Category: Portfolios & Galleries

  • Gael Turine: Voodoo

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    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.

  • Pencil: BREAKING NEWS

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    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!”

  • Rich Clarkson: Life behind the lens | Plog

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    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 Illustrated 33 times, on the pages of Time and Life magazines, and as the cover art of countless books. Here Clarkson shows some of his favorite images and tells the story behind each one.

  • what the hipsta?

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    This was purely shot out of spite, obligation, and curiosity.  After all of the “Hipstamatic is the Devil” posts (here) I have written on this blog, I thought it would be only fair to pay iLucifer the $1.99 to download the app I think may or may not be the death of modern photography.

  • Chris Hondros, at Work in Libya

    Chris Hondros, at Work in Libya

    Chris Hondros, at Work in Libya

    Chris Hondros of Getty Images was taking his customarily intimate, insightful photographs before being killed in Libya on Wednesday.

    via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/04/20/chris-hondros-at-work-in-libya/

    These pictures, taken earlier in the day, show why Mr. Hondros earned the respect of his colleagues for combat images that were gripping and intimate

  • 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

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    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.

  • Charlie Kirk: Tokyo. Leica. Flash.

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    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 quality of everyday life with his Leica MP and M9, he hopes to turn his newfound photographic passion into something more than a fulfilling avocation. Here, in his understated and commendably straightforward words is the fascinating story of his photographic adventure.

  • David Guttenfelder's Black-And-White Japan Quake Photo Essay

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    Pulitzer prize winning photographer David Guttenfelder has been photographing in Japan for nearly a month. Here is a collection of images he shot earlier this week from the evacuated zone surrounding the Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear power plant.

  • The Pulitzer Prizes

    The Pulitzer Prizes

    LightBox | Time

    Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time

    via Time: https://time.com/section/lightbox/

  • Night Life (3 Photos)

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    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, “I realized how deeply the lack of electricity affected the lives of my neighbors. It impeded their progress in the sectors of health, education, development, agriculture, gender equality and the list goes on.”

  • Philip Jones Griffiths Maelstrom

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    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.

  • Great Balls Of Fire!

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    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.

  • Weekly Collection 88

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    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 the X100 are looking for something fresh, new, exciting, small and classic. As I recently found out for myself, the X100 is all of that and more.

  • The LENSCRATCH Self-Portrait Exhibition 2011

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    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 our humanity and ourselves. So express yourself!

  • Christopher Anderson

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    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.

  • A Family Tragedy in a Neo-Nazi Home

    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 group. About 10 months into her self-assigned project, she interested The New York Times in the topic, having already developed numerous contacts with the National Socialist Movement.

  • Knut Skjærven: Phenomenologist and Photographer, Part 1

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    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 things the right way and working with the equipment that I feel good working with. That‘s very important not only in photography, but overall. So when things don’t succeed I only need to look in one direction to get it right, at myself.”

  • The 2011 Lenscratch Mother's Day Exhibition

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  • Lynsey Addario – Olivier Rebbot Award

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    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”.

  • L E N S C R A T C H: Kay von Aspern

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    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 be found with the heightened visual acuity that comes from split second observations.