Category: Portfolios & Galleries
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Visualizing Magical Realism in Ecuador – The New York Times
[contentcards url=”https://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2018/01/04/visualizing-magical-realism-in-ecuador/?module=BlogPost-Title&version=Blog%20Main&contentCollection=Multimedia&action=Click&pgtype=Blogs®ion=Body”] Visualizing Magical Realism in Ecuador – The New York Times Though her photographs have touches of the ethereal, Karen Miranda-Rivadeneira insists she does not go out looking for magical moments. Still, she encounters them often in New York, where she was born, and Ecuador, where she was raised, visually teasing out the traditions,…
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Modernist Forms & Monochrome Tones – The Leica Camera Blog
[contentcards url=”http://blog.leica-camera.com/2018/01/01/modernist-forms-monochrome-tones/”] Modernist Forms & Monochrome Tones – The Leica Camera Blog Having started out making skateboarding videos in LA in the late 90s, Fred Mortagne then discovered his passion for black and white photography. During his recent exhibition at the MIMPI film festival in Rio de Janeiro, Fred found time to rekindle his love…
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Favorite Photograph of 2017 Exhibition | LENSCRATCH
Favorite Photograph of 2017 Exhibition We always love to start the new year off with a favorite exhibition: Your Favorite Photograph of 2017! We hope in this new year that you make space for your art, support your community, slow down on social media, do one thing a day to elevate yourself: le via LENSCRATCH:…
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Favorite Photos of 2017 « Special Projects
Favorite Photos of 2017 « | Columbian.com Special Project via The Columbian: https://www.columbian.com/projects/2017/12/31/favorite-photos-of-2017/ We have an unusual job as photojournalists. We tell stories with pictures. We see people on the best day of their lives, on the worst day of their lives and everything in between. People trust us as they share delicate moments that…
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Jill Waterman: The New Year’s Eve Project | LENSCRATCH
Jill Waterman: The New Year’s Eve Project Sometimes a photographer begins a body a work without knowing that it will come to define their career and continue to hold their interest for more than three decades. Photographer, editor, and educator Jill Waterman has been annually photographing New Ye via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2017/12/jill-waterman-the-new-years-eve-project/ Sometimes a photographer begins…
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Best of 2017 — Erin Hooley
[contentcards url=”https://erinhooley.squarespace.com/blog/best-of-2017/2017/12/27″] Best of 2017 — Erin Hooley A rough but promising year as a woman and “Enemy of the American People,” aka, a journalist. I am lucky to have supportive editors and colleagues. I am thankful and proud to do what I do and will continue to tell the stories of people in my community…
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2017 Photos of the Year: The defining images of 2017 were of protest — Quartz
The defining photos of 2017 were of protest 100,000 retweets and a digital petition might be easy to ignore, but a mass of bodies is undeniable. via Quartz: https://qz.com/1157299/the-defining-images-of-2017-were-of-protest/ This year, demonstrations erupted in US airports in response to a ban on travelers from majority Muslim countries, and football players knelt in impromptu protest of…
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I Shoot Instax Photos That Document Victims of Violence in Chicago
I Shoot Instax Photos That Document Victims of Violence in Chicago In 2016, there were 762 murders in Chicago, the most by far anywhere in the United States — more than the total of New York and Los Angeles combined. via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2017/12/29/shoot-instax-photos-document-victims-violence-chicago/ I started documenting their stories in Chicago over 6 months ago. It…
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Once popular Mexican towns deteriorate as warring drug cartels provoke killings, drug addiction and violence – The Washington Post
Perspective | Once popular Mexican towns deteriorate as warring drug cartels provoke killings, drug addiction and violence Washington Post staff photographer Michael Robinson Chavez, in several trips to Mexico this year, photographed the toll of the United States’ thirst for drugs on Mexico. via Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/in-sight/wp/2017/12/29/once-popular-mexican-towns-deteriorate-as-warring-drug-cartels-provoke-killings-drug-addiction-and-violence/ I grew up traveling to Mexico. It was…
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In The Face Of Adversity – The Leica Camera Blog
[contentcards url=”http://blog.leica-camera.com/2017/12/29/refugee-crisis-south-sudan/”] In The Face Of Adversity – The Leica Camera Blog Kieran Doherty reports on life in the refugee camps of South Sudan and Uganda
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Redefining the Ballet Dancer, 50 Years Later – The New York Times
