Category: Portfolios & Galleries
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Russell Monk’s Open-Air Studio
Neighborly Portraits in Mexico Captivated by the light in Mexico, Russell Monk set up an open-air studio in his backyard. The result is a series of whimsical black-and-white portraits. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/12/14/neighborly-portraits-in-mexico/?pagewanted=all He had been living like the typical artsy expat in the center of San Miguel de Allende when he decided to uproot…
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TIME’s Best Photojournalism of 2011
LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: https://time.com/section/lightbox/ TIME‘s words offer the important facts, clear-eyed insights and sharp analysis needed to understand the story. Our photojournalism offers the chance to not only see, but also feel the story
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Photos: 2011 The Denver Post Year’s Best Photos
Link: Denver Post photographers choose their best work and explain how they got the shot.
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Photographs of Trees Taken From All Perspectives
Link: In the project ‘Mapping’ I rearrange the already seen, creating a ’surrounding time landscape’. I experience and capture the different forms and characters of a tree, by walking around them. These different forms and characters together reveal the whole of the tree
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Identical Twins Photographed by Martin Schoeller
Link: By using his signature Close-Up style, the portraits allow the viewer to explore the physical similarities between the pairs, complementing the story, which covered their psychological similarities
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Scapes, Photo Collage Panoramas Taken From High Places
Scapes, Photo Collage Panoramas Taken From High Places Wouter van Buuren climbs tall cranes, towers, and buildings and creates wonderful panoramic photo collages of the surrounding landscape. via Laughing Squid: https://laughingsquid.com/scapes-photo-collage-panoramas-taken-from-high-places/ Dutch photographer Wouter van Buuren climbs tall cranes, towers, and buildings
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Guatemala: Eternal Spring, Eternal Tyranny
A Testament From Guatemala’s War Years As Guatemala brings genocide charges against a former military leader, Jean-Marie Simon prepares to reissue her seminal book of photographs from that country’s bloodiest era. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/02/a-testament-from-guatemalas-war-years/?pagewanted=all This week, while Mr. Ríos Montt is under house arrest, Ms. Simon is reprinting her book “Guatemala: Eterna Primavera, Eterna…
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Teenie Harris’s World (8 Photos)
Link: For over 40 years Charles “Teenie” Harris documented life in and around Pittsburgh’s Hill District for the influential black newspaper the Pittsburgh Courier. Affectionately called “One Shot” due to the brisk manner in which he photographed his subjects, Harris spent as much time shooting the everyday people of the neighborhood as he did the…
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Battle of the Panoramas
Battle of the Panoramas via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/battle-of-the-panoramas New York City is long and tall, and there are a million ways to slice it. In a show called “Widely Different,” part of the inaugural exhibition of the recently re-opened South Street Seaport Museum
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Magical Photos From a Small Town in Northern Russia
Siberian Memories, Warm and Real Evgenia Arbugaev returned to her childhood home intent on recapturing the memories of a snow-covered landscape that loomed large in her life. But as she traveled to Siberia she wondered, was it real? via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/07/siberian-memories-warm-and-real/?pagewanted=all Evgenia Arbugaeva has warm memories of a very cold place. She grew up…
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Grozny: Nine Cities (10 Photos)
Link: Olga Kravets, Maria Morina and Oksana Yushko have been working on “Grozny: Nine Cities” for more than two years
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‘Conflict Zone’ Showcases Photography From Iraq and Afghanistan
Two Wars, Seen Many Ways Originally conceived as a fund-raiser for Joao Silva, “Conflict Zone” — which opens in New York on Friday — has become a collaborative effort to show the humanity in war. The New York show is dedicated to Chris Hondros, who believed in photographing shared human experiences. via Lens Blog: https://archive.nytimes.com/lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/09/two-wars-seen-many-ways/…
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Portraits of Congolese Wrestlers
Link: Winner of several awards in Belgium and France, Delfosse won the PDN photo annual award in 2011 for this work on Congolese wrestlers.
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Happy Birthday Duane Michals
Link: For eighty years—eight decades—he gave it his all, selecting his own (mostly unknown) images and writing his own texts. He loves to write and he does it well. As a protean artist, Duane has played many characters in his life. That’s only natural for someone who claims that photography is nothing but a lie.
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Pays-Bas: Looking at jails
Link: Cruel and Unusual (Noorderlicht Photo Gallery) presents revealing, and quite unexpected photography dealing with life behind bars. For this exhibition the guest curators Hester Keijser and Pete Brook have brought together work by eleven women photographers, most of which has never before been shown in Europe. As background for the exhibition Noorderlicht is publishing…
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Cuba: Ernesto Bazan’s Self-Publishing Photography Philosophy
LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: https://time.com/section/lightbox/ For every boon that Ernesto Bazan has received, he can point to a parallel moment where he gave to someone else. “I strongly believe that in life, the more you give, the more you get back,” the Sicilian-born photographer said. “There’s…
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Portraits of Hip Hop Artists from the Early Days
Link: Dana Lixenberg lives and works in New York and Amsterdam. She studied photography at the London College of Printing and at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam
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Photographing the Pleasures, and Terrors, of Kissing
One Kiss, Many Meanings A kiss is just a kiss — and yet so much more, as James Friedman learned over seven years asking friends, family, and strangers to kiss for him. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/14/one-kiss-many-meanings/?pagewanted=all In “Pleasures and Terrors of Kissing,” James Friedman encounters the expressions of love, lust, intimacy and friendship through subjects…
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Off the Shelf: Luigi Ghirri’s It’s Beautiful Here, Isn’t It…
Off the Shelf: Luigi Ghirri’s It’s Beautiful Here, Isn’t It… via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/off-the-shelf-luigi-ghirris-its-beautiful-here-isnt-it One of our favorite photo books from the past few years is Aperture’s “It’s Beautiful Here, Isn’t It…” It was the first American publication of the work of Luigi Ghirri, who at the time was little known in the U.S.,…
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Magdalena Solé: New Delta Rising
Link: The Delta images have been created for a book titled “New Delta Rising”, distributed by the University Press of Mississippi. The photographs are the result of nine trips to the Delta over two years, a total of 12 weeks and more than 10,000 miles in search of people and their stories.