Category: Portfolios & Galleries
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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…
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Sally Mann Chases Ghosts and Buries the Hatchet in New Memoir, Hold Still | American Photo
Link: Sally Mann doesn’t believe in talent. She believes in hard work. The kind of work it takes to ride unruly horses, to hoist an 8×10 camera, to constantly fend off controversy, and to write an honest book about a complicated existence.
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Valerio Bispuri: Life Behind Bars in South America « The Leica Camera
Link: A world of anarchy and chaos – correctional facilities in South America are considered among the toughest in the world. The inmates themselves are often in control of daily life within the walls of the miserably overcrowded prisons. Valerio Bispuri visited over 70 of them, resulting in haunting black-and-white images that offer a glimpse…
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Tina Barney Talks to Us About Her New Exhibition, The Passage of Time, and the True Meaning of Portraiture – Feature Shoot
Tina Barney Talks to Us About Her New Exhibition, The Passage of Time, and the True Meaning of Portraiture In decade in which we obsess over change, be it catastrophic or fortuitous, the photographs of Tina Barney continue to remind us of that which is constant. Beginning the 1980s, she has captured the world, her…
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Tanzania Burundi Refugee Crisis | AP Images Blog
Link: As a teenager Joseph Nakaha fled with his parents to neighboring Tanzania when ethnic-based fighting erupted in Burundi after independence in 1962. In 1972, he was a refugee again and then in 1993 when civil war broke out, he and his wife and grandchildren again fled the country. Now 67, Nakaha is a refugee…
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Sam Harris – The Middle of Somewhere | LensCulture
The Middle of Somewhere – Photographs and text by Sam Harris | LensCulture A celebration of childhood and family life through a collection of simple yet beautiful moments of two sisters growing up in the remote Australian wilderness via LensCulture: https://www.lensculture.com/articles/sam-harris-the-middle-of-somewhere “The Middle of Somewhere” is from my ongoing visual family diary, which revolves around…
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Shanghai : Marc Riboud’s « Windows of Liulichang » 1965-2015 – The Eye of Photography
Link: to complete this tribute to Marc Riboud, we have discovered a never-published before image that delivers the context and the perspective of this Liulichang Street. The photo shows dilapidated storefronts lining up on one side, in the middle of the road a “chauffeur” riding a tricycle-taxi, has he just picked up the son of…
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New York: Where We Live by David Graham at Laurence Miller Gallery – The Eye of Photography
Link: It is time to take greater note of David Graham’s 30 year career as a photographer with his well considered, often wry reports from “on the road” in the U.S. and his classic books: “American Beauty”, “Only in America: Some Unexpected Scenery”, ”Land of the Free: What Makes Americans Different”, “Taking Liberties” and “Declaring Independence”. This exhibition…
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The remains of Armageddon: Revisiting the sites of America’s atomic arsenal – The Washington Post
The remains of Armageddon: Revisiting the sites of America’s atomic arsenal Exploring the remains of the Cold War and nuclear arms race that are hidden in plain site across American landscape. via Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/in-sight/wp/2015/06/18/the-remains-of-armageddon-revisiting-the-sites-of-americas-atomic-arsenal/ Veteran photojournalist Jim Lo Scalzo of European Press Agency has been documenting many of these site–hidden in plain site–for the…
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The Eyes #4 : Do it yourself, Spanish culture in times of crisis – The Eye of Photography
Link: Faced with a social and economic unprecedented crisis , a cultural and institutional environment that offers too little money , the young Spanish photographers have decided to take the bull by the horns and say loud and clear : “Do it yourself ! “ Creating networks, publishing houses , and photography schools ……
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On Pointing a Handgun Directly at Ted Cruz’s Head — BagNews
On Pointing a Handgun Directly at Ted Cruz’s Head – Reading The Pictures These photographs make a point by turning the gun lobby’s central argument back onto itself. If “more guns” is your only response to rampant gun violence, then at some point a law of averages dictates that innocent people are going to end…
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Laurent Cipriani’s “Along the Road!”: A unique look at the Tour de France (PHOTOS).
The Most Exciting Part of the Tour de France Is the People Who Watch It If photographing the Tour de France doesn’t sound difficult enough, imagine doing it while riding on the back of a motorbike travelling up to 60 miles… via Slate Magazine: https://slate.com/culture/2015/07/laurent-ciprianis-along-the-road-a-unique-look-at-the-tour-de-france-photos.html If photographing the Tour de France doesn’t sound difficult enough,…
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The People by Laura El-Tantawy – The Eye of Photography
Link: Laura El-Tantawy recently released a newspaper version of her book, In the Shadow of the Pyramids. This new format offers a different experience from the book, taking away the personal narrative in favor of the words of the people. And this, in Arabic, because it’s the language of the revolution, as well as the photographer’s first language.
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Of Drought and Man in the West – The New York Times
Of Drought and Man in the West Documenting the water crisis in the West, a photographer confronts distress, beauty and man’s complicity. via Lens Blog: https://archive.nytimes.com/lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/07/07/of-drought-and-men-in-the-west/ Four photographers – Christaan Felber, Bryan Schutmaat,Jake Stangel and Michael Friberg – were enlisted by photo editors Luise Stauss and Ayanna Quint to document man’s mistakes and their consequences. Mr. Friberg, who has lived…
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Aoife Shanahan – Within the Shadows | LensCulture
Link: “Within the Shadows” is a response to being submerged in a new culture. While it is sometimes hard to ignore the alienation and disconnect often experienced in an urban setting, I try to create an alternate psychological space to occupy. The lone figure becomes an intriguing character within this space and I’m challenged to…
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Inside El Salvador’s ‘War Without Sense’ | TIME
El Salvador’s ‘War Without Sense’ Warring gangs have turned El Salvador into one of the world’s deadliest places via Time: https://time.com/3966900/el-salvador-gangs-violence/ Italian photographer Patrick Tombola, who took the photographs on these pages, has been documenting this year’s surge in bloodshed, spending time with the police, gang members and families on the front line
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Calais Migrants Endure Misery of ‘Jungle’ Camps | AP Images Blog
Link: After fleeing their homes in places like Sudan and Afghanistan, migrants gathered in the northern French port city of Calais endure another kind of misery in a huge and squalid makeshift camp or in scattered open-air outposts.
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Born to Make Photos – The New York Times
Born to Make Photos Harry Gruyaert’s father made film. He makes pictures. His credo: “I just physically jump into a situation and react to it, and see how things are working out.” via Lens Blog: https://archive.nytimes.com/lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/08/11/born-to-make-photos/ Harry Gruyaert, the Belgian photographer and member of Magnum, has been taking pictures for a long time. Long enough…
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Magnum Photos Blog
Link: The last 5 years John Vink has been revisiting some of the places and events where he took photographs 30 years ago, places which undeniably are ‘Belgian’, places and situations which are part of something which has roots going deeper than the concept of a nation