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
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In these solitary outings, the human part is missing. The taste of the city is bitter without the life it breathes, yes, those who are just as capable of messing up and destroying.
I discovered Alejandro Kirchuk’s work a few years ago when I was reading an article on the New York Times and I thought to myself “what a wonderful use of light”. I became a fan. I recently ran into his Instagram feed, and I started following him, so when
via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2020/03/argentina-alejandro-kirchuk/
I discovered Alejandro Kirchuk‘s work a few years ago when I was reading an article on the New York Times and I thought to myself “what a wonderful use of light“. I became a fan.
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…
Today we look to the view outside Hayahisa Tomiyasu’s window. For five years the photographer documented the scenes that unfolded around a ping-pong table outside of his apartment Leipzig, Germany. We see the table used as a sun bed, a laundry counter, a kid’s jungle gym, an exercise site, a family lunch spot, a refuge from busy streets, everything except for the game it was made for. Thanks to Tomiyasu’s sustained patience and curiosity we observe the idiosyncrasies of human behaviour and social habits, as seasons change, scenes mutate and people come and go.
Sometimes the research for one project inspires new ideas of disseminating the information on other platforms. Film producer Matt Kapp, in his research for his documentary film, 16 Acres, about the rebuilding the World Trade Center, collected a significan
via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2020/03/matt-kapp-a-century-downtown-a-visual-history-of-lower-manhattan/
Sometimes the research for one project inspires new ideas of disseminating the information on other platforms. Film producer Matt Kapp, in his research for his documentary film, 16 Acres, about the rebuilding the World Trade Center, collected a significant amount of archival materials. His appreciation for New York history spurred him to thencreate a book, A Century Downtown, a project that looks at the last one hundred years of life in New York’s financial district. Published by powerHouse, the book presents and array of photographs, paintings, renderings, drawings, and other images culled from dozens of archives and individual collections worldwide.
In one of the most ambitious public photographic projects ever undertaken, artist and filmmaker Steve McQueen sought to take a school class portrait of every Year 3 child in London
via LensCulture: https://www.lensculture.com/articles/tate-britain-steve-mcqueen-year-3
In one of the most ambitious public photographic projects ever undertaken, artist and filmmaker Steve McQueen sought to take a school class portrait of every Year 3 child in London.
While shining an unflinching light on major Bangladeshi tragedies and struggles, Shahidul Alam’s images reveal a country and cultures often misunderst…
Link: https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/photography/shahidul-alam-truth-to-power/
While shining an unflinching light on major Bangladeshi tragedies and struggles, Shahidul Alam’s images reveal a country and cultures often misunderstood and misrepresented. In addition to his powerful photographs, Alam has made an impact in Bangladesh, across South Asia, and even globally as the conceptual architect of transformative institutions, including Drik Picture Library, Drik Gallery, Pathshala South Asia Media Institute, Chobi Mela Photography Festival, and Majority World Photos.
“I see my work as a kind of tapestry, which is woven by thousands of threads in order to create one image”
via British Journal of Photography: https://www.bjp-online.com/2020/03/a-photographers-view-of-the-world-from-multiple-perspectives/
“I see my work as a kind of tapestry, which is woven by thousands of threads in order to create one image”
A look into the grocery carts of New Yorkers on the edge of a pandemic.
via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/what-were-buying-for-the-quarantine
Plenty of New Yorkers—including health-care providers, delivery couriers, and transportation workers—don’t have the luxury of withdrawing from the public, even if they desire to. One group that’s possibly busier than ever are the employees of the city’s grocery stores, one of the few types of businesses that remain open. At supermarkets across the city, shoppers have thronged the aisles, some anxiously provisioning for weeks of bunkering at home, others simply (and, perhaps, defiantly) going about their normal routines.
With an aim to tell the stories of those in his country, the photographer’s work represents a “new era” for Uzbekistan.
With an aim to tell the stories of those in his country, the photographer’s work represents a “new era” for Uzbekistan.
Kindred Guardians
Using an M10-D, Justin Mott uncovers touching stories about people and animals.
https://loeildelaphotographie.com/en/ilse-bing-the-queen-of-the-leica-pp/
“I didn’t choose photography; it chose me,” said Ilse Bing (American, born Germany, 1899–1998). Bing was just a snapshooter until forced to hone her photographic skills to produce illustrations for her doctoral dissertation at the University of Frankfurt on an 18th-century architect. Then in 1929, on a university field trip, the 30-year-old art historian saw for the first time a painting by Vincent van Gogh. She instantly decided to become an artist—but not a painter. Photography “was the trend of the time,” she recalled later. And the newest trend in photography was the Leica, a small, lightweight German camera.
