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Lost Film Rolls of the Fall of the Soviet Union Developed 26 Years Later | PetaPixel

Lost Film Rolls of the Fall of the Soviet Union Developed 26 Years Later

Photographer Dean Sewell documented the fall of the Soviet Union in 1996 but did not develop his film for 26 years.

via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2022/07/17/lost-film-rolls-of-the-fall-of-the-soviet-union-developed-26-years-later/

Australian photographer Dean Sewell spent 15 months in Russia after the breakup of the former USSR. When Russia invaded Ukraine, he was suddenly reminded that he still had more than two dozen undeveloped B&W film rolls from 1996 to 1997.

July 22, 2022
Photographer Documents All 12,795 Items That She Owns | PetaPixel

Photographer Documents All 12,795 Items That She Owns

That’s a lot of stuff.

via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2022/07/08/photographer-documents-all-12795-items-that-she-owns/

Iweins found that blue is the dominant color in her house, accounting for 16 percent of all items, while 22 percent of her clothes are black. 43 percent of items in her bathroom are made from plastic, while some 90 percent of the cables in her house are never used, and 19 percent of her books remain unread.

July 22, 2022
Before It’s Gone – Photographs and text by M’hammed Kilito | LensCulture

Before It’s Gone – Photographs and text by M’hammed Kilito | LensCulture

A look at the fragile ecosystems of oases around Morocco — real humid microclimates favorable to the development of plants — which are disappearing at an alarming rate

via LensCulture: https://www.lensculture.com/articles/m-hammed-kilito-before-it-s-gone

A look at the fragile ecosystems of oases around Morocco — real humid microclimates favorable to the development of plants — which are disappearing at an alarming rate.

July 19, 2022
Uncovering Iraq | By Alessio Mamo – burn magazine

Uncovering Iraq | By Alessio Mamo

Uncovering Iraq | By Alessio Mamo Doctor Zaid and Mister Dhia together with their teams had travelled all over Iraq in the past ten years, from Basra in the South to Sinjar in the North, passing th…

via burn magazine: https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2022/07/uncovering-iraq-by-alessio-mamo/

Doctor Zaid and Mister Dhia together with their teams had travelled all over Iraq in the past ten years, from Basra in the South to Sinjar in the North, passing through Tikrit and the river Tigris. But their journeys were the most painful and challenging missions ever: guiding their team in excavating mass graves and exhumation of dead bodies.

July 16, 2022
Meryl Meisler: QUIRKYVISION – LENSCRATCH

Meryl Meisler: QUIRKYVISION – LENSCRATCH

I love photographs of New York City in the 1970’s and 80’s, when the city was at its worst and at its best, filled with a raw energy, graffiti covered subway cars, fueled by cocaine and poppers, throbbing nightclubs providing endless nights of fantasy and

via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2022/07/meryl-meisler-quirkyvision/

I love photographs of New York City in the 1970’s and 80’s, when the city was at its worst and at its best, filled with a raw energy, graffiti covered subway cars, fueled by cocaine and poppers, throbbing nightclubs providing endless nights of fantasy and nights of abandon and connection. Fortunately, photographer Meryl Meisler was there to document the craziness, the clubs, and well, all the rest.

July 11, 2022
Until The Corn Grows Back – The Leica camera Blog

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I choose to photograph using a fixed lens, as it demands a proximity to my subjects that a zoom lens does not. Proximity, especially among vulnerable populations, is a privilege that must be earned through meaningful consent and trust building. I seek to understand the lives of the people whom I photograph in order to portray them as truthfully as possible. The intimacy I aim to capture through images can only be achieved if people trust me to share their stories; this requires collaboration. This is my approach to visual storytelling, and it allows me to amplify in a dignified way the voices of people who experience hunger.

