Leaving Buenos Aires on January 2, nearly 350 competitors started the 37th annual Dakar Rally: a two-week off-roading adventure through Argentina and Bolivia.
via The Atlantic: http://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2016/01/the-2016-dakar-rally/423993/
Here is a look at Dakar 2016 in progress, as teams race to Rosario, Argentina, on January 16.
In Carlos Javier Ortiz’s photo series, black experience of the past and present seems to intermingle and collide.
via The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/a-thousand-midnights-chicago-and-the-legacy-of-the-great-migration
In early 2015, my husband, Carlos Javier Ortiz, began working on “A Thousand Midnights,” a photo series and short film that use the surviving documents of my mother’s family history, juxtaposed with pictures of Chicago’s black communities today, to explore the legacy of the Great Migration a century after it began
Gerd Ludwig’s photographs of Chernobyl
Gerd Ludwig’s photographs of Chernobyl
On the outside, Jon Horvath seems very calm. But in his head, and in his artistic practice, there’s plenty of action. I have the privilege of being an occasional sounding board for Jon’s artistic musings, and I can tell you that there seems to be no limit
via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2016/01/jon-horvath-the-states-project-wisconsin-4/
Passages utilizes excerpts from Jack Kerouac’s On the Road as source material for orchestrated drives on Wisconsin’s alphabetical county trunk highway system. Using GPS technology to track each drive, newly generated line drawings emerge as evidence of Kerouac’s text being written in the landscape, with an automobile effectively functioning as a pen.
Federico Scoppa photographs how Gaza is trying to return to normal life
via Time: http://time.com/4089971/gaza-walls-photography/
Federico Scoppa photographs how Gaza is trying to return to normal life
Gisela Erlacher’s photographs explore pockets of human activity crammed and wedged beneath towering bridges and roadways.
via The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/skies-of-concrete-life-in-leftover-spaces
The Austrian architectural photographer Gisela Erlacher first became interested in life in the hidden crevices of urbanized landscapes after discovering a house that had been built between two bridges in her native city of Vienna. For her series “Skies of Concrete,” which is the subject of a new book out in February from Park Books, she travelled within Austria and to the Netherlands, Great Britain, and China to find other pockets of human activity crammed and wedged beneath towering bridges and roadways
Camilo RamirezThe GulfThis work explores the entire length of the U.S. Gulf Coast and the way its varied history, economics, environment and culture intertwine to reveal a simultaneous revere…
via burn magazine: http://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2016/01/camilo-ramirez-the-gulf/
This work explores the entire length of the U.S. Gulf Coast and the way its varied history, economics, environment and culture intertwine to reveal a simultaneous reverence and abuse of its fetishized natural resources. As I photographed along the southern edge of the Gulf Coast states most affected by the oil spill during the BP oil spill of 2010, I saw the contradictions in the economic, environmental and social landscape of the area as it coped with the negative impact of events created by an industry on which it depends
A new book takes a look at the collective’s groundbreaking work in “speaking of our lives as only we can.”
In the early 1960s, when African-American photographers were keenly aware of their isolation in a field dominated by white men, two collectives held a joint meeting. The result of that encounter was a decision to merge and form a more robust group they called Kamoinge, which in Kenya’s Kikuyu language means a group of people acting together.
Antonio Gomez photographs the wranglers and riders loyal to tradition
Growing up in Mexico, Antonio Gomez practiced rope tricks with his friends. After living in the U.S. for many years, he returned recently to attend a wedding steeped in the Charro culture he’d left behind. His new series captures the drama of the sport best described as traditional Mexican horsemanship, but experienced as a deep connection between riders, animals, and God
Jeffrey Milstein’s ‘Parks and Recreation’ series explores sites of leisure and enjoyment in the U.S., captured from a helicopter
via Time: http://time.com/4169732/jeffrey-milstein-parks-and-recreation/
Jeffrey Milstein’s ‘Parks and Recreation’ series explores sites of leisure and enjoyment in the U.S., captured from a helicopter
From “The Jungle” in Calais, France, migrants fleeing Syria’s conflict hop onto trucks or moving trains in a desperate — and often futile — effort to reach England.
