Category: Portfolios & Galleries
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Behind the Mask: Scenes From Nicaragua’s Sandinista Revolution – The New York Times
Behind the Mask: Scenes From Nicaragua’s Sandinista Revolution A commemorative reissue of Susan Meiselas’s book “Nicaragua” brings to life the young revolutionaries who toppled the Somoza dictatorship. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/10/31/behind-the-mask-scenes-from-nicaraguas-sandinista-revolution/?module=BlogPost-Title&version=Blog%20Main&contentCollection=Multimedia&action=Click&pgtype=Blogs®ion=Body&_r=0 A photo of three men wearing traditional Nicaraguan folk masks and holding homemade contact bombs graced the cover of The New York Times Magazine…
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“I Feel Forgotten”: A Decade of Struggle in Rural Ohio – The New Yorker
“I Feel Forgotten”: A Decade of Struggle in Rural Ohio Long before Trump began appealing to rural white America, the photographer Matt Eich spent years listening to what people who feel forgotten have to say. via The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/i-feel-forgotten-a-decade-of-struggle-in-rural-ohio?mbid=rss Long before Trump began appealing to rural white America, the photographer Matt Eich spent years…
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One Photographer Traveled the Full Length of the U.S. Border With Mexico | TIME
This Photographer Traveled the Whole U.S. Border With Mexico Getty Images’ John Moore takes stock of America’s border operations via Time: http://time.com/4537222/photographs-usa-border-mexico/ Getty Images’ John Moore takes stock of America’s border operations
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Gamma, A story of photographers – The Eye of Photography
Gamma, A story of photographers Gamma: A story of photographers, a story of an agency, one of the best. An Éditions de la Martinère book (Gamma : Une histoire de photographes) is celebrating its 50th anniversary. It is astounding. The texts by Hubert Henrotte and Floris de Bonneville are sumptuous. Each week, L’Œil de la…
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Duane Michals: Living in the marvelous – The Eye of Photography
Duane Michals: Living in the marvelous Working, teaching, chatting or just living: whatever he’s doing, Duane Michals is a man with a big heart—which has always made him a photographer unlike any other, totally committed to authenticity and the extraordinary
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What Inge Morath Saw: A Unique Sense of Style – The New York Times
What Inge Morath Saw: A Unique Sense of Style The photographer Inge Morath, who was also the wife of Arthur Miller, had an eye for style — on the street and on film sets, at galas and on runways. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/10/26/what-inge-morath-saw-a-unique-sense-of-style/?module=BlogPost-Title&version=Blog%20Main&contentCollection=Multimedia&action=Click&pgtype=Blogs®ion=Body&_r=0 Inge Morath was not a fashion photographer. But Ms. Morath, a Magnum…
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Life Along a Poisoned River – The New Yorker
Life Along a Poisoned River Alejandro Kirchuk captured the struggle and the vitality of those who live in the basin of Argentina’s notoriously polluted Riachuelo River. via The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/life-along-a-poisoned-river?mbid=rss The twenty-nine-year-old Argentine photographer Alejandro Kirchuk grew up in the Palermo neighborhood of Buenos Aires and has lived near the Riachuelo since he was…
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Lara Aitor – Baka. Guardians of the Forest. « burn magazine
Aitor Lara – Baka, Guardians of the Forest. Lara Aitor Baka, Guardians of the Forest The Baka, indigenous peoples of Cameroon, are facing a serious departure from their traditional way of life due to the increasingly sedentary lifestyle that… via burn magazine: http://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2016/10/lara-aitor-baka-guardians-of-the-forest/ The Baka, indigenous peoples of Cameroon, are facing a serious departure from…
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After Egypt’s Revolution, a New Start in American Exile – The New York Times
After Egypt’s Revolution, a New Start in American Exile When a young Egyptian medical student’s dreams of democracy collapsed, he joined fellow expatriates in the United States, documenting their hopes for the future. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/10/25/after-egypts-revolution-a-new-start-in-american-exile/?module=BlogPost-Title&version=Blog%20Main&contentCollection=Multimedia&action=Click&pgtype=Blogs®ion=Body&_r=0 I was a medical student and political activist when the revolution against the Mubarak regime in Egypt broke…
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Daniel W. Coburn: States Project: Kansas | LENSCRATCH
Daniel W. Coburn: States Project: Kansas Daniel W. Coburn has spent a significant portion of his life in Kansas, as a state that he has lived in since his youth and as a backdrop for his practice. Much of his work focuses on his family, the relationships that bind them, and the inherent flaws in via LENSCRATCH:…
