Stephen Shore, Catherine Opie, Todd Hido and others have turned to Instagram to cure ‘corona claustrophobia’ or show how life has changed. They talk about their quarantine pics.
Stephen Shore, Catherine Opie, Todd Hido and others have turned to Instagram to cure ‘corona claustrophobia’ or show how life has changed. They talk about their quarantine pics.
Danna Singer’s pictures manage to combine the offhand intimacy of family snapshots with the dignified, staged formality of portrait painting.
via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/the-people-staying-and-living-in-americas-motels
Since 2017, the photographer Danna Singer has been making pictures of people staying—often living—in motels, harrowed by their own bouts with the world’s troubles. Among the places she’s travelled, from her home in Philadelphia, are Galveston, Texas; Beatty, Nevada; Laramie, Wyoming; Florida City, Florida; Phoenix, Arizona; and Hammonton, New Jersey. (She tried Las Vegas, but had a harder time there getting people to trust her.) Some of the subjects she photographs are working-poor families; some are people who have nowhere else to go because they are addicted to opioids or meth and cut off from any support system; some are sex workers, or motel staff, or the occasional travellers lucky enough to be just passing through. Singer stays in the motels for a few days herself, picking places where a room costs sixty-five dollars a night or less, which fits both her budget and her notion for the project. She meets her fellow-guests in the outdoor hallways or around the small pools that older, courtyard-style motels still often boast. Sometimes she just knocks on doors.
For photographers, used to training their lenses on people and places the world over, isolation proves a particular challenge. As part of #CultureIsNotCancelled – a campaign on AnOthermag.com championing culture in the age of social distancing – we have invited eight photographers to send us an image each week, making up a unique and intimate portrait of life under lockdown.
Navel gazing can get a little old, so, in the coming weeks (months?), as we find ourselves counting the hours till lunchtime on the sofa, we look for…
Link: https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/photography/sheltering-in-place-niki-boon-and-childhood-in-the-raw/
“I grew up on a farm in rural New Zealand,” writes photographer Niki Boon, “with a childhood barefoot, wild and free.” To be a child during this pandemic is to be suddenly thrust into an especially confusing and restrictive routine but the sense of childhood freedom and imagination doesn’t necessarily require physical space to run wild. While Boon’s photographs capture a truly wild and free childhood they also embody a spirit that is inherent in children everywhere. “In part,” says Boon, “my photographic work pulls from my childhood freedoms and adventures that still exist so strongly in my mind.”
Elinor Carucci’s work has always focused on the everyday. But her own domesticity has never been so intense nor so constrained.
via The Cut: https://www.thecut.com/2020/03/elinor-carucci-photo-diary.html
Elinor Carucci’s work has always focused on the everyday — the raw, joyful, exposed, and exposing business of humans who love each other sharing a space. And Carucci’s own domesticity has never been so intense nor so constrained. Carucci is sheltering in place in her 950-square-foot Manhattan apartment with her husband, Eran, and their teenage twins, Eden and Emmanuelle. With work, exercise, mealtime, and virtual socializing, the family tries to maintain some semblance of normalcy, but results are mixed. “I feel like I’m getting a little used to it,” says Carucci, who is Israeli. “But at the beginning, I had a lot of flashbacks to the Gulf War.” – Lisa Miller
https://bittersoutherner.com/ozark-life-arkansas-terra-fondriest
A photo essay of the intimate beauty of daily life in rural Arkansas.
Happy April Fool’s Day! Let me start off by saying a huge THANK YOU to the participating photographers from all over the globe, each who shared a little bit about themselves during this profound moment in history. There were hundreds and hundreds of submi
via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2020/04/the-2020-self-quarantining-exhibition/
Happy April Fool’s Day! Let me start off by saying a huge THANK YOU to the participating photographers from all over the globe, each who shared a little bit about themselves during this profound moment in history. There were hundreds and hundreds of submissions and as I uploaded each one, I thought about your life and world. And though I corresponded only briefly with each of you, I was comforted by the connection to the greater whole as I have been in quarantine for almost three weeks. There are seven parts to this post so keep going until you get to the end. Pour yourself a big glass of wine or a big mug of coffee and enjoy the collected experience of The 2020 Lenscratch Self-Quarantining Exhibition…and share widely! Be safe out there. See you on the other side. – Aline Smithson
I met Teri Darnell several years ago at an Atlanta Photography Group exhibition. Shortly after that we were both chosen to be a part of the “Edge to Edge” exhibition at MOCA GA and were both on a panel that discussed the exhibit. As I have gotten to know
via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2020/03/teri-darnell-veterans-in-crisis/
I met Teri Darnell several years ago at an Atlanta Photography Group exhibition. Shortly after that we were both chosen to be a part of the “Edge to Edge” exhibition at MOCA GA and were both on a panel that discussed the exhibit. As I have gotten to know Teri, I find that she is humble about herself and her work. Teri served six years in the United States Air Force, notably in Berlin during the Cold War. In 2015, she retired after twenty-five years of service with a Fortune 50 company as a multi-media development manager to pursue her passion in photography. Currently, she serves on the Board of Directors for Atlanta Celebrates Photography in Atlanta, Georgia. I admire Teri’s work and her passion to photograph people and places that most people do not see. Her project Veterans in Crisis shows her compassion to help others.
