Category: Portfolios & Galleries
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Andreas Gursky, The best of times – The Eye of Photography
Andreas Gursky, The best of times There is a Gursky quote “My photographs are ‘not abstract’. Ultimately they are always identifiable. Photography in general simply cannot disengage from the object”, and it seems just right. His recent “Les Meés” (2016), solar panels pieced into easy, rolling hills of rigid black and white rectangles, a carpet of dominoes, a truly…
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Once ‘Invisible,’ She Now Photographs Other Domestic Workers – The New York Times
Once ‘Invisible,’ She Now Photographs Other Domestic Workers Xyza Bacani — a former domestic worker — has documented the plight of illegally trafficked workers in Singapore, making their voices heard. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2017/01/12/once-invisible-she-photographs-domestic-workers-xyza-bacani/?&_r=0&module=Slide®ion=SlideShowTopBar&version=SlideCard-5&action=Escape&contentCollection=Blogs&slideshowTitle=Once%20%E2%80%98Invisible%2C%E2%80%99% When Xyza Bacani first tried photographing migrant workers at a Singapore shelter for women who had fled abusive employers, the man…
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Changsha, by Rian Dundon – Vantage – Medium
Changsha, by Rian Dundon One photographer in his mid-twenties, mostly in small and far-removed Chinese cities via Medium: https://medium.com/vantage/changsha-by-rian-dunon-cf41bde26ee4#.8gg2hp5hm “At first, when I didn’t speak the language, I would hang out in pool halls and practice counting balls in Chinese. I couldn’t hold a conversation but I knew how to play and I knew how…
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The Daily Edit – J.R. Mankoff: Standing Rock | A Photo Editor
The Daily Edit – J.R. Mankoff: Standing Rock – A Photo Editor This is Amanda. She’s about to head to the front line. There are no weapons allowed. Even a gas mask or bullet proof vest can be construed as a threat to the police. She’s brining a mirror with her to reflect light back onto…
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‘Caracas by day torments and by night terrifies’ – The Washington Post
‘Caracas by day torments and by night terrifies’ Venezuelan photographer Alejandro Cegarra’s highly personal investigation into the violence and desperation sweeping Venezuela via Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/in-sight/wp/2017/01/09/caracas-by-day-torments-and-by-night-terrifies/ I’m not religious, but I pray. Somehow just taking photos isn’t enough. I feel the need to try to help that poor kid find some peace, even though I’d…
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Jamie Johnson: Irish Travellers | LENSCRATCH
Jamie Johnson: Irish Travellers For the past several years, Jamie Johnson has packed up her cameras and headed to Ireland to photograph the Irish Travellers, capturing the children whose growing up often appears to be very short. Jamie has had a lifelong interest in photographing childr via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2017/01/jamie-johnson-irish-travellers/ For the past several years, Jamie…
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Philippines: Rodrigo Duterte’s Drug War Photos
Photographs From the Front Lines of Philippines’ Drug War James Nachtwey photographs the bloody crackdown on drugs in the Philippines via TIME.com: http://time.com/philippines-drug-war/ Photos by James Nachtwey for Time
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Juxtapoz Magazine – All Kill No Fill @ Photo LA
Juxtapoz Magazine – All Kill No Fill @ Photo LA Charles Negre was the first photographer to capture people in movement on the streets of Paris in 1851. That impulse has since inspired countless imag… Link: http://www.juxtapoz.com/news/photography/all-kill-no-fill-photo-la/ Charles Negre was the first photographer to capture people in motion on the streets of 1851 Paris. That…
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Memories from an Arkansas Cotton Farm in the 1980s – Feature Shoot
Memories from an Arkansas Cotton Farm in the 1980s – Feature Shoot Cheryl with Silos, Rotan Switch, Arkansas Cully Cooking, Rotan Switch, Arkansas When she was a girl, photographer Lisa McCord spent summers and holidays at Rotan, her grandparents’ Arkansas cotton farm.… via Feature Shoot: http://www.featureshoot.com/2017/01/memories-arkansas-cotton-farm-1980s/ When she was a girl, photographer Lisa McCord spent…
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2016 Seen Through the Lens of Damir Sagolj
2016 Seen Through the Lens of Damir Sagolj Based in Beijing, China, Reuters photographer Damir Sagolj has had a busy year. via The Atlantic: http://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2016/12/2016-seen-through-the-lens-of-damir-sagolj/511784/ Reuters photographer Damir Sagolj has had a busy year. Based in Beijing, China, his work took him across Asia, covering crime, sports, politics, protest, daily life, military events, and much more.…
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The 2016 Favorite Photograph Exhibition | LENSCRATCH