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Mario Cruz: Talibes, Modern-day Slaves – The Eye of Photography
Mario Cruz: Talibes, Modern-day Slaves Talibe is an Arabic term for disciple. In Senegal, what was once a respectable education system has become criminal. What tries to pass as religious teaching today has become a business for exploiting children
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Ken Weingart interviews Alain Laboile | LENSCRATCH
Ken Weingart interviews Alain Laboile Today, I am sharing an interview that photographer and blogger, Ken Weingart, conducted with photographer Alain Laboile. Ken has been producing interviews for his Art and Photography blog, and he has kindly offered to share his interviews with the LENSCRA via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2016/10/ken-weingart-interviews-alain-laboile/ Alain Laboile is a French fine art photographer…
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Inside the Libyan Detention Centers Where Humanity Ceases to Exist | TIME
Inside the Libyan Detention Centers Where Humanity Ceases to Exist In the absence of a government, Libya has devolved into a brutal marketplace of human lives via Time: http://time.com/4538519/libya-human-trafficking/ In the absence of a government, Libya has devolved into a brutal marketplace of human lives
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Filter Photo Festival 2016 – Part 3 | A Photo Editor
Filter Photo Festival 2016 – Part 3 – A Photo Editor by Jonathan Blaustein Allow me to gather my thoughts. In the last month, as your emissary, I’ve been in Albuquerque, Chicago, Denver, Manhattan, Brooklyn, Albuquerque again, Los Angeles, and now San Diego. In my 6.5 years writing for this blog, I’ve never via A…
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Prix Bayeux 2016: The Tears of Generosity – The Eye of Photography
Prix Bayeux 2016: The Tears of Generosity His hand on his heart, lips trembling, Yannis Behrakis came up to receive his second award of the evening: the “Prix Photo AFD Grand Public”. Known as a good-hearted man as well as for his talent as a committed photographer, with his trophy in his hand, he announced,…
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On Scotland’s Western Isles, Glimpses of Life, Tradition and Reflection – The New York Times
On Scotland’s Western Isles, Glimpses of Life, Tradition and Reflection On a journey to explore identity, Laetitia Vancon found herself in the Outer Hebrides, where traditions keep residents close, despite limited opportunities. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/10/20/scotlands-western-isles-glimpses-of-life-tradition-reflection-laetitia-vancon-hebrides/?&_r=0&module=Slide®ion=SlideShowTopBar&version=SlideCard-10&action=Escape&contentCollection=Blogs&slideshowTitle=On%20Scotl For Laetitia Vancon, photography was a healing process. Grieving after her boyfriend died, she used her camera to explore…
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Crossing the Line in Battleground America – Vantage – Medium
Crossing the Line in Battleground America To cover any conflict properly you’ve got to see it from both (or all) sides if possible. Battleground America is no different, even though… via Medium: https://medium.com/vantage/crossing-the-lines-in-battleground-america-acd610d4d3ec#.p2hm5kvvy After shooting three Trump rallies in a row, last week I was able to go to three Clinton events, one Hillary and…
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Sage Sohier: Americans Seen | LENSCRATCH
Sage Sohier: Americans Seen When I first came across Sage Sohier’s photographs, it was a little bit like Christmas, each project rich with her unique way of seeing the world. For 30 years, Sage has captured people in their environment with a sensitivity and curiosity that allows us via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2016/10/sage-sohier-americans-seen/ I was interested in…
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Nancy Baron: The Good Life Goes On | LENSCRATCH
Nancy Baron: The Good Life Goes On Photographer Nancy Baron has just released her second monograph, The Good Life Goes On, published by Kehrer Verlag. It’s an apt title as the good life certainly does go in this exquisitely captured collection of photographs about life in Palm Springs. Nan via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2016/10/nancy-baron-the-good-life-goes-on/ Photographer Nancy Baron…
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Composite Photos of Planes at Airports Around the World
Composite Photos of Planes at Airports Around the World Back in 2014, we shared an impressive composite photo by Mike Kelley that combined 8 hours of airplane takeoffs at LAX into a single frame. After the via PetaPixel: http://petapixel.com/2016/10/18/composite-photos-planes-airports-around-world/ Back in 2014, we shared an impressive composite photo by Mike Kelley that combined 8 hours…