Category: Portfolios & Galleries
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Art & Photography: Elena Zhukova | Feature Shoot
Link: Elena Zhukova is a San Francisco-based photography student currently attending the Academy of Art University. Of her work, she writes, ‘The purpose of my photographs is to illustrate the magnitude and vast range of human character and individuality in fictitious ways.
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Cesuralab’s Micalizzi and Majoli photograph the Egyptian revolution | dvafoto
Link: This morning I saw Newsweek’s gallery of remarkable images Alex Majoli took in Cairo last week: “The Agony and the Ecstasy”. A few minutes later I got an email from a friend at Cesuralab inviting me to look at a series of pictures by photographer Gabriele Micalizzi also from Egypt.
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Misha Erwitt: Street Smart « The Leica Camera
Link: A native New Yorker, Misha Erwitt grew up around photography and some of the best photographers in the world and was incurably bitten by the photography bug. After a career that includes an 11-year stint as a staffer for the New York Daily News and a three-year association with Magnum shooting internationally, this brilliant…
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PETER BESTE: "True Norwegian Black Metal" (2008)
Peter Beste’s ‘True Norwegian Black Metal’ (2008) Leather, spikes, face paint, and brandished weapons are standard and go along with a clearly stated stance of outsider-dom. King of Hell Intro from True Norwegian Black Metal, 2008 By Johan Kugelberg and Peter Beste Over the last two decades, a bizarre and violent musical subculture c via…
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Rebuilding Lives in Former Soviet Lands: The Work of Bruce Haley – NYTimes.com
Rebuilding Lives in Former Soviet Lands “Sunder” is a collection of photographs by Bruce Haley documenting the former Soviet republics. Mathew R. Warren describes its origins. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/03/04/rebuilding-lives-in-former-soviet-lands/ “Sunder” was released last week. Fifty-five black-and-white photographs depict a people and a landscape in flux. The haunting images, which were taken in various countries…
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Elegy to a Small Idaho Town: Steve Davis Photographs His Hometown – NYTimes.com
Elegy for a Small Idaho Town On return visits to American Falls, the small Idaho town where he grew up, Steve Davis found a sadness that he was moved to document, Michael Itkoff reports. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/03/08/elegy-to-a-small-idaho-town/ “American Falls seems to be dying a death that is as slow as it is unspectacular.” Steve…
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Photography is Personal | Luceo Images
Link: While I’ve known it before to some degree, it has become increasingly clear to me that I am creating the family images I make to leave a record for my daughter. To know where we’re headed we have to know where we come from. Hopefully some day these photographs can serve as a foundation…
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finally…the finals
Link: After photographing the Chicago Golden Gloves for what seems like months, the first of three nights of finals finally arrived Thursday night.
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Unseen Garry Winogrand Color Photographs
Link: Photographer Nick Turpin, who I first came across through the in-public street photography site and who writes the blog 779, has just published a rare selection of 20 Garry Winogrand color photographs.
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Gael Turine: Voodoo
Link: Gael’s latest project, Voodoo, took him to Benin, Haiti and the USA to photograph the rituals and ceremonies of the Voodoo cult. The images from his journey have culminated in a book published by Lannoo titled simply “Voodoo”, as well as an exhibition which opened at the Kunsthal Rotterdam, and is on tour until 2012.
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From a Bubble, 'Sneaking Little Moments'
From a Bubble, ‘Sneaking Little Moments’ Moises Saman has been in a press pool in Libya covering those loyal to Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi for more than a month. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/04/05/from-a-bubble-sneaking-little-moments/ Moises Saman’s work and words have been featured on Lens 17 times since he was assaulted by tthe police in Tunisia in January.…
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Beth Dow Looking for paradise
Link: Beth Dow is an american photographer who uses historical references and traditional processes to address contemporary issues of land use and our experience of time.
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Photographer #264: Paul D'Amato
Photographer #264: Paul D’Amato Paul D’Amato, 1956, USA, could be called a “creative non-fiction” photographer. His photographic practice has always inhabited a space betwe… Link: http://500photographers.blogspot.com/2011/04/photographer-264-paul-damato.html Paul D’Amato, 1956, USA, could be called a “creative non-fiction” photographer. His photographic practice has always inhabited a space between two contradictory truths.
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Competition: The photographs of the year
Link: The APPPF (Agency for the Promotion of Professional Photography in France) has organized the third edition of the photographic prize called “Photographs of the Year”. A competition reserved for European professional photographers meant to promote their know-how.
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The Pulitzer Prizes
LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: https://time.com/section/lightbox/
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Pencil: BREAKING NEWS
Link: For the record, this was billed as: World Extreme Pencil Fighting Championships WXPFL VIII: Hard Wood. ”The Schoolyard Sport of Pencil Fighting goes Pro! Pencil vs. Pencil Until Somebody Breaks!”
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Rich Clarkson: Life behind the lens | Plog
Link: For seven decades Rich Clarkson has had a front row seat to sporting history and through his eyes–or more precisely, through his camera lens–he has shaped the way the rest of us remember many of the game’s greatest moments. Clarkson has photographed all the greats. His photos have appeared on the cover of Sports…
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what the hipsta?
Never thought this day would come. This was purely shot out of spite, obligation, a
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Chris Hondros, at Work in Libya
Chris Hondros of Getty Images was taking his customarily intimate, insightful photographs before bei