Over two years, the photographer aimed to visually encapsulate the Liberian landscape and its people. The new book is accompanied by a series of voice recordings detailing the subjects’ stories.
Over two years, the photographer aimed to visually encapsulate the Liberian landscape and its people. The new book is accompanied by a series of voice recordings detailing the subjects’ stories.
For over ten years, Basque photographer Jon Cazenave has undertaken a long-term project questioning his identity, entitled Galerna (storm in Basque)….
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.
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.”
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
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
“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…
“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.”
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
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
“(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
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”
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.