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Politics of the Kitchen: Counter Histories – LENSCRATCH

Politics of the Kitchen: Counter Histories – LENSCRATCH

By Barbara Ciurej and Lindsay Lochman Counter Histories: Documenting the Struggle to Desegregate Southern Restaurants is a timely resource bringing together photojournalism, history and politics with food. Connecting desegregation protests and demonstrati

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Counter Histories: Documenting the Struggle to Desegregate Southern Restaurants is a timely resource bringing together photojournalism, history and politics with food. Connecting desegregation protests and demonstrations of today and yesterday, Counter Histories provides viewers a context to consider the role of civil disobedience in the face of systemic racism and injustice.

April 17, 2021
The Timeless Pleasures of Dawoud Bey’s Street Portraits | The New Yorker

The Timeless Pleasures of Dawoud Bey’s Street Portraits

His pictures make me think about the times I’ve walked down the street feeling invisible, until I pass another Black person who holds my gaze long enough for us to exchange a nod.

via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/the-timeless-pleasures-of-dawoud-beys-street-portraits

few years ago, while on a road-trip assignment with the photographer Andre Wagner, I began to needle him with questions about street photography. I wanted to know about the emotional mechanics and structure of it: what a photographer’s eye picks up, what makes a stranger agree to a moment of intimacy with someone she may never see again. Andre told me that it primarily entailed getting people to trust you within a short window of time. But there was another secret, too. Andre loved photographing Black people. They were familiar to him, as he was to them. He could read their cues, and sense their excitement. And so many of the Black people he encountered were eager to have their photos taken, just one adjustment away from being camera-ready.

April 16, 2021
Zoe Leonard’s Elegiac Images of Downtown New York

Zoe Leonard’s Elegiac Images of Downtown New York

In her tribute to the critic Douglas Crimp, Leonard’s photographs of street scenes and subways suggest the fantasy of waiting.

via Aperture: https://aperture.org/editorial/zoe-leonards-elegiac-images-of-downtown-new-york/

In her tribute to the critic Douglas Crimp, Leonard’s photographs of street scenes and subways suggest the fantasy of waiting.

April 16, 2021
Blind – Fabio Ponzio: East of Nowhere

Fabio Ponzio: East of Nowhere

An eyewitness to the fall of Communist regimes in Europe, the photographer Fabio Ponzio publishes his photographs covering twenty-two years spent in the East.

Link: https://www.blind-magazine.com/en/news/1288/Fabio-Ponzio-East-Of-Nowhere

An eyewitness to the fall of Communist regimes in Europe, the photographer Fabio Ponzio publishes his photographs covering twenty-two years spent in the East.

April 16, 2021
The photographer capturing overlooked lives in rural Uzbekistan

The photographer capturing overlooked lives in rural Uzbekistan

Photographer Hassan Kurbanbaev discusses his series documenting the Central Asian country, which aims to shed light on ordinary Uzbeks and to preserve something of the nation’s rich history.

via Huck Magazine: https://www.huckmag.com/art-and-culture/photos-capturing-overlooked-lives-in-rural-uzbekistan/

Photographer Hassan Kurbanbaev discusses his series documenting the Central Asian country, which aims to shed light on ordinary Uzbeks and to preserve something of the nation‘s rich history.

April 15, 2021
Blind – Bruce Gilden: “It Doesn’t Have to Be Perfect, It’s Organized Chaos”

Bruce Gilden: “It Doesn’t Have to Be Perfect, It’s Organized Chaos”

In December 2019, Bruce Gilden frequented one of Palermo’s most typical markets, Ballarò, for about a week. Attracted by the genuine rough faces of its vendors and buyers he spent hours strolling its narrow streets.

Link: https://www.blind-magazine.com/en/stories/1286/Bruce-Gilden-It-Doesnt-Have-To-Be-Perfect-Its-Organized-Chaos-1

In December 2019, Bruce Gilden frequented one of Palermo’s most typical markets, Ballarò, for about a week. Attracted by the genuine rough faces of its vendors and buyers he spent hours strolling its narrow streets.

April 14, 2021
Juxtapoz Magazine – Khalik Allah: Showing Us the Light

Juxtapoz Magazine – Khalik Allah: Showing Us the Light

For Khalik Allah, photography is a spiritual endeavor, a conscious marriage of street and self, a quest to elevate both. It is also inherently lyrical…

Link: https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/photography/khalik-allah-showing-us-the-light/

For Khalik Allah, photography is a spiritual endeavor, a conscious marriage of street and self, a quest to elevate both. It is also inherently lyrical, and like a preacher improvising a sermon, a musician in the zone, or poet freestyling off the dome, there’s something mystical and transcendent in the execution. That’s not to say it isn’t firmly grounded in this reality, in the actuality of life at 125th and Lexington in Harlem where much of his work is focused. Cycles of addiction, poverty, and suffering haunt the darkness of this nightscape but the camera is an instrument beholden to the light. Allah has referred to what he does as “camera ministry,” and he applies the salve literally, ushering people out of the shadows and into the light to take a portrait. “When you focus on the light in another, you reinforce it in yourself,” he explains. “And really, that’s what I’m striving to do. I’m trying to reinforce my own knowledge of self, which is essentially light. Spirit is light.”

