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.
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.”
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.”
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.
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
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?
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.
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.
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
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.
For many of our readers the story of waves of hipsters gentrifying previously undesirable neighborhoods, eventually and circumstantially pushing out the previous communities, will be a familiar one. For photographer…
via Feature Shoot: https://www.featureshoot.com/2014/08/zed-nelson/
As Nelson writes in the book’s introduction (which he calls “Hackney—A Tale of Two Cities”), “The social landscape for an underprivileged teenager growing up in Hackney, one of London’s poorest boroughs, is a million light-years away from the new urban hipsters who frequent the cool bars and expensive cappuccino cafés springing up in the same streets. These worlds co-exist side-by-side but entirely separate, creating bizarre juxtapositions of wealth and poverty, aspiration and hopelessness. This series, a work in progress, meditates on the confusion of cultures, clash of identities, and the beauty and ugliness that co-exist in the borough today.”