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Photos capturing the banal eccentricity of British life

Photos capturing the banal eccentricity of British life

Barry Lewis discusses his new book, which brings together some of the photographer’s more quietly powerful images from 1975 to 2005 to celebrate the richness of a shared culture.

via Huck Magazine: https://www.huckmag.com/art-and-culture/photos-capturing-the-banal-eccentricity-of-english-life/

Barry Lewis discusses his new book, which brings together some of the photographer’s more quietly powerful images from 1975 to 2005 to celebrate the richness of a shared culture.

February 9, 2021
Muma Paduri – The Leica camera Blog

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In eastern Serbia, belief in a world of magic is still very much alive. Equipped with his M Typ 240, Joan Alvado set off in search of traces of Muma Paduri – the Mother of the Woods.

February 9, 2021
Juxtapoz Magazine – Devil’s Promenade: Antone Dolezal and Lara Shipley’s Portrait of the Ozarks

Juxtapoz Magazine – Devil’s Promenade: Antone Dolezal and Lara Shipley’s Portrait of the Ozarks

Antone Dolezal and Lara Shipley return to their home region of the Ozarks in the American Midwest, where locals persist in their search for a legendar…

Link: https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/photography/devil-s-promenade-antone-dolezal-and-lara-shipley-s-portrait-of-the-ozarks/

Antone Dolezal and Lara Shipley return to their home region of the Ozarks in the American Midwest, where locals persist in their search for a legendary floating orb of light that can only be seen from the Devil’s Promenade. It’s a lushly wooded road in an area where wanderers flock to seek possible redemption, or just to escape the boredom and darkness of ordinary rural life. Subtle but revealing portraits are mixed with archives and reinterpretations of mythical, folkloric tales. It’s a nuanced, mysterious, and tender representation by photographers returning to the place where they grew up, but also reveals the current, stark realities of a remote place in America.

February 6, 2021
Blind – Antoine Agoudjian: An Armenian Story

Antoine Agoudjian: An Armenian story

For over thirty years, photographer Antoine Agoudjian has been driven by a single obsession: to document the Armenian narrative, from the ghosts of the past to the conflicts of today.

Link: https://www.blind-magazine.com/en/news/1216/Antoine-Agoudjian-An-Armenian-Story

For over thirty years, photographer Antoine Agoudjian has been driven by a single obsession: to document the Armenian narrative, from the ghosts of the past to the conflicts of today.

February 4, 2021
Juxtapoz Magazine – Maria Lax: Some Kind of Heavenly Fire

Juxtapoz Magazine – Maria Lax: Some Kind of Heavenly Fire

“I’m from a small town in Northern Finland surrounded by a vast, sparsely populated wilderness,” explains Maria Lax. “Most pass through the town on th…

Link: https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/photography/maria-lax-some-kind-of-heavenly-fire/

“I’m from a small town in Northern Finland surrounded by a vast, sparsely populated wilderness,” explains Maria Lax. “Most pass through the town on their way someplace else without ever knowing it was a hotspot for UFO sightings in the 1960s.”

February 4, 2021
Campesino Cuba – Photographs by Richard Sharum | Text by Justin Herfst | LensCulture

Campesino Cuba – Photographs by Richard Sharum | Text by Justin Herfst | LensCulture

These classic photographs from contemporary, rural Cuba, document a disappearing way of life, pieced together through the everyday rhythms of the campesino people

via LensCulture: https://www.lensculture.com/articles/richard-andrew-sharum-campesino-cuba

These classic photographs from contemporary, rural Cuba, document a disappearing way of life, pieced together through the everyday rhythms of the campesino people.

February 4, 2021
Juxtapoz Magazine – Edouard Taufenbach, Régis Campo, and the Movement of Swallows

Juxtapoz Magazine – Edouard Taufenbach, Régis Campo, and the Movement of Swallows

Twice a year, swallows cross the Sahara and the Mediterranean to reach sub-Saharan Africa and Europe. Observing their migrating journey, photographer…

Link: https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/photography/edouard-taufenbach-regis-campo-and-the-movement-of-swallows/

This series is an experiment at the crossroads of artistic and scientific uses of photographic and musical mediums. Between formal rigor and subjective narration, the research deploys an approach where the swallow in flight, representing a vector of force, gives form and matter to an insatiable desire for freedom with the sky as perspective.

