Manuel Vazquez’s “Traces”
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Category: Portfolios & Galleries
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Photo Essay: Congo Portraits
The Congolese are generally not the most willing of subjects particularly when they think that the photographer will somehow profit from the exchange at their expense.
After a week or two struggling to work on stories on the Congo River I decided to engage in a collaboration with some of the villagers and city dwellers in and around Kisingani. I set up a portable studio (my hotel bed sheet, some gaffer tape and anything in the vicinity I could use to hang it on) and invited passers by or merchants in the area to be photographed with anything or anyone they desired. Most of them were photographed with the tools of their trade or with friends. It’s probably the most fun I have ever had with a camera.
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Anti-Terrorism Exercises in China – The Big Picture
Earlier in June, China launched a week-long series of anti-terrorist drills called “Great Wall 5”, in preparation for the upcoming 2008 Olympic Games. The drills involved emergency responders, “police forces, the People’s Armed Police, the People’s Liberation Army and the health, environmental protection, meteorology and transportation departments.” according to China’s Xinhua News Agency.
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John Moore – The Digital Journalist
View the “Pakistan” Feature Gallery by John Moore
View the “Iraq” Feature Gallery by John Moore
View the “Pan-American Highway” Feature Gallery by John MooreView the “Afghanistan ‘Frontline Helmand’” Movie by John Moore
View the “Iraq ‘Camp Cropper’” Movie by John Moore
View the “Zimbabwe – Photographer’s Journal” Movie by John MooreCheck it out here.
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Back in Kabul, Never at Peace – Photographer's Journal – Tyler Hicks
After a recent period being embedded with the United States Marines in southern Afghanistan, I stopped in Kabul to wander the streets and take photos of a city forever in transition. The Western presence was something not tolerated during Taliban rule, so there have been some changes.
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The Year in Pictures: Zimbabwe Election
This group of pictures from Saturday’s New York Times showed Zimbabweans on their election day where they were forced to vote for the only candidate, President Robert Mugabe, for fear of punishment unless they could produce a finger colored by red ink as evidence they had cast their ballot.
According to the newspaper, the subjects agreed to be photographed and interviewed on the condition that their faces not be fully visible while the pictures ran uncredited for fear of reprisal against the photographer.
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Andrew Bush's "66 Drives" photographs – Boing Boing
From 1989 to 1997 Andrew Bush took photos of people driving in Southern California.
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Keep It In Flight: Lonnie Hilsmeyer
Last Saturday I had a feature run about a man I met who raises deer in his back yard. 14 to be exact. He also is a Vietnam Veteran who suffers from PTSD and was exposed to Agent Orange. He’s kind of a quiet guy who doesn’t like crowds but finds his joy and sense of peace when he is spending his time with the deer.
Check it out here.
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The Exposure Project: Brandon Pavan
I got an e-mail from Brandon Pavan yesterday with a link to his website. His series Breakfast At Grandma’s is quite nice and deserves a more thorough examination.
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Battered – Photos by Harri Pälviranta
Like a modern-day Weegee, Harri Palviranta cruises the night streets of Finland, armed with his Hasselblad camera and a big flash, looking for a fight to photograph, or the bloodied face of a drunken party-goer, or the scene of a recent brawl.
Check it out here.
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Second Look3 Essay from David Alan Harvey’s class | Waitin' On a Moment – by Tim Gruber
Here’s the second essay I worked on in David Alan Harvey’s essay class at Look3.
This essay is one that’s all about mood and only mood.Check it out here.
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Access to Life
In Access to Life, eight Magnum photographers portray people in nine countries around the world before and four months after they began antiretroviral treatment for AIDS. Paolo Pellegrin in Mali, Alex Majoli in Russia, Larry Towell in Swaziland and South Africa, Jim Goldberg in India, Gilles Peress in Rwanda, Jonas Bendiksen in Haiti, Steve McCurry in Vietnam and Eli Reed in Peru
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Words and Pictures: Treadwell – Shoot The Blog
Reading E. Annie Proulx’s story the other day with Richard Renaldi’s photograph as an illustration got me thinking about words and pictures, and how the two collide. I was thinking of doing a “what’s burning a hole in my bookcase” post anyway, so when I pulled Andrea Modica’s Treadwell off the top shelf yesterday, it felt like kismet; E. Annie Proulx wrote the introductory essay.
I’ve often wanted to post about Treadwell, which is one of my favorite photo essays ever, but the images available online are all pretty small and of poor quality. So we fired up the PhotoShelter scanner, and voila!
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lens culture: Andrew Phelps
Anyone who has taken a road trip through the American Southwest has passed through towns like Higley: unlikely tough-scrabble little communities that crop up like weeds and cling to inhospitable territory, lingering, lonely, and surviving like a desert cactus.
Towns like Higley start out not even on the fringe of a larger metropolitan area. They exist seemingly in the middle of nowhere, and few people take notice that they are there at all.
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The Astonishing Li Wei
Everyone knows I love a floater, so when M. Scott Brauer commented on the Chinese photography post and said he wished I’d included Li Wei, I grabbed the folder of Wei’s work that’s been burning a hole on my desktop and uploaded it with glee.
Wei is a photographer and performance artist who puts himself in gravity-defying poses, often with the use of harnesses. Thirty-seven-year-old Wei intentionally seeks to surprise and shock the viewer
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