Category: Portfolios & Galleries

  • Humanity’s Hand in Shaping the Everglades – The New York Times

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    [contentcards url=”https://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2017/08/17/humanitys-hidden-hand-in-shaping-the-everglades/?module=Slide&region=SlideShowTopBar&version=SlideCard-13&action=Escape&contentCollection=Blogs&slideshowTitle=Humanity%E2%80%99s%20Hand%20in%20Shaping%20the%20Everglades&currentSlide=13&entrySlide=1&pgtype=imageslideshow”] Humanity’s Hand in Shaping the Everglades – The New York Times Many of Adam Nadel’s photographs are, at first glance, quiet landscapes devoid of human presence. Nothing could be further from the truth.

  • A Lighthearted Look at L.A. – The New York Times

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    [contentcards url=”https://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2017/08/14/a-lighthearted-look-at-l-a/?module=BlogPost-Title&version=Blog%20Main&contentCollection=Multimedia&action=Click&pgtype=Blogs&region=Body”] A Lighthearted Look at L.A. – The New York Times Instagram and iPhones didn’t exist when Beth Dubber began taking street photographs in Los Angeles in 2006. She had moved there in 2003, hoping for a career as a set photographer for film and television. While waiting for her big break, she joined…

  • Adrienne Defendi: Relinquish | LENSCRATCH

    Adrienne Defendi: Relinquish | LENSCRATCH

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    Adrienne Defendi: Relinquish I have admired Adrienne Defendi’s work for a number of years and was very happy to meet her and see her work in person at Photolucida. Having a background in the toy camera world, I know the artistry it takes to transcend a plastic lens and limited range via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2017/08/adrienne-defendi-relinquish/ I…

  • Gregg Segal photographs public swimming pools – The Washington Post

    Gregg Segal photographs public swimming pools – The Washington Post

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    Perspective | Water World A photographer’s deep dive into public pools. via Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/in-sight/wp/2017/08/10/water-world/ The public pool is a lot of things: It’s a vital sanctuary for those who don’t live in gated communities or belong to private swim clubs. It’s a destination that, for kids, sets the rhythm of summer days until school…

  • Victory in the Shadows – The New York Times

    Victory in the Shadows – The New York Times

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    Victory in the Shadows Through blur, darkness and drift, the photographer Santu Mofokeng shows that black South Africans are more than their suffering. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/10/magazine/victory-in-the-shadows.html?partner=rss&emc=rss The photographer is Santu Mofokeng, and the caption of the image opens up a world: ‘‘The Drumming, Johannesburg- Soweto Line, from Train Church, 1986.’’ We now know that we are…

  • Meet the Tenants of London’s Trellick Tower | FotoRoom

    Meet the Tenants of London’s Trellick Tower | FotoRoom

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    Meet the Tenants of London’s Trellick Tower Months before the Grenfell Tower fire, Nicola Muirhead started portraying the tenants of another social housing estate rising about one mile away. via FotoRoom: http://fotoroom.co/in-brutal-presence-nicola-muirhead/ Last 14 June, a huge fire broke out at Grenfell Tower, a public housing building in West London, killing at least 80 people;…

  • Living on the World’s Most Crowded Island – The New York Times

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    [contentcards url=”https://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2017/08/10/living-on-the-worlds-most-crowded-island/?module=BlogPost-Title&version=Blog%20Main&contentCollection=Multimedia&action=Click&pgtype=Blogs&region=Body”] Living on the World’s Most Crowded Island – The New York Times Off Colombia’s Caribbean coast, two hours from Cartagena, sits a dot of an island, just over two acres big and barely noted on maps. Until a few generations ago, it was uninhabited, a rest stop for fishermen lured to its shores…

  • Closing Down a Notorious Heroin Camp in Philadelphia – The Atlantic

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    Closing Down a Notorious Heroin Camp in Philadelphia Earlier this year, photographers visited Kensington in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to photograph “El Campamento”, one of the largest open-air drug markets and shooting galleries on the East Coast. via The Atlantic: https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2017/08/closing-down-a-notorious-heroin-camp-in-philadelphia/536232/ Earlier this year, AFP photographer Dominick Reuter and Getty photographer Spencer Platt both visited the Kensington…

  • Haley Jane Samuelson: Year of the Beast | LENSCRATCH

    Haley Jane Samuelson: Year of the Beast | LENSCRATCH

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    Haley Jane Samuelson: Year of the Beast Haley Jane Samuelson’s Year of the Beast is quite the coming of age story, though not so much in the traditional sense.  Here is a body of work not revolving around becoming an adult or the process of finding the one and only, but establishes itself later via…

  • Two Photographers’ Idyllic Images of Russia and England – VICE

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    Two Photographers’ Idyllic Images of Russia and England Photographers Maria Gruzdeva and Mark Power share their work in our annual photo issue. via Vice: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/wj5evz/two-photographers-idyllic-images-of-russia-and-england-v24n6 Photographers Maria Gruzdeva and Mark Power share their work in our annual photo issue.

