Category: Portfolios & Galleries

  • Looking at All Sides in Colombia’s Conflict – The New York Times

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    Looking at All Sides in Colombia’s Conflict After years of photographing in various parts of Colombia, Alvaro Ybarra now wants to put his photos, and hopefully those of others, into an archive that will help the country heal. via Lens Blog: https://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2017/02/27/looking-at-all-sides-in-colombias-conflict/?module=BlogPost-Title&version=Blog%20Main&contentCollection=Multimedia&action=Click&pgtype=Blogs&region=Body&_r=0 When combatants lay down their weapons, it’s merely the beginning of peace. The…

  • Thomas Kellner | LENSCRATCH

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    Thomas Kellner His work is often referred to Cubism considering that his creative process includes a construction but the results resemble a deconstruction. Thomas Kellner’s works imitate the wandering look of the eye, showing us segments of the total which come together as one image. Therefore his photographs do not deconstruct architecture but reconstruct our…

  • Swarat Ghosh – Beyond Street « burn magazine

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    Swarat Ghosh – Beyond Street Swarat Ghosh Beyond Street For me in the street I normally try to catch the emotions more than anything. For me “Content” is the King. As long as I am getting strong subjects with varied emotions w… via burn magazine: http://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2017/02/swarat-ghosh-beyond-street/ For me in the street I normally try to…

  • A Sense of Place: Photographs by Stefanie Klavens, Sarah Malakoff and Remi Thornton | LENSCRATCH

    A Sense of Place: Photographs by Stefanie Klavens, Sarah Malakoff and Remi Thornton | LENSCRATCH

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    A Sense of Place: Photographs by Stefanie Klavens, Sarah Malakoff and Remi Thornton The Dana Hall Art Gallery at The Dana Hall School in Wellesley, MA presents an exhibition, A Sense of Place, running Feb. 15–March 9. The show features the work of photographers Stefanie Klavens, Sarah Malakoff and Remi Thornton. An opening reception will via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2017/02/a-sense-of-place-photographs-by-stefanie-klavens-sarah-malakoff-and-remi-thornton/ A Sense Of Place brings…

  • Tales From a Street Photographer in St. Petersburg – Feature Shoot

    Tales From a Street Photographer in St. Petersburg – Feature Shoot

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    Tales From a Street Photographer in St. Petersburg – Feature Shoot When I asked Alexander Petrosyan to tell me why St. Petersburg is a great place for street photography, he answered honestly. It isn’t. It’s usually freezing, and the streets are… via Feature Shoot: http://www.featureshoot.com/2017/02/tales-from-a-street-photographer-in-st-petersburg/ When I asked Alexander Petrosyan to tell me why St.…

  • Peter van Agtmael’s Decoding of American Violence – The New Yorker

    Peter van Agtmael’s Decoding of American Violence – The New Yorker

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    Peter van Agtmael’s Decoding of American Violence At a moment when the country’s divisions feel otherwise inscrutable, the photographer’s work delivers new ways of seeing American violence and fortitude. via The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/peter-van-agtmaels-decoding-of-american-violence On the eve of Donald Trump’s Inauguration, I rode the train from New York to Washington, D.C., with a book tucked…

  • Haunting Visions of the Sprawling American West – Feature Shoot

    Haunting Visions of the Sprawling American West – Feature Shoot

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    Haunting Visions of the Sprawling American West – Feature Shoot French photographer Emmanuel Monzon thinks living in the United States is like living inside a painting. In his meticulously crafted American scenes, all humans have vacated the premises, leaving behind… via Feature Shoot: http://www.featureshoot.com/2017/02/haunting-visions-sprawling-american-west/ French photographer Emmanuel Monzon thinks living in the United States is…

  • Greg Brophy: The Iron Triangle | LENSCRATCH

    Greg Brophy: The Iron Triangle | LENSCRATCH

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    Greg Brophy: The Iron Triangle Greg Brophy’s series, The Iron Triangle, pays homage to the disappearing steel-clad landscape and the working class champions of Willets Point, Queens, New York. Brophy set out to photograph the neighborhood to document the area before sanitized, and homo via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2017/02/greg-brophy/ Greg Brophy’s series, The Iron Triangle, pays homage…

  • Chris Bickford – Legends of the Sandbar « burn magazine

    Chris Bickford – Legends of the Sandbar « burn magazine

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    Chris Bickford – Legends of the Sandbar Christopher Bickford Legends of the Sandbar Legends of the Sandbar is an homage to the surf culture of the Outer Banks of North Carolina, written and photographed by Christopher Bickford. It is an … via burn magazine: http://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2017/02/chris-bickford-legends-of-the-sandbar/ Legends of the Sandbar is an homage to the surf…

  • Greetings from Uzbekistan, the Country that Grows Cotton in the Desert – Feature Shoot

    Greetings from Uzbekistan, the Country that Grows Cotton in the Desert – Feature Shoot

