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  • Christmas Returns to a City Liberated From ISIS – The New York Times

    Christmas Returns to a City Liberated From ISIS – The New York Times

    Christmas Returns to a City Liberated From ISIS After years of destruction in Qaraqosh, Iraq’s largest Christian enclave, residents are rebuilding and preparing for Christmas. via Lens Blog: https://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2017/12/21/christmas-returns-to-a-city-liberated-from-isis/?module=Slide&region=SlideShowTopBar&version=SlideCard-8&action=Click&contentCollection=Blogs&slideshowTitle=Christmas%20Returns%20to%20a%20City%20Liberated%20From%2 For more than two years, 300 militia fighters waited to retake from the Islamic State the Iraqi city of Qaraqosh, the country’s largest Christian enclave. Then,…

  • Heather Oelklaus: The States Project: Colorado | LENSCRATCH

    Heather Oelklaus: The States Project: Colorado | LENSCRATCH

    Heather Oelklaus: The States Project: Colorado It is hard to remember which of Heather Oelklaus’ various projects I first encountered. Was it the image grids from her pinhole camera truck, Little Miss Sunshine? The shadow puppet cyanotypes on Braille paper? Maybe the large scale, complex photograms of via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2017/12/heather-oelklaus-the-states-project-colorado/ It is hard to remember…

  • Tina Barney: A Life in Photography – The New York Times

    Tina Barney: A Life in Photography – The New York Times

    Tina Barney: A Life in Photography Tina Barney’s celebrated photos of her friends and family appear alongside street photography, editorial and fashion projects, and portraits in a new book. via Lens Blog: https://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2017/12/20/tina-barney-a-life-in-photography/?module=BlogPost-Title&version=Blog%20Main&contentCollection=Multimedia&action=Click&pgtype=Blogs&region=Body For more than three decades, Tina Barney’s large-scale family photos have opened a window to a world beyond most people’s imagination —…

  • Ashlae Shepler: The States Project: Colorado | LENSCRATCH

    Ashlae Shepler: The States Project: Colorado | LENSCRATCH

    Ashlae Shepler: The States Project: Colorado Collaboration is a key element to Ashlae Shepler’s practice. The series Lest We Travel Too Far, made with long term collaborator Leah Gose, documents commonplace scenery and our connection to the landscape as observed in their travels through the United S via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2017/12/ashlae-shepler-the-states-project-colorado/ Collaboration is a key element…

  • The Forgotten Photographer of Soviet Uzbekistan

    The Forgotten Photographer of Soviet Uzbekistan

    The Forgotten Photographer of Soviet Uzbekistan As Central Asia was transformed under Soviet rule, one man made a remarkable record of life in the fledgling Uzbek S.S.R. before being driven from his via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2017/12/19/forgotten-photographer-soviet-uzbekistan/ As Central Asia was transformed under Soviet rule, Max Penson made a remarkable record of life in the fledgling Uzbek…

  • The Most 2017 Photos Ever – The Atlantic

    The Most 2017 Photos Ever A collection of photographs that are just so 2017. via The Atlantic: https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2017/12/the-most-2017-photos-ever/548789/ Not necessarily the top photos of the year, nor the most heart-wrenching or emotional images, but a collection of photographs that are just so 2017. From Barron Trump with a fidget spinner to the Great American Eclipse,…

  • African-American History Seen Through an African-American Lens – The New York Times

    African-American History Seen Through an African-American Lens – The New York Times

    African-American History Seen Through an African-American Lens The photography collection at the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture aims to redefine not just history, but how it is presented. via Lens Blog: https://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2017/12/19/african-american-history-seen-through-an-african-american-lens/?module=BlogPost-Title&version=Blog%20Main&contentCollection=Multimedia&action=Click&pgtype=Blogs&region=Body Rhea Combs is the curator of photography and film at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and…

  • Mariana Vieira: The States Project: Colorado | LENSCRATCH

    Mariana Vieira: The States Project: Colorado | LENSCRATCH

    Mariana Vieira: The States Project: Colorado I got to know Colorado photographer Mariana Vieira during the Center Forward Exhibition and Photo Camp that Hamidah Glasgow and I jurored and taught at the Center of Fine Art Photography in Colorado a couple of years ago. Mariana was and is passionate abo via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2017/12/mariana-vieira-the-states-project-colorado/ I got…

  • Sebastian Liste – The Refuge « burn magazine

    Sebastian Liste – The Refuge   Sebastian Liste The Refuge [ EPF 2017 – HONORABLE MENTION ] When I was seventeen I fell in love with Laura. Then I met her family and the way they lived fascinated me. Twenty years ago, Lau… via burn magazine: http://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2017/12/sebastian-liste-the-refuge/ Then I met her family and the way…

  • Rania Matar’s photographs show the relationships between mothers and daughters – The Washington Post

    Rania Matar’s photographs show the relationships between mothers and daughters – The Washington Post

    Perspective | Photography series explores mothers and daughters, and their relationships around the world Rania Matar uses photography to highlight the shared human experience, particularly that of women, in both the United States and the Middle East. via Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/in-sight/wp/2017/12/15/rania-matar/ Through photography, Rania Matar could see that her experience growing up as a woman…

