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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

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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
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.

March 22, 2021
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 chance. Their bodies were found, along with those of six other victims, shot and burned; the corpses were piled in the back of a pickup truck that had been set on fire and abandoned in the Mexican state of Tamaulipas, just shy of the U.S. border. A dozen state police officers have been arrested in connection with the massacre.

March 21, 2021
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/

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 film.

March 19, 2021
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 her father, a country doctor, in the new book Night Calls.

March 19, 2021
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 wife, Luz. “They killed Beto—they hanged him,” Luz cried. Beto was one of Luz’s nine younger siblings. He had been imprisoned for more than a year on drug charges in the Mexican state of Guerrero, an area plagued by cartel violence. Beto’s death was one of several losses for her family that year. David and Nacho, two other siblings, had vanished three months earlier; they were among the thousands of missing persons in Mexico. On the night that he learned of his brother-in-law’s death, Martínez saw his own lifeless body in a dream, abandoned in the middle of a desolate landscape.

March 18, 2021
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.

March 15, 2021
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 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.

March 12, 2021
The Restoration Will – Photographs and text by Mayumi Suzuki | LensCulture

The Restoration Will – Photographs and text by Mayumi Suzuki | LensCulture

The 2011 tsunami in Japan destroyed this artist’s home, decimated her father’s photo studio, and took the lives of her parents

via LensCulture: https://www.lensculture.com/articles/mayumi-suzuki-the-restoration-will

The 2011 tsunami in Japan destroyed this artist’s home, decimated her father’s photo studio, and took the lives of her parents. After the disaster, she picked up her father’s camera and created a moving tribute to her lost family.

March 11, 2021
Utopia – Photographs by Sebastian Wells | Text by Magnus Pölcher | LensCulture

Utopia – Photographs by Sebastian Wells | Text by Magnus Pölcher | LensCulture

Embarking on a visual journey through the make-shift world of refugee camps, Sebastian Wells explores the tension between impermanence and permanence that exists in these environments

via LensCulture: https://www.lensculture.com/articles/sebastian-wells-utopia

Though each camp had its own complex histories, Wells encountered certain recurring structural qualities. On all of the sites he visited, he found similar architectural structures in how the camps were set up and therefore organized. “Basically, I have been looking for patterns that repeat themselves. Especially when it refers to the structure of containers or tents, the same constellation of people and spaces,” Wells says of his photographic approach. “I have tried to echo this visually or to trace it again at the different sites, no matter whether it was in Germany, in Turkey or in Kenya.”

March 8, 2021
Juxtapoz Magazine – Fumino Ishino’s New Handmade Book “Index of Fillers”

Juxtapoz Magazine – Fumino Ishino’s New Handmade Book “Index of Fillers”

Composed of found images of Japanese culture from the late 1980s and 1990s along with his own photographs, Index of Fillers is a recreation of artist…

Link: https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/books/fumino-ishino-s-new-handmade-book-index-of-fillers/

Composed of found images of Japanese culture from the late 1980s and 1990s along with his own photographs, Index of Fillers is a recreation of artist Fumi Ishino elusive memory of growing up during this era in Japan. Referencing the traditional format of Japanese comic strips, each image panel contains its own nostalgic narrative—from a cartoon Clearasil commercial to a video game rendering of a neighborhood to the interior of a love hotel. With a machine-embroidered felt cover housed inside a woven pencil case, each handmade book is unique and also includes a CD with a video piece made in Ishino’s childhood room.

March 3, 2021
ЖД The Iron Road – The Leica camera Blog

ЖД The Iron Road

For two years and over ten thousand kilometres, the Russian photographer, Grigoriy Yaroshenko explored the very essence of rail travel.

March 1, 2021
Blind – Imagining a World Somewhere Else from Sweden

Imagining The World Somewhere Else from Sweden

Photographer Per-Olof Stolz has photographed the suburbia of his hometown Rydebäck, in southern Sweden, where his family bought a house in the 1960s. A simple documentation of the middle-class life, which tells about both prosperity and isolation.

Link: https://www.blind-magazine.com/en/stories/1239/Imagining-A-World-Somewhere-Else-From-Sweden

Photographer Per-Olof Stolz has photographed the suburbia of his hometown Rydebäck, in southern Sweden, where his family bought a house in the 1960s. A simple documentation of the middle-class life, which tells about both prosperity and isolation.

February 26, 2021
Blind – Haunting Photos of Midnight Crossings at the US/Mexico Border During the 1980s

Haunting Photos of Midnight Crossings at the US/Mexico Border During the 1980s — Blind Magazine

American photographer Ken Light looks back at his time at the US/Mexico border in the 1980s when The Border Patrol began hunting migrants in the dead of night.

via Blind Magazine: https://www.blind-magazine.com/en/stories/1237/Haunting-Photos-Of-Midnight-Crossings-At-The-Us-Mexico-Border-During-The-1980s

“At the time, a lot of newspapers in California were writing stories about the ‘Brown Invasion’ because the immigration numbers were incredible. I realized this is one of the great stories of the twentieth century. The massive immigration would change the demographics of America.”

