Mixing various subjects and styles, Lyndon French's portfolio shows how trying out what feels right to you photographically is the ideal approach to the medium.
Mixing various subjects and styles, Lyndon French’s portfolio shows how trying out what feels right to you photographically is the ideal approach to the medium.
In a new book, “People of the Mud,” the photographer Luis Alberto Rodriguez creates a choreography of bodies at work and at play.
via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/a-visitor-to-ireland-finds-ballet-in-the-ancient-sport-of-hurling
On a stretch of stony earth, in front of a patchwork wall of brick and cinder block, three young men are down on their elbows and knees, with heads in hands. They’re wearing pristine sportswear: shirts in the same team colors but mismatched footwear and shorts. Also, the teammates are stacked one on top of the other, in a monument built of trembling muscle and bruised flesh. The boys’ faces are hidden, but you might recognize one of them from the sockless Adidas sneakers he’s wearing here and in another photograph. That other image shows him and three more athletes, each with his feet on the ground and body flung backward, head on his neighbor’s knees, making a human platform at coffee-table height. It’s as if the subjects of August Sander’s “Young Farmers” (1925-27) had thrown away their cigarettes and taken up—what? Choreography? Contortionism? Performance art?
Beyond the cherry blossoms, festivals, and buzzing nightlife, Dan Bailey’s photographs of Tokyo offer a deeper discussion about Japan’s history and its sense of national and individual identity
via British Journal of Photography: https://www.bjp-online.com/2020/07/dan-bailey-disposables/
Beyond the cherry blossoms, festivals, and buzzing nightlife, Dan Bailey’s photographs offer a deeper discussion about Japan’s history and its sense of national and individual identity
Projects featured this week were selected from our most recent call-for-submissions. I was able to interview each of these individuals to gain further insight into the bodies of work they shared. Today, we are looking at the series Blind River by Alex Turner. Alex Turner (b. Chicago, Illinois) combines imaging technologies to highlight the profusion of sociopolitical
via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2020/07/alex-turner-blind-river/
Projects featured this week were selected from our most recent call-for-submissions. I was able to interview each of these individuals to gain further insight into the bodies of work they shared. Today, we are looking at the series Blind River by Alex Turner.
Art director and photographer, Mathieu Bitton shares how he uses photography to amplify messages online and offline.
In Perfect Day, Txema Salvans photographs Spain’s holiday-makers in unexpected corners of the postindustrial landscape. Sunbathers congregate in car p…
Link: https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/photography/finding-leisure-in-a-post-industrial-landscape/
In Perfect Day, Txema Salvans photographs Spain’s holiday-makers in unexpected corners of the postindustrial landscape. Sunbathers congregate in car parks, swimming pools are nestled between encroaching buildings, and cranes and cooling towers loom over beaches. In these surreal, banal and humorous scenes, Salvans reveals how the pursuit of leisure persists in spite of the ominous pressures of the built environment, expressing a deeply human determination to adapt, and find repose, against the odds.
In 1983, at only 18 years of age, Katsu Naito arrived in New York from his native Japan to work as a contracted kitchen chef. By 1988 he had settled i…
Link: https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/photography/a-japanese-photographer-s-images-of-1990s-harlem/
In 1983, at only 18 years of age, Katsu Naito arrived in New York from his native Japan to work as a contracted kitchen chef.
Personalized spaces of the incarcerated.
I first visited Ukrainian prisons in 2009, while working on a project for Doctors Without Borders. I remember seeing the conjugal rooms and being struck by how no two rooms were alike.
In a new exhibition showing from 18 June to 14 August, London's David Hill Gallery celebrates the largely unknown photographer who documented the American experience.
In a new exhibition showing from 18 June to 14 August, London’s David Hill Gallery celebrates the largely unknown photographer who documented the American experience.
Projects featured this week were selected from our most recent call-for-submissions. I was able to interview each of these individuals to gain further insight into the bodies of work they shared. Today, we are looking at the series Presence Obscured by Ka
This series explores the shifting culture of Christianity in the American South and my own experience of faith.
