Category: Portfolios & Galleries
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A Poor Sort of Memory by Tracy L Chandler – LENSCRATCH
A Poor Sort of Memory by Tracy L Chandler – LENSCRATCH I recently had the pleasure of meeting Tracy L Chandler in person at ICP Photobook Fest in New York. In advance of that first hello, I did a close read of Tracy’s new book, A Poor Sort of Memory, released in September [2024] by…
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Nic Umbs: Memento Vitae – LENSCRATCH
Nic Umbs: Memento Vitae – LENSCRATCH This week, we will be exploring projects inspired by memory, place, and/or intimacy. Today, we’ll be looking at Nic Umbs’s series Memento Vitae. I first met Nic Umbs at the 2019 Society of Photographic Education Midwest Conference in Milwaukee, WI. Before the world shut down, I was lucky to…
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A Collective Portrait of Contemporary Ukraine
A Collective Portrait of Contemporary Ukraine Three Ukrainian photographers featured in the show “Essential Goods” share how Russia’s full-scale invasion has changed their lives. via Aperture: https://aperture.org/editorial/a-collective-portrait-of-contemporary-ukraine/ Three Ukrainian photographers speak about how Russia’s full-scale invasion has changed their lives and work—and how Ukrainian identity itself has been transformed by the war. https://aperture.org/editorial/a-collective-portrait-of-contemporary-ukraine/
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The White Line | by Rosa Rodriguez – burn magazine
The White Line | by Rosa Rodriguez The White Line | by Rosa Rodriguez A vast ice desert unfolds, inhospitable and enigmatic, with untouched beauty. In the regions of Kulusuk and Qaanaaq in Greenland, Yamalia in Siberia, and Norwegia… via burn magazine: https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2022/06/the-white-line-by-rosa-rodriguez/ A vast ice desert unfolds, inhospitable and enigmatic, with untouched beauty. In…
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Art and War – The Leica camera Blog
Art and War You can feel when everything is coming into place, the subject, the light and the mood. When you’ve captured that moment, it is very special, very exciting. The whole parade is like a kind of dance with strangers and you need to be at the rhythm of the street. Then it’s fun…
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Stopping time again – The Leica camera Blog
Stopping time again The darkroom has been an integral part of my practice, almost as important as taking photos, irretrievably connected. I tried digital in the past, but I was never satisfied with the results or the process. In front of the screen, it’s easy to be too controlling, to be perfect, it’s too mental.…
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The Outback Observed, and Transformed | The New Yorker
The Outback Observed, and Transformed For “Big Sky,” the Australian photographer Adam Ferguson went in search of his own country, and found a place he both did and didn’t know. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/the-outback-observed-and-transformed Many of Ferguson’s photographs appear to be of the moment between someone making a decision and their next move, but…
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Peter Essick: Work In Progress – LENSCRATCH
Peter Essick: Work In Progress – LENSCRATCH Not all painters use a paint brush. In the case of Peter Essick, he creates artful aerials with a drone and a particularly inspired vision. Essick has recently released a book of his efforts, Work In Progress, published by Fall Line Press. This four-year project of drone photographs…
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Out of the Sky | The New Yorker
Out of the Sky In remote Kazakhstan, the photographer Andrew McConnell captured the places where astronauts return to Earth. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/out-of-the-sky What I see in McConnell’s photographs is the Soviet empire receding. In its wake it leaves monuments to its hubris and carelessness. Chernobyl, in Ukraine, is one such monument; the naval…
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Susan Lapides: St. George: Ebb and Flow – LENSCRATCH
Susan Lapides: St. George: Ebb and Flow – LENSCRATCH Susan Lapides brings a lifetime of deep seeing to her photographs, straddling the editorial and fine art arenas with finesse and humanity. Her multi-year project of territory close to home, St. George: Ebb and Flow, opened as an exhibition at the Beaverbrook Art Gallery on August 2nd…
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“La Vueltita de Tam” | By Irina Werning – burn magazine
“La Vueltita de Tam” | By Irina Werning “La Vueltita de Tam” | By Irina Werning Why are most pictures of trans people in their rooms? What happens when they take to the streets and connect with people, especially in a very tr… via burn magazine: https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2022/06/la-vueltita-de-tam-by-irina-werning/ Why are most pictures of trans people in their…
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Photographers on Photographers: Blake Andrews in Conversation with Rian Dundon – LENSCRATCH
Photographers on Photographers: Blake Andrews in Conversation with Rian Dundon – LENSCRATCH When I first discovered the work of Rian Dundon, he was deep in the process of photographing the civil unrest in Portland following George Floyd’s murder. Beginning in May 2020, nightly protests engulfed the city for a period of several months. Dundon was…
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Arrivals and Departures – Video interview with Magnum photographer Jacob Aue Sobol | LensCulture
https://www.lensculture.com/articles/jacob-aue-sobol-arrivals-and-departures Magnum photographer Jacob Aue Sobol made a trek from Moscow to Ulan Bator to Beijing in one month — often making more than 1,000 photographs each day for 28 days straight. He reveals his process in this great 5 minute video interview.
