Category: Portfolios & Galleries

  • Weekly Collection 96

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    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 they risk their lives to be there? Surprisingly, not everyone said ‘yes’, and many were quick to draw attention to the more severe danger faced by local journalists. Read below to see our photographers’ stories firsthand, in order of “most dangerous” to “least dangerous” countries.

  • Alex Schneideman Hard light

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    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.

  • Leonardo Filipaz Time

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    Time is an investigation and photographic challenge to the time and the reality, taking the same space but different times. The final image ranges between document and performance.

  • Gabriele Stabile – Hamas Jail in Gaza

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    We start this week with the work of Gabriele Stabile from Luz photo agency…His story is a novel approach on the Palestinian coverage and shows the inside of a Hamas jail in Gaza for Palestinian criminals. Some of the inmates have been condemned to death and are awaiting their sentence.

  • Florian Reischauer Pieces of Berlin

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    Florian Reischauer is an Austrian photographer, living and working in Berlin.

  • 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 abandoned chocolate factory in Salvador de Bahia, Brazil. Before that, these families lived in the dangerous streets of the city until they decided to come together and occupy this factory in ruins and turn it in a home.

  • Taryn Simon: A Living Man Declared Dead

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    A Living Man Declared Dead and Other Chapters is “an extended meditation on the political economy of fate” as Geoffrey Batchen describes it in the essay included in the catalogue that accompanies the exhibition. Simon’s new series explores the relationships between chance, blood and fate and records the effects of a combination of factors—territory, governance, power, and religion with psychological and physical inheritance.

  • Rodrigo Abd’s Photos of Guatemala

    Rodrigo Abd’s Photos of Guatemala

    In a Fragile Nation, Visible Realities

    The Associated Press photographer Rodrigo Abd sees the photos in his projects on Guatemala — many of which are shot alongside traditional wire assignments — as chapters in the history of the country’s postwar period.

    via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/11/03/in-a-fragile-nation-visible-realities/

    Rodrigo Abd seeks out the places in Guatemala that most people avoid — hospital wards, prisons, crime scenes and mass graves. He forgoes the country’s lush volcanic landscapes for cinderblock walls and grimy alleys, seeing in each scene an echo of the nation’s recent past, where 36 years of civil war gave way to equally devastating gang and drug violence.

  • Ronan Guillou Angel

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    With a majestic preface by Wim Wenders, Ronan Guillou’s first work arrives under the highest auspices. The fruit of a years-long trek across 17 American states (like the photographer in Wenders’ Alice in the City), Angel depicts an America in suspense.

  • Berlin: Christian Chaize

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    “Eight years ago, Portugal did present itself as a new landscape in my life – both literally and metaphorically. Since then, I have photographed exclusively along a very small stretch of its southern coastline. Returning to this specific place, I’ve sought out its nuances. In doing so, I have peeled back layers of how I see, and how I experience this magical environment.

  • Good Clean Fun

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    5K Foam Fest in Ogden, an obstacle course full of soapy Slip’n Slides and water hazards. As if Utah doesn’t already have a reputation across the land for keeping their program clean cut.

  • Halloween Photos of New York, Not on Halloween

    Halloween Photos of New York, Not on Halloween

    When the City Was a House of Horrors

    In the late 1970s and early 1980s New York as a whole resembled a haunted house. The photographer John Conn spent those years documenting the subway system — which is to say, the dungeon in the haunted house’s basement.

    via Lens Blog: https://archive.nytimes.com/lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/10/29/when-the-city-was-a-house-of-horrors/

    The late 1970s and early 1980s — when buildings were burning, fiscal crises were raging and the Dead Boys were playing at CBGB — were a macabre time in New York City’s history, a period when it could be said that the city resembled a haunted house.

  • Bamako 2011 – Kiripi Katembo

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    This project simply takes a look at a very visible fact of life in the city I live in: the pollution of the urban environment. With pollution comes sickness: malaria and typhoid fever.

  • Bamako 2011 Georges Osodi

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    I noticed there was so much injustice being perpetuated in the Delta region. So much had been heard about the situation n the Delta but very little had been seen in images, due to the hostile topography of the region

  • An Invisible Epidemic

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    Misha Friedman has been photographing humanitarian crises around the world, with a recent focus on documenting the tuberculosis epidemic in the former Soviet Union

  • In These Dark Canyons Part II

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    Largely created last winter, some sort of lovesong to the city.

  • tomasz lazar – theater of life

    Tomasz Lazar – Theater of Life

    Tomasz Lazar Theater of Life In 2008 we began working on the long term project entitled ‘Theater of life’. Themes are the changes occurring in our society under the influence of culture…

    via burn magazine: https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2011/11/tomasz-lazar-theater-of-life/

    In 2008 we began working on the long term project entitled ‘Theater of life’. Themes are the changes occurring in our society under the influence of culture and technology, which are increasingly present in our everyday lives.

  • Reuters Photographs of the Violence in Ivory Coast

    Reuters Photographs of the Violence in Ivory Coast

    From Bloody Conflict, a Trial Begins

    The Reuters photographer Finbarr O’Reilly on covering the conflict in Ivory Coast.

    via Lens Blog: https://archive.nytimes.com/lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/11/30/from-a-bloody-conflict-to-the-hague/

    Covering the bloody conflict was hard. Mr. Gbagbo’s thugs and militant Young Patriots were violently opposed to any Western influence, which also meant foreign journalists. Reuters relied heavily on the Ivorian photographers Luc Gnago and Thierry Gouegnon to navigate through the local tensions, but often even they could not cover Gbagbo rallies without risk. An important photo of Mr. Gbagbo, defeated and grim-faced in the Golf Hotel room, was obtained from an Ivorian photographer who had been trapped there with Ouattara and his besieged entourage for weeks as food and water ran out (Slide 10). He still does not want his name used for security reasons.

  • PhotoPhnomPenh 2011 Jens Olof Lasthein

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    The panoramic shot, a unique way of emphasizing a way of looking that is much more ample than our ordinary view, is rarely used in reportage, since the snapshot, in this format, would seem to be a random challenge

  • Capturing history as it was made: Los Angeles Times celebrates 130th anniversary

    Capturing history as it was made: Los Angeles Times celebrates 130th anniversary

    Photography

    via Los Angeles Times: http://framework.latimes.com/2011/12/04/capturing-history-as-it-was-made-los-angeles-times-celebrates-130th-anniversary/#/1

    In this gallery, you’ll be treated to an unforgettable walk through the history of Southern California; the opening of the California Aqueduct, the rise of Hollywood, natural disasters and the political careers of presidents. The Los Angeles Times is one of the largest and most-decorated photo staffs in the world. Their work has been honored with five Pulitzer Prizes and numerous other awards.