Category: Portfolios & Galleries
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Chris Hondros, at Work in Libya
Chris Hondros of Getty Images was taking his customarily intimate, insightful photographs before bei
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Captured: A Look Back at the Vietnam War on the 35th Anniversary of the Fall of Saigon | Plog — World, National Photos, Photography and Reportage — The Denver Post
Link: These photos offer a look back at the Vietnam War from the escalation of U.S. involvement in the early 1960′s to the Fall of Saigon in 1975.
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Charlie Kirk: Tokyo. Leica. Flash.
Link: Charlie Kirk describes himself as “a 37-year-old English guy, working as a lawyer in Tokyo.” Based in Japan’s capitol for 9 years, he was educated at Sussex, Cambridge and Nottingham, and notes wryly “It’s a long process to become a lawyer.” A talented and avidly committed photographer with a knack for capturing the surreal…
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Night Life (3 Photos)
Link: The residents of communities in Ghana live half of their lives in the dark, without electricity, from the time the sun sets at 6pm and rises at 6 am. “Life Without Lights” began as a brief story idea for DiCAmpo while he was living & volunteering in rural Ghana. During that time DiCampo says,…
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Philip Jones Griffiths Maelstrom
Link: The exhibition Maelstrom of photojournalist Philip Jones Griffiths at Howard Greenberg gallery in New York covers his work on the Vietnam War and the conflict in Northern Ireland during the 1970s.
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Great Balls Of Fire!
Link: Yep, this was my first trip to The Bluegrass State, an eye-opening, eyebrow-singeing voyage to photograph the semi-annual Machine Gun Shootout in the sticks outside of Louisville.
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The LENSCRATCH Self-Portrait Exhibition 2011
Link: Welcome to the 2011 LENSCRATCH Self-Portrait Exhibition. I am always excited to see how photographers choose to express themselves through self portraiture. A big thank you to all the contributing photographers for sharing your inner and outer selves, your humor, your life, and revelations. The genre of self portraiture is a universal expression of…
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Weekly Collection 88
Link: Fuji says that the X100 was designed by photographers, for photographers. Even Fuji themselves consider the X100 the “professionals choice” and at $1200 it is priced up there with some very good DSLR cameras, but those who are interested in this camera are NOT interested in a big old DSLR. Nope, those who want…
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Lynsey Addario – Olivier Rebbot Award
Link: The Olivier Rebbot Award for “best photographic reporting from abroad in magazines or books” was given to Lynsey Addario for her National Geographic story “Veiled Rebellion: Afghan Women”.
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Christopher Anderson
Link: Christian Anderson is a humanist and an artist all rolled into one terrific photographer. He is widely known for his editorial and advertising work, but has a host of book projects, including Son, featured below.
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A Family Tragedy in a Neo-Nazi Home
A Family Tragedy in a Neo-Nazi Home Julie Platner counted on Jeff Hall as entree to the National Socialist Movement. She could not have counted on how the story would end. via Lens Blog: https://archive.nytimes.com/lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/05/10/a-family-tragedy-in-a-neo-nazi-home/ It took about six months, Julie Platner said, to persuade anyone in the neo-Nazi movement to let her photograph the…
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Knut Skjærven: Phenomenologist and Photographer, Part 1
Link: Still searching for something more creative and fulfilling he began blogging in 2007 and later started the Berlin Black and White blog in July 2010. “After I turned to Berlin and Leica I have been extremely lucky,“ he says with a smile. “I have deliberately tried to eliminate all sources of error by doing…
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Anton Hammerl in Memoriam
LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: https://time.com/section/lightbox/ GlobalPost’s James Foley, one of the reporters in the incident, said he called out amid the barrages asking if Hammerl was ok. The answer was “No” and then there was silence.
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Adama Kouyaté’s Paris Studio
Link: The son of a master shoemaker, Malian photographer Adama Kouyaté was born in the French Sudanese village of Bougouni (now Mali) in 1928.
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L E N S C R A T C H: Kay von Aspern
Link: When you think of Vienna, one doesn’t immediately think of quirky street photography, but Kay von Aspern has a gift for finding it. Born in Germany, now living in Vienna, Kay is a “Collector of Moments”. A member of the German-Austrian street photographer collective seconds2real, Kay looks for those unique juxtapositions that can only…
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Political Landscapes (5 photos)
Link: During the nine days of campaigning in the lead up to Singapore’s historic general elections on May 7, photographer Darren Soh documented several rallies using the technique of a landscape photographer. Using a borrowed Leica S2, Soh photographed the rallies, then stitched images together to create final files that are roughly 1GB.
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My Waking Life: NYPH’11
Link: I did a lot more thinking than shooting on this trip, but my camera is never far from my side, so here’s a few in passing I couldn’t pass up.
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Chernobyl: Work by Antonin Kratochvil, Maciek Nabrdalik & Donald Weber
via Thomas Hawk Digital Connection |: https://thomashawk.com/2011/05/on-flickrs-change-in-data-retention-policy-and-twitters-new-photosharing-service.html I think this is great for a couple of reasons. First the leading player in the Twitter photo space twitpic is a total ripoff for photographers. When you use it you are giving them the right to sell your photos through some fine print in the TOS. Many…
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Perpignan Visa pour l'Image 2011
Link: « Yes, the year was full of news : Ivory Coast, Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, the Sudan, Syria, Bahrein, Iraq, Afghanistan, without forgetting the dramatic catastrophe of Japan, the world became even smaller than what we were used to » writes Jean-François Leroy in his traditional editorial. « Some say that Perpignan, it’s a bit…