Category: Portfolios & Galleries
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Elliot Ross: Plainsmen | LENSCRATCH
Elliot Ross: Plainsmen In Elliot Ross’s series, Plainsmen, we are called to the interior American West—a place which, from an outsider’s perspective, is generally romanticized and oversimplified. The region is too often ignored unless it is politically convenient, and it is som via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2019/03/elliot-ross-the-plainsmen/ In Elliot Ross’s series, Plainsmen, we are called to the…
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A Portrait of Prepubescent Style in South Wales | The New Yorker
A Portrait of Prepubescent Style in South Wales A project by the photographer Clémentine Schneidermann and the art director Charlotte James invites children to style and invent themselves. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/a-portrait-of-prepubescent-style-in-south-wales Of all the images that the photographer Clémentine Schneidermann and the art director Charlotte James have made of (and with) children in…
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Chronicling the Reasons Central Americans Migrate to the United States – The New York Times
Chronicling the Reasons Central Americans Migrate to the United States For half a decade, Fred Ramos has photographed the longstanding political, social and environmental crises that are driving migration in the region. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/21/lens/central-americans-migrate-united-states.html For half a decade, Fred Ramos has photographed the longstanding political, social and environmental crises that are driving migration in the…
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The Death of a Parent, Captured in Photos – Feature Shoot
The Death of a Parent, Captured in Photos – Feature Shoot “Sometimes I feel like I am in a bad dream.” “Everything is aimless and hopeless. I have lost my direction and I don’t know where to go.” “Your dad was… via Feature Shoot: https://www.featureshoot.com/2019/03/the-death-of-a-parent-captured-in-photos/ The photographer Argus Paul Estabrook remembers his mother calling him…
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Sébastien Van Malleghem – Nordic Noir « burn magazine
Sébastien Van Malleghem – Nordic Noir Sébastien Van Malleghem Nordic Noir An artistic residence in Norway (Halsnoy Cloister, 2013) ignites a passion with the North. Iceland, then Scandinavia further fuels the flame, revealing a persona… via burn magazine: https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2019/03/sebastien-van-malleghem-nordic-noir/ An artistic residence in Norway (Halsnoy Cloister, 2013) ignites a passion with the North. Iceland, then…
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Street Photography That Elevates Scenes of Everyday Life in East London – The New York Times
Street Photography That Elevates Scenes of Everyday Life in East London Playing with light and shadow, José Sarmento Matos captures barbecues and commuters in ways that echo Caravaggio’s oil paintings. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/20/lens/street-photography-life-east-london.html Playing with light and shadow, José Sarmento Matos captures barbecues and commuters in ways that echo Caravaggio’s oil paintings.
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A Photographer Chronicles Upheaval in His Suburban Home Town | The New Yorker
A Photographer Chronicles Upheaval in His Suburban Home Town One of gentrification’s peculiar wounds is its threat to the architecture of memories, as new stories, new histories, get imposed upon old ones. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/photographer-chronicles-upheaval-in-his-suburban-home-town The photographer Al Thompson arrived in the United States as a teen-ager from Jamaica, in 1996, to join…
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Developer x For Freedoms | LENSCRATCH
Developer x For Freedoms It Is A Miracle We Are Standing Here. The title of the exhibition currently hanging at the International Center for Photography speaks to the crisis of modern day social fabrics, art making, and political climate. When For Freedoms and I began discussing via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2019/03/developer-x-for-freedoms/ It Is A Miracle We Are…
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Remembering the Life and Legacy of Patrick D. Pagnano, Street Photographer – Feature Shoot
Remembering the Life and Legacy of Patrick D. Pagnano, Street Photographer – Feature Shoot On October 7, 2018, the photographer Patrick D. Pagnano died, leaving behind a treasury of classic American street photography and documentary work made over more than 50 years. While attending… via Feature Shoot: https://www.featureshoot.com/2019/03/remembering-the-life-and-legacy-of-patrick-d-pagnano-street-photographer/ On October 7, 2018, the photographer Patrick…
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Tracy L. Chandler: At the Edge | LENSCRATCH
Tracy L. Chandler: At the Edge Tracy L Chandler’s compelling and poignant series Edge Dwellers is photography at it’s best. The work speaks to the power of the medium as a vehicle for bearing witness, for understanding and contemplating humanity, and for providing connection to unseen via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2019/03/tracy-l-chandler-at-the-edge/ Tracy L Chandler’s compelling and poignant…
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A Portrait of Mexico Through the Eyes of Graciela Iturbide – Feature Shoot
A Portrait of Mexico Through the Eyes of Graciela Iturbide – Feature Shoot Chalma, 1974 Pajaros en el poste, carretera a Guanajuato, Mexico, 1990 In 1969, Graciela Iturbide was enrolled in the prestigious University Center for Film Studies at the National Autonomous University… via Feature Shoot: https://www.featureshoot.com/2019/03/a-portrait-of-mexico-through-the-eyes-of-graciela-iturbide/ In 1969, Graciela Iturbide was enrolled in the…
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A Photographer’s Quest to Discover His Nubian Ancestry – The New York Times
A Photographer’s Quest to Discover His Nubian Ancestry After his father’s death, the photographer Mohamed Altoum went on a journey to understand what it means to be Nubian. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/18/lens/nubian-culture-ancestry-sudan.html After his father’s death, the photographer Mohamed Altoum went on a journey to understand what it means to be Nubian.
