Category: Portfolios & Galleries
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A Japanese Photographer’s Outsider View of Northern Ireland
A Japanese Photographer’s Outsider View of Northern Ireland In the 1960s, Akihiko Okamura series “The Memories of Others” recorded the Troubles with understated eloquence. via Aperture: https://aperture.org/editorial/akihiko-okamuras-outsider-view-of-northern-ireland/ Okamura singles out low-key moments, discovering worlds within worlds. He seems to be, as W. G. Sebald once said of his fellow writer Robert Walser, a “clairvoyant of…
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Michael Young: Maybe Tomorrow – LENSCRATCH
Michael Young: Maybe Tomorrow – LENSCRATCH This week, we will be exploring projects inspired by intimacy and memory. Today, we’ll be looking at Michael Young’s series Maybe Tomorrow. I first came across Michael Young’s work with the series Hidden Glances. His expert use of collage to play with personal concepts between the visible and invisible…
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Hannah Latham: Milking Hour – LENSCRATCH
Hannah Latham: Milking Hour – LENSCRATCH This week, we will be exploring projects inspired by intimacy and memory. Today, we’ll be looking at Hannah Latham’s series Milking Hour. I remember being knocked out by Hannah Latham’s work late last year. We were both in the exhibition Home is Where at FLOAT Magazine, which was published…
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In Memoriam: Wayne Swanson: From the Workshop – LENSCRATCH
In Memoriam: Wayne Swanson: From the Workshop – LENSCRATCH A number of years ago, a tall, quietly intelligent artist entered my classroom, driving to Los Angeles from San Diego each week to understand the photographer’s journey. Our journey together lasted several years and then I watched Wayne Swanson and his photographs take flight in remarkable…
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Rich Frishman: Ghosts of Segregation: Racism, Hidden in Plain Sight – LENSCRATCH
Rich Frishman: Ghosts of Segregation: Racism, Hidden in Plain Sight – LENSCRATCH Ghosts of Segregation photographically explores the vestiges of America’s racism as seen in the vernacular landscape: Schools for “colored” children, theatre entrances and restrooms for “colored people,” lynching sites, juke joints, jails, hotels and bus stations. What is past is prologue. Segregation is…
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Intermission – The Leica camera Blog
Intermission – The Leica camera Blog: With dream-like and purely associative images, Natalia Neuhaus explores emotional states and everyday situations.
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A Drying Heartland: The Arid Photographs of Nicolás Marticorena – LENSCRATCH
A Drying Heartland: The Arid Photographs of Nicolás Marticorena – LENSCRATCH This week is dedicated to Chilean photographers working across a variety of genres. Today our focus is on Nicolás Marticorena, a journalist, sociologist and photographer whose global practice explores issues of climate change, drought and its effects on the human condition. My body leaves…
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The Gay Space Agency – Photographs and text by Mackenzie Calle | LensCulture
The Gay Space Agency – Photographs and text by Mackenzie Calle | LensCulture The Gay Space Agency imagines an alternative history for NASA, which would allow LGBTQ+ astronauts to fly in space via LensCulture: https://www.lensculture.com/articles/mackenzie-calle-the-gay-space-agency The Gay Space Agency imagines an alternative history for NASA, which would allow LGBTQ+ astronauts to fly in space. https://www.lensculture.com/articles/mackenzie-calle-the-gay-space-agency
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Elegia Fantastica – The Leica camera Blog
Elegia Fantastica I definitely think I dream in black and white, even though dreams are difficult to remember. Black and white makes the soul of things speak, while colours tell the reality. I like to think I can dream with my soul.
