L.A.-based photographer, Stephen Vanasco shares his humbling narrative of demonstrations during a time of tension.
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For two years, 13 photographers have been documenting London, unknowingly creating a record of pre-lockdown life
For two years, 13 photographers have been documenting London, unknowingly creating a record of pre-lockdown life
Each photographer was given an area at the end of a tube line to document. Little did they know London – and the world – was about to change forever.
Each photographer was given an area at the end of a tube line to document. Little did they know London – and the world – was about to change forever.
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Kovi Konowiecki: Storytellers | LENSCRATCH
Kovi Konowiecki: Storytellers
“Glory to the hawks and their awing ways, moderate, and high.” These are the last words uttered in Kovi Konowiecki’s poem named for his series of photos, The Hawks Come Up Before the Sun. The images that follow feel like isolated chapters bound by the geo
“Glory to the hawks and their awing ways, moderate, and high.” These are the last words uttered in Kovi Konowiecki’s poem named for his series of photos, The Hawks Come Up Before the Sun. The images that follow feel like isolated chapters bound by the geography of the California desert and a tangled web human relationships. Konowiecki who originally hails from Long Beach, CA, is an outsider to this place of arid vastness and solitude. Yet, his empathetic eye and ability to conjure nuance and narrative from a series of single and at times disparate images might convince you otherwise. Rather than a statement, these sunsoaked depictions feel like the exploration of a place as internal as it is tangible. A myriad of quiet encounters elevated by the camera amidst an expanse of dusky brush and cracked highway.
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Macaulay Lerman: Storytellers | LENSCRATCH
Macaulay Lerman: Storytellers
The search for self-definition is a life long pursuit. For photographer and story teller Macaulay Lerman (@macaulaylermanphoto) that pursuit manifested itself early in the possibilities and potential of alternative choices–living life on the road, findin
The search for self-definition is a life long pursuit. For photographer and story teller Macaulay Lerman (@macaulaylermanphoto) that pursuit manifested itself early in the possibilities and potential of alternative choices–living life on the road, finding connections with those on the fringe, cultivating an understanding of the other. Macaulay’s project, Greer Road, is filled with rough beauty, places over looked and seemingly in decline with people who have chosen those same alternatives. The work has a cinematic quality and his words paint new layers onto the narrative of the photographs. Macaulay is our Storytellers Editor this week and an interview with him follows.
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Artist Barbara Iweins on spending two years photographing all 10,532 objects in her house
Artist Barbara Iweins on spending two years photographing all 10,532 objects in her house
The photographer undertook this mammoth task in an attempt assess the value she places on objects.
The photographer undertook this mammoth task in an attempt assess the value she places on objects.
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Self-Portraits From Black Photographers Reflecting on America – The New York Times
Self-Portraits From Black Photographers Reflecting on America
“I’ve found strength in being able to hold and see myself at this moment in time.”
Link: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/06/19/arts/black-photographers-self-portraits.html
Self-Portraits From Black Photographers Reflecting on America
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‘Under the Sand’ by Zied Ben Romdhane – Witness
‘Under the Sand’ by Zied Ben Romdhane
Through his quiet yet grave images, Zied takes us into a Tunisian community trying to win a hopeless battle against an insidious…
via Medium: https://witness.worldpressphoto.org/under-the-sand-by-zied-ben-romdhane-28ce6104aaa
Through his quiet yet grave images, Zied takes us into a Tunisian community trying to win a hopeless battle against an insidious, omnipresent threat: sand.
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A Photographer on the Front Lines of Philadelphia’s Protests | The New Yorker
A Photographer on the Front Lines of Philadelphia’s Protests
Twenty-nine-year-old Isaac Scott captured the early days of intense confrontation—including clashes with the police—and stayed for the more peaceful days that followed.
via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/06/22/a-photographer-on-the-front-lines-of-philadelphias-protests
Twenty-nine-year-old Isaac Scott captured the early days of intense confrontation—including clashes with the police—and stayed for the more peaceful days that followed.
