Category: Portfolios & Galleries
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Arles 2013: Samer Mohdad
Link: A photojournalism career spanning twenty-five years bears witness to Lebanese photographer Samer Mohdad determination to show the profound changes that have taken place in the Arab world.
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Cuban Evolution: Photographs by Joakim Eskildsen
LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: https://time.com/section/lightbox/ “I immediately fell in awe with the complexity of this country,” says Eskildsen. “The more you learn about the situation and how people are living, the more difficult it becomes to understand. It was like learning to view the world form…
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gaining (common) ground
Link: Besides the Chicago Blackhawks’ Stanley Cup run, throughout the past month, my Common Ground personal project has been an almost constant thought in my head.
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Arles 2013: Sergio Larrain The rediscovery
Link: Sergio Larrain (1931-2012) grew up in Chile in an upper class cultured family , surrounded by books and art. From the outset, he took photographs freely in the streets with his Leica, which he did not hesitate to place on the ground, resulting in unusual points of view and daring compositions
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Arles 2013: South Africa Viewpoints
Link: The 2012/2013 France-South Africa Seasons project was set up to engage a dialogue between two peoples. It brings together artists who did not necessarily know much about each others’ work : six South African and six French photographers who met and joined forces in an adventure which began in South Africa in 2012.
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Jeff Johnson: Rebel with a Cause
Link: Practically nothing in this world is black-and-white, only film. So it has this specific look that dates all the way back to the very first photographs. It’s timeless. Timelessness is key for me
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When Buddhists Go Bad: Photographs by Adam Dean
LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: https://time.com/section/lightbox/ The spectacle of faith makes for luminous photography. Buddhism, in particular, lends itself to the lens: those shaven heads and richly hued monastic robes; the swirls of incense; the pure expressions of devotees to a religion whose first precept is “do…
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Steichen’s Family of Man Restored: New Life for a Photographic Touchstone
LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: https://time.com/section/lightbox/ In 1955, a decade into the Cold War, the Museum of Modern Art in New York opened its doors to a monumental photography exhibition, an aesthetic manifesto visualizing ideas of peace and “the essential oneness of mankind.” Edward Steichen, then director…
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Looking Back To Move Forward: 13 Years Of Photographing Afghanistan
Looking Back To Move Forward: 13 Years Of Photographing Afghanistan Saying goodbye to something you’ve known for a decade can be a landmine of emotion — even if that thing is a war. via NPR: https://www.npr.org/sections/pictureshow/2013/07/22/202736337/looking-back-to-move-forward-13-years-of-photographing-afghanistan On his most recent trip to Afghanistan, NPR staff photographer David Gilkey shot this personal iPhone photo essay in…
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Valentino Bellini’s BIT ROT Project
Link: Valentino Bellini wrote to us recently to share his new project BIT ROT, about the troubling issue of electronic waste worldwide that results from “rampant consumerism” and products that are “designed for the dump
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Gay Pride and Same-Sex Marriage Around the World
A Timely Victory via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/a-timely-victory Ladakh, nestled in the northernmost realms of India between the Kunlun and Himalaya mountain ranges, is one of the last remaining strongholds of Buddhism in South Asia.
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A Period of Transition in South Africa
Link: “‘Second Transition’ is the term that came to mind when I was photographing in Brits, Ga-Rankuwa, Marikana and Rustenburg,” says Sekgala. “Second Transition” describes a new phase of negotiations under Apartheid,” he adds, referencing the farms located between Brits and Rustenburg, an area of about 40 miles, that were assimilated and eventually became the…
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Photo Essay: Chasing Meth in Laurel County, Kentucky
Photo Essay: Chasing Meth in Laurel County, Kentucky Stacy Krantiz’s intimate look at methamphetamine addicts and the cops trying to to nab them. via Mother Jones: https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/08/photoessay-meth-laurel-county-kentucky-kranitz/ The first call we went on was in an abandoned trailer with no running water or electricity. The walls were covered with cryptic texts and morbid poems. Jason…
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Daniel Zvereff: Unecha
Link: As I walk around Unecha, I wonder what it is about this place that feels so nostalgic to me. I can’t help but think about all the events that took place in order for me to be here as a stranger: the Russian revolution and World War II, which sent my father’s side of…
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Moises Saman in Cairo
Moises Saman in Cairo via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/moises-saman-in-cairo “In the two years since I moved here, every milestone of the revolution has been marred by an outburst of street violence,” he says. “However, the events of the past week are unprecedented: rocks have been replaced by sniper bullets, city mosques transformed into front line…
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David Simonton Of This Place
Link: North Carolina has been my home and subject since I moved from New Jersey to Raleigh in 1989. I have now photographed in 365 cities, towns and small rural communities across the state.
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Stunning Photos of Alaska’s Four Seasons Photographed Through One Window
Stunning Photos of Alaska’s Four Seasons Photographed Through One Window “A meditation on one scene” is how Anchorage-based photographer Mark Meyer describes An Alaska Window, his collection of images he has been making for almost a year through the original sash windows with single pane glass in his 100-year-old log house. He tells us the…
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The Photographers on Photography
Link: Chances are if you walked past a National Geographic photographer on the street, you wouldn’t know it—and that’s how they like it. As photographer and Editor at Large Michael “Nick” Nichols puts it, “I want people to remember the pictures, not my name or what I look like.” But as part of our 125th…
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pittsburgh: walking on hallowed ground
Link: Despite its yellow bridges, Pittsburgh is well-suited to black and white photography.