Category: Portfolios & Galleries
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Growing Up in Ecuador’s Mystical Mangroves | PROOF
Link: very muddy jungle gym.” That’s how photographer Felipe Jácome describes the soaring mangrove trees in Cayapas Mataje Mangrove Reserve in northwestern Ecuador. Their roots, twisted and gnarly and towering, are the fantasy of any child who grew up climbing trees, playing house in their roots and swinging from their branches.
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Fukushima, no go zone : Carlos Ayesta & Guillaume Bression – The Eye of Photography
Link: The more than 80,000 residents who evacuated the areas surrounding the Fukushima nuclear plant have all felt the temptation to return to their homes, schools or businesss. And they have all struggled to recognize these familiar places turned hostile. The years of absence, the rodents, and the effects of the earthquake and tsunami of…
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Close Up: Photographer Ben Curtis | AP Images Blog
Link: Ben Curtis is AP’s East Africa Photographer based in Nairobi, Kenya.
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A Lost Soviet Tribe, Scattered by Stalin’s Whim — Vantage — Medium
A Lost Soviet Tribe, Scattered by Stalin’s Whim After 70 years, a Georgian Muslim minority has yet to return from forced deportation. via Medium: https://medium.com/vantage/a-lost-soviet-tribe-scattered-by-stalin-s-whim-ad169fb83360 After 70 years, a Georgian Muslim minority has yet to return from forced deportation
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Bela Doka – Fan Club Putin | LensCulture
LensCulture – Contemporary Photography Discover and share the best in contemporary photography via LensCulture: https://www.lensculture.com/articles/bela-doka-fc-putin They spend hours chatting on the internet about their hero and even go to university wearing Putin T-shirts. I was really shocked at how they could feel such intense love for him.
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Duane Michals : The Unknown Portraits – The Eye of Photography
Link: Duane Michals’s poetic body of work, celebrated for its existential series, is filled with portraits shot both on commission and as part of his personal exploration of the genre. However, they represent only a small part of his oeuvre, appearing here and there in books and magazines. The current exhibition at the DC Moore…
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Ilan Godfrey: Legacy of the Mine « The Leica Camera
Link: Born in Johannesburg in 1980, Ilan Godfrey is a South African photographer who devoted himself to an extensive photographic project on the mine, which is central to understand present-day South Africa and its history. This in-depth work gave birth to a book in 2013, “Legacy of the Mine“, where he especially questioned the entangled…
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Antonio Gonzalez Caro – Garum | LensCulture
Garum – Photographs and text by Antonio Gonzalez Caro | LensCulture Every springtime, off the coast of southern Spain, fishermen gather to catch the bluefin tuna—the fiercest and most dangerous variety—using the ancient practice of “Almadraba via LensCulture: https://www.lensculture.com/articles/antonio-gonzalez-caro-garum “Almadraba” is the name given to a type of ancient fishing art that has existed since…
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Documenting Selma, From the Inside – NYTimes.com
Documenting Selma, From the Inside The best-known images of the civil rights era were often dramatic and shocking, intentionally so, to jar a nation into action. But James Barker provided a quieter, insider’s perspective to the daily struggle. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/03/02/documenting-selma-from-the-inside-2/?module=BlogPost-Title&version=Blog A timely new show at the Steven Kasher Gallery in New York, “Selma…
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Juxtapoz Magazine – Selektor Issue III: Missy Prince
Juxtapoz Magazine – Selektor Issue III: Missy Prince [Prince] takes the tradition of the American road trip down by a semi-tone and invents an everyday road trip. Not an ego trip, not a drive-through per… Link: https://www.juxtapoz.com/photography/selektor-issue-iii-missy-prince/ In their third publication, French publisher Selektor features Portland-based American artist Missy Prince. The images, all shot on…
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Cologne: Reflections from the 80s by Jamel Shabazz at Hardhitta Gallery – The Eye of Photography
Link: Hardhitta Gallery is presenting its first exhibition of American photographer Jamel Shabazz through March 29th, 2015. The exhibition Reflections from the 80s will showcase eighteen photographs of New York City’s street vibes over the course of the decade.
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YPF 2015 : Fatemeh Behboudi & Nafise Motlaq, Mothers and Fathers of Iran – The Eye of Photography
Link: Two Iranian woman photographers reinterpret each in her own way the enduring Motherly love for lost sons and of the towering Fatherly figure above daughters.
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Les Boutographies 2015 : Laurence Rasti, There are no homosexuals in Iran The 2015 Jury Prize – The Eye of Photography
Link: Hundreds of Iranian homosexual refugees transit by Denizli, a small Turkish town, where they put their lives on hold while waiting to find a country where they can freely live their sexuality. In this context of uncertainty, where anonymity is the best protection, this work questions the fragile notion of identity and gender. It…
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The Allure of Dark Tourism – The New Yorker
The Allure of Dark Tourism The French photographer Ambroise Tézenas travelled the world to document sightseers at Auschwitz, Chernobyl, and other disaster sites. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/the-allure-of-dark-tourism The French photographer Ambroise Tézenas was travelling in Sri Lanka when the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami struck, killing more than thirty thousand people on the island within…
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Your Commute Is Beautiful, and Adam Magyar Can Prove It — Vantage — Medium
Your Commute Is Beautiful, and Adam Magyar Can Prove It Techno-inspired portraits from our invisible moments. via Medium: https://medium.com/vantage/your-commute-is-beautiful-and-adam-magyar-can-prove-it-44bbc5b235ab Maybe that’s why Adam Magyar’s work is so impactful. Using eye-grabbing photographic techniques, he stretches the fleeting moments spent in these interstitial spaces into sprawling, meditative strips of film and video. Even though waiting for the…
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Germany: Service by Platon at Jablonka Galerie – The Eye of Photography
Link: “Service” took many weeks to develop but Platon’s enthusiasm for the project never faltered. He rose to each photographic challenge, no matter what difficulties a shoot presented. Like a house being built, stone by stone, the photographs were crafted into a sequence of spreads that in the end added up to an exceptional essay.…
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David De Vleeschauwer – Searching for a Human Side in North Korea | LensCulture
Searching for a Human Side in North Korea – Photographs by David De Vleeschauwer | LensCulture A portrait of “the Hermit Kingdom”—a photographic effort to pierce the veil of mutual misunderstanding and find something human beneath the grandiose propaganda and widespread misinformation via LensCulture: https://www.lensculture.com/articles/david-de-vleeschauwer-searching-for-a-human-side-in-north-korea Lost in this sea of misunderstanding are, of course, the…
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Tracing the Dark Roots of Border Smuggling | PROOF
Link: Very few photographers have the gift of finding beauty within conflict. Photographer Dominic Bracco II believes that it’s important to humanize the individuals involved in violent confrontations. One of his photographs in particular illustrates this principle—a striking image of a murdered man and pregnant woman embracing in a dark vehicle in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico.…
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Worth a look: The Groundtruth Project and Foreverstan | dvafoto
Link: Groundtruth has published their most recent project, Foreverstan, a current and nuanced look at the United States’ longest war. There’s an introduction video embedded above, but the project website is really worth a look
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Contemporary Iranian Photography : Babak Kazemi – The Eye of Photography
Link: once something is posted or uploaded onto Facebook it becomes Facebook’s property. So if the original photographer uploaded the photo first onto Facebook and then others have taken it from there and uploaded it to their pages or profiles, this is legal and within policy, there’s nothing I can do about it unfortunately even…