Category: Portfolios & Galleries
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Anatomy of a Photobook: Magic Party Place by CJ Clarke | TIME
In the Heart of England’s Essex CJ Clarke speaks about his photobook, ‘Magic Party Place’ via Time: http://time.com/4396646/magic-party-place-england/ CJ Clarke, who grew up in Basildon and chose to document it for his first photobook, Magic Party Place. “[Basildon] is the perfect paradigm through which to explore the state of the nation,” he says, days after…
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Paris : Second Hands – The Eye of Photography
Paris : Second Hands Galerie Binôme’s latest exhibition is entitled Second Hands and features seven artists who apply an array of cross-disciplinary image-making practices. They come from the visual arts, photography, the realm of art collection … or they are quite simply artists. They acquire old photography collections, found at flea markets, in studio archives…
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Ljubljana : Sebastião Salgado, Genesis – The Eye of Photography
Ljubljana : Sebastião Salgado, Genesis As one of the main cultural projects of the 2016 European Green Capital, the Jakopic Gallery of Ljubljana is presenting the exhibition Genesis, a project by the world-renowned photographer Sebastião Salgado.
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Arles 2016 : Eamonn Doyle, End. – The Eye of Photography
Arles 2016 : Eamonn Doyle, End. “End.” seeks out the driving forces of both photographer and subject in an exhibition that brings together three bodies of work—”i”, “ON” and “End.”—exploring the local streets of Doyle’s native Dublin
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A glimpse inside the world’s largest matrilineal society – The Washington Post
A glimpse inside the world’s largest matrilineal society The Minangkabau culture is known for elaborate horned houses and fascinating customs, but its way of life is being threatened by urbanization. via Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/in-sight/wp/2016/07/06/a-glimpse-inside-the-worlds-largest-matrilineal-society/ “The [urbanization] phenomenon is slowly destroying the identity of the Minangkabau,” photographer Yoppy Pieter said. He spent seven weeks in a…
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Arles 2016 : Voies Off hosts FotoIstanbul Festival – The Eye of Photography
Arles 2016 : Voies Off hosts FotoIstanbul Festival Through a thirty-minute projection, artistic director and founder Attila Durak presented an overview of FotoIstanbul 2015’s exhibitions, offering Voies Off’s audience a voyage to the heart of Istanbul and of all the cultures.
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Decades On, Land Mines Shatter Young Lives in Iran – The New York Times
Decades On, Land Mines Shatter Young Lives in Iran Decades after the end of Iran’s war with Iraq, countless land mines in Iran’s western provinces continue to maim and kill children. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/07/06/thirty-years-on-landmines-shatter-young-lives-in-iran/?&_r=0&module=Slide®ion=SlideShowTopBar&version=SlideCard-7&action=Escape&contentCollection=Blogs&slideshowTitle=Thirty%20Years%20On%2C%20Land%20Mines%20Shat “It’s been 30 years since the war ended, and it’s still taking lives and hurting the people,” said Arash Khamooshi,…
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Go inside the surreal world of Vienna’s vanishing dive bars – The Washington Post
Go inside the surreal world of Vienna’s vanishing dive bars Photographer Klaus Pichler documents the dwindling days of Vienna’s Branntweiners via Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/in-sight/wp/2016/07/05/go-inside-the-surreal-world-of-viennas-vanishing-dive-bars/ Clemens Marschall and Klaus Pichler’s new book, “Golden Days Before They End” (Editions Patrick Frey, 2016) follows in a well-established photo documentary tradition of shining light on life’s underbelly
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Arles 2016 : Times Lines, Order & Disorder – The Eye of Photography
Arles 2016 : Times Lines, Order & Disorder The Manuel Rivera-Ortiz Foundation offers a visual experience that seeks to document our contemporary History, to depict its complexity and to denounce its inconsistencies. The Hôtel Blain is once again the representator of documentary photography and film in Arles.
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Giovanni Cocco – Displacement « burn magazine
Giovanni Cocco – Displacement Giovanni Cocco DISPLACEMENT. The Loss Of Cities As Blueprints For Societies [ EPF 2016 FINALIST ] I perceived what displacement can mean while strolling down the busted roads of L’Aquila, I… via burn magazine: http://www.burnmagazine.org/epf-2016/2016/07/giovanni-cocco-displacement/ I perceived what displacement can mean while strolling down the busted roads of L’Aquila, Italy,…
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A Comprehensive Look at California and the West – The New York Times
A Comprehensive Look at California and the West “It seemed to me that we had already developed a pretty good collection of California photography, but it needed a certain added dimension,” she said. “It needed to be larger, more meaningful, and it needed to address things we hadn’t, in various ways, consciously addressed.”
