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.
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 his mother in Spring Valley, a New York City suburb situated in Rockland County. “What was surprising to me was how big everything was,” Thompson told me recently, about visiting shops and stores during his first days in his new home. Buying CDs, making cassettes, being grounded for the first time, and playing soccer and basketball in Spring Valley Memorial Park—a focal point of the community, where he encountered a medley of “languages, accents, and inflections”—were the activities that initiated him into American teen-age life. At the time, Rockland County was one of the most diverse places in the country, and host to the largest Haitian population outside of the Miami area—Haitian Presidents have made it a point to visit this “Little Haiti” during diplomatic missions in the U.S.
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 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 the creation of this show, and how we could use it as a platform to continue their mission of promoting work and artists creating evocative, politically, and personally motivated work, I immediately saw the connections between their mission and that of the Developer series here on Lenscratch.
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 D. Pagnano died, leaving behind a treasury of classic American street photography and documentary work made over more than 50 years.
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 series Edge Dwellers is photography at it’s best. The work speaks to the power of the medium as a vehicle for baring witness, for understanding and contemplating humanity, and for providing connection to unseen populations. Tracy’s large format capture of marginalized individuals that make their home on the edges of the California coast reveals a particular community that is often ignored and misunderstood, as they struggle with the affects of addition and abuse. A large part of her practice is connecting to her subjects in a profound way, slowing down her photography and making portraits as a collaborative experience.
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 prestigious University Center for Film Studies at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, with the dream of becoming a film director — until she began studying with Manuel Álvarez Bravo, the nation’s foremost photographer.
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.
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 of constant movement reshapes the contours of institutions and of individual lives.
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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 statistic that suggested this year would be the bloodiest in the country’s history. Time magazine approximated that someone was killed every 15 minutes in May. Where I live in Mexico has the reputation of being a safe haven. In travel around the country, I have seldom been in danger, yet I worry about personal safety. Reconciling my daily life with the headlines I see in the “prensa amarilla” leads to thoughts that I’m living in a fantastical bubble while a war rages closer than I want to believe.
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 of S
via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2019/03/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 of Southern identity and culture that we’ve featured throughout the week, so without further adieu…
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 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 “Index of Southernness”. This index was created by fusing the other maps presented, showcasing “classic regional geographic patterns of core, domain, and sphere, where places that read as most Southern are readily identifiable.” According to the curators, “In representing places where southerness is most intense, the Index reveals the resilience of the region. By also showing how southerness transitions across space, the map weaves a rich regional tapestry.”
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 is the appropriate year for the world to discover Graciela Iturbide, who now has extensive exhibitions in Boston and Mexico City. For a half-century, Iturbide has traveled across her own country with a camera loaded with black-and-white film. She has taken pictures that are often described as dreamlike, surreal or painterly, but those words fall short.
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/
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.
Having covered the White House for over three decades, Doug Mills discusses the challenges of his job.
Having covered the White House for over three decades, Doug Mills discusses the challenges of his job.
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The Rohingyas tend to do what are known as ‘3D’ jobs – those that are Dirty, Dangerous and Degrading. Some employers further exploit their dire situation by paying Rohingya workers,…
via Feature Shoot: https://www.featureshoot.com/2019/03/a-devastating-portrait-of-genocide-in-myanmar/
In March 2008, Bengali photographer, educator, and activist Saiful Huq Omi traveled to a refugee camp, and spent ten days there, conducting hundreds of interviews. What he learned on that fateful trip would change his life forevermore. Over the next decade, Omi entered a shadow world where evil and chaos reign. His determination to bring light to the plight of the Rohingya rendered him one of them, both in spirit and in flesh, becoming a target for persecution himself.
For the fourth day of our weeklong feature of images and text from Southbound: Photographs of and about the New South, the photographs are accompanied by an essay by historian, author, film-maker, and all around expert on the South, William Ferris. Willia
via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2019/03/southbound-photographs-of-and-about-the-new-south-day-4/
For the fourth day of our weeklong feature of images and text from Southbound: Photographs of and about the New South, the photographs are accompanied by an essay by historian, author, film-maker, and all around expert on the South, William Ferris.
Yorgos Yatromanolakis The Splitting of the Chrysalis & the Slow Unfolding of the Wings ‘The Splitting of the Chrysalis & the Slow Unfolding of the Wings’ arose from my unforeseen ret…
via burn magazine: https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2019/03/yorgos-yatromanolakis-the-splitting-of-the-chrysalis-the-slow-unfolding-of-the-wings/
‘The Splitting of the Chrysalis & the Slow Unfolding of the Wings’ arose from my unforeseen return to my homeland and my residence there for four years. Isolated in the countryside of the island, I was constantly confronted with my traumatic past, my memories and myself.
Nikky Finney is a renowned poet and educator originally from South Carolina who “involves herself in the day-to-day battles for truth and justice” while also guiding MFA students in her capacity as Chair in Creative Writing and Southern Letters at the Uni
via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2019/03/southbound-photographs-of-and-about-the-new-south-day-2/
Nikky Finney is a renowned poet and educator originally from South Carolina who “involves herself in the day-to-day battles for truth and justice” while also guiding MFA students in her capacity as Chair in Creative Writing and Southern Letters at the University of South Carolina, among other appointments at the university.