Category: Portfolios & Galleries
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Franck Allais : Le poids des mots
Link: Instead of seeing cars and trucks, I saw words floating by like a visual dialogue, messages bombarding my cerebral cortex that were instantly forgotten. I realized I had hit on something both playful and disturbing.
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Werner Bischof, Sardinia 1950
Link: We might as well admit now that photographs don’t tell stories the way words do it. Words tell stories very, very slowly. You need to read them one at a time, and the story then slowly builds. A photograph, in contrast, is not the equivalent of one word. If we stay with Soth’s phrase,…
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Emerging Talent: Megan McIsaac’s Honest Film Photography
Emerging Talent: Megan McIsaac’s Honest Film Photography 22 year old Megan McIsaac makes honest, beautiful film photography. Read her interview with Chase Jarvis. via Chase Jarvis Photography: https://www.chasejarvis.com/blog/emerging-talent-megan-mcisaacs-honest-film-photography/ At only 22 years old, LA resident Megan McIsaac has a truly impressive body of work under her belt. She has a way of capturing the world…
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Graphic Photographs of Commuters at Berlin Central Station
Link: I use a form of robotic image acquisition. I usually set up a camera very much like a scientific experiment, to obtain technically optimized input, triggering the shutter automatically whenever suitable subjects enter the field of view. Those images, typically recorded by the thousands during the first stage of a project, are the building…
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Gerd Ludwig: The Long Shadow of Chernobyl
Link: Since his first visit in 1993, Gerd Ludwig has been documenting the aftermath of the accident in dramatic and compassionate photographs — the failed reactor, the contamination of the land, and the countless victims in the fallout areas.
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Aleppo: Sebastiano Tomada Piccolomini
Link: As I entered the city, the noise of the shelling and aerial strikes brushed past my ears, and smoke from rooftops engulfed the skyline. I was surprised to find that daily life kept on going between the heavy crashes of nearby mortar fire.
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Adam Ferguson’s Travels in Iraq
In Postwar Iraq, Neither War Nor Peace The Australian photographer Adam Ferguson discusses recent travels through Iraq, where he found neither war nor peace 10 months after American soldiers left. via Lens Blog: https://archive.nytimes.com/lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/10/24/in-postwar-iraq-neither-war-nor-peace/ This is postwar photography in the context of an American presence, but Iraq is still at war with itself. In these…
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The 2012 LENSCRATCH Masks and Costumes Exhibition
2012 LENSCRATCH Masks and Costumes Exhibition – LENSCRATCH HAPPY HALLOWEEN! Thank you so much for your wonderfully creepy submissions to the 2012 LENSCRATCH Masks and Costumes Exhibition. I find it very comforting to know there are so many photographers willing to color outside the lines! A HUGE thank you to my very capable editorial…
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Los Mismos Ladrones
Link: The project Clandestine is an ongoing documentary project about clandestine migration from West Africa to Europe
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Athens Photo Festival 2012: Christian Vium
Link: The project Clandestine is an ongoing documentary project about clandestine migration from West Africa to Europe
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Last Days on the Road with Obama by Brooks Kraft
LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: https://time.com/section/lightbox/ This was the eighth presidential campaign that Kraft has photographed, and his sixth for TIME
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Athens Photo Festival 2012 : Colin Delfosse
Link: Edingwe, Dragon, City Train, Mbokotomo : the “legends” of Congolese wrestling invent themselves on a daily basis in the outskirts of Kinshasa.
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Photography in East Germany 1949-1989
Link: The European Month of Photography began in Berlin in mid-October. One of the main exhibitions of the program is the one organized by the Berlinische Galerie on art photography from the German Democratic Republic. It collects 260 photographs taken by 34 different artists.
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Tany Kely Homo Urbanicus
Link: it looks pretty clear the Romney campaign doctored a photo of a rally in Nevada this week to make the event, and crowd size look bigger
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Joel Meyerowitz by Jonas Cuénin
Link: For the past five decades, the American photographer Joel Meyerowitz has roamed the streets of the world, countrysides and beaches in search of life in blue, green, yellow and red. In the 1970s, his sense of modernism contributed to accept color photographs as works of art.
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Khaled Hasan Terror beat of Acid
Link: In the last few years, acid attacks have reduced but they continue. Hundreds of women become victims each year
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Root of the Nation: Zhang Kechun Photographs China’s Yellow River
LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: https://time.com/section/lightbox/ As a boy, he read about the mythic river. As a man, he went to find its source. Chengdu-based photographer Zhang Kechun has spent much of the last two years on the banks the Yellow River, the waterway considered both the cradle…
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Barack Obama- four more years
Link: I had the immense honor of photographing United States President Barack Obama’s re-election celebration in Chicago last night/early this morning
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Yan Morvan : Gangs Story
Link: Look at the Gangs Story, his most recent book. For the past 35 years, he has photographed the fringes of society which he finds so fascinating. Over these 279 pages and 140 photographs, you see the evolution of our society, from the white greasers of the 1970s to today’s uprooted immigrants
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Eros Hoagland’s Photographs of the Mexican Drug War Along the Border
A Reckoning at the Frontier The human toll of Mexico’s violent drug trade is portrayed in haunting, cinematic fashion by Eros Hoagland. His images — and how he works — reflect that struggle, as well as a more personal one. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/11/27/a-reckoning-at-the-frontier/ “I wanted to develop my own desert look,” said Mr. Hoagland,…