Category: Portfolios & Galleries

  • 2018 Seen Through the Lens of Yasuyoshi Chiba – The Atlantic

    2018 Seen Through the Lens of Yasuyoshi Chiba Yasuyoshi Chiba, a staff photographer with AFP, spent nearly the entire year of 2018 in Kenya, documenting an incredibly wide range of subjects, landscapes, and issues. via The Atlantic: https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2018/12/2018-seen-through-the-lens-yasuyoshi-chiba/579076/ Yasuyoshi Chiba, a staff photographer with AFP, spent nearly the entire year of 2018 in Kenya, documenting an…

  • Beyond the Wall at Mexico’s Border: Six Photojournalists’ Perspectives – The New York Times

    Beyond the Wall at Mexico’s Border: Six Photojournalists’ Perspectives – The New York Times

    Beyond the Wall at Mexico’s Border: Six Photojournalists’ Perspectives The idea of building a border wall remains a central flash point of the Trump era. But as Times photojournalists have seen for themselves, a wall already exists, and it takes many forms. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/20/us/mexico-border-photos.html The idea of building a border wall remains a central flash…

  • Dawoud Bey: 40 Years of Photos Affirming the ‘Lives of Ordinary Black People’ – The New York Times

    Dawoud Bey: 40 Years of Photos Affirming the ‘Lives of Ordinary Black People’ – The New York Times

    Dawoud Bey: 40 Years of Photos Affirming the ‘Lives of Ordinary Black People’ A new retrospective book “Seeing Deeply” reveals his decades-long exploration of community, memory and photography. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/24/lens/dawoud-bey-seeing-deeply.html As a socially conscious teenager, Dawoud Bey was intrigued by the controversy over the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s 1969 exhibition, “Harlem on My Mind: Cultural…

  • Andrea D’Amico: Bay Window | LENSCRATCH

    Andrea D’Amico: Bay Window | LENSCRATCH

    Andrea D’Amico: Bay Window The monotony of the workday commute is easily forgettable. It is common for a driver to arrive at their destination with no recollection of the time or events that recently passed by. This occurrence can be attributed in part to the repetitive nature and via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2018/12/andrea-damico-bay-window/ The monotony of the…

  • The Most Powerful Moments in Photojournalism in 2018 – Artsy

    The Most Powerful Moments in Photojournalism in 2018 – Artsy

    The Most Powerful Moments in Photojournalism in 2018 From handmaids to yellow vests, from war to joyful progress, these are the most significant news photographs of the year. via Artsy: https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-powerful-moments-photojournalism-2018 This year, the number of internet users worldwide reached the record-setting 4-billion mark, according to a report from We Are Social and Hootsuite. As…

  • Boglárka Éva Zellei: Furnishing the Sacred | LENSCRATCH

    Boglárka Éva Zellei: Furnishing the Sacred | LENSCRATCH

    Boglárka Éva Zellei: Furnishing the Sacred With Christmas on the horizon, it’s a time to consider Christian rituals or religion in general, especially when shopping for Santa. Boglárka Éva Zellei’s photographs came to our attention when she garnered 1st Place (along with Mike Whiteley) in our 2018 via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2018/12/zellei-boglarka-eva/ With Christmas on the horizon, it’s…

  • How “Women Photograph” Created a Different Year in Photos – PhotoShelter Blog

    How “Women Photograph” Created a Different Year in Photos – PhotoShelter Blog

    How “Women Photograph” Created a Different Year in Photos – PhotoShelter Blog The end of the year brings a deluge of “Best Photos” and “Year in Pictures” compilations from major media outlets and wire services. The predictable rhythm of the galleries (domestic tragedy, international tragedy, tight sports photo, uplifting feature, e via PhotoShelter Blog: https://blog.photoshelter.com/2018/12/how-women-photograph-created-a-different-year-in-photos/…

  • Mike Whiteley: Holiday Home Tour | LENSCRATCH

    Mike Whiteley: Holiday Home Tour | LENSCRATCH

    Mike Whiteley: Holiday Home Tour Mike Whiteley has a legacy of considering landscape, including the humorous human interventions that come with the holidays. Mike’s image of a woman’s head emerging from a field in Iowa garnered 1st Place (along with Boglárka Éva Zellei) in our 2018 Seein via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2018/12/mike-whiteley/ Mike Whiteley has a legacy…

  • Tommaso Protti « burn magazine

    Tommaso Protti – Terra Vermelha Tommaso Protti Terra Vermelha [ EPF 2018 FINALIST ] The Amazon Rainforest is often referred to as the ‘Lungs of our Planet,’ still imagined as the unspoiled home of isolated, disconnected tribes. A… via burn magazine: https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2018/12/tommaso-protti/ “Terra Vermelha,” which means red earth, is essentially a portrait of the modern…