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Images of Climate Change That Cannot Be Missed | The New Yorker
Images of Climate Change That Cannot Be Missed Just as we risk becoming inured to the crisis, an exhibition, “Coal + Ice,” serves as a stunning call to action. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/images-of-climate-change-that-cannot-be-missed I think the single best collection of images of the climate crisis I’ve ever seen is the exhibit that will be…
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CENTER BLUE EARTH FISCAL SPONSORSHIP: MARK LEONG – LENSCRATCH
CENTER BLUE EARTH FISCAL SPONSORSHIP: MARK LEONG – LENSCRATCH Congratulations to Mark Leong for being selected for Blue Earth Fiscal Sponsorship Award recognizing his project, Coming of Age: China’s Post-90s Generation . CENTER is pleased to add the Blue Earth Fiscal Sponsorship to their services for photographers and filmmakers. CENTER sponsors documentary projects that educate the…
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Lisa McCord: Rotan Switch – LENSCRATCH
Lisa McCord: Rotan Switch – LENSCRATCH The book is a personal collection of a life lived, a scrapbook that contains the dichotomy of two worlds: the innocence of circumstance and the visual acknowledgment of colliding cultures, that include race and privilege. The artist simply documented her world and the people in it. – Aline Smithson…
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THE CENTER AWARDS: PROJECT LAUNCH GRANT: AUSTIN BRYANT – LENSCRATCH
THE CENTER AWARDS: PROJECT LAUNCH GRANT: AUSTIN BRYANT – LENSCRATCH Congratulations to Austin Bryant for being selected for CENTER’s Project Launch Grant recognizing his project, Where They Still Remain. The Project Launch Grant supports a complete or nearly completed documentary or fine art series. The grant provides financial support and platforms for professional development opportunities…
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Visual Diary of a Nomad – The Leica camera Blog
Visual Diary of a Nomad While travelling, Jonathan Jasberg discovers beauty in unique moments, and eternalises them in his pictures.
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The View from Palestinian America | The New Yorker
The View from Palestinian America In Kholood Eid’s photographs of Missouri, taken six months into the war in Gaza, the quiet act of documenting life is a kind of protest against erasure. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/the-view-from-palestinian-america Intimaa’s portrait is followed by a photo of her passport, issued by the Palestinian Authority. Together, these images…
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The Beautiful – Photographs by Kamal X | Text by Cat Lachowskyj | LensCulture
The Beautiful – Photographs by Kamal X | Text by Cat Lachowskyj | LensCulture Documenting his journey from Oakland to attend the historic March on Washington, Kamal X’s monochrome images capture the love, power and strength of 2020’s charged summer of Black Lives Matter protests via LensCulture: https://www.lensculture.com/articles/kamal-x-the-beautiful Documenting his journey from Oakland to attend…
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Mountains and Rivers – Photographs by Yan Sun | Essay by Magali Duzant | LensCulture
Mountains and Rivers – Photographs by Yan Sun | Essay by Magali Duzant | LensCulture In the liminal space between mountains and rivers, Yan Sun creates images suffused with Chinese history, renewing the subjects of traditional painting with his contemporary photographic observation via LensCulture: https://www.lensculture.com/articles/yan-sun-mountains-and-rivers In the liminal space between mountains and rivers, Yan Sun…
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The Other California 1975 – The Leica camera Blog
The Other California 1975 Peter Turnley travelled throughout California nearly 50 years ago, capturing impressive images of life beyond the surf and sunshine scene.
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The MOTHER Exhibition – LENSCRATCH
The MOTHER Exhibition – LENSCRATCH We are re-running last year’s MOTHER exhibition, just for fun! What a complete pleasure to spend time with your hundreds of submissions and see all the considerations of MOTHER. Thank you for joining in this 5 part exhibition, so keep scrolling. For those who celebrate, Happy Mother’s Day, and for…
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Re-Discovering Native America: Stories in Motion with The Red Road Project – LENSCRATCH
Re-Discovering Native America: Stories in Motion with The Red Road Project – LENSCRATCH Bedford Gallery has recently opened its latest exhibition, Re-Discovering Native America: Stories in Motion with The Red Road Project, a photo-docuseries which highlights and celebrates inspiring stories of present-day NativeAmerican individuals and communities by providing a platform for them to tell their…