The 2016 Favorite Photograph Exhibition A new day, a new year, we have now entered into 2017! Per tradition, we have called out asking you to send us your favorite photographs that you have taken in 2016. This melting pot of imagery is very much a reflection of the previous year, however joyou via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2017/01/the-2016-favorite-photograph-exhibition/ A…
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The Best VICE Photos of 2016 – VICE
The Best VICE Photos of 2016 We published a lot of photos in 2016. Here are some of our favorites. via Vice: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/the-best-vice-photos-of-2016 I have the great pleasure of being able to produce a lot of original imagery for both our monthly magazine and vice.com as the resident photo dweeb here. When I’m not commissioning,…
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Photographing Climate Change Refugees, by Drone and on Foot – The New York Times
Photographing Climate Change Refugees, by Drone and on Foot Josh Haner, a staff photographer and senior editor for photo technology at The New York Times, discusses new ways to visualize climate change. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/12/28/photographing-climate-change-refugees-drone-foot-josh-haner/?module=BlogPost-Title&version=Blog%20Main&contentCollection=Multimedia&action=Click&pgtype=Blogs®ion=Body&_r=0 Josh Haner has photographed eight stories across five countries this year about the effects of climate change, often employing…
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The Year That Was: A Web-Wide Survey of the Top Photos of 2016 – Vantage – Medium
The Year That Was: A Web-Wide Survey of the Top Photos of 2016 A “best of” list of the best of lists! via Medium: https://medium.com/vantage/ai-ap-pro-photo-daily-the-year-that-was-a-web-wide-survey-of-the-top-photos-of-2016-e84b9b40e441#.bfof2xkbf we spotlight various best-photos-of-the-year lists from around the web
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Top Photo News Stories of 2016
Top Photo News Stories of 2016 Here’s the top ten photo news stories we covered in 2016. Topics range from copyright infringement, Instagram updates, celebrity portraiture tips and more. via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.pdnonline.com/2016/12/top-photo-news-stories-of-2016.html Copyright dispute, the continuing controversy over for-profit art schools, Richard Prince (again), First Amendment protections and the President-elect: We look back on the…
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Our most memorable photos of 2016 – The Washington Post
Our most memorable photos of 2016 Here are the images that left an impression on us this year. via Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/in-sight/wp/2016/12/27/our-most-memorable-photos-of-2016/ As photo editors, we see millions of photos through the year. Many of the images never make publication. Some are inspirational and happy, and some are tragic and terribly graphic. As we tell…
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Charles H. Traub: Lunchtime | LENSCRATCH
Charles H. Traub: Lunchtime “If you stay in one place long enough, everybody passes by. And, truth be known, everybody wants to be photographed.” – Charles H. Traub A few months ago, I received an e-mail from Charles H. Traub, sharing his new website. It was stunning in its design, via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2016/12/charles-h-traub-lunchtime/ Lunchtime, created…
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The Breathtaking Simplicity of the Indonesian Landscape – Feature Shoot
The Breathtaking Simplicity of the Indonesian Landscape – Feature Shoot When Hengki Koentjoro makes pictures, he relishes loneliness. Being solo with only the rustle of the wind and the rolling of the tides isn’t painful; it’s reassuring and life-sustaining. Koentjoro… via Feature Shoot: http://www.featureshoot.com/2016/12/breathtaking-simplicity-indonesian-landscape/ When Hengki Koentjoro makes pictures, he relishes loneliness. Being solo with…
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Brian Griffin : Capitalist Realism at Steven Kasher Gallery – The Eye of Photography
Brian Griffin : Capitalist Realism at Steven Kasher Gallery When arriving in London in 1972, Brian Griffin received an assignment from the English magazine Management Today to photograph the working world. For Griffin, failure was hiding everywhere. Even though the artistic director ( formerly of Camera, a trilingual photo-magazine) often compared him to Robert Frank,…
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Will Jacks: The States Project: Mississippi | LENSCRATCH
Will Jacks: The States Project: Mississippi I first met Will Jacks when I was in search of a gallery to show my Mississippi images. He had started a photo gallery in an old storefront in his hometown of Cleveland in the Mississippi Delta. It sounded ideal, and though very successful, it was not to via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2016/12/will-jacks-the-states-project-mississippi/…