February 2, 2021
Blind – Trent Parke: The Crimson Wind

Trent Parke: The Crimson Wind — Blind Magazine

Australian photographer Trent Parke, a member of Magnum Photos and winner of four World Press Photo awards, returns after a five-year hiatus with his first project since 2015. His book Crimson Line is a meditation in scarlet on industrial pollution, creat

via Blind Magazine: https://www.blind-magazine.com/en/news/1210/Trent-Parke-The-Crimson-Wind

Australian photographer Trent Parke, a member of Magnum Photos and winner of four World Press Photo awards, returns after a five-year hiatus with his first project since 2015. His book Crimson Line is a meditation in scarlet on industrial pollution, creativity, and light.

January 30, 2021
Blind – Larry Fink’s Penetrating Portrait of Class in America

Larry Fink’s Penetrating Portrait of Class in America

“I was born a communist,” says photographer Larry Fink, who turns 80 in March. The self-described “Marxist from Long Island” who first rose to critical acclaim with Social Graces, a series of work that contrasted life in Martins Creek, Pennsylvania, when the artist has lived since the 1970s, with scenes of New York’s upper crust that same decade. Exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in 1979 and first published as a monograph by Aperture in 1984. the work catapulted Fink to the forefront of the photo world, despite the fact that he eschewed career ambitions in favor using photography to achieve political goals.

January 28, 2021
Juxtapoz Magazine – Joseph Rodríguez: LAPD 1994

Juxtapoz Magazine – Joseph Rodríguez: LAPD 1994

In a year when millions of Americans poured into the streets demanding changes in police strategy, training and deployment, the Bronx Documentary Cent…

Link: https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/photography/joseph-rodriguez-lapd-1994/

On February 5th, the exhibition will be available to view online at lapd1994bdc.org.

January 27, 2021
Larry Fink’s Ode to the Joys of Partying | AnOther

A Photographer’s Ode to the Joys of Partying

via AnOther: https://www.anothermag.com/art-photography/13072/larry-finks-ode-to-the-joys-of-partying-photographer-vanity-fair-retrospective

“Oh my god, have I been at parties,” chuckles American photographer Larry Fink, on a Zoom call from his farm in rural Pennsylvania. We’re discussing his forthcoming exhibition, at Galerie Bene Taschen in Cologne, opening later this week. The show is a retrospective of Fink’s esteemed 65-year career, examining his enduring preoccupation with people and his remarkable talent for capturing them – especially while in the throes of celebration.

January 26, 2021
Opinion | Photos: Joe Biden’s Quiet Inauguration – The New York Times

Opinion | Photographs From the Quiet Inauguration

After January 6, the capital welcomed a solemn and safe transfer of power.

Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/22/opinion/inauguration-day-washington-biden.html

January 23, 2021
Matt Eich’s The Seven Cities – AMERICAN SUBURB X

Matt Eich’s The Seven Cities

“Everything seems somehow familiar and distant at the same time. It is as if time has wedged us between the fever dream of summer and the insoluble gaslighting conjured up from what was believed to be a significantly flawed, but tolerable near past”

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“Everything seems somehow familiar and distant at the same time. It is as if time has wedged us between the fever dream of summer and the insoluble gaslighting conjured up from what was believed to be a significantly flawed, but tolerable near past”

January 20, 2021
Dear New Yorker – The Leica camera Blog

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My main focus is being free to roam, using my instincts, keeping my ears and eyes peeled, and discovering things. I’m always aware of my emotional and mental space, as this can send off signals and affect how I’m received in public. Your energy and body language have to be open and clear with intention, because if not you will face problems with people reacting to you, and being threatened by you and your camera.

January 18, 2021
Opinion | Images From the Capitol Under Siege – The New York Times

Opinion | Images From the Capitol Under Siege

The usual bustle of lawmakers moving in and out of offices gave way to a horrific scene.

Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/16/opinion/capitol-attack-photos.html

Mark Peterson is a photographer whose forthcoming book “White Noise” focuses on white supremacists. He is represented by Redux Pictures. Michelle Cottle is a member of the Times editorial board.