  • The Year In Pictures 2018 – The New York Times

    The Year In Pictures 2018 – The New York Times

    The Year in Pictures 2018 Looking back, moving forward: Our editors picked the compelling images that capture the year. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/sunday-review/year-in-pictures.html NEWS PHOTOGRAPHY is often meant to be consumed instantly, on paper, on our screens, in endless scrolling feeds. It tells us what the world looks like right at the moment. But it can lose…

  • Jack Carnell: True Places | LENSCRATCH

    Jack Carnell: True Places | LENSCRATCH

    Jack Carnell: True Places ‘Jack Carnell’s images in True Places are so intimate, so intensely expressive and emotional, that a viewer might fail to notice the absence of people. Here, instead, are the tools we use to orient ourselves and our days, the signs, arrows, scales, direct via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2018/12/jack-carnell-true-places/ Fall Line Press has just…

  • Images That Counter Traditional Depictions of Women – The New York Times

    Images That Counter Traditional Depictions of Women – The New York Times

    Images That Counter Traditional Depictions of Women In Hannah Starkey’s photographs, women often appear alone doing ordinary activities, but these moments — which neither glorify nor objectify them — are bestowed an unmistakable emotional gravity. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/17/lens/images-that-counter-traditional-depictions-of-women.html Hannah Starkey knew she was pushing back against expectations when she unveiled a collection of seven images —…

  • The Best New Yorker Photography of 2018 | The New Yorker

    The Best New Yorker Photography of 2018 | The New Yorker

    The Best New Yorker Photography of 2018 From breaking-news photographs to portraits composed for magazine features, here are some of our favorite pictures of the year. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/2018-in-review/the-best-new-yorker-photography-of-2018 The photo team at The New Yorker assigned more breaking-news commissions this year than ever before. In October, the photojournalist Adriana Zehbrauskas accompanied the…

  • David Molina – Go to Become « burn magazine

    David Molina – Go to Become David Molina Go to Become [ EPF FINALIST ]  Go to Become Is a fictional record inspired by Lycanthropy telltales that take Barcelona night-club scene as the main stage, where for its clubbers, the … via burn magazine: https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2018/12/david-molina-go-to-become/ Go to Become Is a fictional record inspired by Lycanthropy…

  • Kalen Goodluck: The States Project: North Dakota | LENSCRATCH

    Kalen Goodluck: The States Project: North Dakota | LENSCRATCH

    Kalen Goodluck: The States Project: North Dakota I first encountered Kalen Goodluck’s work on the website Natives Photograph which features work from a range of indigenous visual journalists. Goodluck focuses on a variety of subjects in his practice, but two series — Contrails of a Fevered Dream and Fo via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2018/12/kalen-goodluck-the-states-project-north-dakota/ I first encountered…

  • A Spanish Photographer’s 42-Year-Long Mission to Save His Village’s Memories – The New York Times

    A Spanish Photographer’s 42-Year-Long Mission to Save His Village’s Memories – The New York Times

    A Spanish Photographer’s 42-Year-Long Mission to Save His Village’s Memories Old ways of life are disappearing from Cespedosa de Tormes in western Spain, but Juan Manuel Castro Prieto wants to preserve the threads that join him to his ancestral village. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/12/lens/juan-manuel-castro-prieto-cespedosa-spain-village.html Old ways of life are disappearing from Cespedosa de Tormes in western Spain,…

  • Lewis Ableidinger: The States Project: North Dakota | LENSCRATCH

    Lewis Ableidinger: The States Project: North Dakota | LENSCRATCH

    Lewis Ableidinger: The States Project: North Dakota North Dakota is one of the least densely-populated states in the country with an average of eleven people for every square mile. Most of the population resides on the state’s eastern border with Minnesota, and few of these residents or visitors to the sta via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2018/12/lewis-ableidinger-the-states-project-north-dakota/ North…

  • Documenting the Disappearing Glaciers of Iceland – The New York Times

    Documenting the Disappearing Glaciers of Iceland – The New York Times

    Documenting the Disappearing Glaciers of Iceland On foot and by plane, Ragnar Axelsson is photographing the glaciers that cover his homeland, creating a poetic record of the structures for a future without them. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/10/lens/iceland-glaciers-photos.html On foot and by plane, Ragnar Axelsson is photographing the glaciers that cover his homeland, creating a poetic record of…

  • The 20 best photos of 2018 | Dazed

    The 20 best photos of 2018 via Dazed: https://www.dazeddigital.com/art-photography/article/42499/1/best-photos-of-2018-luo-yang-rosie-matheson-sarah-bahbah-activestills In a turbulent world, photography holds up a mirror to ourselves, and a window into others’. As the uncertainty swirls, the camera can help us make sense of it all. 2018 was no exception, and photographers from all over the world used their lens to cover social, political,…

  • Hopeful Images From 2018 – The Atlantic

    Hopeful Images From 2018 I’ve made it a tradition to compose an essay of uplifting images from the past year—an effort to seek out and recognize some of the abundant joy and kindness present in the world around us. via The Atlantic: https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2018/12/hopeful-images-from-2018/577618/ 2018 has been another year of news stories with photos that can often…