We selected images — some from The New York Times’s archive and others from various collections around the world — to tell the story of the heady days around the Year of Africa. Each of the 17 countries that gained independence that year is represented here in photographs, but there are also images from countries, like Ghana, with especially rich photographic traditions.
or too many years, the concept of “distance”, when it comes to waste disposal, has not been taken seriously. We have underestimated the consequences of shipping our waste and e-waste abroad, hiding, burying or simply accumulating it in landfills far from our eyes, without questioning or checking the disposal systems in use.
Toward the end of his junior year of college, Joey Solomon contracted a fever of a hundred and three degrees. When it didn’t subside after several weeks, his parents retrieved him from his apartment, in Brooklyn, and rushed him to a health center near their family home, in Queens. Solomon spent the next month under the study of ultrasound technicians and surgical oncologists, who found an oblong tumor stuck to his sciatic nerve. The suddenness of this discovery stunned him. An art student at the time, Solomon had sat out of the term’s final classes with what he thought was a bad cold.
In collaboration with Magnum Photos, 10 Corso Como New York presents LOST AND FOUND, an exhibition of Bruce Gilden’s early New York street photographs from the mid 70s through 80s as well as his more recent fashion images.
Understanding other cultures and countries comes from walking the landscape, the cities, and engaging with the population, but how do we understand a country that has been under siege, experienced war, and has a new identity? UK photographer, Thomas Sussex (@tommy_sussex), has had a long interest in understanding Eastern Europe since 2014 when he began
Understanding other cultures and countries comes from walking the landscape, the cities, and engaging with the population, but how do we understand a country that has been under siege, experienced war, and has a new identity? UK photographer, Thomas Sussex (@tommy_sussex), has had a long interest in understanding Eastern Europe since 2014 when he began spending time with Ukrainian people of his own age and understanding the problems and restrictions they faced. He monograph, Our Sincere Toils was published in 2015 by Bloom Publishing looked at these issues. Thomas states, “These personal experiences drew me deeper into this environment with it’s social and political background as the setting. My fascination with Eastern European communities living in a time of transition has lead me back to develop this narrative frequently and recently to Serbia to produce a series titled Pathway Trace. Producing this work has created ongoing relationships with people living in Eastern Europe. I am fascinated by certain communities’ responses to aspects of government corruption and cultural aggression.”
British photographer Mark Power has spent the last eight years roaming the backwaters of the United States. The decision was inspired by the American television he consumed as a child; particularly the US Westerns brought to life by the likes of John Wayn
The 68-year-old’s photography views the world through a mischievous lens. After going unseen for decades, it’s finally gaining the plaudits it deserves – and he’s loving every second.
When the photographer Greg Girard first ventured into Kowloon Walled City in Hong Kong in 1986, he didn’t take any pictures. Instead, he simply absorbed the sights, sounds, and smells…
When the photographer Greg Girard first ventured into Kowloon Walled City in Hong Kong in 1986, he didn’t take any pictures. Instead, he simply absorbed the sights, sounds, and smells that surrounding him on all sides: illuminated windows, densely packed across 12-14 story buildings, voices from televisions and the hum of fans and air conditioners filling the streets.
The garden is a space in which experiments and critical thought are born and carried out. It is a space in which growth is mediated within the flora of its inhabitants, but also in the contemplative mental space of its guardian. Work and toil produce chal
The garden is a space in which experiments and critical thought are born and carried out. It is a space in which growth is mediated within the flora of its inhabitants, but also in the contemplative mental space of its guardian. Work and toil produce challenge and transformation within the confines of the garden. The garden itself must have perimeters for it to function as a space for devotion-if its edges bled into a forest; it would no longer have the withstanding position to incur its sacred status. We can make considerations of the garden’s attributes as holy, possessing the anima of transcending ruminations. Within the garden, not wholly unsympathetic with the conscription of the maze we, like Jorge Luis Borges, understand its position as an allusion to the mind itself. The frame and edges of a garden are holding vessels for thoughts and complications to be unwound.
