Category: Portfolios & Galleries
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Martin Parr: How the other half lives | The Guardian
Link: From champagne in St Moritz to Moscow’s Millionaire fair, photographer Martin Parr – once criticised for his mockery of the working classes – turns his camera on the filthy rich.
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Daro Sulakauri, Tbilisi, Georgia – Feature Shoot
Link: Daro Slakauri was born in Georgia in 1985. Her work has won many awards including 2nd Place in the Young Photographer in the Caucasus Award (Magnum Photos). Of this series, Terror Incognita, she writes, ‘Since December 1994, when war broke out between the Russian-backed central government in Grozny and a determined group of Chechen…
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Timothy Briner, New York
Link: Timothy Briner was born in 1981 in Chesterton, Indiana and currently lives in Brooklyn. He is the recipient of the Hallmark Institute of Photography Grant and this project, Boonville, has been supported by Cannery Works.
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Munem Wasif | 100Eyes
Link: Rippling sea waves, dried river skeletons and endless fields. Water everywhere, but not a drop to drink. Each family needs about six pitchers of water a day, and they have to walk seven miles to get it. Ignoring knee-deep mud in rainy season, braving the biting cold of winter. In the seventeen sub-districts of…
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AMERICANSUBURB X: ED TEMPLETON: "Deformer and the Will to Not Be F-cked…"
Link: Eleven years in the making and compiling more than 30 years of material, Ed Templeton’s scrapbook of his upbringing in suburban Orange County California is a much-anticipated book. Its photographs give a sun-drenched glimpse of what it might be like to be young and alive in the “suburban domestic incubator” of Orange County, conveyed…
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lenscratch: Vivian Maier
Link: thanks to Chole Aftel’s blog, I discovered the work of Vivian Maier. It’s a fascinating story of a young woman who worked as a nanny in Chicago and spent her free time roaming the streets taking photographs.
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Matt Lutton’s Year in Pictures | dvafoto
Link: 2009 was my first real year of living and working in Serbia and it was wrought with more questions than answers.
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Sandy Dyas, Iowa City, Iowa
Link: She is an artist, freelance photographer and a Lecturer in the Art & Art History Department at Cornell College.
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Showcase: Lifting the Veil, Part Way – Lens
Showcase: Lifting the Veil, Part Way Under their face veils, Catalina Martin-Chico has found four Yemeni sisters who indulge in hip-hop, blue jeans and lipstick, as Kerri MacDonald reports. via Lens Blog: https://archive.nytimes.com/lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/28/showcase-118/ Hip-hop. Blue jeans. Lipstick. Dreams of moving away. The photojournalist Catalina Martin-Chico came face to face with all these things during her…
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E-Bits: Haiti, Up Close From a Distance – The Digital Journalist
Link: Here is a sampling of images that strike me as the best from the aftermath in Haiti. In them you can see the way events have evolved from a stunned people in the initial confusion and makeshift rescue efforts with few tools or supplies, to the spontaneous self-organization of survivors and caregivers, the relatively…
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Essay: A Home 8,000 Miles Away – Lens
Essay: A Home 8,000 Miles Away The photographer Alan Chin lives in New York but Toishan, in southern China, is his ancestral home — and a frequent subject of his work. via Lens Blog: https://archive.nytimes.com/lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/18/essay-14/ The more time I spend there, the more it begins to feel like some kind of home, illusory as that…
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Marian Drew, Brisbane, Australia
Link: In order to create this series, Every Living Thing, Drew photographed local roadkill in a dark studio by torchlight. She exposed the film for 15 minutes against backdrops of previously photographed landscapes printed onto large sheets. After shooting, the animals were given a proper burial in her large backyard.
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Wonderful Machine » In Hanoi This Friday?
Link: If so you should drop by The Bui Gallery for their opening from 6-9pm featuring photographer Aaron Joel Santos‘ work. In preparation for the show, Aaron visited the gallery’s printer in Singapore to check up on the printing details, and in the process took some colorful and artful photos of the city: