Category: Portfolios & Galleries
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Learning to See – The Leica camera Blog
Link: Learn to see light, life and the moments in between with Stella Johnson
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A Mother’s Steely Portraits of Her Daughter’s Life with Down Syndrome | The New Yorker
A Mother’s Steely Portraits of Her Daughter’s Life with Down Syndrome In “Regard,” a series of black-and-white portraits of herself and her daughter, Lulu, Anna Grevenitis casts viewers as the passersby who stare at her child, a teen-ager with Down syndrome. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/a-mothers-steely-portraits-of-her-daughters-life-with-down-syndrome Anna Grevenitis, a forty-six-year-old French photographer who lives in…
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Juxtapoz Magazine – Soviet Era Bus Stops Documented by Christopher Herwig
Juxtapoz Magazine – Soviet Era Bus Stops Documented by Christopher Herwig The architecture of the Soviet Union has always been some of the most ambitious of the 20th Century, where so many gaudy and grand details were consid… Link: https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/photography/soviet-era-bus-stops-documented-by-christopher-herwig/ The architecture of the Soviet Union has always been some of the most ambitious of…
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Theo: Homeless at age 7
Theo: Homeless at age 7 Theo has lived without a home since he was born. For him, his mother and those trying to help them, the major concern is how anyone can find a way to get this one homeless boy off the streets. via The San Francisco Chronicle: https://www.sfchronicle.com/projects/2020/theo/ Theo pops his head through…
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David Goldblatt: Seven decades of Johannesburg – British Journal of Photography
David Goldblatt: Seven decades of Johannesburg Johannesburg was the late photographer’s home for seventy years. Now, an exhibition at Goodman Gallery, London, charts his nuanced documentation of the city during some of its most oppressive years via British Journal of Photography: https://www.bjp-online.com/2020/08/david-goldblatt-seven-decades-of-johannesburg/ Johannesburg was the late photographer’s home for fifty years. Now, an exhibition at…
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Myth of a Woman – Photographs by Agnieszka Sosnowska | Interview by Rachel Wolfe | LensCulture
Myth of a Woman – Photographs by Agnieszka Sosnowska | Interview by Rachel Wolfe | LensCulture Agnieszka Sosnowska’s striking self-portraits chronicle rural life in the volatile landscape of her adopted homeland, East Iceland via LensCulture: https://www.lensculture.com/articles/agnieszka-sosnowska-myth-of-a-woman How can we picture the somewhat invisible relationship we have with our surroundings? Charting daily life in the depths…
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Photography as an Instrument of Awareness – The Leica camera Blog
Photography as an Instrument of Awareness Eva Woolridge uses her Leica Q2 as a vessel of visual communication
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Dread and Longing at a Nineteen-Seventies Sleepaway Camp | The New Yorker
Dread and Longing at a Nineteen-Seventies Sleepaway Camp Andy Sweet’s 1977 photographs from Camp Mountain Lake, in North Carolina, beautifully capture the cheerful triumphs and the gutting alienation that one can experience at camp. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/dread-and-longing-at-a-nineteen-seventies-sleepaway-camp This cluster of knotty feelings resurfaced almost immediately when I began looking at Andy Sweet’s photographs…
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Photojournalism Now: Friday Round Up – 7 August 2020 – Photojournalism Now
Photojournalism Now: Friday Round Up – 7 August 2020 This week on Photojournalism Now: Friday Round Up – Bangladeshi photojournalist Mohammad Shahnewaz Khan, founder of Voice of Humanity and Hope (VOHH) Festival turns the camera on himself and … via Photojournalism Now: https://photojournalismnow43738385.wordpress.com/2020/08/07/photojournalism-now-friday-round-up-7-august-2020/ This week on Photojournalism Now: Friday Round Up – Bangladeshi photojournalist Mohammad…
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The Chinese Photographer Who Lost His Beautiful Memories – Aperture Foundation NY
The Chinese Photographer Who Lost His Beautiful Memories Since 2004, Muge has captured the yearning of millions of people displaced by the Three Gorges Dam. via Aperture Foundation NY: https://aperture.org/blog/introducing-muge/ Since 2004, the Chinese photographer has captured the upheaval and displacement of over a million people caused by the Three Gorges Dam.