Miyako Yoshinaga presents The Legacy of ISSEI SUDA (1940-2019): Human Memory, the first posthumous exhibition in the United States of renowned Japanese photographer Issei Suda who passed away in early 2019. This is the gallery’s second exhibition of the artist, following the 2014 exhibition “Life in Flower: 1971-1979.”
I never get tired of looking at Thomas Alleman’s remarkable photographs. His curiosity takes him into worlds personal, familiar, and unknown, and no matter the destination, he finds gold where ever he points his lens. His powerful project about his mother
I never get tired of looking at Thomas Alleman’s remarkable photographs. His curiosity takes him into worlds personal, familiar, and unknown, and no matter the destination, he finds gold where ever he points his lens. His powerful project about his mother, The Unwinding garnered him a Top 50 nod in Critical Mass some years back. At the core of his abilities are two things–he is a humanist and has a history of getting the story, with a legacy of traversing streets and landscapes with laser sharp curiosity. Today we feature his project, Social Studies, an 18-year quest to find his photographic voice at the beginning of his stellar career.
On June 26 2016, the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union. In the three and a half years since that moment, there has been room for little else on the political agenda as politicians wrangled over the issue. “Brexit means Brexit,” we were told
At 11pm on Friday night, Britain left the European Union – and thousands headed to Parliament Square to celebrate. Photographer Theo McInnes headed down to capture the crowds.
The destruction of the planet at the hands of imperialist forces bears out Biblical prophecies of Armageddon, though what we are witnessing today was a long time coming. “The Europeans…
Italian photographer Tommaso Protti is doing just that. As recipient of the 10th Carmignac Photojournalism Award, which funds annually the production of an investigative photo reportage on human rights violations, and geostrategic issues in the world, Protti teamed up with British journalist Sam Cowie to travel thousands of miles through the Brazilian Amazong between January and July of last year to examine the interrelationship between the social, humanitarian, and ecological crises decimating the region.
In 2015, the Getty Museum featured the seminal exhibition, Light, Paper, Process, a show that celebrated the spirit of invention and discovery at its point of departure, focusing on “investigations on the light sensitivity and chemical processing of photo
Artist Bill Westheimer has a new project of found landscapes, Borderlands, that explores similar territories. The title describes vistas and boundaries, but it also describes the physical origins of the photographs–on the borders of wet plate images. By shifting how he sees the marks and mistakes of historic collodion processes, he has created new worlds and new landscapes.
Gitterman Gallery presents an exhibition of photographic work by Kenneth Josephson from 1960 to 1980 that invites overlapping dialogues on a variety of concepts. He explores the complex relationship of image and object, photographic truth and illusion, time, spatial perspective, even the history of photography itself. Josephson challenges our perceptions and invites us to consider different perspectives, while maintaining a strong sense of humor and wonder that makes his work both accessible and distinctive.
Bruce Gilden calls the photo “The Strangler.” The long-time Magnum photographer was just walking down a street of New York when he came across the scene. “It’s one of the few pictures where I can remember the scenario,” he said. “These two guys were having this battle in the street. They were so drunk and one had his hand on the other’s neck for a minute.”
Anniina Joensalo Tender [ FUJIFILM/YOUNG TALENT AWARD 2019 FINALIST ] “Tender” is an exploration into the contradictions inherent in queer lives and loves. I want to explore all aspects of intimac…
“Tender” is an exploration into the contradictions inherent in queer lives and loves. I want to explore all aspects of intimacy in a non-normative way and in non-normative settings. In this series I’ve captured the people around me, my friends, partners and lovers. I’m inspired by the space queer people take up everyday, and the work they undertake in love and friendship. I am compelled to get as close to people as possible. My objective was to portray power balances between subject and photographer, to show the juxtaposition of tenderness and violence. “Tender” aims to bring up questions of intimacy and consent within these queer relationships where individuals are often pushing the boundaries of love and sex in anarchic ways.
Terra Fondriest documents life in her region with an unmatched intimacy – a challenge in a place awash with stereotypes. But the mother, firefighter and ranch worker is no outsider. She’s simply capturing what she knows.