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Photographer Captures Stark Portraits of German Underground Metal Fans | PetaPixel
https://petapixel.com/2024/08/10/photographer-captures-stark-portraits-of-german-underground-metal-fans/ A photographer sought to document the people involved with the underground metal music scene in Germany. Over 90 metalheads have had their portrait taken for Peter Seipke’s Faces of a Scene project, all in a gloomy, black-and-white style.
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City of Diversity – The Leica camera Blog
City of Diversity Kuala Lumpur is the capital city of Malaysia and the birthplace of the 20-year-old photographer Edmond Leong. On his regular forays into the city, he explores aspects both cultural and bizarre – and captures them in impressive pictures.
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American Glitch – Photographs by Andrea Orejarena and Caleb Stein | Book review by Magali Duzant | LensCulture
https://www.lensculture.com/articles/orejarena-and-stein-american-glitch Amassing an archive of ‘glitches,’ the artist duo Andrea Orejarena and Caleb Stein investigate photography’s dance between truth and fiction through found Internet images and photographs they have taken of the American landscape.
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Survivors of Death Row – Photographs by Enayat Asadi | Essay by Magali Duzant | LensCulture
https://www.lensculture.com/articles/enayat-asadi-survivors-of-death-row In stark black and white photographs, Enayat Asadi shines a light on those saved from death row in Iran, reflecting on what it is to lead a life lived under the shadow of execution.
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Identity – Landscape Europe – The Leica camera Blog
Identity – Landscape Europe Till Brönner is not only a multi-talented musician and photographer, his work also covers a surprising diversity of photographic genres. The Melting Pott exhibition project, launched five years ago in Duisburg, was composed of photographs taken in Germany’s Ruhr district
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Nowhere Near — Liminal Spaces of Migration – Photographs by Alisa Martynova | Text by Sophie Wright | LensCulture
Nowhere Near — Liminal Spaces of Migration – Photographs by Alisa Martynova | Text by Sophie Wright | LensCulture In this constellation of portraits, Alisa Martynova shines a light on the individual stories of migrants who have come from Africa to Italy and France, set against enigmatic nocturnal landscapes via LensCulture: https://www.lensculture.com/articles/alisa-martynova-nowhere-near-liminal-spaces-of-migration In this constellation…
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A Japanese Photographer’s Outsider View of Northern Ireland
A Japanese Photographer’s Outsider View of Northern Ireland In the 1960s, Akihiko Okamura series “The Memories of Others” recorded the Troubles with understated eloquence. via Aperture: https://aperture.org/editorial/akihiko-okamuras-outsider-view-of-northern-ireland/ Okamura singles out low-key moments, discovering worlds within worlds. He seems to be, as W. G. Sebald once said of his fellow writer Robert Walser, a “clairvoyant of…