“My dad was a good man with a substance problem,” the Canadian photographer Jackie Dives tells me. “He was unique. He was a cat lover, a mechanic, a carpenter, a…
via Feature Shoot: https://www.featureshoot.com/2020/03/after-her-fathers-death-a-photographer-explores-grief/
“My dad was a good man with a substance problem,” the Canadian photographer Jackie Dives tells me. “He was unique. He was a cat lover, a mechanic, a carpenter, a goof, a friend, a caretaker, and also a drug user.”
Glimpses of our new reality as billions of people stay home
via The Atlantic: https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2020/03/visual-landscape-world-shaped-pandemic/608824/
The drastic impacts of the coronavirus outbreak have changed nearly every aspect of daily life, leaving a visual impact on the world around us. Grounded aircraft, deserted beaches, temporary hospitals, idle buses, quiet streets, empty shelves, and socially-distant behavior have quickly become common sights. Gathered here, a few more glimpses of our new reality as billions of people stay home.
In the postwar years, Ezra Stoller captured iconic buildings by Frank Lloyd Wright and Mies van der Rohe. But, were his images a reality—or an ideal?
via Aperture Foundation NY: https://aperture.org/blog/ezra-stoller-midcentury-modern/
In the postwar years, Ezra Stoller photographed iconic buildings by Frank Lloyd Wright and Mies van der Rohe. But, were his images a reality—or an ideal?
If her images appear unsettling, that’s our own hang-ups, says Aneta Bartos, who photographed herself with her ageing father
via British Journal of Photography: https://www.bjp-online.com/2020/03/aneta-bartos-family-portrait/
If her images appear unsettling, that’s our own hang-ups, says Aneta Bartos, who photographed herself with her ageing father
In the early 1980s, Joji Hashiguchi began to document the plight of the young with his debut work, “Shisen.” Stifled by the mounting pressures posed b…
Link: https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/photography/joji-hashiguchi-s-we-have-no-place-to-be/
Turning his lens on the global stage, Hashiguchi traveled through Liverpool, London, Nuremberg, West Berlin, and New York in a quest to further chronicle communities of disenfranchised youths abroad. In these five cities, Hashiguchi witnessed the complex cocktail of self-destructive discord lurking beneath the superficial excesses of city life. Revealing the entrenched drug addiction, racism, anti-immigrant sentiment, unemployment, and poverty that pervaded urban centers then as now, Hashiguchi’s photos challenge the viewer to reexamine what we have both become and lost.
I first saw Alejandro’s La Creciente at Yossi Milo gallery when I traveled to New York sometime in 2011. The images were stunning; it felt like I was looking at still shots from a movie set. I later found out that he also worked as a cinematographer, and
via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2020/03/argentina-alejandro-chaskielberg-laberinto/
I first saw Alejandro‘s La Creciente at Yossi Milo gallery when I traveled to New York sometime in 2011. The images were stunning; it felt like I was looking at still shots from a movie set. I later found out that he also worked as a cinematographer, and I was not surprised at all. He has an amazing ability to capture scenes in a very raw and dramatic style.
Joe Greer about his love of analog, shooting on film and how he sees its rise as a logical consequence of our digital lifestyle.
What is home? Heading back to the States after 30 years living abroad, a residency in North Carolina prompted Keith Dannemiller to rediscover his homeland with fresh eyes
via LensCulture: https://www.lensculture.com/articles/keith-dannemiller-to-see-the-invisible
What is home? Heading back to the States after 30 years living abroad, a residency in North Carolina prompted Keith Dannemiller to rediscover his homeland with fresh eyes.
Growing up in Germany, Russian Ghanaian artist Liz Johnson Artur spent her summers in the former Soviet Union. But in 1986, she received an invitation to stay with a family friend in Brooklyn. Deep in Williamsburg, long before it was gentrified, Artur fou
via Huck Magazine: https://www.huckmag.com/art-and-culture/art-2/portraits-that-capture-three-decades-of-black-culture/
Photographer Liz Johnson Artur – a self-described ‘product of migration’ – has been capturing the African diaspora since 1986.
In a time of containment, the city searches for a way forward.
via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/03/30/the-coronavirus-crisis-reveals-new-york-at-its-best-and-worst
The final weekend of semi-ordinary life in New York arrived on Friday the 13th. In the week that followed, New York became a ghost town in a ghost nation on a ghost planet. The gravity and scale of what is happening can overwhelm the details of daily life, in which human beings seek a plateau of normalcy in abnormal times, just as they always have in blitzes and battles. Nobody has any confidence at all about whether we are seeing the first phases of a new normal, the brief calm before a worse storm, or a wise reaction that may allow, not so horribly long from now, for a renewal of common life. Here are some notes on things seen by one walker in the city, and some voices heard among New Yorkers bearing witness, on and off the streets.
Now published for the first time at RRB PhotoBooks, the photographer’s work depicts a small yet important part of history – the life of a Polish community residing in post-war England.
Now published for the first time at RRB PhotoBooks, the photographer’s work depicts a small yet important part of history – the life of a Polish community residing in post-war England.
via AnOther: https://www.anothermag.com/art-photography/12369/bertien-van-manen-documentary-photographer-stedelijk-amsterdam
AnOther meets Dutch photographer Bertien van Manen – the pioneering documentary photographer who has been given a major retrospective at the Stedelijk in Amsterdam