Category: Portfolios & Galleries
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FotoFirst — At Stella Maris, a Hotel for Foreign Workers, They Do Everything to Keep the Guests Off Town | FotoRoom
FotoFirst — At Stella Maris, a Hotel for Foreign Workers, They Do Everything to Keep the Guests Off Town How would you feel about a hotel with a restaurant, a gym, a disco bar and more if you knew this was all offered to you so that you don’t annoy the locals? via FotoRoom: http://fotoroom.co/stella-maris-miriam-donkers-geisje-van-der-linden/ Stella…
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Migrants Risk Everything For a Chance at a Better Life – The Atlantic
Harrowing Scenes From the Mediterranean as Migrants Risk Everything for a Chance at a Better Life Photographer Aris Messinis recently spent time aboard rescue vehicles documenting just some of the thousands of desperate migrants plucked from smuggler’s boats left drifting in the Mediterranean over the past few days. via The Atlantic: http://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2016/10/harrowing-scenes-from-the-mediterranean-as-migrants-risk-everything-for-a-chance-at-a-better-life/503018/ Agence France-Presse photographer Aris Messinis recently…
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Antonio Lopez, Future Funk Fashion – The Eye of Photography
Antonio Lopez, Future Funk Fashion In 2011, Twin Palms, published Antonio Lopez’s book Instamatics. If Lopez had left only his Instamatic photographs, and not the drawings for which he is known, one would still have cause to celebrate a brilliant artistic vision. This monograph includes innovative images spanning the 1970s
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A Man Killed Five Amish Girls. Now, His Brother Is Photographing Their Community. – The New York Times
A Man Killed Five Amish Girls. Now, His Brother Is Photographing Their Community. Who knows what motivates anyone? For a fledgling photographer like Zachary Tyler Roberts, it was — at first — a desire to reconnect with his creative roots after years making money and drinks tending bars at trendy spots in New York and…
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Gypsy Gold — Sophie Green Introduces Us to the Eccentric Culture of the Travelers | FotoRoom
Gypsy Gold — Sophie Green Introduces Us to the Eccentric Culture of the Travelers Incredible faces, theatrical outfits, traditional carts, gleaming horses, cockerel fights, singing birds and fortune-tellers. via FotoRoom: http://fotoroom.co/gypsy-gold-sophie-green-introduces-us-to-the-eccentric-culture-of-the-travelers/ The horse is a staple of the culture of Travelers, as is true for many nomadic groups all over the world (including the people of…
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Exploring Detroit’s Soul – The Leica Camera Blog
Exploring Detroit’s Soul Street photography can come in many shapes and sizes. For Bruce Gilden, it has a strong definition, one that is exemplified by the close up images he takes of people in the streets. “Detroit: Against the Wind” is Magnum photographer Bruce Gilden’s ode to the Midwestern city and its inhabitants. The exhibition,…
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Love and Loss: Responding to the Orlando Massacre – The New York Times
Love and Loss: Responding to the Orlando Massacre Four months after a gunman killed 49 people at a gay nightclub in Florida, an exhibit highlights the global outpouring of love and support. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/10/04/love-and-loss-responding-to-the-orlando-massacre/?module=BlogPost-Title&version=Blog%20Main&contentCollection=Multimedia&action=Click&pgtype=Blogs®ion=Body&_r=0 Ángel Franco had been staking out a medical facility in Orlando, Fla., photographing grieving families who had just identified…
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Bill Yates, Sweetheart Roller Skating Rink – The Eye of Photography
Bill Yates, Sweetheart Roller Skating Rink The photographer’s iconic series of gelatin silver photographs were shot in 1972-1973 and for nearly 40 years, the project lay untouched in a box. At his family’s urging, Yates began to show the work and was met with immediate success, becoming a top 50 winner 2013 of PhotoLucida Critical…
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Five stories that ran on Behold and made an impact on its editor.
