Category: Portfolios & Galleries

  • Matt Lutton: 2013 in Pictures

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    Link: It has been a year to take stock and think about how to present the work that I’ve completed in my time living in Serbia and start to plan what comes next.

  • Chronicling America in 35 Pictures

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    Link: Photographer David Graham is often “tirelessly traveling the United States, [to capture] the colorful, sometimes surreal, and often bizarre, in the thoroughly American landscape,” as he states on his website. His current exhibition, “Thirty-Five / 35 Pictures,” at the 339 Gallery in Philadelphia features one photograph from each year for the past 35 years.

  • Photographer Confesses His Terminal Illness to Friends and Family While Taking Their Portrait

    Photographer Confesses His Terminal Illness to Friends and Family While Taking Their Portrait

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    Photographer Confesses His Terminal Illness to Friends and Family While Taking Their Portrait “I have something to tell you.” It is with this loaded phrase that self-taught photographer Adrain Chesser sets his scene, creating a series of intimate, surprising portraits as a means of telling friends and family that he has been diagnosed with AIDS.…

  • Masquerade Exhibition at the New Orleans Photo Alliance

    Masquerade Exhibition at the New Orleans Photo Alliance

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    Masquerade Exhibition at the New Orleans Photo Alliance – LENSCRATCH I recently had the great pleasure of jurying the Masquerade Exhibition for the New Orleans Photo Alliance. I am a sucker for a mask, and have used masks extensively in my own work, so was thrilled to spend time with so many terrific images.  The…

  • Fantastic Photos of Chechnyan Culture From a Young Phenom

    Fantastic Photos of Chechnyan Culture From a Young Phenom

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    Fantastic Photos of Chechen Culture From a Young Phenom Goodbye, My Chechnya, is Diana Markosian’s project about Muslim girls coming of age in Chechnya. via WIRED: https://www.wired.com/2014/02/diana-markosian/ If young photographers want to succeed, they would do well to heed this word of advice from acclaimed photographer Diana Markosian: Get as far away from the photo…

  • Tony Fouhse: Same Old Story

    Tony Fouhse: Same Old Story

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    Tony Fouhse: Same Old Story – LENSCRATCH To say that I love the photographs by Tony Fouhse might be an understatement. I am a long time fan of his insightful and powerful projects on drug addition and those on the margins, but the work featured today goes further back into his amazing archives. Though almost…

  • Inside Irish Nomad Communities

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    Link: German photographer Birte Kaufmann has spent time over the last three years with a family of Irish gypsies, referred to as The Travellers, staying in their Volkswagen camper. Traditionally the Travellers were accepted in their country, like migrant workers, but in today’s world, they live on the fringes of society.

  • Stranger in a Strange Land

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    Link: “Transition,” by Los Angeles-based photographer Lauren Marsolier, is currently on display at Galerie Richard in New York City through March 1. The French-born photographer created the series in response to a period of upheaval and transition in her personal life

  • “Yangtze, The Long River” by Nadav Kander

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    Juxtapoz Magazine – Yangtze, The Long River by Nadav Kander This breathtaking body of photographs taken by Nadav Kander has won him the Prix Pictet prize back in 2010 as well as our adoration. Its best we allow… Link: https://www.juxtapoz.com/photography/yangtze-the-long-river-by-nadav-kander/ Nadav Kander is an Israeli photographer who is internationally renowned for his unique landscapes. In…

  • Musings: Michael Christopher Brown in Congo

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    Link: While working on a project that was a mammoth photo editing task—our Congo story, published on our News site—I came across Michael Christopher Browns’s ironically lovely images from the Congo, taken between 2012 and 2013. The original news story is an 11,000 word piece that dives deep into Congo’s conflicted and violent history, and…

  • Lynsey Addario on the New Female Face of Afghanistan

    Lynsey Addario on the New Female Face of Afghanistan

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    LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: https://time.com/section/lightbox/ The first time I visited Aghanistan in May 2000, I was 26 years old, and the country was under Taliban rule. I went there to document Afghan women and landmine victims. At the time, the Taliban had banned photography of any…

  • Through the Lens: New Photography

    Through the Lens: New Photography

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    Through the Lens: New Photography – LENSCRATCH Los Angeles is gearing up for all things photography with Paris Photo Los Angeles opening on the 24th, MOPLA (month of photography in Los Angeles) well underway, and on April 25th, the Los Angeles Center of Photography will hold a gala celebration, featuring the work of eleven Southern California…

  • Notes From the Road: John Stanmeyer in Jerusalem

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    Link: Photography possesses intervals, moments of timelessness, where the benevolence of the world around us offers fleeting touches of visual poetry upon the commonplace. Yet for unruly reasons, we can become too blind to see or feel their significance.

  • Where the Streets Have No Children

    Where the Streets Have No Children

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    Where the Streets Have No Children A chance mention of a small Ecuadorean town with no children and a handful of old residents set Santiago Arcos on a mission to document its dwindling life. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/04/08/where-the-streets-have-no-children/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=1&#/1/ The tail end of a radio report stayed with Santiago Arcos from the moment he heard it…

  • Narayan Mahon’s ‘Lands in Limbo’: Somaliland

    Narayan Mahon’s ‘Lands in Limbo’: Somaliland

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    Somaliland’s Long Game via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/somalilands-long-game He told me, “In all of these places, people accept their position in the world: We are here, no one will recognize us, but we are just going to keep our heads down. Maybe one day it will happen; there’s an outlook of it being a long…

  • Running Food, Taking Photos

    Running Food, Taking Photos

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    Running Food, Taking Photos When his photo career stalled, Robert Larson took a nightclub job – where he discovered new faces and scenes in the blur of action between the kitchen and the club. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/05/06/running-food-taking-photos/ While Mr. Larson started out taking pictures in the nightclub area, where bands and burlesque shows entertained…

  • Saints, Sinners and Side Roads

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    Link: Stettinius’s “self-described ‘pathological curiosity’ makes for an entirely unpredictable series of photographs, while the small size of the gelatin silver prints emphasizes their detailed nature and enhances the mysterious quality generated by his choice in cameras (namely, the increasingly popular Holga film camera),” Robin Rice Gallery said in a statement about his third solo exhibit,…

  • Ami Vitale: Growing Up in Big Sky Country

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    Link: I cannot escape the feeling that children here are shaped as much by their parents as by the land itself and they in turn help shape the land.

  • The Russian Criminal Tattoo Archive

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    Juxtapoz Magazine – Best of 2014: The Russian Criminal Tattoo Archive This unique archive documents Russian criminals’ tattoos and their coded meanings. Included in the collection are more than three thousand tattoo draw… Link: https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/the-russian-criminal-tattoo-archive/ In these incredible images the nameless bodies of criminals act as both a text and mirror, reflecting and preserving the…

  • Anthony Suau’s Organic Rising | PROOF

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    Link: Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist Anthony Suau had these same questions when, in 2008, he returned to the United States after spending 20 years living in Europe. “I realized that I basically couldn’t eat the food, specifically the meat. It just tasted terrible. I found myself very quickly gaining weight. I didn’t understand what was going…