Category: Portfolios & Galleries
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Ground Control: Christof Plüemacher’s Europe
LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: https://time.com/section/lightbox/ In Europe, his camera captures intentionally narrow observations, with all action taking place around the edges, leaving the viewer to fill in the blanks or begin their own narrative. For France, he picked the 2009 Tour de France; for Spain, bullfighting;…
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Brian Ulrich: Copia—Retail, Thrift and Dark Stores (8 Photos)
Link: Later this month the Cleveland Museum of Art will present the first major museum exhibition of work by contemporary photographer Brian Ulrich. “Copia—Retail, Thrift, and Dark Stores, 2001-11,” is a decade-long examination of the American consumer psyche. From the Latin word for “plenty,” the artist’s “Copia” series explores economic, cultural and political implications of…
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DOOLOW Somalia
Link: Doolow in Southern Somalia is on the front line of an Islamic insurgency and famine now facing the Bakool and Shabelle Districts of Somalia, the most lawless nation on earth. Here staggering across harsh desert with meager supplies women and children flee, walking for up to twenty days, towards the Ethiopian border where camps…
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Andri Tambunan, Sacramento, CA
Link: In 2009 I started Against all Odds, a project documenting the HIV/AIDS epidemic among indigenous Papuans in Indonesia. Currently, Papua has the highest HIV/AIDS infection rate in the country, 15 times higher than the national average and the highest HIV/AIDS prevalence outside of Africa.
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Syria, Decisively Seen
LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: https://time.com/section/lightbox/ In July, while working for the New York Times, photographer Moises Saman journeyed into Syria as the first Western photographer to enter the country since the conflict between anti-government protestors and forces of the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad began
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'Tomorrow, Tripoli'
‘Tomorrow, Tripoli’ Although Bryan Denton has been on assignment in Libya for six months, he had yet to see Tripoli until Sunday night. Mr. Denton wasn’t the only one surprised by the rebels’ speedy advance. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/08/22/tomorrow-tripoli/ On Sunday night, the freelance photographer Bryan Denton, on assignment for The New York Times in…
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Picturing the American Drought: George Steinmetz
LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: https://time.com/section/lightbox/ TIME commissioned renowned aerial photographer and photojournalist George Steinmetz to document the effects of the drought in Texas, New Mexico, and Georgia. On his journey, Steinmetz quickly found that even in the driest sections of the country, the cliched idea of the…
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Nils Orth
Link: Nils Orth’s Untitled Faces aren’t particularly flattering images, but regardless they’re quite compelling, rubbing against many photographic conventions.
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Candid Moments From the British Underworld
Candid Moments From the British Underworld It wasn’t easy documenting the lives of a British crime family. But Jocelyn Bain Hogg managed to present his subjects in a candid — and at times unflattering — light. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/09/01/candid-photos-of-the-underworld/ In 2007, 10 years after Jocelyn Bain Hogg started chronicling organized crime in Britain, one…
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Daniel Patrick Lilley, Bournemouth, UK
Link: Daniel Patrick Lilley is a portrait and editorial photographer located on the south coast of England. He is currently studying commercial photography at the Arts Institute, Bournemouth. This is a selection from his Wrestlers series.
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Condemned – Robin Hammond
Link: “We are working in the most dangerous place in the world, Mogadishu!” shouts Dr Habeb who runs the only mental health clinic in Mogadishu, Somalia
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Mette Frandsen
Link: In Libya, the fall of a dictator came faster than anyone expected. After six months of fighting along what were often stagnated front lines, the rebels succeeded last week in overwhelming the forces of Col. Muammar Gaddafi to take control of the Libyan capital. The sudden assault sent the enigmatic 69-year-old Libyan leader and his family into hiding; his…
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China Mingyi Luo
Link: For ten years he photographed, in black and white and in a square format, the sudden appearance of Western clothing in Sichuan Province, a style instantly adopted by the population as an escape from the uniforms formerly imposed by the Maoist regime
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Composite Characters: Peter Funch’s Fictionalized New York
LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: https://time.com/section/lightbox/ As a Danish transplant living in New York, photographer Peter Funch began creating a series of panoramic, composite images on the streets of his adopted city in 2006. The result is his project Babel Tales Redux, now on display at the…
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Weekly Collection 96
Link: The Committee to Protect Journalists recently published its 2011 Impunity Index, which ranks the perceived danger of the world’s nations based on the number of unsolved journalist murders. After the report came out, we were not surprised to find many that PhotoShelter members had photographed in these places. And we wanted to know, did…
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Alex Schneideman Hard light
Link: Alex Schneideman is a photographer living in London. He has been visiting Taroudant for fifteen years and will continue to monitor the ‘tone’ of the city as the Arab Spring matures and achieves its many objectives.
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Florian Reischauer Pieces of Berlin
Link: Florian Reischauer is an Austrian photographer, living and working in Berlin.
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sebastian liste – urban quilombo
Sebastian Liste – Urban Quilombo Sebastian Liste Urban Quilombo ESSAY CONTAINS EXPLICIT CONTENT This work is a witness about a place that no longer exists. I lived there almost everything that one can live. I learned there the dar… via burn magazine: https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2011/10/sebastian-liste-urban-quilombo/ Eight years ago sixty families occupied the “Galpao da Araujo Barreto”, an…