Category: Portfolios & Galleries

Michael Massaia: Seeing the Black Dog

Michael Massaia: Seeing the Black Dog – LENSCRATCH

2013 has been a very good year for photographer Michael Massaia. He had several solo exhibitions, had work in numerous group shows and was one of the 8 winners of the Hearst 8×10 Photography Biennial Prize. I can’t help but think that these accolades come from a commitment to craft, the kind of commitment that

via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2013/12/michael-massaia-seeing-black-dog/

“Seeing the black dog” is a saying truck drivers use to describe hallucinations that occur as a result of sleep deprivation during cross country runs. When they see the “black dogs” scampering across the highway they know to pull over and get some sleep. The moment they make that decision is when I sneak up to their trucks while they’re in the cabs sleeping and capture the moment the dogs melt away. All of the images were taken between the hours of 2am and 6am along the New Jersey Turnpike.

January 10, 2020
Favorite Pictures of 2013

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It is hard to believe that the year 2013 is almost behind us. For myself, the past twelve months were a time of great change and progression. I left behind Ohio University after graduation in May and just over a month later found myself driving west towards Utah. It was painfully hard to say “see you later” to many of the peers that I have grown so close with, but with a new home came new adventures. These photos are handpicked favorites from this year and are a representation of the kind of pictures I love to make. Enjoy.

January 10, 2020
Russians Adapt to a Freezing, Dark and Polluted Place

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How do people adapt to life in one of the most polluted cities in the world, in sub-zero temperatures, during extended periods with no daylight?

Photographer Elena Chernyshova recently set out to explore those questions in Norilsk, Russia, a city of more than 170,000 people located above the polar circle

January 10, 2020
scott typaldos – butterflies

Scott Typaldos – Butterflies

Scott Typaldos Butterflies [ EPF 2013 SHORTLIST ] ESSAY CONTAINS EXPLICIT CONTENT To this day, I have extensively photographed the problematic of mental affliction in Ghana, Togo and Kosovo. My lon…

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To this day, I have extensively photographed the problematic of mental affliction in Ghana, Togo and Kosovo. My long term goal is to create a global project on mental disease and the great inequalities present in its therapies. Since my last trip to the western african region, I have also developed relationship with local associations in many eastern European countires (Serbia, Moldavia, Albania, Macedonia) attempting to improve the local treatment of mental sufferers. My photographs can serve in raising money for their actions.

January 10, 2020
2013 Year in Review

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I photographed rappers, activists, celebrities, football players, spring breakers, rock stars, and zombies. Now, I’m ready to move forward, and amidst a cross-country move and a sea of change, my passion for creating images remains anchored strong in the deepest part of my soul.

January 10, 2020
Matt Lutton: 2013 in Pictures

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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.

January 10, 2020
Chronicling America in 35 Pictures

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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.

January 10, 2020
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

“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. Desperately apprehensive, Chesser uses photography to capture the pivotal moment of each relationship in his life, forever changed by a single, spoken word. Though deeply personal, I Have Something to Tell You exposes a universal fear and foreboding of the unknown. Each sitter having no knowledge of what was about to occur, the prefacing phrase reveals a portrait of individual history and experiences associated with those words.

via Feature Shoot: https://www.featureshoot.com/2014/01/adrian-chesser/

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

January 10, 2020
Daniel Zvereff: Arkhangelsk, Russia

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Another journalist providing live video of the conflict for Espreso TV was assaulted and kidnapped on Jan. 22 before being released. More than two dozen journalists have been assaulted, mostly by police, while covering the events.

January 10, 2020
Masquerade Exhibition at the New Orleans Photo Alliance

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 exhibition opened on February 1st and will run through March

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The exhibition opened on February 1st and will run through March 30th. The New Orleans Photo Alliance is “ an artist run 501(c)3 nonprofit which currently includes more than 300 members from across Louisiana and throughout the United States

January 10, 2020
Fantastic Photos of Chechnyan Culture From a Young Phenom

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 herd as possible. Go your own way.

January 10, 2020
Tony Fouhse: Same Old Story

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 40 years old, his photographs reveal a

via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2014/02/tony-fouhse/

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

January 10, 2020
Inside Irish Nomad Communities

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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.

January 10, 2020
Stranger in a Strange Land

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“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

January 10, 2020
“Yangtze, The Long River” by Nadav Kander

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…

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Nadav Kander is an Israeli photographer who is internationally renowned for his unique landscapes. In his book “Yangtze, The Long River” he spent three years winding along the banks of this enormous body of water for his project

January 10, 2020
Lynsey Addario on the New Female Face of Afghanistan

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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 living being, so I snuck around with my cameras in a bag, visited people in their homes in Kabul and the provinces, and claimed I was photographing destroyed buildings left by over two decades of war in the country.

January 10, 2020
Musings: Michael Christopher Brown in Congo

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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 its strained yet hopeful relationship with the United Nations peacekeeping mission.

January 10, 2020
Notes From the Road: John Stanmeyer in Jerusalem

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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.

January 10, 2020
Where the Streets Have No Children

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.

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The tail end of a radio report stayed with Santiago Arcos from the moment he heard it one groggy morning five years ago. It was about a village in his native Ecuador, La Ciénega, a place that had no children.

January 10, 2020
Narayan Mahon’s ‘Lands in Limbo’: Somaliland

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 game that they are playing. They are convinced that they are right to break away. Waiting has hardened their belief of righteousness.”

January 10, 2020