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Lana Z Caplan: History Based Landscapes | LENSCRATCH
Lana Z Caplan: History Based Landscapes
Trauma and horrific histories are held in landscapes in every corner of the globe. For the past twenty years photographer, filmmaker, and educator Lana Z Caplan has been documenting…
Trauma and horrific histories are held in landscapes in every corner of the globe. For the past twenty years photographer, filmmaker, and educator Lana Z Caplan has been documenting sites of public killings in her project, Postcards from the Hanging: Sites of Public Execution. She shares some stunning statistics in her statement, “The United States is one of only 20 countries in the world that continues to employ state sanctioned killing. In 2019 we ranked 6th in the world in the number of executions following (in order) China, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Egypt (execution totals not known for Vietnam, North Korea, and Syria).” Her thoughtful examination of why our country continues to allow the death penalty adds another layer to its history of pain and suffering.
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Voices of Change – The Leica camera Blog
Voices of Change
Ruddy Roye uses photography as a tool to amplify unheard voices in his community.
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Wendel A. White: History Based Landscapes | LENSCRATCH
Wendel A. White: History Based Landscapes
We first featured Wendel A. White’s project, Schools for the Colored, in 2018 as part of a two-person exhibition, Segregated Influences, at the Colorado Photograpic Arts Center. I wanted to share the complete project as we continue to look at history-base
We first featured Wendel A. White’s project, Schools for the Colored, in 2018 as part of a two-person exhibition, Segregated Influences, at the Colorado Center for Photography. I wanted to share the complete project as we continue to look at history-based landscapes. This meaningful effort features the architectural remains of structures once used as segregated schools for African Americans in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois. Wendel explains his focus on these states, “The project is a survey of the places that were connected to the
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Juxtapoz Magazine – Winter Picnicking in India with Arko Datto
Juxtapoz Magazine – Winter Picnicking in India with Arko Datto
Picnicking is far from a simple affair in India. In a land where the fleeting months of December to February offer the only time to ‘enjoy’ the otherw…
Link: https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/photography/winter-picnicking-in-india-with-arko-datto/
For his series PIK-NIK, Arko Datto spent five winters traveling across eastern India photographing families, colleagues, friends, and strangers gathering for a day of partying. Arriving by the bus-load, picnickers search out the perfect spot along the rivers to unload their pots, pans, drinks, and sound systems. “As the sun sets,” Datto explained to GUP, “the buses pull out, leaving stray dogs and cows to feast on carcasses, peels and leftovers amidst broken bottles and styrofoam plates. Fragile delicate environments are left behind damaged, irreversibly altered by indiscriminate pollution and plastic garbage littering.” Before becoming a photographer Datto completed two masters degrees in theoretical physics and mathematics. His projects have since been published in TIME and National Geographic and he is a member of the prestigious NOOR photo agency.
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Scenes from the George Floyd Memorial in Brooklyn | The New Yorker
Scenes from the George Floyd Memorial in Brooklyn
The photographer Mark Clennon has attended many protests and Black Lives Matter marches in New York in recent years. This time, it feels different.
via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/scenes-from-the-george-floyd-memorial-in-brooklyn
Clennon, who is thirty-two years old and works as an editorial and commercial photographer (he took behind-the-scenes photos for Ava DuVernay’s Netflix series about the Central Park Five, “When They See Us”), has attended various other protests, including the many Black Lives Matter marches in New York in recent years. But the ones these past weeks have been different. At the memorial, he was conscious of the helicopters overhead and of rows of police officers watching the gathering from nearby rooftops. This was the first time that he felt unsafe. As a black man, Clennon faces a disproportionate risk of experiencing violence at the hands of law enforcement. But he feels that his camera offers at least some protection. At a protest during the past weekend, he had been in a confrontation with police; three of the friends he was with were arrested, but he was allowed to leave. “We are all black,” he said. “The only difference was I had my camera.”
