Category: Portfolios & Galleries
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European Week: Jaume Llorens – LENSCRATCH
European Week: Jaume Llorens – LENSCRATCH Guest Editor and German photographer Melanie Schoeniger shares a week of European photographers whose work she finds inspiring. Schoeniger’s sensibility is translated through the work she shares; all the photographer’s work has a sense of mystery, interconnectedness and wonder. Schoeniger states: Independently from his specific subject, this serene, dreamy,…
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Kazunari Suzuki: Japan Guide Book – LENSCRATCH
Kazunari Suzuki: Japan Guide Book – LENSCRATCH One of the most exciting parts of my recent visit to Japan was working with photographic artists at the T3 Tokyo Photo Festival. I was thrilled to meet Kazunari Suzuki and get to know his fabulous work. Suzuki shared a project that has all the elements that I…
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Interview with Peah Guilmoth: The Search for Beauty and Escape – LENSCRATCH
Interview with Peah Guilmoth: The Search for Beauty and Escape – LENSCRATCH In her recent work, charting the path of her transition from pre to post-HRT; Peah is looking for beauty, escape, decay and blossoming in her surroundings seen through the guise of family, friends, and the rural landscape she inhabits. Within the harnessing of…
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The Zebu War – The Leica camera Blog
https://leica-camera.blog/2024/02/19/the-zebu-war/ While working on his reportage about zebu rustling in Madagascar, photographer Rijasolo dared set foot in regions that normally remain hidden to the general public.
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Focus on Aging: Beate Sass: I Belong to You and You to Me – LENSCRATCH
Focus on Aging: Beate Sass: I Belong to You and You to Me – LENSCRATCH Introduction to Aging Series I met Aline Smithson at a portfolio review in the fall of 2023 when I showed her my project about my father. When Aline generously offered me the opportunity to curate a collection of four other…
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Awaiting the Rain – The Leica camera Blog
Awaiting the Rain The selection process has been a long one. Over the years your photography changes the way you see things. That applies to editing as well. You may go through your contact sheets and be drawn to an image you took 20 years ago that wouldn’t have perked your interest back then. There…
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Sage Sohier: Passing Time – LENSCRATCH
Sage Sohier: Passing Time – LENSCRATCH Many artists spent the pandemic revisiting family archives, digging into familial legacies in boxes covered in dusty attics, but other artists finally found the time to revisit their own archives. The indefatigable Sage Sohier is one of those artists, who has a long legacy of documenting the human (and…
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Allison McCauley: Anywhere But Here – LENSCRATCH
Alison McCauley: Anywhere But Here – LENSCRATCH This week we feature projects that explore the psychological landscape. There are always fears and inhibitions that we as people carry with us throughout our lives. Some are small and others are large, but there are nagging thoughts that stick out in our minds and mold our perception.…
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Ian Howorth: A Country Kind of Silence – LENSCRATCH
Ian Howorth: A Country Kind of Silence – LENSCRATCH This week we feature projects that explore the psychological landscape. Sometimes the psychological landscape is something that is formulated in the artist’s mind from an early age. Adolescence and the struggles we all feel to fit in can be a driving factor in how we engage…
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What Garry Winogrand Saw in Color | The New Yorker
What Garry Winogrand Saw in Color A rarely seen body of Winogrand’s work is more inviting than his black-and-white pictures, but no less layered or sly. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/what-garry-winogrand-saw-in-color His pictures look perfectly artless, the opposite of the decisive moment and the epitome of the snapshot aesthetic. Working outdoors, mostly on the urban…
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The Oakland Tribune’s First Black Photojournalist Captured Black Women’s Style | KQED
