Category: Portfolios & Galleries

  • Kodak’s Coloramas at the New York Transit Museum

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    His first assignment was to make a fall-themed Colorama. He went to Vermont at the peak of the leaves’ color, driving around for a couple of days looking for scenes. He found a nice scene on a small lake. He painted a borrowed rowboat red and hired a couple of locals to sit in the boat. To take the picture, he used an 8×20-inch Deardorff camera with ISO 10 film and a “very strong, powerful tripod.”

  • Zed Nelson’s Photos of Hackney, London

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    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.
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    It is also the home of the photographer Zed Nelson, who spent much of his childhood in this racially and culturally diverse area that occupies seven square miles of London.

    “It has violence, beauty, wildlife, concrete wastelands, poverty and affluence jumbled together, vying for space,” he recently wrote. “It is tattered and fractured, but very alive.”

  • Photographs of Mogadishu, Somalia by Dominic Nahr

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    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.

  • Cinematic Street Portraits by Michael Goldberg

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    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’.

  • The Boy from Troy by Brenda Ann Kenneally

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    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 economic shifts within their working class community. I watched, as school either became the interface between the justice system and a disengaged teenager or a lifeline thrown from an involved teacher. At year six, I began to agonize about the utility of this monster story and when Donny began school, it became evident that he was the story. Donny is the proverbial child that this neighborhood raised

  • David Ryle

    David Ryle

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    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

  • Indian Cinemas (10 Photos)

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    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 in favor of the new mega-plexes, which do not have to pay taxes for 3 years.

  • Gun Nation Revisted

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    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.”

  • Flesh Love: Photographs of Vacuum-Wrapped Tokyo Couples

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    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 air.

  • Moises Saman Photographs Syria’s Descent Into Civil War

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    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 per day, as both sides hunker down and prepare for a long and vicious civil war that will inevitably affect any chance at further reconciliation.”

  • Erin Trieb’s Homecoming Project: Capturing War Through Veteran Tales

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    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 a way that they’re not burned out seeing or hearing it,” Trieb says. “It’s been too long and I feel like it doesn’t even faze them. It’s my job to be a journalist and report, but ultimately it’s my passion to reach the public in a really meaningful way.”

  • Portraits of School Children in Classrooms Taken Around the World

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    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 countries.

  • Doug Mills Covers the London Olympics

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    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.

  • Aaron Huey’s ‘Pine Ridge Community Storytelling Project’

    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 High School. Many of the letters asked why he couldn’t show families like theirs: sober, employed, “normal.” The students wanted him to balance the story and to include them. The letters stuck with Mr. Huey.

  • Live from Bed-Stuy (10 Photos)

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    “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 and talks of rent in the neighborhood being doubled in ten years were being discussed at community board meetings). Two years prior, I had just started teaching myself how to photograph. With change coming to the community and the stigma of the neighborhood being a slum, I decided to make photographs that would reflect what I saw.

  • Luca SidroSolos in the city

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    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

  • Growth – wilma hurskainen

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    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 positions and facial expressions.