Category: Portfolios & Galleries
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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’.
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Minimiam, Couple Photographs Worlds Made With Tiny Toys & Food
Link: Minimiam is an ongoing art series by husband and wife team Pierre Javelle and Akiko Ida, who take tiny toys, strategically place them with food and photograph the surreal miniature worlds they have created.
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Through the Glass Ceiling, Into the White Cube: 31 Women in Art Photography
Link: Curators Natalie Sacasa and Jon Feinstein make no generalizations. Their show, “31 Women in Art Photography,” is a varied and diverse state-of-the-union of art photography encompassing all genres
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Flesh Love: Photographs of Vacuum-Wrapped Tokyo Couples
Link: On a kitchen floor in Tokyo, Japanese photographer Haruhiko Kawaguchi spends 10-20 seconds photographing couples that he meets in nightclubs. He arranges them like pieces of meat inside bags meant to store futons and blankets. He then seals their conjoined bodies inside the bag using a household vacuum that sucks out all of the…
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Moises Saman Photographs Syria’s Descent Into Civil War
Link: The bombing in Damascus “emboldened the rebels to go on the offensive, for a moment suggesting that a perfect storm would lead to the imminent fall of the regime,” Saman wrote to me from his home base in Cairo. “Here we are a month later, with people dying at a rate of about sixty…
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Erin Trieb’s Homecoming Project: Capturing War Through Veteran Tales
Link: The Homecoming Project, which began when Trieb spent months with soldiers from the 10th Mountain Division after their return from Afghanistan, documents the struggles many troops face when they return home from combat. “Somehow, we’ve got to have a conversation about these two wars in a way that’s palpable for the public and in…
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Portraits of School Children in Classrooms Taken Around the World
Link: This ongoing series by English photographer Julian Germain, entitled Classroom Portraits, began in schools in North East England in 2004. Since then, Germain has taken large-scale portraits of classrooms from North and South America, Europe, Africa, Southeast Asia and the Middle East and has amassed an impressive 450+ portraits of schoolchildren in over 20…
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Doug Mills Covers the London Olympics
Link: The New York Times staff photographer Doug Mills is covering his fifth summer Olympics, and he has photographed seven winter games. He spoke with James Estrin by phone.
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Aaron Huey’s ‘Pine Ridge Community Storytelling Project’
Photographing, and Listening to, the Lakota Facing criticism for presenting a limited view of life on the Pine Ridge reservation, Aaron Huey let its residents tell their own stories. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/08/17/photographing-and-listening-to-the-lakota/ A few months after the Lens piece was published, Mr. Huey received over 40 letters from students at the Jesuit-run Red Cloud…
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Live from Bed-Stuy (10 Photos)
Link: “In 1999, as I walked out my apartment, I saw a transformation taking place. New street lights? What is this about? As I searched for answers, I saw and heard of more changes starting to occur in my neighborhood of Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn (street vendors were being moved, the Franklin Avenue shuttle was being rebuilt…
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Luca SidroSolos in the city
Link: Solos in the city, is an analysis on the close relationship that exists between men and the environment in which they live. Modern places, mostly cities, suburbs
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Growth – wilma hurskainen
Link: Growth is a project in which I reconstructed and re-photographed pictures that my dad took of me and my three little sisters when we were children. I tried to make the new photograph look as similar as possible to the old one: the place and the composition are the same, and so are our…
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The Boy from Troy by Brenda Ann Kenneally
Link: There was an uneasy identification between the two of us that grew into friendship over the next eight years while I continued to document Kayla, Sabrina and their friends who lived as a family on the same block. A family, I discovered, that was formed largely in response to increasingly punitive legal, moral and…
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David Ryle
8. David Ryle Contact David Ryle Arch 348 No.37 Ermine Works London E2 8BF Telephone +44 (0)20 3487 0701 david@davidryle.com Mobile … Link: http://listbyjon.blogspot.com/2012/08/8-david-ryle.html
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Indian Cinemas (10 Photos)
Link: In the Spring of 2010 and 2011, photographer Katherine Newbegin traveled alone to India where she began a series on cinemas. Most were still currently in use at the time Newbegin photographed them. But in the larger, more developed cities, she says these aging cinemas were harder to find because they are disappearing rapidly…
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Gun Nation Revisted
Link: Over a two-year period I encountered scenes both bloody and harrowing: hospital emergency rooms, morgues and the confused aftermaths of random shooting sprees. After every new massacre, the newspaper headlines were always the same: “We thought we were the safest place in America.”