  • The Odd, Otherwordly Glow of Fred Herzog’s Photography – The New York Times

    The Odd, Otherwordly Glow of Fred Herzog’s Photography – The New York Times

    The Odd, Otherwordly Glow of Fred Herzog’s Photography Revisiting a master of Kodachrome. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/14/magazine/the-odd-otherwordly-glow-of-fred-herzogs-photography.html?partner=rss&emc=rss Just down the road from where I live, a store is trying out a new retail marriage: pricey eyewear and photography books. Its patron saint ought to be Ralph Eugene Meatyard, who was an optician and a photographer, but his…

  • When a Hurricane Hits Home: Life in Puerto Rico After Maria – The New York Times

    When a Hurricane Hits Home: Life in Puerto Rico After Maria – The New York Times

    When a Hurricane Hits Home: Life in Puerto Rico After Maria More than two months since Hurricane Maria ravaged Puerto Rico, Lens checked in with six photographers who covered it either on assignment or for themselves. via Lens Blog: https://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2017/12/13/when-a-hurricane-hits-home-life-in-puerto-rico-after-maria/?module=BlogPost-Title&version=Blog%20Main&contentCollection=Multimedia&action=Click&pgtype=Blogs&region=Body Rather than risk being stranded in the countryside, Dennis Manuel Rivera rode out Hurricane Maria…

  • En Bas la Ville – The Leica Camera Blog

    [contentcards url=”http://blog.leica-camera.com/2017/12/11/en-bas-la-ville/”] En Bas la Ville – The Leica Camera Blog The Caribbean state of Haiti was ravaged by an earthquake in 2010, which left 230 000 people dead and another 1.8 million homeless. Rampant corruption and political chaos coupled with extreme poverty and a cholera outbreak following the quake, have seen little improve over…

  • Marie Baronnet, The New Pathfinders – The Eye of Photography

    [contentcards url=”http://loeildelaphotographie.com/en/2017/12/12/article/159975830/marie-baronnet-the-new-pathfinders/”] Marie Baronnet, The New Pathfinders – The Eye of Photography Le bleu du ciel, a contemporary photography center in Lyon, is presenting a group exhibition called The Way Back, dealing with with Native Americans in the American West, with photographers Stéphane Barbato, Robert Alan Packard, Carlotta Cardana, Marion Gronier, Stephanie Keith, and White…

  • Péter Korniss, a Hungarian wanderer – The Eye of Photography

    [contentcards url=”http://loeildelaphotographie.com/en/2017/12/12/article/159975840/peter-korniss-a-hungarian-wanderer/”] Péter Korniss, a Hungarian wanderer – The Eye of Photography Péter Korniss, born in Cluj-Napoca, Romania in 1937, is one of most pre-eminent contemporary Hungarian photographer. Throughout his more than fifty-year career Korniss has used the tools of documentary photography to create compelling, authentic portraits of traditional cultures primarily in Transylvania and Hungary,…

  • Lily Zoumpouli – Selinophilia « burn magazine

    Lily Zoumpouli – Selinophilia Lily Zoumpouli Selinophilia [ EPF 2017 – FUJIFILM / YOUNG TALENT AWARD RUNNER UP ]   Capturing glances of the moments that passed us by, in times when we were maybe too young to realise … via burn magazine: http://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2017/12/lily-zoumpouli-selinophilia/ Capturing glances of the moments that passed us by, in times when we…

  • The Scientists Who Track Climate Change in the Field – The New York Times

    The Scientists Who Track Climate Change in the Field – The New York Times

    The Scientists Who Track Climate Change in the Field Lucas Foglia has spent the past two years photographing the climate scientists who traverse glaciers and mountains to collect data — work that largely goes unnoticed.  via Lens Blog: https://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2017/12/11/the-scientists-who-track-climate-change-in-the-field/?module=BlogPost-Title&version=Blog%20Main&contentCollection=Multimedia&action=Click&pgtype=Blogs&region=Body Over the past decade, Lucas Foglia’s photographic exploration of the relationship between people and nature has…

  • Hopeful Images From 2017 – The Atlantic

    Hopeful Images From 2017 After another year of news stories that produced photos which can often be difficult or disturbing to view, I’ve made it a tradition to compose an essay of uplifting images from the past year. via The Atlantic: https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2017/12/hopeful-images-from-2017/547931/ After another year of news stories that produced photos that can often be…

  • The Devil Out Here | www.heavyglow.com

    [contentcards url=”http://www.heavyglow.com/the-devil-out-here/”] The Devil Out Here | www.heavyglow.com Polly Sykes, the mother of 15-year-old Demetrius Griffin Jr., whose body was found burned in a trash can on the West Side of Chicago in September 2016, spoke to her friends and family at a vigil held in his honor: “The devil is out here, and he’s…

  • The Best Work I Saw at Review Santa Fe, Part 2 | A Photo Editor

    The Best Work I Saw at Review Santa Fe, Part 2 | A Photo Editor

    The Best Work I Saw at Review Santa Fe, Part 2 – A Photo Editor   Everyone I know hates this time of year. People get sick. It’s cold and gray. The dried grass is brown, outside my window, taunting me for lack of snow. Trying to turn my SAD upside down, I recently started…