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Dawoud Bey’s Powerful Portrait of Black America Over Half a Century – Feature Shoot
Dawoud Bey’s Powerful Portrait of Black America Over Half a Century – Feature Shoot
On January 18, 1969, during the height of the Black Arts Movement in America, Thomas P.F. Hoving, then Director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and curator Allon Schoener mounted…
via Feature Shoot: https://www.featureshoot.com/2020/06/dawoud-beys-powerful-portrait-of-black-america-over-half-a-century/
On January 18, 1969, during the height of the Black Arts Movement in America, Thomas P.F. Hoving, then Director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and curator Allon Schoener mounted Harlem on My Mind: Cultural Capital of Black America, 1900-1968, a three month long multimedia exhibition designed extensively to highlight the history of Harlem throughout the twentieth century.
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Hexie Hao – The Leica camera Blog
https://www.leica-camera.blog/2020/06/01/hexie-hao/
With his M6, 20 rolls of film and a 35mm lens, Jean-Luc Feixa travelled throughout China capturing poetic snapshots in soothing black and white.
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Scenes from a New York City Protest of the Police Killing of George Floyd | The New Yorker
Scenes from a New York City Protest of the Police Killing of George Floyd
“When I have my camera on me, I don’t forget that I’m a black human being,” the photographer Chris Facey said. “I remember why I’m at these protests.”
via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/scenes-from-a-new-york-city-protest-of-the-police-killing-of-george-floyd
On Thursday afternoon, hundreds of protesters converged on Union Square, in New York City, to join the outcry over the police killing of George Floyd, in Minneapolis. Chris Facey, a student at the School of Visual Arts and a father of two girls, attended the demonstration. The police used bikes to form a barricade, in the hopes of keeping the protest contained to a single corner of the square, but, as Facey put it, “everything started spilling out.” He witnessed police officers shoving protesters and hitting them with bikes, “bending their arms in places they’re not meant to go.” More than seventy people were arrested. According to the police, several officers were injured. (On Friday, a new round of demonstrations—and arrests—took place, in Foley Square and at the Barclays Center, in Brooklyn.)
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The 2020 Better Days Exhibition | LENSCRATCH
The 2020 Better Days Exhibition – LENSCRATCH
We can only hope for better days ahead–days that we are with friends and family again, days spent in beauty, days with the freedom to roam, or dine, or touch one another. Thank you for sharing you version of what we are missing. And in the meantime, stay safe.
via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2020/05/the-2020-better-days-exhibition/
We can only hope for better days ahead–days that we are with friends and family again, days spent in beauty, days with the freedom to roam, or dine, or touch one another. Thank you for sharing you version of what we are missing. And in the meantime, stay safe.
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Giorgio Bianchi – Donbass Stories « burn magazine
Giorgio Bianchi – Donbass Stories
Giorgio Bianchi Donbass Stories Several tens of thousands of dead and wounded, over a million refugees. The civil war in Donbass has literally erased entire cities and villages from the map, staini…
via burn magazine: https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2020/05/giorgio-bianchi-donbass-stories/
Several tens of thousands of dead and wounded, over a million refugees. The civil war in Donbass has literally erased entire cities and villages from the map, staining with blood the soil of the European continent for the first time in the twenty-first century.
These are two chapters – Alina and Blind Pit – of my Donbass Stories, which came to life with the idea to portray as main characters those invisible actors affected by the civil war in that region.
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‘Eastern Comma’ by Yoppy Pieter – Witness
‘Eastern Comma’ by Yoppy Pieter
This story about mass urban migration in Indonesia explores feelings of longing, belonging and nostalgia through personal memories.
via Medium: https://witness.worldpressphoto.org/eastern-comma-by-yoppy-pieter-c13fdbbce562
This story about mass urban migration in Indonesia explores feelings of longing, belonging and nostalgia through personal memories.