Category: Portfolios & Galleries
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Photographs of a Middle Class Utopia
Link: This series, Middle Class Utopia, focuses in Austrian allotment gardens in and around Vienna, called ‘Schrebergärten’. These tiny gardens were invented in the late 19th century, mainly to provide space for the working class people to grow their own vegetables and fruits. Over the time, the use of these gardens changed and now they…
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Everyday Life and Eccentricities of Africa Photographed by Jonathan May
Link: His project L’Afrique materialized from an assignment in Africa from a French client. The project includes images from from Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast and Kenya but Jonathan plans more visits to West Africa/Francophone speaking countries in the future.
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Visa pour l’image 2012: Jérôme Sessini
Link: In 2008 the photographer Jérôme Sessini started the Mexican project: a dive into the drug cartels war in Mexico. This compelling reportage, lasting two years, is a valuable document about the most dangerous cities in the country: Culiacan, Tijuana and especially Ciudad Juarez
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Revisiting The Desert Cantos (5 Photos)
Link: The Robert Mann Gallery in New York City recently moved to a new location and to inaugurate the space, they are hanging a retrospective of Richard Misrach’s landscape and fine-art photography
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Embodiment: A Portrait of Queer Life in America by Molly Landreth
Link: Embodiment: A Portrait of Queer Life in America is an ongoing photography / biography archive project by Molly Landreth. It is rich with imagery, honesty, humor, and individual stories. It’s a celebration of life and love, and it avoids the usual clichés.
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Peter DiCampo’s iPhone Photos of Africa
Picturing Everyday Life in Africa Too often the subjects of images of Africa seem to be reduced to symbols — viewers do not encounter them as fully rounded human beings, rarely seeing journalistic images of the middle class, artists or the cultural heritage of African countries. Peter DiC via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/17/picturing-everyday-life-in-africa/ I realized that…
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“The Human Condition,” an Exhibit by Peter Turnley in Paris
Four Decades of Photographing the Human Condition In an exhibition in Paris, four decades of Peter Turnley’s photographs are on display from around the world, encompassing major conflicts and quiet, quotidian moments. via Lens Blog: https://archive.nytimes.com/lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/12/forty-decades-of-photographing-the-human-condition/ As important as these images are to him, Mr. Turnley said, so too are the photographs he has taken…
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Daniel Milnor: Photographing On His Own Terms
Link: When I look at the best documentary photographers in the world they are very selective about the information they put out. I don’t see Sebastiao Salgado on social media seven days a week. I don’t hear from Salgado every eight minutes. I know when I see something from him it has been well-planned, well…
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Parts 6 and 7: Stephen Crowley’s Smoke-Filled Rooms
Looking Back on the Party Conventions In his sixth and seventh installments of the continuing series “Smoke-Filled Rooms,” the Times staff photographer Stephen Crowley examines the recent presidential nominating conventions. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/14/an-eye-on-the-party-conventions/ In the sixth and seventh installments of the “Smoke-Filled Rooms” series, Stephen Crowley, a staff photographer at The New York Times,…
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Kaunas Photo 2012 : Andreas Meichsner
Link: A silent observer, Andreas Meichsner documents in his photographs how the vacation we’ve been waiting for so long has a way of plunging us into an agonizing tug-of-war between the contradictory need for freedom on the one hand and security on the other
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Photaumnales 2012 : Guillaume Herbaut
Link: “Before me a snow-covered bridge, the bluish evening light and wolf tracks, I have spent the past two days in the forbidden zone of Chernobyl. I didn’t want to come back here. I had spent too much time here between 2009 and 2011. Four months losing myself in this forbidden place that has fascinated…
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Edouard Boubat, icônes et inédits
Link: The Parisian Galerie In Camera will exhibit through November 3, 2012, twenty prints by Édouard Boubat. Entitled Icônes et inédits, the exhibition brings some of Boubat’s most famous photographs together with lesser known work.
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Mathias Depardon: Black Sea Postcards
Link: After a turbulent year spent covering uprisings in the Middle East, Mathias Depardon traveled to the Black Sea to reconnect with a more lyrical strain of photography
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Poulomi Basu’s Photos of Women Serving the Border Security Patrol
On India’s Border, a Changing of the Guards In 2009, Poulomi Basu learned that India was recruiting women for its patrol of the border with Pakistan. Inspired, she followed this new paramilitary force through training and after, resulting in the project, “To Conquer Her Land.” via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/10/01/on-indias-border-a-changing-of-the-guards/ Photographer Poulomi Basu said she got…
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Dramatic Portraits Taken On the Narrow Streets of Seville
Link: Manolo Espaliú is a fine art photographer based in Seville, Spain. We asked him some questions about his series, 42º, which recently won him the Nuevo Talento FNAC de Fotografía 2012 award.
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Brussels Fotofever 2012
Link: Cécile Shall, founder and director of the festival aims to show to the visitors the diversity of contemporary photography. She also wishes, that the festival be a platform for the new artists by promoting new talents
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lens culture: Paris Photo 2012
Link: Lens Culture is pleased to present a high-resolution slideshow preview of 276 photographs that will be featured at Paris Photo 2012 in November. This is the largest and most important photography art fair in Europe — so in many ways, this is what the international art market looks like right now for photography.