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    Greetings from Uzbekistan, the Country that Grows Cotton in the Desert – Feature Shoot London-based photographer Marco Barbieri has always been interested in countries where politics and religion play a central role in people’s lives. He decided to travel to Uzbekistan after seeing images… via Feature Shoot: http://www.featureshoot.com/2017/02/greetings-from-uzbekistan-the-country-that-grows-cotton-in-the-desert/ London-based photographer Marco Barbieri has always been…

  • Enrique Metinides, criminal photographs in Mexico City – The Eye of Photography

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    Enrique Metinides, criminal photographs in Mexico City From 1948 until his forced retirement in 1979, the Mexican photographer Enrique Metinides took thousands of images and followed hundreds of stories in and around Mexico City. And what images and stories they were: car wrecks and train derailments, a bi-plane crashed on to a roof, street stabbings…

  • Turning ordinary into magical: Amateur photographer presents new look at life in India – The Washington Post

    Turning ordinary into magical: Amateur photographer presents new look at life in India – The Washington Post

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    Perspective | Turning ordinary into magical: Amateur photographer presents new look at life in India An unrelenting sense of curiosity is what drives Swarat Ghosh’s artwork. via Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/in-sight/wp/2017/02/08/turning-ordinary-into-magical-amateur-photographer-presents-new-look-at-life-in-india/ More often than not, photography coming out of India tends to focus on the “exotic.” We’ve seen the pictures many times before — people performing…

  • ICP Perpetual Revolution: Propaganda and the Islamic State – The Eye of Photography

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    ICP Perpetual Revolution: Propaganda and the Islamic State ISIS also proposes to offer a better, more meaningful life to its followers while it plans and supports deadly mayhem. It skillfully uses both positive and negative propaganda, which is blasted across multiple online platforms in endless streams of photographs, videos, podcasts, and texts

  • ICP Perpetual Revolution: The Flood, Refugees and Representation – The Eye of Photography

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    ICP Perpetual Revolution: The Flood, Refugees and Representation It also includes images that have sparked a near-instant virality, fleetingly igniting the world’s attention, yet burning deeply enough in virtual space to affect real-world policies. Some content circulates on robust networks not visible to the public at large: the surveillance systems of governmental bodies, and the…

  • A Photographic Chronicle of America’s Working Poor | History | Smithsonian

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    A Photographic Chronicle of America’s Working Poor Smithsonian journeyed from Maine to California to update a landmark study of American life via Smithsonian Magazine: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/photographic-chronicle-america-working-poor-180961147/?preview Smithsonian (Matt Black) journeyed from Maine to California to update a landmark study of American life

  • Finding the True North in Canada – The New York Times

    Finding the True North in Canada – The New York Times

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    Finding the True North in Canada In “The Canadians,” photos culled from Canada’s Globe and Mail newspaper archive echo Robert Frank’s epic portrait of that country’s neighbor to the south. via Lens Blog: https://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2017/02/06/finding-the-true-north-in-canada-globe-and-mail/?module=BlogPost-Title&version=Blog%20Main&contentCollection=Multimedia&action=Click&pgtype=Blogs&region=Body&_r=0 When the Globe and Mail, one of Canada’s national newspapers, made plans to move to smaller and more modern premises, the…

  • 16 Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize – The Eye of Photography

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    16 Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize The 16th edition of the Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize highlights a diversity of techniques and formats in contemporary photography. Among the total of 4303 images by 1842 photographers, the judges have chosen 57 with the intention of showing a wide range of representations of the other. The visitor…

  • Steve Schapiro, Eyewitness – The Eye of Photography

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    Steve Schapiro, Eyewitness An extensive exhibition of photographs from key moments of the Civil Rights movement by American documentary photographer Steve Schapiro is starting on February 10 at Monroe Gallery, in Santa Fe.

  • Nurturing New Storytellers in Africa and Latin America – The New York Times

    Nurturing New Storytellers in Africa and Latin America – The New York Times

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    Nurturing New Storytellers in Africa and Latin America Native Agency, a new collective, is mentoring a dozen photographers from Africa and Latin America to produce overlooked stories in their countries. via Lens Blog: https://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2017/02/07/nurturing-new-storytellers-in-africa-and-latin-america/?action=click&contentCollection=Blogs&pgtype=imageslideshow&module=RelatedArticleList&region=CaptionArea&version=SlideCard-6 For some people, the idea of “serious” photography conjures up dramatic scenes of suffering, violence and poverty. This can be especially…

  • Richard Mosse’s “Heat Maps”: A Military-Grade Camera Repurposed on the Migrant Trail – The New Yorker

    Richard Mosse’s “Heat Maps”: A Military-Grade Camera Repurposed on the Migrant Trail – The New Yorker

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    Richard Mosse’s “Heat Maps”: A Military-Grade Camera Repurposed on the Migrant Trail Mosse’s shadowy renderings erase the lines that have been drawn between refugees, immigrants, natives, citizens, and the rest. via The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/richard-mosses-heat-maps-a-military-grade-camera-repurposed-on-the-migrant-trail For his series of panoramic images, titled “Heat Maps,” the photographer Richard Mosse co-opted these capabilities for a different purpose. In…