The photographs of Joshua Dudley Greer are like small novellas that contain pathos, humor, and unfinished stories, where the every day and the overlooked are elevated to a place of uncomfortable beauty. I see the work like a series of film stills, those f
via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2020/03/joshua-dudley-greer/
The photographs of Joshua Dudley Greer are like small novellas that contain pathos, humor, and unfinished stories, where the every day and the overlooked are elevated to a place of uncomfortable beauty. I see the work like a series of film stills, those final scenes of a visual journey that takes the viewer through emotion and place, leaving us with one last look as the music and credits roll by. The work was created by driving 100,000 miles across a network of super highways, a journey that surely must have had it’s own inner narration and sense of altered reality. In the end, these are not ordinary road trip photos, they are a master class in seeing, the kind of seeing that comes from participating in the experience, driving with a heightened awareness to details. His practice of setting up the 4×5 field camera and on occasion an 8×10 camera, then making himself vulnerable under the black cloth, allowed him momentary quiet in a self-created confessional, where his art exists between two states of being, the internal and external.
“I communicate with the world by creating visual narratives of composited photographs, often illuminating that in-between moment in time. It is how I explore dreams deferred, connections to prior generations, the natural world and our place within it. Mak
via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2020/03/fran-forman-the-rest-between-two-notes/
Fran Forman has just released a tour de force monograph, The Rest Between Two Notes, published by Unicorn Books. Expanding on her visual narratives of composited photographs showcased in her first monograph, The Escape Artist, her substantial new book moves the work into a realm of richly colored capacious photo-paintings that explore space in a new way, leaving room for liminal and psychological moments and for the imagination to create stories of what might be. The compositions are dreamlike, filled with shadow and light and color, with figures that appear as if in dreams, moving through space with a sense of mystery. Fran finds inspiration in Caravaggio’s light intensive portraits, Edward Hopper’s use of light and shadow, the surrealism of Duane Michaels, the constructed tableaux of Gregory Crewdson, and cinematographers who employ light and shadow to increase tension, such as Michael Haneke, Errol Morris, and Dario Argento.
At the age of eight, Haley Austin spent the summer in her grandparents’ Las Vegas home. It was located in a subdivision dotted with Swiss hamlets whose streets took their names from Italian villages. As a child, the city baffled and fascinated her. “It se
via Huck Magazine: https://www.huckmag.com/art-and-culture/photography-2/the-highs-and-lows-of-las-vegas-life/
In her new project, The Springs, photographer Hayley Austin peeks beneath the neon façade of Sin City.
Just before Jill Freedman died last October, she concocted a plan to have her home health aid meet her at her apartment at 10 in the morning. “I’m getting out of here,” Freedman said over the phone, before wheeling herself towards the exit of the rehabili
via Huck Magazine: https://www.huckmag.com/art-and-culture/photography-2/the-photographer-who-shared-americas-untold-stories/
Driven by empathy for victims of injustice, Jill Freedman used her camera to give a voice to the voiceless.
Featuring work by eight artists, and a new project from Magnum Photos, the first in a series of exhibitions at the Bronx Documentary Center examines America’s political transformation since Trump’s regressive immigration policies
via British Journal of Photography: https://www.bjp-online.com/2020/03/trump-revolution-immigration-bronx-documentary-center/
Featuring work by eight artists, and a new project from Magnum Photos, the first in a series of exhibitions at the Bronx Documentary Center examines America’s political transformation since Trump’s regressive immigration policies
Agnieszka Sosnowska’s striking self-portraits chronicle rural life in the volatile landscape of her adopted homeland, East Iceland
via LensCulture: https://www.lensculture.com/articles/agnieszka-sosnowska-myth-of-a-woman
Agnieszka Sosnowska’s striking self-portraits chronicle rural life in the volatile landscape of her adopted homeland, East Iceland.
https://www.leica-camera.blog/2020/03/09/the-womens-eye-on-men/
Four photographers, one men’s luxury fashion show in Milan, a big subject – as part of a collaboration between the Italian fashion house Zegna and Leica, female photographers were selected to deal with the subject of Men through Women’s Eyes. The four women, Queenie Cheen, Roselena Ramistella, Hélène Pambrun and Veronique de Viguerie, were behind the scene at the big event; their pictures take the viewers on a trip into a world to which they would normally have no access. We spoke with them about modern men, art and, of course, photography.
An Arctic town plunged into darkness for two months of the year, and known as “ground zero for climate change”, provided Mark Mahaney with the impetus for his first personal project.
via British Journal of Photography: https://www.bjp-online.com/2020/03/mark-mahaney-polar-night/
An Arctic town plunged into darkness for two months of the year, and known as “ground zero for climate change”, provided Mark Mahaney with the impetus for his first personal project.