The Bay Area’s Top Pastrami Shop Has Closed Delirama’s pastrami sandwiches were the closest thing the Bay Area had to a Katz’s or Langer’s. Link: https://www.kqed.org/arts/13950832/delirama-pastrami-berkeley-solano-closed “Toward a Black Aesthetic: Kenneth P. Green Sr.’s Photographs of the 1960s and 70s” is on view at San Francisco’s Main Public Library through April 21. A related author…
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Daniel Sackheim: Unseen – LENSCRATCH
Daniel Sackheim: Unseen – LENSCRATCH This week are featuring work seen at the Los Angeles Center of Photography Exposure Reviews. Daniel Sackheim is a visual storyteller of the best kind. His photographs bring decades of seeing through his career as a director and producer, working on productions that dig deep into dark psyches. His project,…
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Review Santa Fe: Harvey Castro: Los Olvidados – LENSCRATCH
Review Santa Fe: Harvey Castro: Los Olvidados – LENSCRATCH Today, we are continuing to look at the work of artists with whom I met at Review Santa Fe in November 2023. Up next, we have Los Olvidados by Harvey Castro. Harvey Castro (b. Nicaragua) is a documentary photographer and multidisciplinary artist who employs a variety of mediums,…
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Top Photos of 2023 – Jonesblog
Top Photos of 2023 All that stress took a toll I think on my creativity. I am reasonably happy with my top 9 images for this year, but I can feel my creative juices atrophying some. Every creative process is variable, and people have strong and weak periods. My hope is to concentrate a little…
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The Favorite Photograph You Took in 2023 Exhibition – LENSCRATCH
The Favorite Photograph You Took in 2023 Exhibition – LENSCRATCH Happy New Year! Thank you for sharing your favorite photographs and being part of our community. A HUGE thank you to Emily Wall and Kassandra Eller for helping me upload hundreds and hundreds of photographs. We hope 2024 will be a year of creativity, joy,…
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Nashville 2023 in photos: Tennessean’s Nicole Hester picks top images
Tennessean photojournalist Nicole Hester’s top images from 2023 Tennessean photojournalist Nicole Hester picks her top images of 2023. via The Tennessean: https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/2023/12/28/tennessean-photojournalist-nicole-hester-picks-favorite-images-of-2023-photojournalism-photography/72020946007/ I’m very humbled to work here, and be embraced by Nashville. https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/2023/12/28/tennessean-photojournalist-nicole-hester-picks-favorite-images-of-2023-photojournalism-photography/72020946007/
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Xuan-Hui Ng: Transcendent Winter Magic – LENSCRATCH
Xuan-Hui Ng: Transcendent Winter Magic – LENSCRATCH Every Christmas I like to feature work that is inspiring in its beauty and soul-filling in its subject matter. Xuan-Hui Ng‘s exquisite capture of natural wonders is a balm for all the sadness and stress in the world. She helps us reset our our psyche’s, lower our blood…
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Jesse Rieser: Christmas In America: Happy Birthday, Jesus! – LENSCRATCH
Jesse Rieser: Christmas In America: Happy Birthday, Jesus! – LENSCRATCH Merry Christmas/Happy Holidays! I have to admit that I’m not a religious person, but I’m all in when it comes to Christmas. The lights, the decorations, the tree, the fantasy of Santa and the reindeer are wonderful distractions from politics and the end of the…
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Cultural Changes at the Coldest Place on Earth — A Photo Story from Yakutsk – Photographs by Alex Vasyliev | Essay by Marigold Warner | LensCulture
Cultural Changes at the Coldest Place on Earth — A Photo Story from Yakutsk – Photographs by Alex Vasyliev | Essay by Marigold Warner | LensCulture Photographer Alexey Vasyliev offers an intimate look into the life and changing culture of the Evens, an indigenous tribe in his hometown of Yakutsk — one of the coldest…
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2023 in Photos: A Weary World – The New York Times
2023 in Photos: A Weary World Photographers captured historic moments of war, grief and wonder that defined the year. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/world/year-in-pictures.html Every year, our photo editors try to capture the best photojournalism in one intense presentation. The Year in Pictures is a way to commemorate the big news events from January to December: the ones…