This series of photos emphasizes the differences in mood held by each of the film’s personalities, uncomfortable travel situations and the relationships between skaters and terrains—a step in the opposite direction away from mainstream portrayals of what skateboarding is
Category: Portfolios & Galleries
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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.
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Best of 2011 | Sports
I also learned to work light – in two ways. First, while I’ve always been a chaser of color and nice light, my goal for the short year was to exploit every opportunity I had to work the aforementioned. Last year, I found myself converting everything in post, not so much this year. And second, I learned to ditch the extra gear and work with the bare minimum.
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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 himself and buy a small house on the outskirts of town. There, he began doing portraits of his Mexican neighbors, starting with Isabel, the matriarch of a large family who lived on the other side of his back wall.
“People ask how you light those,” he said. “I don’t — they’re all natural light. You can’t beat that.”
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TIME’s Best Photojournalism of 2011
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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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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 in Tiksi, a port town on Siberia’s Arctic coast — to her, a magical realm of wonder and discovery where she reveled in the “little miracles” of her endless natural playground
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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 Tirania,” a chronicle of the worst of the war years that builds upon her 1988 volume “Guatemala: Eternal Spring, Eternal Tyranny.” This time, she has raised $20,000 through Kickstarter to help produce 4,000 copies on glossy stock and with sewn bindings that will be sold for about $10 each. More important, she has set aside some 1,000 copies to be given away to schools and teachers in Guatemala.
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Teenie Harris’s World (8 Photos)
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 famous people who visited it. With close to 80,000 negatives in his archive, he is said to have best captured the urban African-American experience during the 20th century.
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Happy Birthday Duane Michals
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
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 a newspaper with articles, interviews and extra photo material.
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Cuba: Ernesto Bazan’s Self-Publishing Photography Philosophy
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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 no doubt that that’s the way it should be.”
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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 young and old, black and white, straight and gay, human and canine.