Category: Portfolios & Galleries

An Artist’s Investigation into the Surveillance of Puerto Ricans

What Christopher Gregory-Rivera Discovered in Puerto Rico’s State Secrets

For decades, US officials sought to suppress independence movements in Puerto Rico, spying on activists. What do their secret files reveal?

via Aperture: https://aperture.org/editorial/what-christopher-gregory-rivera-discovered-in-puerto-ricos-state-secrets/

For decades, US officials sought to suppress independence movements in Puerto Rico, spying on activists and their families. What do their formerly secret files reveal?

https://aperture.org/editorial/what-christopher-gregory-rivera-discovered-in-puerto-ricos-state-secrets/

March 29, 2024
Werner Bischof: Photographer, Artist, Witness – The Leica camera Blog

Werner Bischof: Photographer, Artist, Witness

Creative image-maker, engaged photojournalist and poetic storyteller: the current exhibition at the Ernst Leitz Museum is presenting the full scope of Magnum photographer Werner Bischof’s (1916–1954) oeuvre. Despite his early death in a car accident in the Andes, when he was just 38, the precision of his compositions and the emotional aesthetics of his imagery have made Bischof one of the most important Swiss photographers of the 20th century. The selection shows his way from solitary studio photographer to international photojournalist, driven by the magnitude of world events.

March 25, 2024
Javier Bertín: La Nueva Esperanza Mennonite Colony – LENSCRATCH

Javier Bertín: La Nueva Esperanza Mennonite Colony – LENSCRATCH

Two decades. That’s what Pampino photographer Javier Bertín has spent at the heart of a unique project documenting the daily life of the La Nueva Esperanza Mennonite Colony near Guatraché —deep in the Argentine south. The Mennonites, a Christian denomination that emerged during the 16th century Radical Reformation in Europe, arrived in Argentina in the

via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2024/03/javierbertin/

Two decades. That’s what Pampino photographer Javier Bertín has spent at the heart of a unique project documenting the daily life of the La Nueva Esperanza Mennonite Colony near Guatraché —deep in the Argentine south.

http://lenscratch.com/2024/03/javierbertin/

March 25, 2024
The International Women in Photo Association Awards: Alena Grom: Stolen Spring – LENSCRATCH

The International Women in Photo Association Awards: Alena Grom: Stolen Spring – LENSCRATCH

This week Lenscratch is featuring the work of the 2023 winners of the International Women in Photo Association (IWPA) Awards. Today is Alena Grom, a Ukrainian photographer, whose series Stolen Spring was one of four finalists in the Professional Category. A very personal project, Alena Grom, like the women she photographs, are survivors of the

via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2024/03/the-international-women-in-photo-association-awards-alena-grom-stolen-spring/

Today is Alena Grom, a Ukrainian photographer, whose series Stolen Spring was one of four finalists in the Professional Category. A very personal project, Alena Grom, like the women she photographs, are survivors of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Grom poses the woman in front of decorative backdrops to mask (or highlight) the damages of war, just as was done by post World-War II photographer Michael Nash to mask Polish ruins.

http://lenscratch.com/2024/03/the-international-women-in-photo-association-awards-alena-grom-stolen-spring/

March 15, 2024
Black and White War – Photographs by Igor Malijevský | Essay by Marigold Warner | LensCulture

Black and White War – Photographs by Igor Malijevský | Essay by Marigold Warner | LensCulture

Describing his work as “visual poetry,” this Czech photographer’s ongoing work in Ukraine evokes the emotional experience of everyday life during war

via LensCulture: https://www.lensculture.com/articles/igor-malijevsky-black-and-white-war

Describing his work as “visual poetry,” this Czech photographer’s ongoing work in Ukraine evokes the emotional experience of everyday life during war.

https://www.lensculture.com/articles/igor-malijevsky-black-and-white-war

March 15, 2024
The International Women in Photo Awards: Natalia Garbu: Moldova Lookbook – LENSCRATCH

The International Women in Photo Awards: Natalia Garbu: Moldova Lookbook – LENSCRATCH

This week Lenscratch is featuring the work of the 2023 winners of the The International Women in Photo Association (IWPA), a French non profit aiming to create global change and reach gender equality and women empowerment, awards prizes to visual storytellers from around the world. Today is Natalia Garbu, a photographer from Moldovia, whose series

via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2024/03/the-international-women-in-photo-awards/

Today is Natalia Garbu, a photographer from Moldovia, whose series Moldova Lookbook, received an Emerging Finalist Award. Natalia Garbu gives us an insider look into a small country’s multi-dimensionality, the old and the new, the formal and informal.

http://lenscratch.com/2024/03/the-international-women-in-photo-awards/

March 15, 2024
Broad Strokes III: Joan Haseltine: The Girl Who Escaped and Other Stories – LENSCRATCH

Broad Strokes III: Joan Haseltine: The Girl Who Escaped and Other Stories – LENSCRATCH

The Leica Gallery in Los Angeles has just opened Broad Strokes III, featuring the work of Joan Haseltine, that will run through April 8th. This is the 3rd iteration of Leica exhibitions that celebrate women in photography, and the exhibition also features the work of Julie Pacino, Javiera Estrada, and Nathalie Gordon. Haseltine with present

via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2024/03/joan-haseltine-the-girl-who-escaped/

