Category: Portfolios & Galleries

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 the idea after reading a newspaper article in 2009: India for the first time was recruiting women to serve in its Border Security Patrol, training them to police the country’s long and dangerous boundary with its archenemy, Pakistan.

January 10, 2020
Braga 2012 : Aki-Pekka Sinikoski

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January 10, 2020
Edouard Boubat, icônes et inédits

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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.

January 10, 2020
Mathias Depardon: Black Sea Postcards

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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

January 10, 2020
Dramatic Portraits Taken On the Narrow Streets of Seville

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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.

January 10, 2020
Gerd Ludwig: The Long Shadow of Chernobyl

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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.

January 10, 2020
Brussels Fotofever 2012

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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

January 10, 2020
lens culture: Paris Photo 2012

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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.

January 10, 2020
Franck Allais : Le poids des mots

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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.

January 10, 2020
Werner Bischof, Sardinia 1950

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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, a photograph is “a minute fragment of an experience, but quite a precise, detailed, and telling fragment.” Thus looking at one photograph after another would be to read a novel by somehow taking in larger chunks of pages at a time

January 10, 2020
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 around her with pure honesty; of illicting incredibly intimate reactions from her subject matter

January 10, 2020
Graphic Photographs of Commuters at Berlin Central Station

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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 blocks for a different kind of creation.

January 10, 2020
Tany Kely Homo Urbanicus

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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

January 10, 2020
Joel Meyerowitz by Jonas Cuénin

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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.

January 10, 2020
Aleppo: Sebastiano Tomada Piccolomini

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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.

January 10, 2020
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 photos, I attempted to explore the aftermath of American occupation and the current challenges facing Iraq.

January 10, 2020
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 assistants, Sarah Stankey and Grant Gill for their

via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2012/10/the-2012-lenscratch-masks-and-costumes/

January 10, 2020
Los Mismos Ladrones

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The project Clandestine is an ongoing documentary project about clandestine migration from West Africa to Europe

January 10, 2020
Athens Photo Festival 2012: Christian Vium

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The project Clandestine is an ongoing documentary project about clandestine migration from West Africa to Europe

January 10, 2020
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

January 10, 2020