Category: Portfolios & Galleries
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Tokyo-Ga : Invisible existences
Link: The second chapter of the project Tokyo-Ga is entitled Invisible Existences. Whereas the first chapter preferred distance, this chapter prefers closeness and black-and-white. In solidarity with the recent events that have shaken Japan, the curator Naoko Ohta has conceived a large-scale photography project.
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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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Tbilisi 2012, Stanley Greene : Chechnya
Link: The organisers of the Tbilisi Photo Festival are delighted to welcome as great a photographer as Stanley Greene
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Jason Eskenazi’s Half-Exposures at Look3
Half Photos, Striving to be More Jason Eskenazi’s orphaned, fascinating accidents provoke him to wonder if he should even bother looking through his camera’s viewfinder, and they will be shown at the Look3 photo festival in Charlottesville, Va. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/06/09/half-photos-striving-to-be-more/?pagewanted=all After developing their film, most photographers snip off and throw away the double-zero…
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Flood Victims Photographed by Gideon Mendel
Link: ‘Since 2007 I have visited six countries (The UK, India, Haiti, Pakistan, Australia and Thailand) that have been devastated by massive flooding. I have done this as an attempt to visually address the issue of climate change.
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Manchuria Crossroads (10 Photos)
Link: Q Sakamaki photographed throughout China’s Northeast which was once called Manchuria. The region was a crossroads, transformed by history through migration, resource exploitation, occupation and war. And now the area is facing new upheaval due to globalization and China’s rapid economic growth, creating a gap between the rich and poor, as well as contributing…
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Interview with Cig Harvey: YOU Look At ME Like An EMERGENCY
Interview with Cig Harvey: YOU Look At ME Like An EMERGENCY – LENSCRATCH Sometimes you come across work you fall in love with, work that resonates with you in such a deep way, and you begin seeing the world through the lens and point of view of a great image maker. I have been a…
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The New York Times’s War Photojournalists Showcased at Photoville
Bringing Photographs of War to the Brooklyn Waterfront The New York Times spotlights a decade of war photojournalism at Photoville, an immersive photo exhibition opening today in Brooklyn Bridge Park. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/06/22/exhibiting-a-decade-of-war/ Photographers for The New York Times have covered the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan since the beginning and continue to do…
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The Stone Throwers of Palestine
LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: https://time.com/section/lightbox/ Last week, seven Palestinian men sat for Pulitzer Prize-winning Israeli photographer Oded Balilty in a home in the West Bank village of Bilin. Against a black backdrop, one man posed with a taut slingshot, two small pebbles resting in the sling.…
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Tadeu Vilani – B & W TV
Link: This project is called B & W TV (Black and White TV), is referring to people living in the suburbs of the metropolitan area of Porto Alegre, capital of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. The project consists of scrap through television to give an identity to these people in need of attention in the…
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South Africa: Jillian Edelstein, Truth & Lies
Link: The photographer took a series of portraits just after the end of apartheid, when South Africans were being asked to forgive. The result of four years of work, Truth & Lies bears witness to this reconciliation and questions the idea of South African identity. It documents the Commission of Truth and Reconciliation, which aimed…
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Shahidul Alam by John G. Morris
Link: I regard My Journey as a Witness by Shahidul Alam as the most remarkable book by a single photographer since a messenger brought me a first copy of The Decisive Moment by Henri Cartier-Bresson in 1952. It is not that the two books should be compared, although they are approximately the same weight.
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Photoville 2012: Stephen Dupont
Link: The exhibition is on urban gangs and criminals in Port Moresby capital of Papua New Guinea. It looks inside the world of cults and kustom and tribal culture
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Portraits of Patagonian Cowboys
Link: Mustafah Abdulaziz is a documentary photographer based in Berlin, Germany. He has been a member of the international photography collective MJR since 2008. This work is from his series, Patagonian Cowboys.
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Otto Shulze: The Wonder of The Streets
Link: The street is truly at the core of my work. The wonder and the random encounters of the streets are at the heart of my fascination with photography – especially within the context of the human condition. This is where it started for me and where I still go to this day for inspiration. To me, there…
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Zed Nelson’s Photos of Hackney, London
Link: Both crime-ridden and trendy, Hackney is one of the host boroughs for the Olympic Games in London. Zed Nelson’s work appeared on Lens in 2010, showing how bodily transformations reflect globalization. Altered Bodies » It is also the home of the photographer Zed Nelson, who spent much of his childhood in this racially and…
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Photographs of Mogadishu, Somalia by Dominic Nahr
Link: Mogadishu is enjoying its longest sustained peace in 21 years of civil war. But don’t mistake that for a return to normality. As TIME contract photographer Dominic Nahr’s pictures reveal, when the tide of war rolled back off Somalia’s capital, it left behind one of the world’s strangest-looking cities.
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Cinematic Street Portraits by Michael Goldberg
Link: Los Angeles-based Michael Goldberg photographed these candid portraits on the streets of Madrid, New York, Sydney, Bangkok and Barcelona over two years. In this work he aims to ‘blur the line between fact and fiction, and play the tradition of candid street photography off the more artificial look of theatrically-staged photography’.