[contentcards url=”https://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2017/12/28/redefining-the-ballet-dancer-50-years-later/?module=BlogPost-Title&version=Blog%20Main&contentCollection=Multimedia&action=Click&pgtype=Blogs®ion=Body”] Redefining the Ballet Dancer, 50 Years Later – The New York Times Nearly 50 years later, the dance company with deep roots in the Civil Rights era continues to empower young black dancers. Idris Solomon, 38, has been documenting them in the company’s studio for the last three years. It was his introduction…
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Sigurður Páll Pálsson – Minds at Large « burn magazine
Sigurður Páll Pálsson – Minds at Large Sigurður Páll Pálsson Minds at Large [ EPF 2017 – YOUNG TALENT AWARD / FUJIFILM FINALIST ] ” …each one of us is potentially a Mind at Large.” – Aldous Huxley; T… via burn magazine: http://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2017/12/sigurdur-pall-palsson-minds-at-large/ Although by the documentative nature of such a project, my plan is…
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The best photographs of 2017 – by the people who shot them | Media | The Guardian
The best photographs of 2017 – by the people who shot them From Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh, to the disaster at Grenfell Tower and a seahorse clinging to a cotton bud: photographers describe how they took some of the defining images of 2017. Selection by Sarah Gilbert via the Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/media/2017/dec/28/the-best-photographs-of-2017-by-the-people-who-shot-them From Rohingya refugees in…
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2017 Seen Through the Lens of Mario Tama – The Atlantic
2017 Seen Through the Lens of Mario Tama A look at some of the stories brought to us by photojournalist Mario Tama in the last year, as he traveled pole to pole and across the Americas. via The Atlantic: https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2017/12/2017-seen-through-the-lens-of-mario-tama/549266/ This has been a very busy year for Getty Images photographer Mario Tama. By my…
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Caleb Stein: Down by the Hudson | LENSCRATCH
Caleb Stein: Down by the Hudson When I look at the photographs taken by Caleb Stein it’s hard to wrap my mind around the idea that he is just at the beginning of his photography career. And if I can predict correctly, it’s a career that will undoubtedly lead to a level of mastery that…
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The World of Music Stardom, Through the Eyes of the Photographer B+ | The New Yorker
The World of Music Stardom, Through the Eyes of the Photographer B+ In a new collection, rock and hip-hop icons sit side by side, communicating to one another across time and space. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/the-world-of-music-stardom-through-the-eyes-of-the-photographer-b Brian Cross’s “Ghostnotes” is small for a photo book, about the size of a modest stack of seven-inch…
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Love and Heartbreak After the Arab Spring – The New York Times
Love and Heartbreak After the Arab Spring When the Arab Spring brought sweeping political change to Egypt, it left many broken hearts in its wake. via Lens Blog: https://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2017/12/26/love-and-heartbreak-after-the-arab-spring/?module=BlogPost-Title&version=Blog%20Main&contentCollection=Multimedia&action=Click&pgtype=Blogs®ion=Body When the Arab Spring swept through Egypt in 2011, protests and riots ushered out decades of military rule under Hosni Mubarak. That change was short-lived as…
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The 2017 Snow Exhibition | LENSCRATCH
The 2017 Snow Exhibition Ever since I was a child, I have always wanted it to snow on Christmas. In Los Angeles, about the best we could do was a rainy day or temperatures below 70 degrees, so thanks to your terrific submissions, it’s finally snowing today. We are appreciative of via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2017/12/the-2017-snow-exhibition/ Ever…
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The Year in Pictures 2017 – The New York Times
The Year in Pictures 2017 Photographs hold the power to clarify in tumultuous times. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/12/19/sunday-review/2017-year-in-pictures.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=opinion-c-col-top-region®ion=opinion-c-col-top-region&WT.nav=opinion-c-col-top-region WHEN I SEE THE PHOTOGRAPH of Donald Trump holding a fist in the air on Inauguration Day, I think first of Twitter. By the time the photo arrived on my feed, it was already encrusted with commentary from people…
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Love Park – The Leica Camera Blog
[contentcards url=”http://blog.leica-camera.com/2017/12/22/love-park/”] Love Park – The Leica Camera Blog Having discovered photography through his passion for skateboarding, Jonathan Rentschler picked up an analog Leica M6 and began documenting the diverse yet tight-knit community of Philadelphia’s LOVE park. Also known as John F. Kennedy Plaza, LOVE park was located in the center of Philadelphia and although…