Category: Portfolios & Galleries
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Meet Michael Jang, photography’s new cult hero
Meet Michael Jang, photography’s new cult hero After going unseen for decades, Michael Jang’s work is finally gaining the plaudits it deserves – and the 68-year-old is loving every second. via Huck Magazine: https://www.huckmag.com/playlist-archive/michael-jang-who-is-michael-jang-photography/ 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…
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Welcome to the Kowloon Walled City, One of the Most Misunderstood Places in History – Feature Shoot
Welcome to the Kowloon Walled City, One of the Most Misunderstood Places in History – Feature Shoot 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… via Feature Shoot: https://www.featureshoot.com/2020/02/welcome-to-the-kowloon-walled-city-one-of-the-most-misunderstood-places-in-history/ When the photographer Greg…
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Massao Mascaro: Jardin, a Rumination of Plots – AMERICAN SUBURB X
Massao Mascaro: Jardin, a Rumination of Plots 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 via AMERICAN…
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The Legacy of Issei Suda (1940-2019) : Human Memory
https://loeildelaphotographie.com/en/the-legacy-of-issei-suda-1940-2019-human-memory-gg/ 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.”
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Thomas Alleman: Social Studies | LENSCRATCH
Thomas Alleman: Social Studies 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 via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2020/02/thomas-alleman-social-studies/ I never get tired of looking at…
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Welcome to Brexit Britain: Is this what freedom looks like?
Welcome to Brexit Britain: Is this what freedom looks like? 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…
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Dead and Alive – Photographs by Klaus Bo | Essay by Gina Williams | LensCulture
Dead and Alive – Photographs by Klaus Bo | Essay by Gina Williams | LensCulture Klaus Bo’s stark images documenting death rituals from around the world are a rare visual record of cultural traditions via LensCulture: https://www.lensculture.com/articles/klaus-bo-dead-and-alive Klaus Bo’s stark images documenting death rituals from around the world are a rare visual record of cultural…
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The Destruction of the Amazon in Photos – Feature Shoot
The Destruction of the Amazon in Photos – Feature Shoot 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… via Feature Shoot: https://www.featureshoot.com/2020/01/the-destruction-of-the-amazon-in-photos/ Italian photographer Tommaso Protti is doing just that. As recipient of…
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Les Mois Noirs – The Leica camera Blog
Les Mois Noirs Stéphane Lavoué’s series is a multi-layered, sensitive homage to his new home in Brittany.
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Bill Westheimer: New Vistas: Photographers working with the Landscape | LENSCRATCH
Bill Westheimer: New Vistas: Photographers working with the Landscape 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 via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2020/01/bill-westheimer-new-vistas-photographers-working-with-the-landscape-3/ Artist Bill Westheimer has…
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Kenneth Josephson
https://loeildelaphotographie.com/en/kenneth-josephson-kk/ 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…
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A photographer looks back at his work in New York City in the 1980s – The Washington Post
Perspective | A photographer looks back at his work in New York City in the 1980s Magnum photographer Bruce Gilden uncovers 75 images of New York shot between 1978 and 1984. via Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/photography/2020/01/29/photographer-looks-back-his-work-new-york-city-1980s/ Bruce Gilden calls the photo “The Strangler.” The long-time Magnum photographer was just walking down a street of New York…
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Anniina Joensalo – Tender « burn magazine
Anniina Joensalo – Tender 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… via burn magazine: https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2020/01/anniina-joensalo-tender/ “Tender” is an exploration into the contradictions inherent in queer lives and loves. I want to…
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The real Ozarks: a portrait of rural life in modern America
The real Ozarks: a portrait of rural life in modern America Terra Fondriest shoots Ozark life with unmatched intimacy – a challenge in a place awash with stereotypes. But she’s simply capturing what she knows. via Huck Magazine: https://www.huckmag.com/playlist-archive/terra-fondriest-ozark-life-project-arkansas/ Terra Fondriest documents life in her region with an unmatched intimacy – a challenge in a…
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Life Inside the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone – Feature Shoot
Life Inside the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone – Feature Shoot It’s early September, 2014, and the sun is shining over a verdant landscape dotted with grazing horses. The people who live there, mostly the elderly women known affectionately as “babushkas,”… via Feature Shoot: https://www.featureshoot.com/2020/01/life-inside-the-chernobyl-exclusion-zone/ It’s early September, 2014, and the sun is shining over a verdant…
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Urban Street Portraits – Photographs by Jens Krauer | Essay by Gina Williams | LensCulture
Urban Street Portraits – Photographs by Jens Krauer | Essay by Gina Williams | LensCulture Swiss photographer Jens Krauer takes to the streets to share some insider insights and talk about what drives his impulse to document our urban lives via LensCulture: https://www.lensculture.com/articles/jens-krauer-urban-street-portraits Swiss photographer Jens Krauer takes to the streets to share some insider…
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Freedom or Death: Revisiting an archive of conflict, tragedy, and struggle – British Journal of Photography
Freedom or Death: Revisiting an archive of conflict, tragedy, and struggle In 1990, Gideon Mendel left a box of negatives in his friend’s garage in South Africa. Now, 30 years later, the damaged negatives are reincarnated in a photobook via British Journal of Photography: https://www.bjp-online.com/2020/01/gideon-mendel-freedom-or-death/ In 1990, Gideon Mendel left a box of negatives in…
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Anna Grevenitis: Regard | LENSCRATCH
Anna Grevenitis: Regard As a juror I have had the opportunity to be exposed to a wide range of work. Many times the images I juror are unthethered from their statements, so the photograph needs to have a stand alone power all it’s own. Every time I have come across images by Ann via LENSCRATCH:…
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Bruce Davidson’s portrait of post-war Britain
Bruce Davidson’s portrait of post-war Britain In the autumn of 1960, American photographer Bruce Davidson landed a commission that would take him to the UK for the first time. Starting in London, he bought a Hillman Minx convertible and travelled to the South Coast before heading north to Scotland. H via Huck Magazine: https://www.huckmag.com/art-and-culture/photography-2/bruce-davidsons-portrait-of-post-war-britain/ Travelling…
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Chad Ress: America Recovered | LENSCRATCH
Chad Ress: America Recovered Chad Ress has recently released a new monograph, America Recovered, published by Actar Publishers, Barcelona & New York. The book and project examine the point where “abstract political processes manifest themselves in the physical world, thus providing via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2020/01/chad-ress-america-recovered-2/ Chad Ress has recently released a new monograph, America Recovered, published by…