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.”
Category: Portfolios & Galleries
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Anthony Suau’s Organic Rising | PROOF
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Steve Schapiro Once Upon a Time in America – The Eye of Photography
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.
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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
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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?
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Kitra Cahana on Hunger in America: The Suburbs | PROOF
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.
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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.
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Guillermo Cervera: Focus on Ukraine « The Leica Camera
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.
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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
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Zed Nelson’s ‘A Portrait of Hackney’ Depicts the Mélange of Cultures in a Gentrifying East London Neighborhood – Feature Shoot
Zed Nelson’s ‘A Portrait of Hackney’ Depicts the Mélange of Cultures in a Gentrifying East London Neighborhood
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.”
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zhang kechun – the yellow river | burn magazine
Zhang Kechun – The Yellow River
Zhang Kechun The Yellow River ESSAY CONTAINS EXPLICIT CONTENT Zhang Kechun The Yellow River play this essay Saying that it is a song might have been a popular joke. Saying that it is our mot…
via burn magazine: https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2014/09/zhang-kechun-the-yellow-river/
Then I determined to go and follow its pace, with all my courage and my only presentable tool — a large-format camera. That is my implicit expression. I have the knowledge that mountains and rivers are nothing a photographer may properly comment on, and behaviors like growling, making a bold pledge or a plaintive complaint on the presence of such an eternal being may look inappropriate. Now, it’s the moment that I must wake up my silent soul to quietly keep watch on it flowing for seasons, to stare at it through this journey, to drink a toast to it, to sing a song for it, and to have a sleep beside it.
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Beyond 9/11: Portraits of Resilience, TIME.com
If the story of the United States has a theme so far in the 21st century, it is surely one of resilience. To hail that spirit on the 10th anniversary of September 11, 2001, TIME revisited the people who led us, moved us and inspired us, from the morning of the attacks through the tumultuous decade that followed. These astonishing testimonies — from 40 men and women including George W. Bush, Tom Brokaw, General David Petraeus, Valerie Plame Wilson, Black Hawk helicopter pilot Tammy Duckworth, and the heroic first responders of Ground Zero — define what it means to meet adversity, and then overcome it.
