Category: Portfolios & Galleries

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.

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 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
The Russian Criminal Tattoo Archive

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 ever-changing folklore of the Russian criminal underworld

January 10, 2020
Running Food, Taking Photos

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 diners, he slowly made his way to the kitchen, which he found more to his liking.

January 10, 2020
Saints, Sinners and Side Roads

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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, “Signals, Saints and Side Roads.”

January 10, 2020
Ami Vitale: Growing Up in Big Sky Country

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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.

January 10, 2020
Anthony Suau’s Organic Rising | PROOF

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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 on.”

January 10, 2020
embracing the cliche – Shooting from the Hip

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At my day job, I need my work to appeal to a wide range of photographic IQs.
But, with my street work, I guess I am aiming to please the photo literate and when, I make an image that is too popular, in a weird way, I don’t feel as good as when I make an image that only photographers like.

January 10, 2020
George Steinmetz’s Eye From the Sky | PROOF

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What is it like strapping yourself into the equivalent of a leaf blower, getting a running start, then taking off into the air with a camera in your hand?

January 10, 2020
Steve Schapiro Once Upon a Time in America – The Eye of Photography

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For years, Steve Schapiro was a photographer for LIFE magazine. Francis Ford Coppola noticed Schapiro’s work in 1972 and invited him to take pictures on the set of The Godfather, then continued with The Godfather II, The Godfather III, The Great Gatsby, Taxi Driver and Chinatown, among others. Schapiro worked extensively on the subject of cultural changes in American society in the 1960s and ‘70s.

January 10, 2020
Fraction Magazine 63 Daniel W. Coburn – The Eye of Photography

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Fraction Magazine Issue 63 just released. Among the portfolios presented, here is “Waiting for Rapture” by Daniel W. Coburn

January 10, 2020
Crimson on White: Hunting the Polar Bear | TIME

Images of a Polar Bear Hunt

Poverty drives Inuit in Canada to hunt and kill polar bears

via Time: https://time.com/2891891/hunting-the-polar-bear/

Ed Ou spent four months in 2013 photographing Inuit communities in Nunavut, the northernmost territory of Canada

January 10, 2020
‘A Bad Day’: Powerful Photographs Document the Daily Life of a Woman with Bulimia – Feature Shoot

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photographer Laia Abril catalogs the day-to-day life of a 21-year-old named Jo, a woman suffering from bulimia, an eating disorder that has consumed her thoughts and dictated her behaviors

January 10, 2020
Guillem Valle: The Sea Inside « The Leica Camera

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LFI spoke to photographer Guillem Valle about the concepts of states, identity, freedom and a magical underwater world

January 10, 2020
A Familiar Destiny to Photograph the New China

A Familiar Destiny to Photograph the New China

Sim Chi Yin walked away form a comfortable reporting job to become a photographer with an interest in social issues. Her gamble paid off.

via Lens Blog: https://archive.nytimes.com/lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/07/09/vii-sim-chi-yin-china-photos-family-destiny-to-photograph-the-new-china/

Sim Chi Yin had a cushy expat life in Beijing working as a reporter for The Singapore Straits Times, writing long feature stories and sometimes taking photos. The company paid for her education at the London School of Economics in exchange for eight years of employment. She had health insurance, a pension and job security.

So why did she walk away from that after nine years?

January 10, 2020
Worth a look: Offside Brazil by Magnum and local photographers | dvafoto

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Following in the footsteps of the ongoing Postcards from America tumblr project, five Magnum photographers and five Brazilian photographers are posting daily photos to Offside Brazil.

January 10, 2020
Kitra Cahana on Hunger in America: The Suburbs | PROOF

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Kitra Cahana travelled to the suburbs of Houston, Texas, to photograph people who get by with the assistance of food pantries—meaning they often don’t have enough food, or don’t have a enough nutritious food to keep them healthy. She talks about some of her experiences in the featured video and the conversation below.

January 10, 2020
Antoine Bruy: Scrublands | LENSCRATCH

Antoine Bruy: Scrublands – LENSCRATCH

Photographer Antoine Bruy has a new body of work, Scrublands, that looks at the pull of isolation. What is it that compels human beings to move away from the pack, to live off the grid and lose track of time. His images capture a tangible sense of returning to the wild and to places of simplicity and of

via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2014/07/antoine-bruy-scrublands/

Photographer Antoine Bruy has a new body of work, Scrublands, that looks at the pull of isolation. What is it that compels human beings to move away from the pack, to live off the grid and lose track of time. His images capture a tangible sense of returning to the wild and to places of simplicity and of the earth.

January 10, 2020
Bud Glick: A photographer looks back at a decades old series about life for the Chinese residents of New York (PHOTOS).

New York City Snapshots From Chinatown in the ’80s

More than 30 years ago, Bud Glick set out to photograph the New York Chinese community as part of the New York Chinatown History Project, now the…

via Slate Magazine: https://slate.com/culture/2014/08/bud-glick-a-photographer-looks-back-at-a-decades-old-series-about-life-for-the-chinese-residents-of-new-york-photos.html

More than 30 years ago, Bud Glick set out to photograph the New York Chinese community as part of the New York Chinatown History Project, now the Museum of Chinese in America

January 10, 2020
Guillermo Cervera: Focus on Ukraine « The Leica Camera

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I always tell the story about a drawer full of Playboy magazines that belonged to my father. He was a former navy officer. Those photographs where much better than today’s Playboys. When he discovered I knew about them, he moved them away and filled the drawer with National Geographic magazines! So I kept looking at those pictures 30 years ago. There was no internet, no TV in my house so I wanted to become a photographer.

January 10, 2020