Category: Portfolios & Galleries

  • Essay: A Home 8,000 Miles Away – Lens

    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 might seem. Despite the persistent poverty and the vast chasm between Gongmei and my life in New York, I can foresee a time when Toishan might become like Tuscany, a picturesque region rich in history and architectural heritage, a vacation getaway. For now, though, it is still part of the forgotten rural China, engulfed in a crisis that is quiet but sustained.

  • Marian Drew, Brisbane, Australia

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    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.

  • Saddam Hussein's Private Photo Album

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  • Wonderful Machine » In Hanoi This Friday?

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    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:

  • Super Touch Art » TERRY RICHARDSON GOES TO THE JERSEY SHORE

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  • PDN's 30 2010

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  • Tatiana Plotnikova | 100Eyes

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    “The Bathers” Photographs by Tatiana Plotnikova
     

    Balbuki is a very ordinary village in Pskov Region, one of many small regions in western part of Russia. The local farmers who have lived and worked this land are being gradually being replaced with summer residents from nearest towns, and a lot of customary traditons are disappearing as well. This style of steam bath called Banya is one of the traditions that are being lost to gentrification. R

  • Vanishing China | PDN Photo of the Day

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    On a 2006 trip, Ryan Pyle decided to focus his camera on the disappearing culture of China’s remote western Xinjiang province. He says, “The culture is vanishing before my eyes. Each time I return something is missing—a market, an old shop full of blacksmiths, a local mosque. This cultural fabric will be lost forever.” Previously named Chinese Turkestan, the Xinjiang province is bordered by the Gobi desert and some of the highest mountain ranges in the world, making this location incredibly remote.

  • Photography – Top Ten of 2009 – National Geographic

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    Editor Chris Johns picks his favorite photos published in 2009.

  • Satomi Shirai, New York

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    Since I started semi-immigrant life, I have experienced two worlds, with two different cultures and systems: that of Tokyo/Japan and that of New York. I came to perceive things in both of these worlds by comparing each one. In my work, the presence of certain objects questions my memories, and my understanding, or lack thereof, of the world I inhabit.

  • Paying the M.D. a Visit » THE WILD WEIRD WORLD OF SPORTS

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    After nearly 3 weeks of taking photos every day at the Winter Olympics, well, I needed some serious help editing. So I decided to pay Mike Davis a visit.

    It’s fun and enlightening how just two hours of editing can bring clarity to such a large and broad body of work. Here’s what Mike came up with.

  • l e n s c r a t c h: Ashley Gilbertson

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    Ashley Gilberston is a name you will be hearing a lot of in the future. In case you missed it in the NY Times Magazine on Sunday, Ashley had a series of heartbreaking images that accompanied the article, The Shrine Down the Hall, written by Dexter Filkins, about the bedrooms of America’s young war dead have left behind. The series is called Bedrooms of the Fallen.

  • lenscratch: William Head

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    William Head recently graduated from the University of Wales, Newport, and hopes to continue his studies in Prague, but for now: i done some stuff, and i still got some stuff to do. William has two volume project titled, Humane Errors, where he explores the West Park Asylum in Surrey–one of Europe’s largest mental institutions.

  • MJR – Weekly Collection 65

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    Weekly Collection 65

  • professional tourist | Redlights and Redeyes

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    There is a fine line between work and play being a photographer, which is what is so amazingly wonderful about our job.  A client calls and asks you to spend a couple days in “X” city, making whatever photos you want as long as they somewhat fit the story.  In general, that is all the 36 Hours series The New York Times is:  tip-toeing that line.

  • The Motorbike Diaries: Remember | Luceo Images

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    In November of 2006 I left my country for the first time.  Wait, rewind.  Two months earlier, I was a staff photographer for the California-based newspaper, The Sacramento Bee.  I was attending a one-hour seminar about something that I have completely forgotten about.  But as I was leaving I overheard a coworker that I barely knew talking about a trip he will be taking to the Philippines to visit his mother and he was even thinking about hitting up Vietnam.  I walked up to him and said, “I’m going with you!”  He looked stunned for a moment, shrugged his shoulders and said, “ok”.  That “Ok” sealed a brotherly bond that I would shared with Bobby ever since.  

  • The Motorbike Diaries: Rethink | Luceo Images

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    A photographer once told me that a picture is not art unless you create exactly what you intended from start to finish.  I fought him on this statement.  It’s about the unknown, the surprise.  The extra lens flare that you didn’t expect.  The roll of film that didn’t advance all the way.  The bird that suddenly flew into your frame at the moment of exposure.  It’s the unknown details that help form greatness.  

  • Back In My Wheelhouse » THE WILD WEIRD WORLD OF SPORTS

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    Thank all that is good for San Francisco, home of the 10th annual BYOBW (Bring Your Own Big Wheel) race.

  • Iranian Memoir | Magnum In Motion

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    In this essay by Paolo Pellegrin, young Iranian-Americans whose parents fled the Iranian revolution in 1979 and started a new life in the USA remember Iran and imagine how their life would have been if they had never left their country.

  • l e n s c r a t c h: Eliza French and Jeff Charbonneau

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    Eliza French and Jeff Charbonneau’s exhibition of their new series, Playground, was the must-see exhibition on the opening night of The Month of Photography in Los Angeles, at the Robert Berman Gallery in Santa Monica’s Bergamot Station. The exhibition is on view until May 5, 2010.