Saturated colours, intense light, happy people, blue seas, clouds: the Australian photographer won the 2002 LOBA for her lively picture series dedicated to beach life. Her complex compositions represent a great homage to the beauty of the Australian coastal landscape and convinced the jury, with their content and form, that the series best captured the competition’s theme of humanity’s relationship with the environment.
Category: Portfolios & Galleries
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40 YEARS OF LOBA: Narelle Autio – The Leica camera Blog
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“It feels as if I am trying to steal a part of their souls”: Hiroyuki Nakada on his time-stopping street photography
“It feels as if I am trying to steal a part of their souls”: Hiroyuki Nakada on his time-stopping street photography
When the Japanese photographer first moved to Shanghai in 1999, he picked up a camera which would change his life forever.
When the Japanese photographer first moved to Shanghai in 1999, he picked up a camera which would change his life forever.
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Still Lives – The New York Times
Still Lives
In this unnatural state of isolation, photographers show us the things that bind.
Link: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/04/21/us/coronavirus-photographers-diary.html
In this unnatural state of isolation, photographers show us the things that bind.
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Tracing the Journey of 17 Emerging African Photographers – Feature Shoot
Tracing the Journey of 17 Emerging African Photographers – Feature Shoot
Between 2008-2018, seventeen emerging photographers from across sub-Saharan African completed the “Photographer’s Masterclass,” a decade-long mentorship program curated by Simon Njami and the Goethe-Institut, which has resulted in the publication…
via Feature Shoot: https://www.featureshoot.com/2020/04/tracing-the-journey-of-17-emerging-african-photographers/
Between 2008-2018, seventeen emerging photographers from across sub-Saharan African completed the “Photographer’s Masterclass,” a decade-long mentorship program curated by Simon Njami and the Goethe-Institut, which has resulted in the publication of the sumptuous compendium, The Journey: New Positions in African Photography (Kerber Verlag).
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Honk Twice for Hallelujah: What Church Looks Like in the Parking Lot | The New Yorker
Honk Twice for Hallelujah: What Church Looks Like in the Parking Lot
Mark Peterson’s images of a drive-in service at a Virginia Beach megachurch feel both wholly of this pandemic and wholly retro.
via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/honk-twice-for-hallelujah-what-church-looks-like-in-the-parking-lot
Honk once for “Amen,” twice for “Glory hallelujah”: those are the newest liturgical instructions for the Rock Church, an evangelical congregation in Virginia Beach. The megachurch normally gathers in an enormous auditorium that seats more than five thousand, but, as the coronavirus has limited the ability of congregations to come together physically, members began meeting instead in the parking lot, where drive-in services are taking the place of regular worship. The praise band and the pastor took to a temporary stage erected outside the building, while a local FM station offered the church airtime, so that congregants could tune in to the service, as if it were a drive-in movie. The photographer Mark Peterson captured one of those services the week before Palm Sunday, beginning when ushers helped orchestrate the parking of cars and continuing until the parishioners dropped their offerings and prayer cards in buckets on their way out of the parking lot.
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A Week at the Pandemic’s Epicenter – The New York Times
A Week at the Pandemic’s Epicenter
Inside the underfunded, overwhelmed public hospitals that are trying to save New York.
Link: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/04/15/magazine/new-york-hospitals.html
A week inside New York’s public hospitals.
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Barbara Peacock: American Bedroom | LENSCRATCH
Barbara Peacock: American Bedroom
“We felt the weight of the responsibility of our children for decades. Now we are on our own. The empty nest has reawakened the joy of freedom we had as youths” I was thrilled to feature Barbara Peacock’s 30-year project, Hometown, some time back as I so
via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2020/04/barbara-peacock-american-bedroom/
I was thrilled to feature Barbara Peacock’s 30-year project, Hometown, some time back as I so appreciated the humanity and sympathetic approach she brings to her subjects. Her new series, American Bedroom is an anthropological study of our most private spaces – where we sleep, where we are intimate, and where we restore ourselves. Barbara was the recipient of the Getty Editorial Grant 2017 for this work. It also garnered a Critical Mass Top 50 nod in 2019. The work is free of artifice and is revelatory in its insights into our personal spaces.
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Highway 61 – Photographs by Jessica Lange | Book review by W. Scott Olsen | LensCulture
Highway 61 – Photographs by Jessica Lange | Book review by W. Scott Olsen | LensCulture
Actress and photographer Jessica Lange invites us on an epic journey: through the States, through the artist’s memory, and through our collective nostalgia
via LensCulture: https://www.lensculture.com/articles/jessica-lange-highway-61
Actress and photographer Jessica Lange invites us on an epic journey: through the States, through the artist’s memory, and through our collective nostalgia.
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Let’s Stay Together: Jamie Harmon’s “Quarantine Portrait” Series — THE BITTER SOUTHERNER
https://bittersoutherner.com/lets-stay-together-jamie-harmon-quarantine-portrait-series-memphis
Memphis photographer Jamie Harmon took to the streets and asked his neighbors to stand for portraits of life under lockdown.
