Category: Portfolios & Galleries
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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 via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2021/04/tim-huynh-fill-the-frame/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+lenscratch%2FZAbG+%28L++E++N++S++C++R++A++T++C++H%29 The feature length documentary…
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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.…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Tightrope Walkers in Dagestan – The Leica camera Blog
https://www.leica-camera.blog/2021/03/22/tightrope-walkers-in-dagestan/ Equipped with a Leica M10, Johanna-Maria Fritz travelled to the Russian Republic of Dagestan, where she photographed an art form that has been all but forgotten: tightrope walking.
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A Violent End to a Desperate Dream Leaves a Guatemalan Town Grieving – The New York Times
A Violent End to a Desperate Dream Leaves a Guatemalan Town Grieving The trek from Central America to U.S. soil has always been perilous, but a massacre with many victims from one corner of Guatemala has shaken that country. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/21/world/americas/guatemala-migrants-massacre-comitancillo.html A group of 13 migrants who left Comitancillo in January didn’t even get the…
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Unflinching photos of austerity in Newcastle in the ‘70s & ‘80s
Unflinching photos of austerity in Newcastle in the ‘70s & ‘80s When photographer Tish Murtha died suddenly in 2013, she left behind a largely forgotten archive of extraordinary images of working-class communities in the North East. Now, her daughter Ella is seeking to revive her mother’s legacy with a documentary fil via Huck Magazine: https://www.huckmag.com/art-and-culture/unflinching-photos-of-austerity-in-newcastle-in-the-70s-80s/…
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Blind – Retracing the Route of a Country Doctor in Rural Indiana
Retracing the Route of a Country Doctor in Rural Indiana Inspired by the iconic work of W. Eugene Smith, Rebecca Norris Webb traces the route of her father, a country doctor, in the new book Night Calls. Link: https://www.blind-magazine.com/en/stories/1260/Retracing-The-Route-Of-A-Country-Doctor-In-Rural-Indiana Inspired by the iconic work of W. Eugene Smith, Rebecca Norris Webb traces the route of…
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Picturing the Surreality of Grief for Mexico’s Disappeared | The New Yorker
Picturing the Surreality of Grief for Mexico’s Disappeared The photographer Yael Martínez conjures a world of despair not through what he depicts but through what the viewer senses to be looming right outside the frame. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/picturing-the-surreality-of-grief-for-mexicos-disappeared In September of 2013, the photographer Yael Martínez received a distressing phone call from his…
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Eclipse – The Leica camera Blog
Eclipse Ever since experiencing the solar eclipse in 2015, Luca Bottazzi is captivated by the indefinable space between day and night. With his Eclipse series, he creates a narrative that reveals the darkening of the sun as a magical moment of everyday life.
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Wonderland: A Fairy Tale of the Soviet Monolith – Photographs by Jason Eskenazi | Book review by Justin Herfst | LensCulture
Wonderland: A Fairy Tale of the Soviet Monolith – Photographs by Jason Eskenazi | Book review by Justin Herfst | LensCulture Photographer Jason Eskenazi traveled throughout Russia before and after the fall of the USSR and created a remarkable photobook that reverberates with the classic structure of dark fairy tales via LensCulture: https://www.lensculture.com/articles/jason-eskenazi-wonderland-a-fairy-tale-of-the-soviet-monolith Photographer Jason…