Category: Portfolios & Galleries
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The Dark Side: Roger Ballen’s ‘Asylum’
LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: https://time.com/section/lightbox/ Roger Ballen’s photographs are as much alluring as they are unsettling. For nearly 50 years, Ballen has used photography to explore some of the most upsetting parts of the psyche—and, in that period, he has created some of the most exquisite…
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Make Some Mischief Today!
David Shrigley and Jan von Holleben: Make Some Mischief Today! – LENSCRATCH Happy April Fool’s Day….I think we are taking ourselves too seriously these days…and I think a little irreverant mischief might be just what is needed in our depressed economy and changing times…ALWAYS love the work of David Shrigley and Jan von Holleben, and…
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Russian Photographers Featured at FotoFest 2012
A Festival for Talent and Possibility After decades of research and carefully nurtured relationships, Fred Baldwin and Wendy Watriss are mounting an ambitious exhibition of contemporary Russian photography at FotoFest 2012 in Houston. via Lens Blog: https://archive.nytimes.com/lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/03/14/a-festival-for-talent-and-possibility/ Long interested in the tradition of photography in the former Soviet Union and the Eastern Bloc, they have…
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Quirky Photographs of a Fictitious Olympic Team
Link: Oli Kellett is a London-based photographer who earned his degree from St. Martins Art College. He worked at several London ad agencies as an art director before leaving in 2008 to pursue photography full time. His recent project is entitled ‘Team Vodkovia’ and features a digitally-designed team of olympic hopefuls from the fictitious country…
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Tom Stoddart: The Siege of Sarajevo
Link: On this 20th anniversary of the conflict in Bosnia, Tom Stoddart shares the story of the siege he documented.
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Paul Szynol: Looking For Short Stories Everywhere
Link: Paul Szynol has a passion for street photography in the great tradition of narrative photojournalism. He came of age in Warsaw, Poland and first came to the United States in 1984, which, as he ironically observes “was the year that New York City’s transit fare rose from 75 cents to 90 cents, 33 previously…
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Herb Ritts at the Getty Museum
LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: https://time.com/section/lightbox/ “He always had a vision about how he wanted every picture,” Campbell says. “He liked strength in his pictures, and he got you to do things that you never thought you could do. He was very encouraging and would talk to…
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A rock is a roc is a roque
Link: Through June 15, the gallery Magasin de Jouets in Arles will welcome three talented young contemporary photographers who confront their worlds, attitudes and practices through complementary pieces of work. Ulrich Lebeuf, Stéphane C. and Olli Berry give us the world as they see it
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Sean Kernan’s Noirish Prison Photographs
Breaking Into Prison Sean Kernan wanted to take pictures inside a prison. To his surprise, the warden let him in and left him to wander. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/04/19/breaking-into-prison/?pagewanted=all Sean Kernan’s noirish photo essay on prison life was not the result of careful planning, research or even an interest in issues of incarceration. It was…
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Covering the Suddenly Hot War Between the Sudans
LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: https://time.com/section/lightbox/ TIME photographer Dominic Nahr has been on assignment in South Sudan’s ironically named Unity State, whose northern edge includes disputed boundaries with its enemy Sudan — one of which is marked only by a white cargo container
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Bordeaux 2012 Christopher Héry
Link: He leads us to the heart of the Africa we rarely see, the Africa of industry, of metallurgy. Here in Nigeria, where labor is harsh and demanding, boilermakers rub shoulders with the glitzy starlets of Nigerian Bollywood
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Nordic Light 2012 Contact Press Images
Link: For over three decades Contact Press Images has promoted and distributed the work of some of the finest award-winning photojournalists and documentarians in the world
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Nordic Light 2012 Kirsten Klein
Link: Kirsten Klein is one of Denmark’s most acclaimed photographers and possibly its best landscape photographer.
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Eric Dessert’s other China
Link: Éric Dessert’s work seems to be nourished and regulated by his travels, Romania, Georgia, Estonia, Japan, and here, China, shown at the Camera Obscura Gallery until May 26, 2012. A different China, far from the dazzling changes of the past few decades. Rural China. It is no surprise that from 2002 to 2009, Eric…
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3ème tour, musique d’une campagne
Link: The Galerie Duboys knows how to take risks, and it shows in their new exhibition, 3ème tour, musique d’une campagne. The gallery has given five artists carte blanche to express their feelings about this season’s French presidential campaign, which came to a close last Sunday
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Sète 2012 : Gilles Caron
Link: Born in 1939 in Neuilly-sur-Seine (France), Gilles Caron died at the age of 30 in April, 1970 on the N 1 road connecting Phnom Pen to Saigon. Just like Robert Capa, he is a legend in journalism and in photography
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Sète 2012 : Christopher Anderson
Link: Christopher Anderson arrived in Sete during a Saint Louis celebration evening. He immediately mingled amongst the jousters, became one of them, became a “Knight of the Tintaine”
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Baby Riley
the life of m via Tumblr: https://thelifeofm.com/?og=1 Trisomy 18, the doctor said, is “incompatible with life.” The baby would likely die before birth. If she did live, odds were a coin toss that she would die in the first weeks and less than 1 in 10 she would live a year. She would not cry…
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Arrivals and Departures with Jacob Aue Sobol: Episode 3 – The Train
Link: Even though I am a photographer, I try to avoid being a voyeur. It has always been my ambition not only to look, but also take part in life, which can be quite frustrating, especially if you have a tight deadline. If I meet someone playing soccer in the street, I immediately feel like…
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Michael Von Graffenried à la Leica Gallery, NY
Link: The Leica gallery presents a must-see retrospective of the black-and-white and color work of the Swiss photographer, whose insolence is reflected in his attitude as much as in his images.