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2025/03/jared-ragland-art-history-competition-first-place-winner/
After casting my vote on Election Day 2020, I visited Spring Hill in Barbour County, Alabama, where on November 3, 1874, a White mob attacked the Spring Hill polling station, destroyed the ballot box, burned the ballots inside, and killed the election supervisor’s son. Many of the perpetrators of the massacre were known, but no one was ever convicted
http://lenscratch.com/2025/03/jared-ragland-art-history-competition-first-place-winner/
Between Blood and Glitter – Photographs and text by Jana Margarete Schuler | LensCulture:
In Ciudad Juárez, female wrestlers, Luchadoras, fight for respect and safety while inspiring young girls to seek equality inside and outside the ring.
Former Courier Journal and Louisville Times photographer Keith Williams died on March 13. He was 75. A look at some of his most iconic work.
via The Courier-Journal: https://www.courier-journal.com/picture-gallery/news/local/2025/03/20/former-courier-journal-photojournalist-keith-williams-best-photos/82422778007/
#053kids – Photographs by Toby Binder | Interview by Sophie Wright | LensCulture:
Toby Binder’s intimate documentary-portraits explore the intersecting struggles of poverty, belonging, and identity faced by young people living on the margins of rich, industrial Germany.
In 2024, Gun violence resulted in 40,886 deaths and 31,652 injuries. More than 5,200 of those were children and teens. The number of school shootings in each of the last 4 years is more than 107 percent higher than any year prior to that for the last 25 years. In 2024, there were 330 incidents
via LENSCRATCH: https://lenscratch.com/2025/03/nancy-kaye-too-many-gunshots/
Photographer Nancy Kaye began to document the vast numbers of gun images that we are confronted with on a daily basis
https://lenscratch.com/2025/03/nancy-kaye-too-many-gunshots/
In an exclusive interview, PetaPixel talked with Austin Bell, the artist who photographed every outdoor basketball court in Hong Kong.
via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2025/02/26/this-photographer-captured-all-2549-basketball-court-in-hong-kong/
Photographer Austin Bell photographed every outdoor basketball court in Hong Kong in an eye-catching new series titled “SHOOTING HOOPS.”
https://petapixel.com/2025/02/26/this-photographer-captured-all-2549-basketball-court-in-hong-kong/
Every spring, I try to attend the Society for Photographic Education (SPE) annual conference to reconnect with friends, hear and learn from a variety of artists, and discover new work through portfolio reviews and the portfolio walk. Last year, the conference took place in St. Louis, MO and was every bit as fun and inspiring as
via LENSCRATCH: https://lenscratch.com/2025/02/stephen-marc-street-cat-tales-and-tangled-times/
As a documentary/street photographer and digital montage artist, I am exploring American identity and sense of place. My long-term project, is an eclectic urban documentation of everyday life to special events, addressing style, character, and social atmosphere. Often my focus is on public spaces featuring the details of socio-cultural signifiers referencing popular culture and contemporary trends (including hair, body art, and fashion), national history, seasonal traditions, and current news where I observe people’s attempts to simultaneously stand out yet fit in somewhere.
https://lenscratch.com/2025/02/stephen-marc-street-cat-tales-and-tangled-times/
This past December, I had the great pleasure of meeting Thomas Crawford and his work at the PhotoNOLA Portfolio Reviews, and then sharing wallspace with him in the Currents 2025 Exhibition at the Ogden Museum. His creative methodology to considering landscape through satellite imagery is fascinating. He is using the human built environment as a starting
via LENSCRATCH: https://lenscratch.com/2025/02/tom-crawford-overlooked/
My photo landscapes, all derived from satellite imagery, do not idealize conventional beauty found in mountain vistas or pastoral valleys. Instead, they show unexpected beauty in urban settings often dismissed as eyesores.
In this lyrical collection of poems and photographs, Rebecca Norris Webb charts her journey through the loss of her brother as she follows the migration of birds through the American South and Northern France.
Magdalena Wywrot’s moody series “Pestka” captures eleven years in the life that she made with her only child, Barbara.
via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/a-mother-and-daughters-joint-becoming
Magdalena Wywrot’s moody series “Pestka” captures eleven years in the life that she made with her only child, Barbara.
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/a-mother-and-daughters-joint-becoming
Thousands of MAGA supporters poured into the Capital One Arena as the new Administration took shape in ballrooms across the city.
via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/what-dc-saw-at-donald-trumps-inauguration
Thousands of MAGA supporters poured into the Capital One Arena as the new Administration took shape in ballrooms across the city.
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/what-dc-saw-at-donald-trumps-inauguration
Han Youngsoo chronicled the postwar transformation of mid-century Seoul, complicating popular depictions of that era as one solely of deprivation and hardship.
via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/the-henri-cartier-bresson-of-south-korea
Han Youngsoo chronicled the postwar transformation of mid-century Seoul, complicating popular depictions of that era as one solely of deprivation and hardship.
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/the-henri-cartier-bresson-of-south-korea
In an era when the discordance of daily life more often than not overshadows fleeting moments of intimacy, Lewis Watts invites us to pause, reflect, and engage with the layers of connection and history embedded in the communities he documents. The exhibition, “Looking Back: The Photography of Lewis Watts” on view at the Center for
via LENSCRATCH: https://lenscratch.com/2025/01/looking-back-the-photography-of-lewis-watts/
Once I accepted that being rejected was a part of the process, I was able to approach people in the street and in other situations with more confidence. I think that people pick up on that. I can also use people’s reactions as a marker of how much I am really into the situation that I am photographing. When folks are not into it, I know that I have to change my own mind set and relax and try again or move on
https://lenscratch.com/2025/01/looking-back-the-photography-of-lewis-watts/
In the eighties, the photographer Kathy Shorr became a chauffeur, capturing working-class New Yorkers on their way to new lives.
via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/a-limousine-driver-watches-her-passengers-transform
Shorr shot in black-and-white, with a Nikon, often leaning through the partition that divided the driver from the driven during stops, so that the back of the car became a de-facto photo booth. From the moment that she announced her creative intentions to her subjects, she told me, “the whole dynamic of control and power in the car changed.”
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/a-limousine-driver-watches-her-passengers-transform
Today, we are continuing to look at the work of artists from the 2024 Review Santa Fe portfolio review event. Up next, we have Ankara 1974 by Duygu Aytaç. Duygu Aytaç’s photography often explores themes of indoctrination, childhood memories and one’s place in a social group. Her work has been exhibited in Turkey and the United States
via LENSCRATCH: https://lenscratch.com/2025/01/review-santa-fe-duygu-aytac-ankara-1974/
Duygu Aytaç’s photography often explores themes of indoctrination, childhood memories and one’s place in a social group. Her work has been exhibited in Turkey and the United States since 2010. She immigrated to the United States in 2015.
https://lenscratch.com/2025/01/review-santa-fe-duygu-aytac-ankara-1974/
Today, we are continuing to look at the work of artists from the 2024 Review Santa Fe portfolio review event. Up next, we have Where the Heart Is: Portraits from American Trailer and Mobile Home Parks by Kathleen Tunnell Handel. Kathleen and I originally met during the Atlanta Center for Photography portfolio reviews in early 2023, and
via LENSCRATCH: https://lenscratch.com/2025/01/review-santa-fe-kathleen-tunnell-handel-where-the-heart-is/
Where the Heart Is was begun in 2017 with travels photographing within communities, to date, in Maine, New Jersey, California, Texas, Colorado, New York, Georgia, Oregon, and Arizona.
https://lenscratch.com/2025/01/review-santa-fe-kathleen-tunnell-handel-where-the-heart-is/