Category: Portfolios & Galleries

  • Sunday Showcase: Alex Prager

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    This week showcases work by Alex Prager.

  • Haiti by VII

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    Haiti has always been a land of beauty and pain, of light and darkness. When a catastrophic earthquake hit the island on Tuesday, January 12th, the world was shaken by the magnitude of the destruction and human suffering. In this story for VII The Magazine, photographers James Nachtwey, Ron Haviv, Lynsey Addario and Benjamin Lowy provide a heart-wrenching look at this disaster and its aftermath.

  • l e n s c r a t c h: Adam Panczuk

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    a project depicting the transformation of Polish village. His focus is on the relationship between human being and nature and on the essence of humanity in relation to the earth, the seasons, and passing away and birth as inseparable elements

  • Hellzapoppin – MJR

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  • Structure | Luceo Images

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    Matt Slaby: Here’s some frames from my current trip back north to Wyoming.  If everything continues according to plan, I’ll be home in a couple days.

  • Louis Porter, Melbourne

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    Louis Porter was born in the north of England in 1977 and has been based in Melbourne, Australia since 2001.

  • Art & Photography: Bryan Schutmaat | Feature Shoot

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    This work is from his series, Western Frieze.

  • Matt Eich, Norfolk, Virginia

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    Matt Eich (b. 1986) is a freelance photographer and founding member of Luceo Images. His work is rooted in memory, both personal and collective and he strives to approach every photograph with a sense of intimacy. He believes that stories are the fabric of history and that they have the power to inform and transform open-minded viewers.

  • Photo Essay: Muse by Jocelyn Bain Hogg

    Photo Essay: Muse by Jocelyn Bain Hogg

    VII Photo – VII Foundation

    VII VII is synonymous with courageous and impactful journalism. In 2001, the dawn of the digital era enabled the creation of VII Photo Agency. It drove VII to prominence during the aftermath of 9/11, the war in Afghanistan, the invasion of Iraq, and the c

    via VII Foundation: http://www.viiphoto.com/showstory.php?nID=1128

    Choosing only to photograph friends, family members and partners, this personal project, photographed over ten years, seeks to look at beauty and female emotion in an unvarnished and un-retouched way, thus challenging the 21st Century ethos of cosmetic enhancement and air-brushed magazine perfection.

  • The Motorbike Diaries: The Children of Rach Gia | Luceo Images

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    Millions of flies cover the ground.  As I walk they fly up and back down again like an ocean wave.  Every other second they land on me.  I constantly swipe them away until I just give in to the feeling of an insect crawling on my skin.  I look at the people in the dump and I count how many seconds they last until they swat the flies away.  Most do not even care.

  • New Photo Essays from Peter Turnley

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    I have just updated my website with 12 new photo essays, made in recent times. I am passionate about visual story telling in photo essay form, and about the process of creating a visual narrative that can ask as many questions as affirm answers. I am also passionate about trying to make 2 and 2 make 5 rather than 3 through the process of linking and juxtaposing imagery, and interested in opening discussion and dialogue and imparting a sense of perception of how certain dynamics feel, rather than attempt description or explanation. My Photo Essay webpage now offers the viewer 27 different photo essays or portfolios that can be seen here:

  • Rare Visions of Rural North Korea – TIME

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    In 2008, Chinese photographer Liu Yuan and his wife embarked on a train journey across North Korea. While riding the rails, Liu photographed out the window of his private compartment. “When a male inspector found my Canon 1Ds NMARK III with it 28-300 mm lens, he raised his eyebrows in surprise and quickly brought several of his comrade inspectors over to see it,”

  • lens culture: #26

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    Volume 26 of Lens Culture is online now. As always, it’s filled with a wonderful and eclectic mix of contemporary photography from around the globe.

    Photographers whose work appears in this new issue include:

    Pierre Torset, Charlie Ferguson, Tamas Paczai, Allen Ginsberg, Lennart Nilsson, Vee Speers, Marie Docher, Andrzej Mitura, Tony Ray-Jones, Massimiliano Clausi, Judit M. Horvath and Gyorgy Stalter, Jim Vecchi, Matt Lutton, Carolle Benitah, Michael Christopher Brown, Margaret M. de Lange, Franco Pagetti, Lucie and Simon, Marcos Lopez, Antonio Martinez, Annie Liebovitz, and Joel-Peter Witkin.

  • MJR – Weekly Collection 69

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    That ducky has been present at many historical moments. It was with me when I witnessed women voting for the first time in Afghanistan. It was once a few feet away from President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan at his palace in Kabul. It was with me when I crazily walked into northern Iraq from Turkey — at night, in monsoonlike rain — just before the bombing started. The ducky visited Saddam Hussein’s palace in Tikrit before the Marines arrived.

  • lens culture: Les Rencontres d'Arles 2010

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    This is the 41st year of the world-renowned photo festival, Rencontres d’Arles. As always, the festival will attract a worldwide audience of photo lovers, photographers, experts, curators, scholars and collectors, who congregate in the small Roman town in the south of France for a month every year.

  • matt eich – carry me ohio | burn magazine

    matt eich – carry me ohio

    [slidepress gallery=’matteich-carrymeohio’] Hover over the image for navigation and full screen controls EPF 2010 Finalist Matt Eich Carry Me Ohio play this essay   Once known for …

    via burn magazine: https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2010/06/matt-eich-carry-me-ohio/

    In this series of images I show the isolated and trapped residents of Southeastern Ohio. From Hercules the German Shepherd, chained to his house in the snow to Timmy, asleep on the couch, trapped in his body and requiring around the clock care from his family. Despite their bleak surroundings there is still a sense of whimsy and beauty in the lives of the region’s occupants. They opened their homes to me and this is my love song to the place I once lived.

  • Purpose, Process, and Polaroids | Luceo Images

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    I think in some very important ways VII The Magazine is a reaction to what has happened to our industry over the last few years. Photographers have always been seen as “suppliers” (the traditional role of editorial photographers, one or two rungs up the ladder from stationers and utilities but suppliers nonetheless) to the print world. A big question now seems to be who is left to supply and why should we remain dependent on the whims of a dinosaur industry. The question VII asked is why not become publishers and control their own destiny? Obviously the answer to that is VII The Magazine. This is a huge shift in the role of the photographers and the agency that opens up a whole new world with all the possibilities of originating and distributing.

  • New Group Project: Lebanon, Kansas | Luceo Images

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    LUCEO will be documenting the decline of small town America as a group project over the coming year.

  • l e n s c r a t c h: Tom M. Johnson

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    Sometimes, when you grow up in a small town, you have to leave and come back to really see it and appreciate it. Tom M. Johnson is about to open a show that celebrates the city of Lakewood, a suburb near Long Beach, California that was his childhood home.

  • In My Back Yard: Sin and Salvation in the Mississippi Delta | Luceo Images

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    In April I was sent to Mississippi along with National Geographic writer Joel Bourne and LUCEO partner, audio guru Brad Horn for a fascinating story assigned by the AARP Bulletin. We spent three days in Jackson, Belzoni and finally for a short four hours, the Baptist Town neighborhood in the historic blues community of Greenwood. Joel had told Brad and me about Baptist Town as he visited the day before, and as soon as we set foot in town we knew he was right. It was magic.