Category: Portfolios & Galleries

Juxtapoz Magazine – Jon Cazenave’s Deeply Personal Exploration of the Basque Landscape

Juxtapoz Magazine – Jon Cazenave’s Deeply Personal Exploration of the Basque Landscape

For over ten years, Basque photographer Jon Cazenave has undertaken a long-term project questioning his identity, entitled Galerna (storm in Basque)….

Link: https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/photography/jon-cazenave-s-deeply-personal-exploration-of-the-basque-landscape/

For over ten years, Basque photographer Jon Cazenave has undertaken a long-term project questioning his identity, entitled Galerna (storm in Basque). Devoting himself to his close surroundings: the sea, the mountains, the woodlands, and its prehistorical caves, Jon Cazenave renders the experience of his native land with all its geological diversity and spirituality.

May 13, 2021
An Archive of Images from San Quentin State Prison | The New Yorker

An Archive of Images from San Quentin State Prison

Nigel Poor’s cache of photos from the California penitentiary shows us life controlled and monitored, but also that which is beyond the reach of supervision.

via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/an-archive-of-images-from-san-quentin-state-prison

There are giant frescoed murals in a dining hall at San Quentin State Prison, scenes of California history populated by figures whose eyes move with you as you walk past them. I saw them tracking me when I was once in that room, so I know that the rumor about the eyes is more than a myth. The murals were started in 1953 by an artist named Alfredo Santos, who would serve four years of a sentence at San Quentin. As I stood in that dining hall, listening to the lore about the murals from men who take their meals below the painted faces, I looked up at a sign on one end of the long room that announced “no warning shots in this area.”

May 13, 2021
Ka-Man Tse: narrow distances – LENSCRATCH

Ka-Man Tse: narrow distances – LENSCRATCH

In her project narrow distances, Ka-Man Tse’s photographs linger in spaces tucked away primarily throughout skyscraper-laden Hong Kong and New York City. Included in these realms are quiet, large format portraits of Tse’s subjects and collaborators, whose

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In her project narrow distances, Ka-Man Tse’s photographs linger in spaces tucked away primarily throughout skyscraper-laden Hong Kong and New York City. Included in these realms are quiet, large format portraits of Tse’s subjects and collaborators, whose identities dwell at the intersections between Asian Pacific Islander and LGBTQ communities. Brimming with small gestures, the artist’s images record intimate moments of recognition for the communities she holds close—a significant act in places where connection and privacy is often in short supply. An interview with Tse follows.

May 11, 2021
“I anchor myself in the moment through others”: Rhiannon Adam explains her unique take on photography

“I anchor myself in the moment through others”: Rhiannon Adam explains her unique take on photography

After an adventurous childhood spent sailing around the world, the London-based photographer developed a need to photographically record her life. Here, she tells us more.

Link: https://www.itsnicethat.com/articles/rhiannon-adam-photography-110521?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+itsnicethat%2FSlXC+%28It%27s+Nice+That%29

After an adventurous childhood spent sailing around the world, the London-based photographer developed a need to photographically record her life. Here, she tells us more.

May 11, 2021
Blind – Shafiqul Islam Kajol: Photographing Bangladesh Through Turbulent Times

Shafiqul Islam Kajol: Photographing Bangladesh Through Turbulent Times

Last year, after an almost 30-year career as a photojournalist and editor, Shafiqul Islam Kajol has been charged under Bangladesh’s Digital Security Act for social media posts that are critical of his government. The price he has paid to reveal the truth

Link: https://www.blind-magazine.com/en/news/1323/Shafiqul-Islam-Kajol-Photographing-Bangladesh-Through-Turbulent-Times-1

On May 3, 2020, Shafiqul Islam Kajol surfaced. He was found by Bangladeshi border guards along the country’s border with India near the town of Benapole, just over 200 kilometers from where he had last been seen. He was handed over to the police by the border guards and then taken quickly to court. At his court appearance the judge ruled he be detained and he was placed in jail.

May 11, 2021
Hope – The Leica camera Blog

https://www.leica-camera.blog/2021/05/10/hope/

In hospitals, at the harbour, at bus stops, on the streets, in squares and at cemeteries: in the spring of 2020, Alfredo Cunha and his Leica Q2 photographed everyday life in Portugal.

May 10, 2021
Blind – Hélène’s Journeys Far and Wide

Hélène’s Journeys Far and Wide

While journalists and publishers are familiar with the Roger-Viollet Agency, a new exhibition now allows everyone to learn that Hélène Roger-Viollet, the woman who founded the agency 83 years ago, was also a photographer. She had set out to document the w

Link: https://www.blind-magazine.com/en/news/1316/Helenes-Journeys-Far-And-Wide

While journalists and publishers are familiar with the Roger-Viollet Agency, a new exhibition now allows everyone to learn that Hélène Roger-Viollet, the woman who founded the agency 83 years ago, was also a photographer. She had set out to document the world.

