Category: Portfolios & Galleries
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Fernando Moleres and the Empathic Eye in Sierra Leone
LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: https://time.com/section/lightbox/ Spanish photographer Fernando Moleres traveled to Sierra Leone determined to document what he describes as “disastrous” conditions at the penitentiary
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Caleb Cole
Link: The images in Odd One Out began as found photographs, purchased in antique stores and estate sales, of groups of people during special events, reunions, and family gatherings. The photographs are the spoils of a hunt, the proceeds of afternoons spent looking into the eyes of people I do not know and who may no longer…
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Cyrille Weiner
Link: “He has lived in the down-on-its-luck small city in northeast Pennsylvania for 69 years — his entire life. He started taking pictures of car wrecks for the local newspaper while he was in high school and ran a photo studio from his house for more than 35 years. In between the weddings, portraits and…
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Jeppe Bøje Nielsen’s Photos of the Gatherings at Lourdes
A Photographic Vision in Lourdes To secular sorts, the spectacle of pilgrims flocking to Lourdes in France can be puzzling. For Jeppe Boje Nielsen, photographing it was challenging — and humbling. via Lens Blog: https://archive.nytimes.com/lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/12/17/a-photographic-vision-at-lourdes/ To secular sorts, it’s a hard thing to grasp. For Jeppe Bøje Nielsen, a Danish photographer, it was a challenge.…
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Social Life at Beach
Link: But the stunt took a horrific and unexpected turn on Friday, when the nurse who answered the call, 46-year-old Jacintha Saldanha, was found dead, an apparent suicide.
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Contemplative Portraits and Landscapes Explore Working People of the American West
Link: Equipped with a large format view camera, and inspired by the poetry of Richard Hugo, I’ve aimed to hint at narratives and relay the experiences of strangers met in settings that spur my own emotions. Ultimately, this body of work is a meditation on small town life, the landscape, and more importantly, the inner…
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Marieke ten Wolde’s Photos of a Changing Tibet
Capturing the Accelerating Change in Tibet The Dutch photographer Marieke ten Wolde has made frequent trips to Tibet, in search not of vistas and costumes but of a society that is changing so fast she has had to consult her diary to remember if she had been there or not. via Lens Blog: https://archive.nytimes.com/lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/12/11/capturing-the-accelerating-change-in-tibet/ Like…
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Daddy’s Girl
Link: “Definitely his ‘Daddy’s Girl’, Addison has struggled greatly with the loss of her father.”
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Cultural Study (4 Photos)
Link: The latest exhibition at Los Angeles’s Annenberg Space for Photography presents the work of several photographers who have depicted indigenous cultures throughout the world, from Tibet to Borneo to South Dakota. Called “No Strangers: Ancient Wisdom in a Modern World,” the group exhibition is guest curated by Wade Davis, an anthropologist, author and photographer…
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Jean-Christian Bourcart Camden
Link: Absurd, all I did was search the web for the most dangerous city in the USA. I wanted to find that strange energy given off by places where rules and social constraints have been abolished or weakened. A sense of freedom mixed with the excitement of danger. Also I wanted to understand and witness…
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Oliver Weber Social Life at Beach
Link: Oliver Weber’s new and evolving series Social Life at Beach is a wonderful documentary about the touristic life on the Spanish Canary Islands
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Intriguing Portraits of Town Wanderers
Link: Photographer Allison Sexton earned her MFA in Photography from Yale University and was the 2010 recipient of the Tracey Baran Award. She currently lives in Greenfield, Massachusetts and is an adjunct professor at the Greenfield Community College. She recently talked to us about Striders, a series of intimate portraits connecting photographer and subject.
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Martin Kollar | JENREN
Link: “Take your eyes for a walk. Anytime I get off my keister and go looking around and engage people, something always happens,”
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An Hour of Magic Strangeness in the Park: Antonio Xoubanova’s Casa de Campo
Link: Antonio Xoubanova’s Casa de Campo offers itself up as an hour of strange magic spent wandering in the park – as a momentary retreat from the monotonous pressures of the city and the crumbling national economy, in favour of a little time spent ruminating on the occasionally harsh but more often graceful anachronisms of…
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Angela Strassheim
Link: “In planning for eight to ten weeks of nonstop overland travel throughout most of Ethiopia and literally all of the tiny African nation of Djibouti, I’ve had to muster the wisdom of Job — and nearly 30 years of working on complicated stories in over 80 countries — tapping as much extreme foresight as possible; When…
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Banishing Drug Lords From Rio de Janeiro’s Favelas in Pre-Olympic Sweep
Banishing Drug Lords From Rio de Janeiro’s Favelas in Pre-Olympic Sweep In Rio de Janeiro the government has created an ambitious plan called “Pacification,” which is designed to clean up that city’s image by cutting down on the drug trafficking and violence in its hundreds of shantytowns. Since February of 2012, Spanish phot via WIRED:…
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Intriguing Portraits of Tajiks, the Isolated People of Taskurgan
Link: Since 2009, Chinese photographer Li Xinzhao has spent several months capturing the lives of Tajiks, the isolated people of Tashkurgan who live amid the snow-capped Pamir mountains in Western China near Afghanistan, Pakistan and Tajikistan borders.
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‘Antonia’s Garden’ Photos are a Beautiful Meditation on the Relationship Between Mother and Child
Link: Antonia’s Garden is a quiet and contemplative series by Montreal-based photographer Marisa Portolese that gracefully explores familial identity, abandonment, displacement, and domestic life
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Marcus Reichmann: Leaving The Comfort Zone
Link: In the process of shooting a story there is a lot of gut instinct involved. I try not to think about it too much. Of course I do what I do and how I do it for a reason but to deal with that for me happens after the making of a picture and…
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Elliott Erwitt: My Photographic Home
Link: Elliott Erwitt is one of the most prestigious photographers in the world. His unique collection “Personal Best for Leica by Elliott Erwitt” contains 50 iconic images that have stirred many people