The pulse-pounding, awe-inspiring images featured here are by photographers participating in PDN’s first annual Outdoor Photo Expo, a two-day event dedicated to the outdoor photography market including adventure, landscape, nature, outdoor sports, travel and wildlife. The Outdoor Photo Expo is open to not only professionals looking to sharpen their skills, but also photo enthusiasts looking to improve their image-making on their next adventure.
Category: Portfolios & Galleries
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Surreal Scenics (9 Photos)
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Severin Koller: Revealing the Truth in Unforgettable Images
I don’t think I’m looking for certain things. It is more the other way around, that something grabs my attention. There are times when my senses are totally focused on what’s going on around me, like someone just put me on a drug that intensifies everything. When I’m in that mode, many photos happen instinctively. Looking at my scans, in most cases I remember why I took a photo, even if I had no time to think about it when I shot it. I guess that instinct is simply an honest way of photographing strangers. I try not to judge people by taking their photo or compromising anyone’s privacy. I’m simply interested in life on the street.
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Ongoing: Ye’Ethiopia Orthodox Baetachristian
While living in Ethiopia from 2003 to 2005, I was overcome by the beauty of the rituals of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church. They stood out in such a stark contrast, even for someone who had grown up with Ethiopia so close to my family, with the images that one normally conjures up when asked to create a mental image of this country. When I asked my beautiful Ethiopian girlfriend to become my wife, I knew that the church would become an even bigger part of my life, and I hope to spend my life continuing to document and explore this beautiful culture. This is how far I have gotten so far.
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Ground Control: Christof Plüemacher’s Europe
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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; and for his own country, a Prussian military parade, which reflect the “rigidity and orderly structures in different aspects of German life,” says Pluemacher, “in particular, the German administration.”
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Brian Ulrich: Copia—Retail, Thrift and Dark Stores (8 Photos)
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 commercialism and American consumer culture. The exhibition, featuring 60 photographs, will be on view from August 27, 2011 to January 16, 2012, in the museum’s east wing photography galleries.
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DOOLOW Somalia
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 are already overflowing with the victims of the first famine of the 21st Century.
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Syria, Decisively Seen
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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 Libya, entered the heart of Tripoli alongside advancing rebel fighters. For Mr. Denton, who has been covering the war from the perspective of the rebel fighters for six months, the experience felt almost mythical.
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Picturing the American Drought: George Steinmetz
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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 bowl of cracked earth and dust was neither common nor representative of the crisis
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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.
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In 2007, 10 years after Jocelyn Bain Hogg started chronicling organized crime in Britain, one of his subjects asked to pose for a photo. “No,” Mr. Bain Hogg said, right away. “I don’t do that.”
A bold response, given his subject’s long criminal history. “Who the hell are you?” the man responded angrily. Mr. Bain Hogg paused, reconsidering his words.
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Mette Frandsen
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 forces scattering.
And throughout Tripoli, TIME contract photographer Yuri Kozyrev and I have watched over the past week as a population celebrates its victory over a tyrant. As security improves with each night, more and more families flock into the city’s iconic Green Square—now renamed Martyrs’ Square—where Gaddafi once delivered his bombastic speeches. And in a sprawling assortment of military bases, mansions, villas and farms, curious Libyans have sifted through the surprises and the horrors left behind by a 42-year-old regime.