May 7, 2021
Juxtapoz Magazine – Scrublands: Photographs by Antoine Bruy

Juxtapoz Magazine – Scrublands: Photographs by Antoine Bruy

While hitchhiking across the length and breadth of France, Antoine Bruy met men and women who, in Ardèche and Lozère, aspire to live in the most self-…

Link: https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/photography/scrublands-photographs-by-antoine-bruy/

While hitchhiking across the length and breadth of France, Antoine Bruy met men and women who, in Ardèche and Lozère, aspire to live in the most self-sufficient way possible.

May 6, 2021
The photographer who captured Britain’s slum housing crisis in the ‘60s

The photographer who captured Britain’s slum housing crisis in the ‘60s

Photographer Nick Hedges recalls documenting the country’s crumbling homes and the resilience of people living in devastating poverty.

via Huck Magazine: https://www.huckmag.com/art-and-culture/photos-of-britains-slum-housing-crisis-in-the-60s/

Photographer Nick Hedges recalls documenting the country’s dilapidated homes and the resilience of people living in devastating poverty.

May 6, 2021
A photographer’s gritty portrait of a diverse community in Glasgow

A photographer’s gritty portrait of a diverse community in Glasgow

Photographer Simon Murphy discusses his project which aims to shed new light on the maligned and often misunderstood residents of a vibrant neighbourhood in Scotland.

via Huck Magazine: https://www.huckmag.com/art-and-culture/a-gritty-portrait-of-a-diverse-community-in-glasgow/

Photographer Simon Murphy discusses his project which aims to shed new light on the maligned and often misunderstood residents of a vibrant neighbourhood in Scotland.

May 5, 2021
Film Photo Visionary Project Award: Graham Dickie – LENSCRATCH

Film Photo Visionary Project Award: Graham Dickie – LENSCRATCH

Photographer Graham Dickie’s poignant project, How Life Is, recently garnered the Spring 2021 Film Photo Visionary Project Award. With the support of the Film Photo Award, Graham will continue photographing rap and daily life in Louisiana, with particular

via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2021/05/film-photo-visionary-project-award-graham-dickie/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+lenscratch%2FZAbG+%28L++E++N++S++C++R++A++T++C++H%29

Photographer Graham Dickie’s poignant project, How Life Is, recently garnered the Spring 2021 Film Photo Visionary Project Award. With the support of the Film Photo Award, Graham will continue photographing rap and daily life in Louisiana, with particular attention to the countryside surrounding Baton Rouge. The resulting project will approach the state’s street rap scene with a grassroots, humanistic perspective, focusing on young aspiring artists – how their music, with its deeply autobiographical underpinnings, connects to their communities and speaks to America’s broader reckoning over racial injustice.

May 5, 2021
Juxtapoz Magazine – Chester Higgins “The Indelible Spirit” @ Bruce Silverstein Gallery

Juxtapoz Magazine – Chester Higgins “The Indelible Spirit” @ Bruce Silverstein Gallery

“Wrestling with issues of memory, place, and identity I see my life as a narrative and my photography as its expression. My art gives visual voice to…

Link: https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/photography/chester-higgins-the-indelible-spirit-bruce-silverstein-gallery/

“Wrestling with issues of memory, place, and identity I see my life as a narrative and my photography as its expression. My art gives visual voice to my personal and collective memories. It is inside ordinary moments where I find windows into larger meaning. Light, perspective, and points in time are the pivotal elements I use to reveal an interior presence within my subjects as I search for what I identify as the Signature of the Spirit.”

May 4, 2021
Soren Solkaer: Black Sun – LENSCRATCH

Soren Solkaer: Black Sun – LENSCRATCH

Søren Solkær is a Danish photographer. He received a Bachelor of Arts in Photography at the Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague, Czech Republic. Most recognized for his photographic portraiture, he takes a departure in his serie

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Søren Solkær is a Danish photographer. He received a Bachelor of Arts in Photography at the Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague, Czech Republic. Most recognized for his photographic portraiture, he takes a departure in his series Black Sun. In this work he focuses on the quiet landscapes of his childhood as he captures outlandish performances of starling murmurations. Through photographs and video, Solkaer captures complex patterns of movement inspiring inquiry and awe, while shedding light on the power of the collective unity.