Niklas Meltio has spent much of the last four years covering Syria’s complex and dangerous civil war and its spillover into Iraq, hewing to the front lines and living under frequent bombardment. While that proximity lets him get to know his subjects, it can also lead to close calls, which is why last year he took a break and returned to his home in Finland.
Thierry Le Goues photographed amateur boxing in Cuba for the past eight years.
via Time: http://time.com/4045066/meet-cuba-amateur-boxers/
French photographer Thierry Le Goues chronicled amateur boxing for the past eight years
In a solitary corner of Northeast Colorado, the Mertens family makes their home on thousands of acres of wheat; before the rising of the sun, New York-based photographer Elliot Ross sits awake in the attic, where he has laid his head every night for the p
via Feature Shoot: http://www.featureshoot.com/2016/01/the-hardships-of-the-american-farmer-revealed-in-breathtaking-images/
In a solitary corner of Northeast Colorado, the Mertens family makes their home on thousands of acres of wheat; before the rising of the sun, New York-based photographer Elliot Ross sits awake in the attic, where he has laid his head every night for the past three weeks
single image in Stephen Wilkes’s “Day to Night” series is composed of an average of 1,500 frames captured by manual shutter clicks over a period of anywhere from 16 to 30 hours. During this process, Wilkes must keep his horizon line straight and maintain continuity, which means keeping his camera perfectly still.
Dan Younger spent two months in Italy this past summer and as he states, “I pride myself in taking on and transforming subject matter in photography which are mostly the province of amateurs: vacations and children.” His tableaux of tourists experiencing
via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2015/12/dan-younger/
Dan Younger spent two months in Italy this past summer and as he states, “I pride myself in taking on and transforming subject matter in photography which are mostly the province of amateurs: vacations and children.” His tableaux of tourists experiencing history through the lens of a cell phone are at once humorous, concerning, and a statement about how we choose to perceive the world. The ubiquitous cell phone documentation of ourselves and our environment have changed street photography as we know it.
When Aaron Blum moved from West Virginia to attend graduate school at Syracuse University, he quickly realized his fellow students knew little about…
via Slate Magazine: http://www.slate.com/blogs/behold/2016/01/03/the_misunderstood_appalachia_region_of_the_united_states_photos.html
Aaron Blum: We spent the entire evening talking about my ancestors and looking at photographs from over 120 years. I was looking into the past and seeing who I was, who I am and who I may become. It was all a bit overwhelming to say the least. After that, Appalachian heritage quickly became an obsession
A new book, “Africa Under the Prism,” captures the kaleidoscope of random energy, disorder and color on the continent, from work shown during the arts festival’s first five years.
Lagos is long overdue for a book that captures this kaleidoscope of random energy, disorder and color. “Africa Under the Prism,” just published by Hatje Cantz, gathers work shown during the first five years of LagosPhoto, an international arts festival begun in 2010 to reflect African perspectives and realities.
“Homes at Night” by Todd Hido is an eery photo series depicting nightlife in an unexpected way. By shifting night photography’s focus to a subur…
Link: http://www.juxtapoz.com/news/photography/homes-at-night-by-todd-hido-2/
“Homes at Night” by Todd Hido is an eery photo series depicting nightlife in an unexpected way.
Hossein Derakhshan was imprisoned by the regime for his blogging. On his release, he found the internet stripped of its power to change the world and instead serving up a stream of pointless social trivia
via the Guardian: http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/dec/29/irans-blogfather-facebook-instagram-and-twitter-are-killing-the-web
Hossein Derakhshan was imprisoned by the regime for his blogging. On his release, he found the internet stripped of its power to change the world and instead serving up a stream of pointless social trivia
Happy New Year! Each year we ask you to share a photograph you created that stands apart from the rest…and we were blown away by the rich assortment of fantastic photographs submitted from around the globe. An enormous thank you to Grant Gill for curat
via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2016/01/the-2015-favorite-photograph-exhibition/
Happy New Year! Each year we ask you to share a photograph you created that stands apart from the rest…and we were blown away by the rich assortment of fantastic photographs submitted from around the globe