Farewell, Behold! Here Are the Five Posts That Stuck With Us. Four years ago, former Slate photo editor Heather Murphy hired me to work on a brand-new photography blog called Behold. Since then, we’ve produced… via Slate Magazine: http://www.slate.com/blogs/behold/2016/09/30/five_stories_that_ran_on_behold_and_made_an_impact_on_its_editor.html Today marks the end for Behold. I hope you discovered something new, or maybe you fell…
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A Vibrant Life Amid the Ruins of Rio – The New York Times
A Vibrant Life Amid the Ruins of Rio Peter Bauza was so taken by the lives of squatters forced to live in a half-finished apartment complex in Rio de Janeiro that he moved into their struggling, yet vibrant, community. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/10/03/a-vibrant-life-amid-the-ruins-of-rio/?module=BlogPost-Title&version=Blog%20Main&contentCollection=Multimedia&action=Click&pgtype=Blogs®ion=Body&_r=1 An abandoned apartment complex in the Campo Grande neighborhood of Rio de…
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ART + SCIENCE: David Shannon-Lier | LENSCRATCH
ART + SCIENCE: David Shannon-Lier David Shannon-Lier is a photographer based in Arizona. Since receiving an MFA from Arizona State University in 2013, he has been exhibiting his work on a national and international level. In 2015, he was awarded first place in the LensCulture Exposure Awa via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2016/10/art-science-week-david-shannon-lier/ David Shannon-Lier is a photographer…
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Revisiting Eugene Richards’s Sweeping Portrait of Life Below the Poverty Line – The New Yorker
Revisiting Eugene Richards’s Sweeping Portrait of Life Below the Poverty Line Richards was aware of the clichés of poverty journalism—the posed portraits of dignified despair. He was looking for something else. via The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/revisiting-eugene-richardss-sweeping-portrait-of-life-below-the-poverty-line?mbid=rss Thirty years ago, when Consumers Union, the publisher of Consumer Reports magazine, commissioned the photojournalist Eugene Richards to travel through fourteen American cities and towns…
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Photojournalism Now: Friday Round Up – 30 September, 2016
Friday Round Up – 30 September, 2016 This week on Photojournalism Now: Friday Round Up it’s all about the second edition of the Indian Photography Festival in Hyderabad. Fe… Link: http://photojournalismnow.blogspot.com/2016/09/friday-round-up-30-september-2016.html Spread across the city of Hyderabad, the capital of the southern Indian state of Telangana, the Indian Photography Festival (IPF) presents a comprehensive programme.…
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Photographing Poverty in the United States – Feature Shoot
Photographing Poverty in the United States – Feature Shoot Fresno, California Fresno, California Danish photojournalist Joakim Eskildsen had only been to the United States once before he started documenting Americans living in poverty in 2011. Looking back on TIME… via Feature Shoot: http://www.featureshoot.com/2016/09/photographing-poverty-united-states/ Danish photojournalist Joakim Eskildsen had only been to the United States once…
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Peter B Leighton: Live Snakes | LENSCRATCH
Peter B Leighton: Live Snakes Peter Brown Leighton is sort of a cross between a comedian and a magician, creating single image novelas that are at once off-kilter and humorous, allowing for a sense of confusion and whimsy within the photographic narrative. At first glance, one might m via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2016/09/peter-b-leighton-live-snakes/ Peter Brown Leighton is…
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CJ Clarke, Magic Party Place – The Eye of Photography
CJ Clarke, Magic Party Place “As I write, Britain’s referendum on the European Union membership looms. . . . In a recent poll readers of the Basildon Evening Echo said they would vote to leave the EU, 81% to 15%,” CJ Clarke wrote in Magic Party Place, just out from Kehrer Verlag.
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Alfredo Chiarappa – Railroad Station Platform Zero: Idomeni. « burn magazine
Alfredo Chiarappa – Railroad Station Platform Zero: Idomeni. Alfredo Chiarappa Railroad Station Platform Zero: Idomeni. My photo storytelling shows what life is actually like for migrants and refugees within the Idomeni camp in Greece. Idomeni is regarded as… via burn magazine: http://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2016/09/alfredo-chiarappa-railroad-station-platform-zero-idomeni/ My photo storytelling shows what life is actually like for migrants and refugees…
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On the Prowl With a Wildlife Photographer – The New York Times
On the Prowl With a Wildlife Photographer Tomasz Gudzowaty thinks nothing of trekking for days across snow and ice or in heat and rain to find scenes that look as if Genesis just happened. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/09/28/on-the-prowl-with-a-wildlife-photographer/?module=BlogPost-Title&version=Blog%20Main&contentCollection=Multimedia&action=Click&pgtype=Blogs®ion=Body&_r=0 For a lot of people, “The First Lesson of Killing,” a photo of two young cheetahs encountering…
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Painful But Unforgettable Portraits of Life on Skid Row – Feature Shoot
Painful But Unforgettable Portraits of Life on Skid Row – Feature Shoot “Get the fuck out of the car already, because if you don’t, you’ll never forgive yourself,” photographer Suzanne Stein told herself as she passed by Jennifer’s tent on Skid Row. She’d been photographing the faces of the area since October of the previous…
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Abbas, Gods I’ve Seen: Travels Among Hindus by Abbas – The Eye of Photography
Abbas, Gods I’ve Seen: Travels Among Hindus by Abbas I am not the first, nor, I suspect, the last traveller, to have been enthralled by India – and irritated, if not exasperated by the Indians.