https://www.leica-camera.blog/2020/06/10/voices-of-change/
Ruddy Roye uses photography as a tool to amplify unheard voices in his community.
Category: Portfolios & Galleries
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Voices of Change – The Leica camera Blog
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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.
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Uzbekistan Through The Lens of One of Its Only Street Photographers
Uzbekistan Through The Lens of One of Its Only Street Photographers
Anzor Salidjanov conducted an experiment in 2009 that changed his life. In the poky gallery within the ancient city of Bukhara where he sold “monotonous”
Anzor Salidjanov conducted an experiment in 2009 that changed his life. In the poky gallery within the ancient city of Bukhara where he sold “monotonous” paintings of “minarets, donkeys, and camel trains” to tourists, Salidjanov decided to hang a couple of his photographs.
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Recognition Patterns – Photographs by Marcus DeSieno | Text by Rachel Wolfe | LensCulture
Recognition Patterns – Photographs by Marcus DeSieno | Text by Rachel Wolfe | LensCulture
How does technology ‘see’ us? Inviting us to peek through the vision of a computer, these altered archival pictures make visible the visual language of recognition algorithms
via LensCulture: https://www.lensculture.com/articles/marcus-desieno-recognition-patterns
How does technology ‘see’ us? Inviting us to peek through the vision of a computer, these altered archival pictures make visible the visual language of recognition algorithms.
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The CENTER Awards: Editor’s Choice 3rd Place Winner: Barbara Zanon | LENSCRATCH
The CENTER Awards: Editor’s Choice 3rd Place Winner: Barbara Zanon
Congratulations to Barbara Zanon for her Third Place win in CENTER’S Editor’s Choice Award for her project, The daily life of 3 brothers with autism The Choice Awards recognize outstanding photographers working in all processes and subject matter. Images
Congratulations to Barbara Zanon for her Third Place win in CENTER’S Editor’s Choice Award for her project, The daily life of 3 brothers with autism The Choice Awards recognize outstanding photographers working in all processes and subject matter. Images can be singular or part of a series. Winners receive an opportunity to be part of the Winners Exhibition at El Museo Cultural de Santa Fe, complimentary participation in Review Santa Fe, and an Online exhibition at VisitCenter.org.
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Corona Diary – The Leica camera Blog
Chicago went into lockdown on March 21, 2020. Since then, Craig Semetko has barely left his apartment. Yet he has never ceased to document these exceedingly strange times with his Leica.
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A summer in Sicily by Leandro Colantoni shows “the other side of the postcard”
A summer in Sicily by Leandro Colantoni shows “the other side of the postcard”
Shot exclusively on iPhone, Leandro's portrait of his home in Sicily is an up close and personal documentation through the eyes of a local.
Shot exclusively on iPhone, Leandro’s portrait of his home in Sicily is an up close and personal documentation through the eyes of a local.
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Corona Rhapsody: Is this real life? – British Journal of Photography
Corona Rhapsody: Is this real life?
Rafael Heygster and Helena Lea Manhartsberger’s collaborative project captures the surreal tensions created by the rapid normalisation of new rules and infrastructures
via British Journal of Photography: https://www.bjp-online.com/2020/05/coronavirus-germany-rafael-heygster-helena-lea-manhartsberger/
Rafael Heygster and Helena Lea Manhartsberger’s collaborative project captures the surreal tensions of life during Covid-19
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I’m Usually a Conflict Photographer. Now, I’m Documenting My Family. – The New York Times
I’m Usually a Conflict Photographer. Now, I’m Documenting My Family.
For the first time in my career I decided not to cover a major event. I’m seeing something more timeless and universal.
Link: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/05/16/magazine/covid-quarantine-family.html
I was in Australia, working on a photographic project on the aftermath of the wildfires, and there was a moment when I realized that this pandemic was not being contained. It was spreading everywhere. My family was back in Switzerland, and I was playing these scenarios through my mind: Borders being closed. What if I get sick? What if I get stuck? What if my wife, Kathryn, gets sick, and I can’t reach her?
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Joel Pulliam – Springtime Nightmare « burn magazine
Springtime Nightmare | By Joel Pulliam
Springtime Nightmare By Joel Pulliam I moved to Tokyo with my family in 2018. For nearly two years, life was happy. Then, without warning, my young daughter died. Can art begin to convey a father’s…
via burn magazine: https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2020/05/joel-pulliam-springtime-nightmare/
I moved to Tokyo with my family in 2018. For nearly two years, life was happy. Then, without warning, my young daughter died.
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Juxtapoz Magazine – Enchantment and Suffocation in Zhang Kechun’s “The Yellow River”
Juxtapoz Magazine – Enchantment and Suffocation in Zhang Kechun’s “The Yellow River”
Best known for large format photographs of the post-industrial Chinese landscape, Zhang Kechun produces epic vistas that extol and underscore the sign…
Best known for large format photographs of the post-industrial Chinese landscape, Zhang Kechun produces epic vistas that extol and underscore the significance of landscape in modern Chinese national identity. For this project, Kechun embarked on a journey along one of the country’s longest and most celebrated waterways, the Yellow River, considered the cradle of Chinese civilization, which has undergone drastic, and often destructive, transformation in the last hundred years. Initially Kechun envisioned his trip on the historic river as an experience to “find the root of my soul.”
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Juxtapoz Magazine – The Streets of Shanghai Through the Eyes of Hiroyuki Nakada
Juxtapoz Magazine – The Streets of Shanghai Through the Eyes of Hiroyuki Nakada
“I point the camera at my subjects without warning,” writes Japanese photographer Hiroyuki Nakada. “My subjects are neither models nor actors, just or…
“I point the camera at my subjects without warning,” writes Japanese photographer Hiroyuki Nakada. “My subjects are neither models nor actors, just ordinary citizens. I can’t help but feel excited seeing the horror somewhere in the depths of expressions on people’s faces in everyday life. Seeing them fulfills me. That is why I still devour them even today, like a hyena that has found its prey.” Nakada’s relocation to Shanghai from Japan in 1999 coincided with the purchase of a small Ricoh GR digital camera. The resulting pictures, compiled in a new book, Shanghai, reveal the curiosity of an outsider and the knowledge of an insider.