July 4, 2022
Communism(s): A Cold War Album — Blind Magazine

Communism(s): A Cold War Album — Blind Magazine

Autocracy is on the rise. An obvious statement maybe, but one rooted more and more firmly in the present albeit with a shaky-hand salute to the past. From Attila the Hun and Genghis Khan, through Napoleon, Stalin, and Hitler, and more recently, Hussein, A

via Blind Magazine: https://www.blind-magazine.com/en/news/communisms-a-cold-war-album/

Upon first viewing of the classic, black-and-white, observe-and-capture images in Grace’s book, one familiar element is the public displays of larger-than-life portraits dotting the bland concreteness of the cities Grace traveled through. Stern visages of elected officials and members of the various politburos who maintained the status quo of communism overlaid on society created a sense of menace, as if Big Brother was watching everyone’s every move.

June 29, 2022
In Photos: The Spectacle of the Jan. 6 Hearings Consumes Washington – The New York Times

The Spectacle of the Jan. 6 Hearings Consumes Washington

One photographer’s account of the commotion surrounding the biggest investigation in Washington since Watergate.

Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/23/us/politics/jan-6-hearings-photos.html

One photographer’s account of the commotion surrounding the biggest investigation in Washington since Watergate.

June 23, 2022
Living on the Streets in One of America’s Richest Cities — Blind Magazine

Living on the Streets in One of America’s Richest Cities — Blind Magazine

For six years, Robert Gumpert documented the unhoused in San Francisco. Division Street is the culmination, named for the street where the project began. Combining first-person narratives, found text and Gumpert’s photographs, it is the story of lives liv

via Blind Magazine: https://www.blind-magazine.com/en/news/living-on-the-streets-in-one-of-americas-richest-cities/

“I began walking the streets and thinking about what I was seeing. Walking home from the jail I would sometimes run into people living on the street who I ‘knew’ from jail. Some of them wanted copies of their jail photos; or a new one, which I did.”

June 21, 2022
The Long Hunt – The Leica camera Blog

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In his long-term project, Adrian Alvarez reveals the thinly populated area of northern Spain.

June 21, 2022
My Wonderland – The Leica camera Blog

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I’m not a big fan of sitting in front of my computer processing my images in Lightroom; so I do my best to get near to optimal settings when I’m on the street. Then, I spend less than two minutes processing an image. I always add a little bit of luminosity, and luminance, and adjust the colours slightly; but all this is very fast.

June 13, 2022
Polar Night | by Mark Mahaney – burn magazine

Polar Night | by Mark Mahaney

Polar Night | by Mark Mahaney 71.2906° N, 156.7886° W Utqiaġvik, Alaska Top of the world they call it. Don’t feel that way. Feels like the bottom. So dark there’s no end. So cold there’s no feel. …

via burn magazine: https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2022/05/polar-night-by-mark-mahaney/

Mark Mahaney’s Polar Night is a passage through a rapidly changing landscape in Alaska’s northernmost town of Utqiagvik. It’s an exploration of prolonged darkness, told through the strange beauty of a snowscape cast in a two month shadow. The unnatural lights that flare in the sun’s absence and the shapes that emerge from the landscape are unexpectedly beautiful in their softness and harshness. It’s hard to see past the heavy gaze of climate change in an arctic town, though Polar Night is a visual poem about endurance, isolation and survival.

May 24, 2022
Juxtapoz Magazine – Adger Cowans: Sense and Sensibility

Juxtapoz Magazine – Adger Cowans: Sense and Sensibility

Adger Cowans is a celebrated photographer whose wide-ranging work includes the civil rights movement, jazz musicians, landscape, and artistic stu…

Link: https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/photography/adger-cowans-sense-and-sensibility/

Adger Cowans is a celebrated photographer whose wide-ranging work includes the civil rights movement, jazz musicians, landscape, and artistic studies of the human form, water, and light. He is also one of the founding members of Kamoinge, a Black photographers collective whose mission is to ‘Honor, document, preserve and represent the history and culture of the African Diaspora with integrity and respect for humanity through the lens of Black Photographers.’

May 24, 2022
Wee Muckers – Youth of Belfast | By Toby Binder – burn magazine

Wee Muckers – Youth of Belfast | By Toby Binder

Wee Muckers – Youth of Belfast | Toby Binder »If I had been born at the top of my street, behind the corrugated-iron border, I would have been British. Incredible to think. My whole idea of myself,…

via burn magazine: https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2022/05/wee-muckers-youth-of-belfast-by-toby-binder/

»If I had been born at the top of my street, behind the corrugated-iron border, I would have been British. Incredible to think. My whole idea of myself, the attachments made to a culture, heritage, religion, nationalism and politics are all an accident of birth. I was one street away from being born my ‘enemy’« writes Paul McVeigh, Belfast born novelist and author of ‘The Good Son’.