Vale Grande Carajás
Cédric Gerbehaye travelled to the Vale Grande Carajás mine, the largest iron ore mine in the world, which also produces gold, manganese, bauxite, copper and nickel.
In the neighborhoods most devastated by the coronavirus, food insecurity has emerged as a major concern.
Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/04/opinion/coronavirus-food-banks-hunger.html
In the best of times, life in New York City can be unforgiving. It was hard enough, working full tilt, to cover rent, child care and food before the pandemic. Now, in the neighborhoods most devastated by the coronavirus, life has become more precarious. And the most elemental human need — food — has become a pressing, urgent concern.
Japanese photographer Takamoto Yamauchi’s latest series was created during several journeys within Japan and overseas and is a dark trip into the dept…
Japanese photographer Takamoto Yamauchi’s latest series was created during several journeys within Japan and overseas and is a dark trip into the depths of the human psyche. Selected from over 30,000 photographs, Yamauchi’s “Vortex” slowly came into being during the author’s year-long correspondence with Daido Moriyama. The result is a dizzying series of photographs that transcends genres and engages in metaphors and narrative subtlety to explore Yamauchi’s interests in the black parts of the human psyche.
Gold has fascinated humankind for millennia. Ancient civilizations across the world saw the powerful sun in its yellow glow and sought…
via Medium: https://witness.worldpressphoto.org/the-gold-we-inherited-the-gold-of-our-dreams-9ef637dc6280
I originally envisioned bright photographs for this project, to mimic the sun-like quality of gold. But I ended up being drawn to the darkness surrounding gold’s glow, that hints at the mystery, greed, and violence associated with it over time. That, too, is part of Peru’s gold legacy. The glimpse of flickering light in the darkness, the promise of wealth for anyone willing to grasp at it.
Yael Martinez La casa que sangra (The house that bleeds) It was getting dark when I got the call. Luz, my wife, was telling me that they had killed her brother Beto. She was uncontrollable — I had …
via burn magazine: https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2020/07/yael-martinez/
It was getting dark when I got the call. Luz, my wife, was telling me that they had killed her brother Beto. She was uncontrollable — I had never heard her speak like that. Her voice was shaking, breaking. I could not sleep all night. “Beto was killed, hanged,” resonated in my head, “he was beaten, burned, but they told us that he committed suicide.” Her other brothers, David and Nacho, had been missing for over 3 months.
The Ukranian photographer spent two years smuggling found images out of Chernobyl’s exclusion zone. Now, he presents them in a virtual gallery
via British Journal of Photography: https://www.bjp-online.com/2020/07/maxim-dondyuk-chernobyl/
The Ukranian photographer spent two years smuggling found images out of Chernobyl’s exclusion zone. Now, he presents them in a virtual gallery
The year 2020 has undergone a fair share of major events from an ongoing global pandemic to political turmoil and social unrest. American photojournalist David Butow shares his perspective documenting these historical moments for the last six months.
Kim Llerena’s “American Scrapbook” gives a fresh riff on the classic roadtrip, deftly collecting signs and symbols of the collective American sensibility as she drives through the landscape
via LensCulture: https://www.lensculture.com/articles/kim-llerena-american-blues
Kim Llerena’s “American Scrapbook” gives a fresh riff on the classic roadtrip, deftly collecting signs and symbols of the collective American sensibility as she drives through the landscape.
In 1982, photographer Baldwin Lee set off on a 2,000-mile road trip around the Deep South, documenting life in Louisiana, Florida and Georgia.
via Huck Magazine: https://www.huckmag.com/art-and-culture/photography-2/baldwin-lee-photography-black-american-life-in-the-south/
In 1982, photographer Baldwin Lee set off on a 2,000-mile road trip around the Deep South, documenting life in Louisiana, Florida and Georgia.
For over a decade, Jon Rafman has travelled the planet while sitting at his desk, a flâneur of the twenty-first century, gathering images for his ongo…
Link: https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/photography/jon-rafman-s-nine-eyes-of-google-street-view/
For over a decade, Jon Rafman has travelled the planet while sitting at his desk, a flâneur of the twenty-first century, gathering images for his ongoing project Nine Eyes of Google Street View.