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Coming of Age in the Shadow of Chernobyl | TIME
Coming of Age in the Shadow of Chernobyl Niels Ackermann is this year’s recipient of the Ville de Perpignan Rémi Ochlik Award via Time: http://time.com/4386594/coming-of-age-in-the-shadow-of-chernobyl/ Niels Ackermann is this year’s recipient of the Ville de Perpignan Rémi Ochlik Award
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Leigh Merrill: The States Project: Texas | LENSCRATCH
Leigh Merrill: The States Project: Texas Leigh Merrill makes photographs and composite images of vacant urban spaces with a keen eye for architecture, infrastructure and color. In both projects This Place, and Cinder Blocks and Cherry Blossoms, Merrill calls attention to details not often notice via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2016/07/adam-neese-the-states-project-texas-6/ Leigh Merrill makes photographs and composite images…
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Gröschner & Messmer : Taking Stock of Power – An Other View of the Berlin Wall – The Eye of Photography
Gröschner & Messmer : Taking Stock of Power – An Other View of the Berlin Wall In 1995, Annett Gröschner and Arwed Messmer gained access to photographs of the Berlin Wall thanks to the Intermediary Military Archives in Potsdam. At the time of the division, the city was located in the GDR. In an archival…
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Surrounded by Industry, a Historic Community Fights for Its Future – The New York Times
Surrounded by Industry, a Historic Community Fights for Its Future The residents of Marktown, a historic district ringed by industrial behemoths in East Chicago, Ind., are trying to stay put, relying on each other in the face of change. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/06/30/surrounded-by-industry-a-historic-community-fights-for-its-future/?&_r=0&module=Slide®ion=SlideShowTopBar&version=SlideCard-8&action=Escape&contentCollection=Blogs&slideshowTitle=Surrounded%20by%20Industry%2C%20 The houses of Marktown were not exactly what Alyssa Schukar expected to…
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A Visual Ode to the American Dream | TIME
A Visual Ode to the American Dream Photographer Andrew Moore celebrates America’s mythology via Time: http://time.com/4385523/a-visual-ode-to-the-american-dream/ Photographer Andrew Moore celebrates America’s mythology
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Luigi Ghirri’s Brilliant Photographic Puzzles – The New York Times
Luigi Ghirri’s Brilliant Photographic Puzzles With his serene pictorial compositions, the Italian photographer reveals the world itself to be a photomontage. Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/03/magazine/luigi-ghirris-brilliant-photographic-puzzles.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&_r=0 Luigi Ghirri was one of the outstanding photographers of his generation. His work was largely made in Europe, and most of it focused on a small area of northern Italy, the region…
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Jodi Bieber : Going Home, Illegality And Repatriation – The Eye of Photography
Jodi Bieber : Going Home, Illegality And Repatriation Since the first democratic elections in 1994, there has been a strong increase in immigration – people making their way across the border into South Africa. War, famine and poverty in Africa make South Africa an attractive option for a better life.
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Loulou d’Aki – Make a Wish « burn magazine
Loulou d’Aki – Make a Wish Loulou d’AkiMake a Wish[ EPF 2016 FINALIST ]”This is just a dream, but fortunately dreams do come true.” Cyrus P., 15, Tehran, Iran It’s a rainy November morning in Gaza and… via burn magazine: http://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2016/06/loulou-daki-make-a-wish/ MAKE A WISH is a photo essay looking at the hopes and dreams of…
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Pierre Abensur’s Subjective Trophies is a series that looks at the spot where hunters killed their prey.
Hunters and Their “Trophies” at the Spots Where They Killed Them In French, the word naturalization is sometimes used to describe taxidermy, a contradiction French photographer Pierre Abensur found amusing. via Slate Magazine: http://www.slate.com/blogs/behold/2016/06/28/pierre_abensur_s_subjective_trophies_is_a_series_that_looks_at_the_spot.html In French, the word naturalization is sometimes used to describe taxidermy, a contradiction French photographer Pierre Abensur found amusing.