April 14, 2021
Juxtapoz Magazine – Rahim Fortune: I Can’t Stand to See You Cry

Juxtapoz Magazine – Rahim Fortune: I Can’t Stand to See You Cry

“A year and change into father’s diagnosis, his nightly calls began to become more frequent. My sister and I, his youngest children, spent countless h…

Link: https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/photography/rahim-fortune-i-can-t-stand-to-see-you-cry/

“A year and change into father’s diagnosis, his nightly calls began to become more frequent. My sister and I, his youngest children, spent countless hours in his room caring for him as his body gave up. Many nights we’d leave his room both knowing his condition was getting much worse, but we chose to say nothing of it.”

April 14, 2021
30 Over 50/In Context at the Center of Fine Art Photography – LENSCRATCH

30 Over 50/In Context at the Center of Fine Art Photography – LENSCRATCH

Toni Lovejoy, Winner of the In Context Award A new exhibition recently opened online at the Center of Fine Art Photography that celebrates artists over the age of 50, with an eye on wisdom and history accrued over decades of living. Titled 30 Over 50 /In

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A new exhibition recently opened online at the Center of Fine Art Photography that celebrates artists over the age of 50, with an eye on wisdom and history accrued over decades of living. Titled 30 Over 50 /In Context, the exhibition was jurored by gallerist Arnika Dawkins. Complete projects and bios are on the C4FAP site. There is a curator and artist talk with Arnika Dawkins and the award-winning artists on April 14th at 5 pm mountain time via zoom. Please join them by signing up HERE.

April 11, 2021
Juxtapoz Magazine – Dawoud Bey’s “An American Project” Finally Opens at the Whitney

Juxtapoz Magazine – Dawoud Bey’s “An American Project” Finally Opens at the Whitney

After repeated pandemic-related openings, closings, and reopenings at both SFMOMA and The High Museum of Art, Dawoud Bey’s survey exhibition Dawoud Be…

Link: https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/photography/dawoud-bey-s-an-american-project-finally-opens-at-the-whitney/

After repeated pandemic-related openings, closings, and reopenings at both SFMOMA and The High Museum of Art, Dawoud Bey’s survey exhibition Dawoud Bey: An American Project will finally open at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. Blissfully unaware of what was to come, we got a chance to write about and see the wonderful exhibition in San Francisco before everything shut down. If you can, make sure you check it out.

April 8, 2021
A photographer’s gritty portrait of Thailand’s ghettos

A photographer’s gritty portrait of Thailand’s ghettos

Photographer Samuel Cueto recalls photographing fringe communities in Bangkok, Phuket and Pattaya over several years, where he encountered gang members living on the margins of society.

via Huck Magazine: https://www.huckmag.com/art-and-culture/a-photographers-gritty-portrait-of-thailands-ghettos/

Photographer Samuel Cueto recalls photographing fringe communities in Bangkok, Phuket and Pattaya over several years, where he encountered gang members living on the margins of society.

April 8, 2021
A Cyclist on the English Landscape – The New York Times

A Cyclist on the English Landscape

Grounded by the pandemic, a travel photographer spent the year pedaling the roads around his home, resulting in a series of poetic self-portraits.

Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/05/travel/sussex-bicycle-portraits.html

At the onset of the coronavirus pandemic, with travel restrictions in place worldwide, we launched a new series — The World Through a Lens — in which photojournalists help transport you, virtually, to some of our planet’s most beautiful and intriguing places. This week, Roff Smith shares a collection of images from around his home in southeast England.

April 6, 2021
Evocative photos of ordinary life in ‘70s Stourbridge

Evocative photos of ordinary life in ‘70s Stourbridge

Between 1972 and 1988, John Myers set out to capture unremarkable scenes within walking distance of his home in the Midlands to shine a light on what is typically ignored.

via Huck Magazine: https://www.huckmag.com/art-and-culture/evocative-photos-of-ordinary-life-in-70s-stourbridge/

Between 1972 and 1988, John Myers set out to capture unremarkable scenes within walking distance of his home in the Midlands to shine a light on the people and places that are typically ignored.

April 6, 2021
Tim Huynh: Fill the Frame – LENSCRATCH

Tim Huynh: Fill the Frame – LENSCRATCH

The feature length documentary FILL THE FRAME by Tim Huynh puts the viewer into the shoes of the street photographer in a cinematic, visceral way. It immediately demonstrates the boldness required of street photographers to step in front of their subjects

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The feature length documentary FILL THE FRAME by Tim Huynh puts the viewer into the shoes of the street photographer in a cinematic, visceral way. It immediately demonstrates the boldness required of street photographers to step in front of their subjects, put a camera to their eye, and ignoring social nicety, make their exposures. In its next breath the film gives voice to the trepidation and hesitancy the photographers have to overcome to make their photos.

