Category: Portfolios & Galleries

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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. 

  • Zholtye Vody – VII The Magazine

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    Donald Weber takes a heart wrenching look at the city of Zholtye Vody in Ukraine. Located near two nuclear waste sites and an enrichment factory in the hub of the Soviet Union’s uranium mining and enrichment area, the homes were built using highly contaminated materials. With a higher radiation level than Chernobyl, over half the population of 60,000 people suffer from some sort of radiation sickness.

  • In My Back Yard: In My Grandfather’s House | Luceo Images

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    I am so happy to have photographs of my grandfather with his first great grandchild. They will serve as the key to Madelyn’s memory of him. Below a journal entry I found from the last time I saw my grandfather and a few photographs from that visit, nearly three years ago. Please forgive this self-indulgently loose edit of family photos. A scrapbook if you will.  

  • Stanley Greene’s Redemption and Revenge – Lens

    Stanley Greene’s Redemption and Revenge – Lens

    Stanley Greene’s Redemption and Revenge

    In his pictures and his words, Stanley Greene is outspoken. Michael Kamber interviewed this freewheeling figure.

    via Lens Blog: https://archive.nytimes.com/lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/07/22/shoptalk-7/

    I wanted to set the record straight. I kept hearing people say, “Chechnya was when you really started to be a photographer.” And that’s not true. I was shooting back at the Berlin Wall, but nobody knew about it. I fell through the cracks. I wanted a way to say that my influences are not the ones you think they are. They are about painting. They are about music. They are about other things. The way I’ve been shooting really hasn’t changed since back in the ’70s, before all these new photographers emerged. My old work, like rock and roll, really nails it.

  • Joachim Ladefoged's Albanians – VII The Magazine

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    With the July 22 decision by the World Court in the Hague that Kosovo’s unilateral secession from Serbia in 2008 did not violate international law, we thought it would be an opportune moment to look back at Joachim Ladefoged’s powerful body of work on the Albanians during the Serbian conflict from 1997 to 2000. During the war, some 12,000 people from Kosovo were killed, of whom 4,000-7,000 were Albanians, and up to 700,000 Albanians from Kosovo took refuge in the neighboring country of Albania.

  • Dave Anderson in New Orleans – Lens

    Dave Anderson in New Orleans – Lens

    Dave Anderson in New Orleans

    John Schwartz tells why Dave Anderson decided the best way to cover the scope of Katrina was through a single city block.

    via Lens Blog: https://archive.nytimes.com/lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/08/26/dave-anderson-in-new-orleans/

    What can one block tell you about a devastated city?

    Plenty, says Dave Anderson, 40, a photographer who chronicled the lives of people reclaiming their homes after Hurricane Katrina in the newly published “One Block: A New Orleans Neighborhood Rebuilds” (Aperture).

  • INTERVIEW: "Interview with Bruce Jackson" (2009)

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    Bruce Jackson was first drawn to work in prisons during the folk revival of the 1960s. Inspired by folk music collectors like the Lomaxes, he set out to capture work songs sung by African-American convicts, going first to Midwestern prisons when he was a graduate student in Indiana, and later to Texas state prisons while a fellow at Harvard. Over many years and in many prisons, he found and recorded the songs he was looking for, conversations with inmates, guards, and wardens, and thousands upon thousands of photographs.

  • Shooting Film in an Afghan Police Station – NYTimes.com

    Shooting Film in an Afghan Police Station – NYTimes.com

    Shooting Film in an Afghan Police Station

    Christoph Bangert wanted to try something new for portraits he was taking in Afghanistan. He used film.

    via Lens Blog: https://archive.nytimes.com/lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/09/03/shooting-film-in-an-afghan-police-station/

    Christoph Bangert took some highly unusual photographic accessories with him to Afghanistan earlier this year. He’d never used them professionally before. And their presence in his camera bag aroused the suspicion of more than one security guard.

    They were rolls of Plus-X and Tri-X film.

  • lens culture photo book review: Frederic Lezmi

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    I have been searching for the “in between” – whatever lies geographically as well as culturally between my world here in the midst of Europe and my long term focus of interest in the Middle and Near East.

  • l e n s c r a t c h: Sylvia de Swaan

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    A series of diptychs entitled “Sub-version” that explore the intersection between public and private domain, and how world events enter our lives no matter how far from the “action” we are. The first pictures for this project were taken on the morning of September 11, 2001, to conjoin the cataclysm emanating from my television, against the placidly sunny view outside my window in upstate New York.

  • Photo Essay: Lord's Resistance Army, DR Congo by Marcus Bleasdale

    Photo Essay: Lord's Resistance Army, DR Congo by Marcus Bleasdale

    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=1192

    The rebel Lord’s Resistance Army and Joseph Kony, its messianic leader, have waged a campaign of massacres, torture, and abduction on civilians across Central Africa since the mid-1980s. Their 20-year bush war against the Ugandan government, which aimed to establish a theocracy based on the Ten Commandments, killed thousands and forced the displacement of around 2 million people.

  • Afghanistan, September, 2010 – The Big Picture

    Afghanistan, September, 2010 – The Big Picture

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    This month, Afghanistan held parliamentary elections with nearly 2,500 candidates for 249 seats. Turnout was very light under threat of violence from the Taliban, and accusations of fraud are widespread. Afghan President Karzai announced the formation of a 70-member peace council, a step towards formal discussions with the Taliban. And American and Afghan troops have now begun active combat in an offensive to drive the Taliban out of their strongholds surrounding the city of Kandahar, the birthplace of the Taliban. With 51 more coalition troops killed this month, the total number of deaths for coalition troops in 2010 reached 541 compared with 521 for all of 2009. Collected here are images of the country and conflict over the past month, part of an ongoing monthly series on Afghanistan. (47 photos total)

  • l e n s c r a t c h: Michael Jang

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    Bernd Reinhardt, shared the work of his friend, Michael Jang, with me recently. Bernd is inspired not only by his photographs, but by his philosphies and approach to his image making and I have to agree with that assessment. Michael is not your typical photographer.

  • l e n s c r a t c h: Kurt Jordan

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    “You want to save it, you should niche it”. From old timers stock gurus to young green microstock expert, they all tell the same tale of potential success : dig yourself into a deep hole where no one else can reach you and stay there.

  • Broken Manual « Alec Soth

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    Un-possible retour is a project in which I am reconstructing and re-photographing selected family photographs in the attempt to reconnect with the past. Drawing from a collection of family snapshots, I focus the attention sharply on the concept of aging while ensuring a consistency of location and use time as a collaborative partner, accepting its discrepancies and playing with the results.