January 16, 2021
Juxtapoz Magazine – Mitch Epstein Travels the Country Photographing Property Right Conflicts

Juxtapoz Magazine – Mitch Epstein Travels the Country Photographing Property Right Conflicts

Pioneering color photographer Mitch Epstein faces urgent, contemporary issues through his compelling photographs in Mitch Epstein: Property Rights at…

Link: https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/photography/mitch-epstein-travels-the-country-photographing-property-right-conflicts/

Pioneering color photographer Mitch Epstein faces urgent, contemporary issues through his compelling photographs in Mitch Epstein: Property Rights at Amon Carter Museum of Contemporary Art. From Standing Rock protests to the Arizona and Texas borderlands, Epstein travels the country capturing images where public and private rights are often in conflict. Politics and citizenship, or environmental degradation and land rights, Epstein focuses on tough topics, helping us see overlapping, and often competing, histories and perspectives.

January 16, 2021
Bil Zelman: Here We Are, Stories from the Sixth Extinction – LENSCRATCH

Bil Zelman: Here We Are, Stories from the Sixth Extinction – LENSCRATCH

Many photography projects address human-caused devastation in a way that doesn’t quite evoke the horror nor the reality of the situation. It seems as if many photographers approach the topic with the same sense of awe for the natural world that is inheren

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Then there is photographer Bil Zelman and his raw interpretation of the planet in his most recent book Here We Are, Stories from the Sixth Extinction, published by Daylight Books. Zelman’s black and white photographs lit by strobes at night in the muck of everglade swamps, western El Niño storms, and the desolation of barren trees from California wildfires harkens the viewer to see, process, and then respond. We are in the beginnings of the sixth extinction, and it is dire.

January 16, 2021
Juxtapoz Magazine – Gary Krueger’s City of Angels

Juxtapoz Magazine – Gary Krueger’s City of Angels

Gary Krueger’s City of Angels, 1971-1980 is a collection of sometimes frenetic and often bizarre photographs of Los Angeles, California. Krueger’…

Link: https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/photography/gary-krueger-s-city-of-angels/

Gary Krueger’s City of Angels, 1971-1980 is a collection of sometimes frenetic and often bizarre photographs of Los Angeles, California. Krueger’s curiosity and instincts helped to create a remarkable body of street photography that he describes as “split-second juxtapositions in life.” After graduating High School in 1963, Gary Krueger (1945 – ) drove his 1954 Ford west from Cleveland, Ohio, to study graphic design and photography at the Chouinard Art Institute in Los Angeles (What became Cal Arts). Upon graduation from Chouinard, Krueger was hired by WED, Disney’s “Imagineering” Division to photograph the Park and its events. He eventually left WED to pursue a successful career as a commercial and editorial photographer.

January 15, 2021
Climate Change, Drought, and Water Contamination: The Untold Story of California’s San Joaquin Valley – Feature Shoot

Climate Change, Drought, and Water Contamination: The Untold Story of California’s San Joaquin Valley – Feature Shoot

The Wellcome Photography Prize 2021 is free to enter and open for submissions. They’re looking for the human stories behind three urgent health challenges: mental health problems, infectious diseases, and…

via Feature Shoot: https://www.featureshoot.com/2021/01/climate-change-drought-and-water-contamination-the-untold-story-of-californias-san-joaquin-valley/

“When I hear people talk about climate change, I often hear them ask, ‘When is it going to happen?’” the California-based documentary photographer Mette Lampcov tells us. “Well, it’s here. We are living it. And we’d better start looking it straight in the eyes.”

January 15, 2021
The ferries, nightclubs and seaside revelry of ’80s Dover

The ferries, nightclubs and seaside revelry of ’80s Dover

Photographer Janine Windel remembers visiting the UK’s major ferry port in 1989, where she immersed herself in a world that often felt frozen in time.

via Huck Magazine: https://www.huckmag.com/art-and-culture/the-ferries-nightclubs-and-seaside-revelry-of-80s-dover/

Photographer Janine Wiedel remembers visiting the UK’s major ferry port in 1989, where she immersed herself in a world that often felt frozen in time.

January 14, 2021