April 4, 2021
Why Jamel Shabazz Is New York’s Most Vital Street Photographer

Why Jamel Shabazz Is New York’s Most Vital Street Photographer

Since the early 1980s, Shabazz has captured the energy of street life and hip-hop culture in New York, making indelible images of joy, style, and community.

via Aperture: https://aperture.org/editorial/why-jamel-shabazz-is-new-yorks-most-vital-street-photographer/

New York is a ghost town. The COVID-19 pandemic has brought the metropolis to a standstill. Many are scared to even leave their apartments to buy groceries. The globe-trotting photographer Jamel Shabazz is tucked away in his Long Island home, his “sanctuary.” Shabazz’s world is rocked daily by yet another phone call announcing the death of a loved one. It is a calendar of loss with which he is intimately familiar. He survived the 1980s crack era and the AIDS crisis, when so many friends from his Brooklyn neighborhoods—Red Hook and then East Flatbush—did not.

March 31, 2021
Surreal portraits of ordinary North Koreans and their hidden worlds

Surreal portraits of ordinary North Koreans and their hidden worlds

Photographer Stephan Gladieu reflects on his trips to North Korea, where he set out to make a series of portraits peeling back the curtain on what life is like for the average DPRK citizen.

via Huck Magazine: https://www.huckmag.com/art-and-culture/surreal-portraits-of-ordinary-north-koreans/

Photographer Stephan Gladieu reflects on his trips to North Korea, where he set out to make a series of portraits peeling back the curtain on what life is like for the average DPRK citizen.

March 29, 2021
Suffering and Hope in the Streets of São Paulo’s ‘Crackland’ – Feature Shoot

Suffering and Hope in the Streets of São Paulo’s ‘Crackland’ – Feature Shoot

Every morning, José Carlos leaves home at 5:00 AM and takes several buses into the heart of São Paulo to deliver bread and juice to the people living on the…

via Feature Shoot: https://www.featureshoot.com/2021/03/suffering-and-hope-in-the-streets-of-sao-paulos-crackland/

The bread shepherd was one of the first people to introduce the photojournalist Luca Meola to the community three years ago, when he started documenting life in Cracolândia. And in some ways, his story has become emblematic of a larger truth that the photographer has come to understand about the area. It’s a place touched by acute suffering, hardship, and heartbreak–Meola describes it as an “open wound” at the core of the city–but if you stick around long enough, you might find moments of resilience, hope, and unconditional kindness.

March 29, 2021
Blind – Shisei Kuwabara: Minamata Disease, and the Poisoning of a Town

Shisei Kuwabara: Minamata Disease, and the Poisoning of a Town

For sixty years Japanese photographer Shisei Kuwabara has been documenting the city of Minamata and those who suffer from the disease that bears its name.

Link: https://www.blind-magazine.com/en/stories/1270/Shisei-Kuwabara-Minamata-Disease-And-The-Poisoning-Of-A-Town

For sixty years Japanese photographer Shisei Kuwabara has been documenting the city of Minamata and those who suffer from the disease that bears its name.

March 27, 2021
A mal tiempo, buena cara – Photographs by Bebe Blanco Agterberg | Interview by LensCulture | LensCulture

A mal tiempo, buena cara – Photographs by Bebe Blanco Agterberg | Interview by LensCulture | LensCulture

Threading together mysteries from her own family history with collective memories, this enigmatic patchwork of documentary and fiction explores the idea of ‘historical truth’ in the transitional period of post-Franco Spain

via LensCulture: https://www.lensculture.com/articles/bebe-blanco-agterberg-a-mal-tiempo-buena-cara

Threading together mysteries from her own family history with collective memories, this enigmatic patchwork of documentary and fiction explores the idea of ‘historical truth’ in the transitional period of post-Franco Spain.

March 27, 2021
Russia’s ‘Wild Nineties’ As You’ve Never Seen Them Before

Russia’s ‘Wild Nineties’ As You’ve Never Seen Them Before

An initiative has been launched to digitize Russia’s photographic archive. Russiainphoto.ru has more than 80,000 images ranging from the 1860s up to 1999. RFE/RL’s Amos Chapple had a look through the archive’s 1990s collection and found 18 gems. From “Pas

via RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty: https://www.rferl.org/a/russian-90s-captured-in-archive-project/28074462.html

An initiative has been launched to digitize Russia’s photographic archive. Russiainphoto.ru has more than 80,000 images ranging from the 1860s up to 1999. RFE/RL’s Amos Chapple had a look through the archive’s 1990s collection and found 18 gems. From “Passion Boulevard” to the battleground, here’s a taste of everyday life during one of the most turbulent eras in Russia’s history.

March 25, 2021