Category: Portfolios & Galleries
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lens culture: Paris Photo 2009 preview
Link: The emphasis in 2009 is on photography from Iran and the Arab world. But, as always, the works on display are rich with diversity — geographically, culturally, stylistically — and offer a unique opportunity to discover a wide range of contemporary and vintage photography never seen before in one location. So, we’re pleased to…
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ARWAV-SLPSXIV – What's the Jackanory
Link: If you missed Slideluck Potshow XIV at Aperture this past Friday night here is a reprise of my presentation.
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::: The Travel Photographer :::: NGM: Martin Schoeller: The Hadza
NGM: Martin Schoeller: The Hadza travel photographer Link: https://thetravelphotographer.blogspot.com/2009/11/ngm-martin-schoeller-hadza.html The National Geographic brings us The Hadza, a collection of photographs by Martin Schoeller.
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The American Dream | 100 Eyes Photo Magazine
Link: This issue of 100Eyes is dedicated to an American Dream, although a dream a bit darker, and perhaps vague. The term itself is refracted through the images in the magazine, having a different meaning as the images evolve, and the meaning of the language changes as do the pictures themselves. In some places the…
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Between What I Dream and What I Forget | Luceo Images
Link: In a time where coverage of Mexico and Guatemala by the mass media is saturated with crime and despair an amazing culture and vibrant people people still remain. In my travels I searched for my ideal Latin America, a land with an indescribable energy in the air, a land of music, art, ritual, life,…
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Worth a Look: Benjamin Lowy’s “The Afghan High” | dvafoto
Link: I’m usually wary of photo essays about poverty and drugs. Eugene Richards has unleashed a torrent of imitators, and the results are often voyeuristic and exploitative–unless there’s an underlying story, photos of depraved debasement do little more than serve as a vehicle for gawking at the unmentionables, grotesques without empathy. Benjamin Lowy’s “The Afghan…
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Discovery – The Digital Journalist
Link: mostly I found people struggling to survive widespread poverty and corruption; cultures ill-equipped as their environments undergo tremendous upheaval; places where people worry about their next meal, not issues like global warming or overpopulation. I am a photojournalist and don’t dream of doing anything else. I am fortunate and often overwhelmed as I document…
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lenscratch: Anthony Goicolea
Link: New York photographer, Anthony Goicolea’s website is a little bit like a candy store, rich in sweet imagery in all shapes and sizes.
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AMERICANSUBURB X: LARRY SULTAN – "Homeland (2007-2009)"
Link: For his latest body of work, Larry Sultan hired Mexican day laborers as actors and subjects in his photographs, which he made on the outskirts of Southern Californian suburbs. He found these illegal laborers outside a nearby strip mall where hundreds of men wait day by day to be picked up for hourly work.…
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Showcase: On the Beach – Lens
Showcase: On the Beach Wayne Lawrence tries to bring his subjects’ hidden spirits to the surface. They stare through the camera, Candice Chan writes, with a story just behind their lips. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/12/28/showcase-98/ Tiffany was photographed at Orchard Beach in the Bronx by Wayne Lawrence, 34, who strives to bring his subjects’ hidden…
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Showcase: Romania, Still Beneath a Cloud – Lens
Showcase: Romania, Still Beneath a Cloud On the 20th anniversary of the Romanian revolution, Nadia Sussman reports, Cristian Movila depicts his country as a land of perpetual winter. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/12/21/showcase-95/ Cristian Movila was 7 years old when a firing squad executed the Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu and his wife, Elena, on Christmas Day…
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lenscratch: My Personal Favorites of 2009
Link: Tomorrow I will be featuring your personal favorite images of 2009, but today, I share some of my own favorites
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Patrick Smith || Sundancing skiers
Link: As for shooting overexposed pictures on purpose, I personally credit every starting photographer who has ever picked up their Dad’s Nikon F2 and later wondered why after all that time in the dark room resulted in his or her photo paper still being all white; maybe except for, let’s say the dog that was…
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On Assignment: Yemen, With Nuance – Lens
On Assignment: Yemen, With Nuance Karim Ben Khelifa is among the many journalists who are arriving in Yemen, now that it’s at the top of the news. The difference is that he once lived there. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/05/assignment-18/ Journalists are now descending on Yemen. Among them is Karim Ben Khelifa, who arrived Friday packing…
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Q&A: Chris Zedano, New York – Feature Shoot
Link: Chris Zedano, originally from Lima, Peru, has been living and working in New York since 2002. For this project, Staple Street, he has photographed some of New York’s most interesting characters on a street in Tribeca (Staple Street) that dates back to at least the early 19th century.
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recent work: rural Mississippi at thoughts.and/or.etc
Link: I’ve been working recently in rural Mississippi, exploring the symbolic connection between those left behind after the Great Migrations and Mississippi being left behind as a state.