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Juxtapoz Magazine – NYC Skateboarding in the 1960s by Bill Eppridge
Juxtapoz Magazine – NYC Skateboarding in the 1960s by Bill Eppridge A nice touch of nostalgia this morning, as we came across Bill Eppridge’s skateboarding photos he took in New York City during the 1960s. Some of the… Link: https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/nyc-skateboarding-in-the-1960s-by-bill-eppridge/ A nice touch of nostalgia this morning, as we came across Bill Eppridge’s skateboarding photos…
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Juxtapoz Magazine – Talent Show: Julie Blackmon’s Theatrical Photographs
Juxtapoz Magazine – Talent Show: Julie Blackmon’s Theatrical Photographs There is a dreamlike quality to Julie Blackmon’s imagery. Children live, play, grow bored, make up stories, act them out and play some more, as if una… Link: https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/photography/talent-show-julie-blackmon-s-theatrical-photographs/ There is a dreamlike quality to Julie Blackmon’s imagery. Children live, play, grow bored, make up stories,…
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Arnaud Montagard: The Road, The Diner and the Drink on the Table – AMERICAN SUBURB X
Arnaud Montagard: The Road, The Diner and the Drink on the Table “In the case of Arnaud Montagard’s The Road Not Taken, the lens is focused on the remnants of a mid-century American dream as exemplified by gas stations and diners that bear all the vernacular hallmarks of the Atomic Age” The best way to…
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Photos that Should Not be Possible – Photographs by Toby Binder | Essay by Sean Sheehan | LensCulture
Photos that Should Not be Possible – Photographs by Toby Binder | Essay by Sean Sheehan | LensCulture In “Wee Muckers – Youth of Belfast”, Toby Binder captures the ebbs and flows of teenage life across the divided communities of Northern Ireland via LensCulture: https://www.lensculture.com/articles/toby-binder-photos-that-should-not-be-possible In “Wee Muckers – Youth of Belfast”, Toby Binder captures…
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Documenting life on the US/Mexico border, from 1983-1987
Documenting life on the US/Mexico border, from 1983-1987 With his photographs, taken during the 1980s, Ken Light wanted to reveal ‘the desperation, hardship, and struggle of people who want a better life’. via Huck Magazine: https://www.huckmag.com/art-and-culture/photography-2/documenting-life-on-the-us-mexico-border/ With his gripping photographs, taken during the 1980s, Ken Light wanted to reveal ‘the desperation, hardship, and struggle of…
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WaterAid celebrate a decade since clean water became a human right – British Journal of Photography
WaterAid celebrate a decade since clean water became a human right On this day ten years ago, the UN recognised clean water and sanitation as a human right, but one in ten people still lack access. Wateraid commissioned 10 visual artists from the global south to respond to this issue via British Journal of Photography:…
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Matamoros: Dreams on Hold – The Leica camera Blog
Matamoros: Dreams on Hold César Rodriguez reports on the conditions and everyday life in the Mexican migrant camp in Matamoros – just a stone’s throw away from the Texan town of Brownsville.
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Juxtapoz Magazine – Photos of Early 20th Century Doll Factories
Juxtapoz Magazine – Photos of Early 20th Century Doll Factories The creepiness level of dolls can vary. A few things that we think increase the creepiness level include: them in pieces, them missing parts, them tal… Link: https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/photography/photos-of-early-20th-century-doll-factories-2/ The creepiness level of dolls can vary. A few things that we think increase the creepiness level…
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Juxtapoz Magazine – The Soviet Union’s Abandoned Nuclear Test Cities
Juxtapoz Magazine – The Soviet Union’s Abandoned Nuclear Test Cities Nadav Kander began a three year survey of secret Soviet scientific cities and missile test sites when he learned of the existence of two “closed”… Link: https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/photography/the-soviet-union-s-abandoned-nuclear-test-cities/ Nadav Kander began a three year survey of secret Soviet scientific cities and missile test sites when he learned of…