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Kaja Rata: kajnikaj | LENSCRATCH
Kaja Rata: kajnikaj
Polish photographer Kaja Rata whose work was recently celebrated as a Top 50 portfolio in Critical Mass, has a metaphorical project that considers home. Who we are is not always defined by where we live or grow-up , it is truly formed by the limits of our
via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2020/04/kaja-rata-kajnikaj/
Polish photographer Kaja Rata whose work was recently celebrated as a Top 50 portfolio in Critical Mass, has a metaphorical project that considers home. Who we are is not always defined by where we live or grow-up , it is truly formed by the limits of our imaginations. Living in a community that feels in decline and stagnant, Kaja looks to the skies for comfort and inspiration.
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Kristen Emack: Cousins | LENSCRATCH
Kristen Emack: Cousins
Projects featured this week were selected from our 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 Cousins by Kristen Emack. Kristen E
via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2020/04/kristen-emack-cousins/
Kristen Emack lives and works in Cambridge, MA. She is primarily a self taught photographer. Kristen is a Mass Cultural Council Photography Fellow ’19. Her photographs have been accepted into The Griffin Museum of Photography, The PRC Exposure 2019 show, The Fence 2019, and both the Blue Sky Gallery and Pro Photo Supply in Portland, OR. Kristen is a 2019 Critical Mass Top 50 Winner, and the first Michael Reichmann Project Award Winner. This Fall Kristen was interviewed by the London based SHADE Podcast, and her interview in Vogue Italia was published this February. Kristen’s series Cousins was also recently awarded 2nd Place in the Lensculture Portrait Awards 2020.
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How Are Young Photographers Documenting the Protests in Hong Kong? – Aperture Foundation NY
How Are Young Photographers Documenting the Protests in Hong Kong?
Beyond the tear gas and the front lines, these Hong Kong photographers have found new ways to represent the city’s political crisis.
via Aperture Foundation NY: https://aperture.org/blog/hong-kong-protests/
Beyond the tear gas and the front lines, these Hong Kong photographers have found new ways to represent the city’s political crisis.
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Coronavirus: An Unimaginable Toll – The Atlantic
Coronavirus: An Unimaginable Toll
A collection of recent images from around the world, reflecting the huge global death toll amid the coronavirus pandemic
via The Atlantic: https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2020/04/coronavirus-unimaginable-toll-photos/609652/
As of today, more than 83,600 people have died from COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus, since late January, according to data tracked by Johns Hopkins University. This global death toll puts into perspective not just the individual lives lost, but also the thousands of families, communities, and loved ones left behind to cope with grief and uncertainty. New rules and procedures, prompted by the pandemic, have prevented many families from holding memorial services. And, in some of the harder-hit towns and cities, funeral homes and morgues are now reaching capacity. Below, a collection of recent images from around the world, in the midst of a painful and costly pandemic.
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Jamie Wdziekonski’s photographs are sheer energy, whether it’s a gig or social justice rally
Jamie Wdziekonski’s photographs are sheer energy, whether it’s a gig or social justice rally
Bask in the atmospheric energy of the Australian photographer’s political and musical depictions.
Bask in the atmospheric energy of the Australian photographer’s political and musical depictions.
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Marcus Journey & William Casey: On the Mormon Trail | LENSCRATCH
Marcus Journey & William Casey: On the Mormon Trail
Projects featured this week were selected from our 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 On the Mormon Trail by Marcus Journ
via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2020/04/marcus-journey-william-casey-on-the-mormon-trail/
Projects featured this week were selected from our 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 On the Mormon Trail by Marcus Journey and William Casey.
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Photographer Michael Turek documents the “absurdity, humour and grandeur” of Siberia
Photographer Michael Turek documents the “absurdity, humour and grandeur” of Siberia
In the winter of 2016, the New York-based creative began photographing the small towns and villages of Siberia. Here, he tells us more about his fascinating project.
In the winter of 2016, the New York-based creative began photographing the small towns and villages of Siberia. Here, he tells us more about his fascinating project.
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Coronavirus in Italy: Scenes From the Eye of the Storm | Vanity Fair
Lockdown: Italy in the Eye of the Storm
With Italy reeling from the COVID-19 pandemic and 60 million people across the nation ordered to remain indoors, documentary photographer Alex Majoli ventured out to record the quiet desolation of a modern plague.
via Vanity Fair: https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/03/coronavirus-in-italy-scenes-from-the-eye-of-the-storm
With Italy reeling from the COVID-19 pandemic and 60 million people across the nation ordered to remain indoors, a documentary photographer ventured out to record the quiet desolation of a modern plague.
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Memories of a City – The Leica camera Blog
https://www.leica-camera.blog/2020/04/06/memories-of-a-city/
Moscow photographer Katya Alagich went exploring in Istanbul and revealed an artistic melange of dreams and reality
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The World’s Great Photographers, Many Stuck Inside, Have Snapped – The New York Times
The World’s Great Photographers, Many Stuck Inside, Have Snapped
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.
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The People Staying, and Living, in America’s Motels | The New Yorker
The People Staying, and Living, in America’s Motels
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.