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Depth of Field: Living by the Rivers – Witness
Depth of Field: Living by the Rivers A roundup of China’s best photojournalism via Medium: https://witness.worldpressphoto.org/depth-of-field-living-by-the-rivers-fa78c2cba4e5 If the stories in this edition of Depth of Field share a common thread — apart from their distinguished photographic storytelling — it’s their interest in the flux and churn of life in China in 2019, where nothing seems fixed and the pressure…
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Magnum Photos Blog
[contentcards url=”https://pro.magnumphotos.com/C.aspx?VP3=CMS3&VF=MAGO31_4&VBID=2K1HZOQ0TK4782&IID=2K1HRG9VS5OY”] Geography of Poverty by Matt Black – Magnum Photos Blog Matt Black’s ongoing project The Geography of Poverty, looks at designated “poverty areas” — with poverty rates of above 20 per cent as defined by the US census—and examines the conditions of powerlessness, prejudice, and pragmatism among America’s poor. Having travelled 100,000 miles…
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Andrew Sullivan – Endangered Species « burn magazine
Andrew Sullivan – Endangered Species Andrew Sullivan Endangered Species Mexico’s murder rate went up 16% in the first half of 2018, a grim statistic that suggested this year would be the bloodiest in the country’s h… via burn magazine: https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2019/03/andrew-sullivan-endangered-species/ Mexico’s murder rate went up 16% in the first half of 2018, a grim…
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Southbound: Photographs of and about the New South, Day 7 | LENSCRATCH
Southbound: Photographs of and about the New South, Day 7 On our final day of posts for Southbound: Photographs of and about the New South, we feature a selection of the co-curators Mark Sloan and Mark Long’s essay on emplacing the new south. I think that there is no better text to summarize the exploration…
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Southbound: Photographs of and about the New South, Day 6 | LENSCRATCH
Southbound: Photographs of and about the New South, Day 6 In addition to an amazing curation of Southern photography and writing, Southbound also features an incredible interactive map depicting concentrations of everything from African Americans to chickens, confederate symbols to field crops, as well as an “In via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2019/03/southbound-photographs-of-and-about-the-new-south-day-6/ In addition to an amazing curation…
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Discovering contemporary Mexico beyond the daily headlines: The images of Graciela Iturbide – The Washington Post
Perspective | Discovering contemporary Mexico beyond the daily headlines: The images of Graciela Iturbide Graciela Iturbide’s exhibition at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts is called “Graciela Iturbide’s Mexico,” suggesting that what we ought to see in her pictures is a coherent way of interpreting a misunderstood nation. via Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/photography/2019/03/08/discovering-contemporary-mexico-beyond-daily-headlines-images-graciela-iturbide/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.a340ef658d1a Which is why 2019…
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Southbound: Photographs of and about the New South, Day 5 | LENSCRATCH
Southbound: Photographs of and about the New South, Day 5 We are continuing our feature of images and text from Southbound: Photographs of and about the New South today, with an essay by author, editor, and southern food aficionado John T. Edge. John T. Edge writes about the American South. The Penguin Press pub via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2019/03/southbound-photographs-of-and-about-the-new-south-day-5/…
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Our White House Photographer on Covering President Trump – The New York Times
Our White House Photographer on Covering President Trump Having covered the White House for over three decades, Doug Mills discusses the challenges of his job. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/08/lens/doug-mills-white-house-photograph-president-trump.html?partner=rss&emc=rss Having covered the White House for over three decades, Doug Mills discusses the challenges of his job.