Tobacco Tale depicts the cycle of destruction, a bizarre reality of tobacco industry in Bangladesh—documentation of disposing people to unfortunate death and decay.
Category: Portfolios & Galleries
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Arles 2013: South Africa Viewpoints
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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When Buddhists Go Bad: Photographs by Adam Dean
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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 not kill.” But as photographer Adam Dean and I discovered when traveling through Burma and Thailand from May to June, Buddhism’s pacifist image is being challenged by a radical strain that marries spirituality with ethnic chauvinism
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Cuban Evolution: Photographs by Joakim Eskildsen
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“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 a Cuban angle that kept surprising and inspiring me.”
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A Period of Transition in South Africa
“‘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 independent state of Bophuthatswana after the introduction of the Natives Land Act in 1913.
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Steichen’s Family of Man Restored: New Life for a Photographic Touchstone
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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 of the MoMA photography department, curated 503 photographs — from a pool of two million — by 273 artists from 68 countries with the at-once simple and grand goal of definitively “explaining man to man.”
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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.
On his most recent trip to Afghanistan, NPR staff photographer David Gilkey shot this personal iPhone photo essay in his downtime
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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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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 arrested three repeat offenders who were squatting there, and they were very nice about the whole bust. They would joke with Jason and talk about mutual friends. It was much more casual than I had expected
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Daniel Zvereff: Unecha
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 the family first to China and then, finally, California, and my mother’s chance meeting with my father. I don’t feel like I am of this place, but I also don’t feel completely severed from it.
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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 field hospitals, and isolated street clashes superseded by systematized killings.”
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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 windows are “terrible for energy efficiency in a climate like Alaska, but they tend to take on the character of the weather and can be quite striking. So I started a study in minimalism that explores the subtle and sometimes not so subtle changes throughout the year.” Wonderfully tranquil, Meyer’s windows are abstract in their beauty and nostalgic in their passage of time and season.
via Feature Shoot: https://www.featureshoot.com/2013/09/stunning-photos-of-alaskas-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