May 22, 2022
Rediscovering Shepard Sherbell’s “Soviets” 30 Years Later — Blind Magazine

Rediscovering Shepard Sherbell’s “Soviets” 30 Years Later — Blind Magazine

A charity sale at the Ki Smith Gallery, in partnership with the MUUS Collection, is raising money for The Kyiv Independent through the photojournalist’s work.

via Blind Magazine: https://www.blind-magazine.com/en/news/rediscovering-shepard-sherbells-soviets-30-years-later/

A charity sale at the Ki Smith Gallery, in partnership with the MUUS Collection, is raising money for The Kyiv Independent through the photojournalist’s work.

May 22, 2022
Juxtapoz Magazine – Stacy Kranitz: As It Was Give(n) To Me

Juxtapoz Magazine – Stacy Kranitz: As It Was Give(n) To Me

For the past twelve years, Stacy Kranitz has been making photographs in the Appalachian region of the United States in order to explore how photograph…

Link: https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/photography/stacy-kranitz-as-it-was-give-n-to-me/

As the narrative of As it Was Give(n) To Me unfolds, the book provides an intimate perspective on a region forced to transition away from coal extraction as its dominant source of economic stability, an opioid epidemic that has wreaked havoc on communities, and the role of Appalachia in a politically divided nation.

May 17, 2022
The Style and Swagger of Charrería, Mexico’s National Sport | The New Yorker

The Style and Swagger of Charrería, Mexico’s National Sport

The photographer Carlos Jaramillo produces painterly portraits with an idiosyncratic flair.

via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/the-style-and-swagger-of-charreria-mexicos-national-sport

Jaramillo was twenty-four years old when he visited Mexico for the first time. The commitment to American assimilation that he had in his early youth faded, and he began to explore a sort of third place: the flux that exists between two cultures

May 14, 2022
Earth Day 2022: Inspiring Environmental Advocacy Through Photography – PhotoShelter Blog

Earth Day 2022: Inspiring Environmental Advocacy Through Photography – PhotoShelter Blog

For nearly two centuries, photography has played a role in educating the public about both the familiar and the unknown elements of our ever-changing environment — including the many species that live among us, the constant changes to our climate, and the incredible sights to be seen and explored around the world. Photography can truly…

via PhotoShelter Blog: https://blog.photoshelter.com/2022/04/earth-day-2022-inspiring-environmental-advocacy-through-photography/

Photography can truly make an impact on conservation efforts and environmental advocacy. It’s one reason why every year for Earth Day, we ask our community of passionate PhotoShelter members to share their wildlife, nature and conservation photos. If not to inspire change, these photos can at least shine a light on the vast, breathtaking world around us.

April 23, 2022
Revisiting the Early Days of New York Hip Hop — Blind Magazine

Revisiting the Early Days of New York Hip Hop — Blind Magazine

Sophie Bramly photographed the artists, musicians, and dancers who created the most influential cultural movement of the late twentieth century.

via Blind Magazine: https://www.blind-magazine.com/en/news/revisiting-the-early-days-of-new-york-hip-hop%EF%BF%BC/

Sophie Bramly photographed the artists, musicians, and dancers who created the most influential cultural movement of the late twentieth century.

April 22, 2022
Earth Week: Mandy Barker: Hong Kong Soup: 1826 – LENSCRATCH

Earth Week: Mandy Barker: Hong Kong Soup: 1826 – LENSCRATCH

This week we are featuring bodies of work are linked by this thematic lens: making the often-invisible nature of the global climate and the ecological crisis more visible using conceptual, lens-based art techniques. Each body of work speaks to a differe

via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2022/04/mandy-barker-hong-kong-soup-1826/

Hong Kong Soup:1826’ is a series depicting waste plastic collected from over 30 different beaches in Hong Kong since 2012

April 22, 2022