  • Young Asian American Photographer Refreshes Vintage Eggleston Americana – VICE

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    Young Asian American Photographer Refreshes Vintage Eggleston Americana Photographers Tommy Kha and William Eggleston share their work in our annual photo issue. via Vice: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/bjxkwm/young-asian-american-photographer-refreshes-vintage-eggleston-americana-v24n6 Photographers Tommy Kha and William Eggleston share their work in our annual photo issue.

  • Two Photographers Show the Passage of Time Through Obsessive Documentation of Their Subjects – VICE

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    Two Photographers Show the Passage of Time Through Obsessive Documentation of Their Subjects Photographers Isabella Lanave and Alessandra Sanguinetti share their work in our annual photo issue. via Vice: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/gygxa7/two-photographers-show-the-passage-of-time-through-obsessive-documentation-of-their-subjects-v24n6 Photographers Isabella Lanave and Alessandra Sanguinetti share their work in our annual photo issue.

  • Carrie Mae Weems’s Portraiture Influences a Promising Young Photographer – VICE

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    Photos From Two Artists Who Approach Portraits in Very Different Ways Photographers Elliott Jerome Brown Jr. and Carrie Mae Weems share their work in our annual photo issue. via Vice: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/9ky9pe/carrie-mae-weemss-portraiture-influences-a-promising-young-photographer-v24n6 Photographers Elliott Jerome Brown Jr. and Carrie Mae Weems share their work in our annual photo issue.

  • Haunting Photos Show Intimate Scenes of Small-Town Life in America – VICE

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    Haunting Photos Show Intimate Scenes of Small-Town Life in America Photographers Adam Lach and Alec Soth share their work in our annual photo issue. via Vice: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/qvp5k3/haunting-photos-show-intimate-scenes-of-small-town-life-in-america-v24n6 For our annual photo issue we reached out to 16 up-and-coming photographers and asked them which photographer inspired them to pursue the medium. Then we approached their “idols”…

  • Maggie Steber’s Documentary Work Paves the Way for Future Photo Journalists – VICE

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    Maggie Steber’s Documentary Work Paves the Way for Future Photojournalists Photographers Tasneem Alsultan and Maggie Steber share their work in our annual photo issue. via Vice: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/nebjxb/maggie-stebers-documentary-work-paves-the-way-for-future-photo-journalists-v24n6 For our annual photo issue we reached out to 16 up-and-coming photographers and asked them which photographer inspired them to pursue the medium. Then we approached their “idols”…

  • Alyssa Schukar: The Most Industrialized City | LENSCRATCH

    Alyssa Schukar: The Most Industrialized City | LENSCRATCH

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    Alyssa Schukar: The Most Industrialized City I had the pleasure to meet documentary photographer, Alyssa Schukar on my last visit to Chicago when I was teaching a workshop for Filter Photo. Alyssa is a devoted observer who has traveled the globe to tell her stories and has the ability to put signifi via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2017/08/alyssa-schukar/…

  • A photographer documents the lives of the Wayuu people of Colombia, who live in extreme poverty – The Washington Post

    A photographer documents the lives of the Wayuu people of Colombia, who live in extreme poverty – The Washington Post

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    Perspective | Forgotten in the dust of northern Colombia An immersion photographer has spent much of the past two years with the Wayuu. via Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/in-sight/wp/2017/08/07/forgotten-in-the-dust-of-northern-colombia/ Italian photographer Nicolò Filippo Rosso first told me about his work in the Guajira when I met him in Colombia a couple of years ago. He wore a…

  • Martin Cox: Snow Drawings | LENSCRATCH

    Martin Cox: Snow Drawings | LENSCRATCH

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    Martin Cox: Snow Drawings Summer might be a good time to imagine cooler climes with a meditative project on snow. While in Iceland, photographer Martin Cox encountered landscapes that at once felt other worldly and stark, with no demarcation of where the sky ended and the  land st via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2017/08/martin-cox-snow-drawings/ Summer might be a…

  • Haruka Sakaguchi – Original New Yorkers « burn magazine

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    Haruka Sakaguchi – Original New Yorkers Haruka Sakaguchi Original New Yorkers Author Tom Slater describes gentrification as a “spatial expression of economic inequality.” It is, in short, the process by which middle and upper class resid… via burn magazine: http://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2017/08/haruka-sakaguchi-original-new-yorkers/ Author Tom Slater describes gentrification as a “spatial expression of economic inequality.” It is, in…

  • Keeping Watch: Hasan Elahi, Lauren Grabelle, and Sheri Lynn Behr | LENSCRATCH

    Keeping Watch: Hasan Elahi, Lauren Grabelle, and Sheri Lynn Behr | LENSCRATCH

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    Keeping Watch: Hasan Elahi, Lauren Grabelle, and Sheri Lynn Behr Sometimes I think the idea that we are being “watched” is a little like being on social media. At first there is that uncomfortable feeling of being exposed to those who are unfamiliar and then one becomes used to having their lives on display. With…