It’s an interesting thing to ponder: what happens to our work and photographic legacy when we pass on? Tracey Baran passed away in 2008, at 32, far too young an age.
Category: Portfolios & Galleries
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lenscratch: Pieter Hugo
Pieter Hugo is a photographer that consistently offers imagery that is startling, mezmerizing, and other worldly. His new series, Nollywood, is no exception. Hugo takes a look at the third largest film industry in the world, but it’s very different than world of movie-making we are familiar with. Movies are produced and marketed in a week, using low cost equipment, basic scripts, actors cast the day of the shooting, and improvised locations, with no permits necessary.
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Massimo Vitali, Lucca, Italy – Feature Shoot
Massimo Vitali was born in Como, Italy, in 1944. He moved to London after high school, where he studied Photography at the London College of Printing. In the early Sixties he started working as a photojournalist, collaborating with many magazines and agencies in Italy and in Europe. His series of Italian beach panoramas began in the light of drastic political changes in Italy. Massimo started to observe his fellow countrymen very carefully. He depicted a “sanitized, complacent view of Italian normalities, at the same time revealing “the inner conditions and disturbances of normality: its cosmetic fakery, sexual innuendo, commodified leisure, deluded sense of affluence, and rigid conformism.
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Showcase: Infernal Landscapes – Lens Blog
Showcase: Infernal Landscapes
Lu Guang, a Chinese freelancer, has won this year’s $30,000 W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography for his project, “Pollution in China.”
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/14/showcase-65/
Any effort to describe the photography of Lu Guang by reference to the work of other artists would almost certainly invoke the name of W. Eugene Smith. (It is, for instance, just about impossible to look at Slide 4 without thinking of “Tomoko Uemura in Her Bath.”)
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Chris Jordan – current work
These photographs of albatross chicks were made just a few weeks ago on Midway Atoll, a tiny stretch of sand and coral near the middle of the North Pacific. The nesting babies are fed bellies-full of plastic by their parents, who soar out over the vast polluted ocean collecting what looks to them like food to bring back to their young. On this diet of human trash, every year tens of thousands of albatross chicks die on Midway from starvation, toxicity, and choking.
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lens culture: Paris Photo 2009 preview
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 present here a preview selection of 167 images to whet your appetite.
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Between What I Dream and What I Forget | Luceo Images
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, and celebrated death. What I found in my personal journey was a place where nostalgia collides with the surreal and a forgotten magic still exists.
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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
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 dream appears to be a nightmare, in others simply a facade, and in other simply an illusion. Once thought to be a family and a home in a suburban community, the American Dream now is perhaps more about fame, as Caleb Cole’s series of self-portraits asks questions about who we are, and of course, who we want to be.
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Worth a Look: Benjamin Lowy’s “The Afghan High” | dvafoto
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 High” does the opposite.
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Discovery – The Digital Journalist
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 conflict, struggle and beauty. It’s all about discovery, on many levels – oftentimes personal.
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AMERICANSUBURB X: LARRY SULTAN – "Homeland (2007-2009)"
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. Sultan directed the men’s actions and gestures while drawing from his own memories of home life and interpretations of their experiences as exiles.
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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 spirits to the surface. They all stare right through the camera, straight at you, with a story just behind their lips. Mr. Lawrence can evoke these memories because he carries his own story with him, close to his heart.
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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 in 1989, ending more than 40 years of Communist rule.