Category: Portfolios & Galleries

Scott Dalton: Where the River Bends | LENSCRATCH

Scott Dalton: Where the River Bends – LENSCRATCH

Looking at work from PhotoNOLA… Photographer Scott Dalton brings a visual reality to two cities, co-joined by a bridge, economic and historical connections. Brought to light in the news and in the television show, The Bridge, Juárez and El Paso are not cities of equals–they may share a border, but not a quality of life. His

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Photographer Scott Dalton brings a visual reality to two cities, co-joined by a bridge, economic and historical connections. Brought to light in the news and in the television show, The Bridge, Juárez and El Paso are not cities of equals–they may share a border, but not a quality of life. His well-seen project, Where the River Bends, explores the realities of life on both sides of the bridge and makes us examine the idea of boundaries and borders. As Scott states, “I am also interested in the idea of the proximity and possibility of the American Dream and what that means to people on both sides of the border”.

January 10, 2020
COLORS OF ETHIOPIA – The Photo Society

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I knew that the English regarded themselves as civilized,
but it seemed to me that in many ways Ethiopia was a far more civilized place.

January 10, 2020
The Art of the Personal Project: Ryan Heffernan | A Photo Editor

The Art of the Personal Project: Ryan Heffernan

As a former Art Producer, I have always been drawn to personal projects because they are the sole vision of the photographer and not an extension of an art director, photo editor, or graphic design…

via A Photo Editor: https://aphotoeditor.com/2015/01/15/the-art-of-the-personal-project-ryan-heffernan/

Growing up in St. Helena, CA it was amazing to watch the valley transform into a massive production every harvest. I wanted to explore the contrast between wine as a luxury good and the hard labor that went on behind the scenes.

January 10, 2020
Josef Koudelka, Twelve Panoramas, at PACE McGill Gallery – The Eye of Photography

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“There is something somber and disquieting about Koudelka’s panoramas,” says Julian Cox, head curator of the Museum of Fine Arts in San Francisco.

January 10, 2020
When Your Backyard Is ‘Big Heaven,’ Love of Wildlife Is Second Nature | PROOF

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Ibex. Chamois. Ermine. Grouse. Red foxes. As a teen, Stefano Unterthiner spent countless hours observing these animals in Gran Paradiso National Park, an hour or so drive from his home in Italy. His uncle Paolo, a passionate nature lover and photography buff, would take hikes with his best friend, Luciano, a park ranger, and invite Stefano along. Together they explored the forests and valleys of this pristine piece of the Italian Alps, looking for wild animals to photograph.

January 10, 2020
Growing Up in Ecuador’s Mystical Mangroves | PROOF

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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.

January 10, 2020
Fukushima, no go zone : Carlos Ayesta & Guillaume Bression – The Eye of Photography

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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 March 11th have left their mark.

January 10, 2020
Close Up: Photographer Ben Curtis | AP Images Blog

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Ben Curtis is AP’s East Africa Photographer based in Nairobi, Kenya.

January 10, 2020
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.

January 10, 2020
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

January 10, 2020
Duane Michals : The Unknown Portraits – The Eye of Photography

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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 Gallery in New York is taking a look back at this less obvious facet of the American’s work through a large selection of photographs depicting famous people and the photographer’s friends and family. The mostly black-and-white images are developed from negatives unearthed from Michals’ archives. Many of them are being exhibited here for the first time.

January 10, 2020
Ilan Godfrey: Legacy of the Mine « The Leica Camera

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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 and dramatic consequences and impacts this larger economic machine has on the lives of people and communities and on the land. In the course of the interview, Ilan discusses how his approach evolved while working on the ground in close contact with communities and activists and gives insights of his collaborative working process.

January 10, 2020
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 Phoenician times. Off the southern Spanish coast, in the springtime, the arrival of the migrating bluefin tuna is eagerly awaited. The bluefin tuna is the wildest, fiercest variety, with the largest specimens approaching 500 kg (~1,000 lbs.). This project shows fishing in Conil, Cadiz, during the 2013 fishing season.

January 10, 2020
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 March 1965,” reminds us that not all civil rights photographs were created equal. Commemorating the 50th anniversary this month of the historic Selma-to-Montgomery marches, the exhibition features the work of three documentarians of the protests: James Barker, Spider Martin and Charles Moore.

January 10, 2020
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 an Olympus XA compact film camera, document America as seen from Prince’s car

January 10, 2020
Cologne: Reflections from the 80s by Jamel Shabazz at Hardhitta Gallery – The Eye of Photography

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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.

January 10, 2020
YPF 2015 : Fatemeh Behboudi & Nafise Motlaq, Mothers and Fathers of Iran – The Eye of Photography

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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.

January 10, 2020
Les Boutographies 2015 : Laurence Rasti, There are no homosexuals in Iran The 2015 Jury Prize – The Eye of Photography

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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 tries to give back to these people an image that their country has momentarily stolen.

January 10, 2020
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 minutes. Four years later, he came across a newspaper article explaining that a train from the disaster, still sitting where the waves had deposited it in the Sri Lankan jungle, had become a tourist attraction. Tézenas was perplexed that anyone could casually visit the remnants of the horror that he had witnessed first-hand. From this disconnect, he found inspiration: he travelled around the world to sites of historic calamity—from Rwanda and Auschwitz to Chernobyl and Dealey Plaza—to document their afterlives as destinations of so-called “dark tourism.”

January 10, 2020
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 train can feel like an eternity, making it look like one is difficult. It actually allows us to contemplate a place many of us endure on our way to more interesting things.

January 10, 2020