Some years after losing my husband, I decided to reinvent my life, so I purchased a small ranch in Montana and a camera, neither of which I knew how to operate. I began visiting small towns at night. A woman standing alone on the streets after dark with a camera naturally aroused suspicion and distrust in these old Montana towns. I was stopped and questioned, and even the police were called. I felt vulnerable and very alone.

http://lenscratch.com/2024/03/joan-haseltine-the-girl-who-escaped/

March 10, 2024
A Begrudgingly Affectionate Portrait of the American Mall | The New Yorker

A Begrudgingly Affectionate Portrait of the American Mall

“We’re all being manipulated in the mall,” the photographer Stephen DiRado says. But his photos elicit a certain nostalgia, almost in spite of themselves.

via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/a-begrudgingly-affectionate-portrait-of-the-american-mall

There’s a reason that the mall’s corporate honchos—who had signed a contract giving him free rein to document daily life there—“freaked out,” in DiRado’s words, when they first saw the results. Where was the evidence of all the fun that they sponsored? The clowns? The Santa Claus?

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/a-begrudgingly-affectionate-portrait-of-the-american-mall

March 9, 2024
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, and powerful mood is in Jaume

via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2024/03/european-week-jaume-llorens/

Independently from his specific subject, this serene, dreamy, and powerful mood is in Jaume Llorens’ images. In his series Gaia, he juxtaposes ethereal impressions and mesmerizing patterns of the natural world: A blurry blossom meets a hazy cloud, Queen Ann’s lace reveals the same pattern as a flock of birds, a meadow in interplay with a wave.

http://lenscratch.com/2024/03/european-week-jaume-llorens/

March 7, 2024
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 am drawn to: old postcards, typologies, and

via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2024/02/kazunari-suzuki-japan-guide-book/

His project, Japan Guide Book, encapsulates a deep dive into iconic and ubiquitous structures that tourists see over and over again in Japan. He deftly removes the objects or landmarks to highlight their shapes and presence in the photograph.

http://lenscratch.com/2024/02/kazunari-suzuki-japan-guide-book/

March 3, 2024
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 beauty is resistance to a world often at odds with joy and

via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2024/02/interview-with-peah-guilmoth/

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 beauty is resistance to a world often at odds with joy and perpetual growth.

http://lenscratch.com/2024/02/interview-with-peah-guilmoth/

February 24, 2024
The Zebu War – The Leica camera Blog

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.

February 19, 2024
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 projects about aging that would be featured on Lenscratch alongside mine, I immediately thought about

via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2024/02/beate-sass-i-belong-to-you-and-you-to-me/

I have been photographing my father during my visits to Albuquerque, New Mexico since 2013, the year my mother died. I realized I had few photographs of my parents and felt the urgent need to photograph my father while he was still vital and enjoying life

http://lenscratch.com/2024/02/beate-sass-i-belong-to-you-and-you-to-me/

February 12, 2024
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 have been multiple editing sessions to get the work to where it is now. I’m currently editing to create a book, so I’m hopeful to discover some gems I overlooked before.

February 5, 2024
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 animal) condition close to home and

via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2024/02/sage-sohier/

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 animal) condition close to home and on the streets. The result of her efforts is her eighth book, Passing Time, published by Nazraeli Press and a number of upcoming exhibitions.

http://lenscratch.com/2024/02/sage-sohier/

February 4, 2024
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. Alison McCauley is a photographer who allows

via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2024/02/allison-mccauley-anywhere-but-here/

Allison McCauley is a photographer who allows for her subjective experience to constantly be at the forefront of her intuitive-making process. In her specific body of work Anywhere But Here she unpacks an idea that has haunted her forever. She focuses on the notion that where she is right now is not where she is supposed to be, and a certainty that the next place she goes will be superior

http://lenscratch.com/2024/02/allison-mccauley-anywhere-but-here/

February 3, 2024
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 with the world photographically. That is the case for

via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2024/01/ian-howorth-a-country-kind-of-silence/

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 with the world photographically. That is the case for the work of Ian Howorth in his monograph A Country Kind of Silence.

http://lenscratch.com/2024/01/ian-howorth-a-country-kind-of-silence/

February 1, 2024
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 street, Winogrand didn’t seem to frame anything, and even when his images were thronged with people, nothing much happened in them. A man lit a cigarette, a woman reached into her purse, another woman stepped into a yellow cab. “I like to work in that area where content almost overwhelms form,” he said. The result is an avid, richly detailed, virtually unfiltered descriptiveness.

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/what-garry-winogrand-saw-in-color

January 30, 2024
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 talk between Dr. Tanisha Ford and Dr. Tiffany E. Barber will be held at the library on Feb. 28.

https://www.kqed.org/arts/13950832/delirama-pastrami-berkeley-solano-closed

January 26, 2024
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, UNSEEN, can only be described

via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2024/01/daniel-sackheim-unseen/

As a child, I suffered a paralyzing fear of the dark. So terrified was I of imagined creatures hiding under the bed, or lurking within the dark recesses of my closet, that I would often drift off to sleep, a flashlight clutched tightly in my grip. The Irony is not lost on me that my current artistic preoccupations take me deep into seedy back alleys and labyrinths of sketchy downtown streets, illuminated by flickering streetlights that barely penetrate the darkness of an often foreboding and claustrophobic urban jungle.

http://lenscratch.com/2024/01/daniel-sackheim-unseen/

January 16, 2024