May 3, 2021
The Post-Documentary Photographers Who Care about the World

The Post-Documentary Photographers Who Care about the World

For a prophetic group exhibition about American life, Paul Graham considers images of tenderness and melancholy.

via Aperture: https://aperture.org/editorial/the-post-documentary-photographers-who-care-about-the-world/

For a prophetic group exhibition about American life, Paul Graham considers images of tenderness and melancholy.

May 1, 2021
Julia Rendleman: Sisterhood of Recovery – LENSCRATCH

Julia Rendleman: Sisterhood of Recovery – LENSCRATCH

In her remarkable photographic essay, Sisterhood of Recovery, Julia Rendleman introduces us to two sisters in a jail in central Virginia—both participants in a peer heroin addiction recovery program—and their mother on the outside, raising one of the sist

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In her remarkable photographic essay, Sisterhood of Recovery, Julia Rendleman introduces us to two sisters in a jail in central Virginia—both participants in a peer heroin addiction recovery program—and their mother on the outside, raising one of the sisters’ four children. Photographed over multiple occasions from 2017 to 2020, we get a glimpse of the toll of the opioid crisis, and how incarceration affects entire families and communities, not just the person behind bars.

April 28, 2021
Terrorist Group Steps Into Venezuela as Lawlessness Grows – The New York Times

Terrorist Group Steps Into Venezuela as Lawlessness Grows

With Venezuela in shambles, criminals and insurgents run large stretches of the nation’s territory. We traveled through one of the regions under their control.

Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/26/world/americas/venezuela-terrorist-colombia-ELN.html

Venezuela’s economic collapse has so thoroughly gutted the country that insurgents have embedded themselves across large stretches of its territory, seizing upon the nation’s undoing to establish mini-states of their own.

April 26, 2021
Blind – Roaming the Wild Streets of New York in the 1980s

Roaming the Wild Streets of 1980’s NYC | Blind Magazine

Geoffrey Hiller takes us back to New York in the 1980’s and walks us through his life and his photographs of 1980’s NYC!

via Blind Magazine: https://www.blind-magazine.com/en/stories/roaming-the-wild-streets-of-new-york-in-the-1980s/

I don’t take my two eyes for granted. Photography has helped me make sense of the world. It’s provided meaning, perspective, and much joy in my life. After close to fifty years it still does. When I think back, I can’t imagine who I would be today if I hadn’t found photography.

April 22, 2021
Conversations with Nature: Deborah Kaplan – LENSCRATCH

Conversations with Nature: Deborah Kaplan – LENSCRATCH

“(Today) we are talking only to ourselves. We are not talking to the rivers, we are not listening to the wind and stars. We have broken the great conversation. By breaking that conversation we have shattered the universe. All the disasters that are happen

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When we deconstruct all the natural and human world, we discover a significant connectedness and vocabulary. Photographic artist Deborah Kaplan explores that important conversation as she dissects the natural world down to a language that is at once beautiful and remarkable. Today we feature a number of her series, starting with Syllabary for the Natural World, which is all language based. With this work she explores the complexity of the natural world that offer multiple languages waiting to be discovered and where our minds actively participate. As Kaplan states, “We are searchers for symbols”

April 21, 2021
Donald Graham’s searing portraits capture the humanity of his subjects

Donald Graham’s searing portraits capture the humanity of his subjects

The photographer reflects on his three-decade-long career spent collaborating with his subjects – from ordinary people to the likes of Snoop Dogg and Lenny Kravitz – to capture their inner worlds.

via Huck Magazine: https://www.huckmag.com/art-and-culture/the-searing-portraiture-of-donald-graham/

The photographer reflects on his three-decade-long career spent collaborating with his subjects – from ordinary people to the likes of Snoop Dogg and Lenny Kravitz – to capture their inner worlds.

April 20, 2021
María Daniel Balcázar – Kilombo – burn magazine

María Daniel Balcázar – Kilombo

KILOMBO María Daniel Balcázar Kilombo is a tribute to the resilience and vitality of the African legacy in Brazil. During the Atlantic slave trade, approximately 4.8 million pe…

via burn magazine: https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2021/04/maria-daniel-balcazar-kilombo/

This work took place in the states of Bahia, Rio de Janeiro, Minas Gerais, and São Paolo, from 2015 to 2018 in rural quilombos and urban favelas, in the welcoming homes, and places of work and of worship of Afro-Brazilians. They are still struggling against poverty, racism and violence and for the recognition of their rights, including the rights to the lands they have inhabited since their founding as rebel quilombos. From there, the African heritage has intertwined with Indigenous and Christian-European cultures, creating the richly multicultural XXI Century Brazil.

April 18, 2021