February 24, 2021
ER Doctor Documents COVID-19 Battle in a LA Hospital with His Camera

ER Doctor Documents COVID-19 Battle in a LA Hospital with His Camera

There have been some dramatic images coming out of the coronavirus battle around the world and stateside as well. However, when a doctor attending on the

via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2021/02/20/er-doctor-documents-covid-19-battle-in-a-la-hospital-with-his-camera/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+PetaPixel+%28PetaPixel%29

Dr. Kobner is an amateur photographer, and when the pandemic struck, he started using his Leica M6 and M10 cameras to record the goings-on in the ER. These photos were published by the Los Angeles Times this week. When one thinks of Leica, historical images of wars, pandemics, and other tragedies come to mind. The coronavirus is indeed the greatest modern-day tragedy that still refuses to go away quietly.

February 22, 2021
Covid Projects: Billy Hickey: How We Were – LENSCRATCH

Covid Projects: Billy Hickey: How We Were – LENSCRATCH

I had the great pleasure of meeting Billy Hickey at the ICP Virtual Portfolio Reviews in 2020. During the reviews, he shared a personal project, How We Were, born of events created by the pandemic when he returned home to Massachusetts for an appointment

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I had the great pleasure of meeting Billy Hickey at the ICP Virtual Portfolio Reviews in 2020. During the reviews, he shared a personal project, How We Were, born of events created by the pandemic when he returned home to Massachusetts for an appointment, only to find that he needed to stay put. It’s never easy to return to the familial home once you are officially launched into the world, but eventually he realized that documenting family during this historic time was as important as documenting strangers in other parts of the world. The photographs reveal a family trying to learn how to share space again, this time as adults, with a need to seek solitude and comfort in small things.

February 18, 2021
Rebecca Norris Webb Night Calls – AMERICAN SUBURB X

Rebecca Norris Webb Night Calls

In memory of a child that I never knew. This reflection is dedicated to Carol Jenkins-Davis

I find myself combatively trying to embed myself in the images, memories and families of others. My initial hesitancy in this pursuit comes from ack

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The sycamores I understand, each scale of their weathered bark is fit for a peelin’ from childish hands. Perhaps here and there a jackknife scratches into the tree skin an overture of young love. A rusted nail once precariously an iron protuberance is now enveloped by the same bark and it is sinking into the torso of the green and brown sycamore. The nail’s head now reminds me of an awkward bellybutton as the skin of the tree stretches to accommodate its mass before the tree’s invisible maw can work its iron victim from sight. It is a slow process and the casual observation of the sinking nail will give little up to the viewer, but over time and over repeat returns, the nail’s “progress” can be seen as a testament to the march of all things.

February 15, 2021
Covid Projects: Covid Pictures – LENSCRATCH

Covid Projects: Covid Pictures – LENSCRATCH

During the 2020 pandemic, when life was out of our control, restricted and confined, when we had to cope with shifted realities, many photographic artists found whole new ways to create work. We mined our personal lives, walked empty streets and photographed our cities and towns when they were silent, we watched the light move

via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2021/02/focus-on-covid-covid-pictures/

Photographer Jennifer Timmer Trail considered the importance of this moment in time and realized there was an opportunity to create a historical archive of work created in during the pandemic. So she created Covid Pictures. She describes her intentions:

February 15, 2021
Juxtapoz Magazine – Carolyn Drake’s “Knit Club”

Juxtapoz Magazine – Carolyn Drake’s “Knit Club”

A foreboding meditation in the vein of Southern Gothic literature, Carolyn Drake’s most recent body of work emerged through her collaboration with an…

Link: https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/photography/carolyn-drake-s-knit-club/

A foreboding meditation in the vein of Southern Gothic literature, Carolyn Drake’s most recent body of work emerged through her collaboration with an enigmatic group of women loosely calling themselves “Knit Club.” The nature of the club is ambiguous. It is a cross between a gang, a cult of mysteries, and a group of friends bound by secrets only they share.

February 11, 2021
Brian Ulrich: The States Project: Rhode Island – LENSCRATCH

Brian Ulrich: The States Project: Rhode Island – LENSCRATCH

This week The States Project focuses on Rhode Island, a small but mighty bastion of photography, home to a host of significant photographers and well regarded institutions. Our penultimate States Project is curated by photographer Brian Ulrich, a major fo

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This week The States Project focuses on Rhode Island, a small but mighty bastion of photography, home to a host of significant photographers and well regarded institutions. Our penultimate States Project is curated by photographer Brian Ulrich, a major force in American story telling. Today, we showcase his photographic efforts featuring two projects on American consumption, Copia and The Centurion. An interview with Brian follows.

February 9, 2021