Category: Portfolios & Galleries
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Magnum Photos Blog
Link: MeloniNew Magnum photographer Lorenzo Meloni returned to the Kurdish Syrian town of Kobane in February and then again in August this year to document the civilian population trying to rebuild their devestated home
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Wanderlust-Inspiring Views From Swampy’s Year Riding the Rails | American Photo
Link: It was the “absence of a price tag” that initially sparked Swampy’s interest in hopping trains as a teenager, but a decade later the elusive artist says he continues to travel by rail because of the solitude. “There is a calm to the environment surrounding the tracks,” he writes in the intro of his…
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Discover Migrants’ Journey to Europe Through Macedonia | TIME
Discover Migrants’ Journey to Europe Through Macedonia The Greek-Macedonian border offers safer passage for thousands of migrants via Time: https://time.com/3999133/balkan-migrants-refugees-europe/ The bodies were strewn across the meadow, the grass they lay in glowing gold in the dawn light. “It looked like one of those Renaissance paintings of battlefields, except they were all alive and sleeping,”…
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Magnum Photos Blog
Link: a photography and video commission started in 2013 with the work of Alessandra Sanguinetti, Alex Majoli, Jonas Bendiksen, Olivia Arthur and Gueorgui Pinkhassov
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Rediscovering Albania: A Photographer’s Tribute to His Homeland | TIME
Rediscovering Albania: A Photographer’s Tribute to His Homeland. Albanian photographer Enri Canaj revisits his motherland via Time: https://time.com/4023940/albania-photos/ Albanian photographer Enri Canaj revisits his motherland
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Perpignan 2015 : ANI’s picks, Albert Bonsfils – The Eye of Photography
Link: Six Points explores the relations between China and North Korea in several Chinese border cities which are bathed by the waters of the Yalu and Tumen rivers, a natural border between the two countries.This is my personal experience while working there I noticed how different this border looks, from the DMZ in South Korea.…
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Making New Memories in the Aftermath of a Quebec Train Disaster – The New York Times
Making New Memories in the Aftermath of a Quebec Train Disaster Michel Huneault photographed the train explosion in Lac-Mégantic and then returned to document how the small village coped. He has received the Lange-Taylor Prize from Duke University’s Center for Documentary Studies for the project. via Lens Blog: https://archive.nytimes.com/lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/09/21/making-new-memories-in-the-aftermath-of-a-quebec-train-disaster/ Arriving within a day, photographer Michel…
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Christian Werner – 74: The Yazidis’ Plight | LensCulture
74: The Yazidis’ Plight – Photographs and text by Christian Werner | LensCulture Threatened by genocidal violence from the Islamic State, the Yazidi people are desperately struggling not just for their religious identity—but their very existence via LensCulture: https://www.lensculture.com/articles/christian-werner-74-the-yazidis-plight Christian Werner is one of the 50 best emerging photographers for 2015, as voted by the…
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Magnum Photos Blog
Link: Editions lamaindonne presents the work of Ljubiša Danilovic in this book entitled Le Desert Russe (The Russian Desert). As the author explains, “By 2050, Russia will have lost a third of its current population. The largest country in the world will then have just a hundred million citizens.
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How Does It Feel To Have 10 Magnum Photographers Document Your Town? | American Photo
Link: In 2012, ten Magnum photographers descended on Rochester, N.Y. for three weeks. To the group, Rochester looked like the perfect place to continue its Postcards from America project, where a set of photographers headed out to create an archive of a place in a short time frame.
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Bologna : Foto/Industria 2015 Hong Hao – The Eye of Photography
Link: My Things. The project that I started in 2001 is a photography series created by scanning objects. I’ve been working on this project for 12 years. 12 years, in the Chinese traditional concept, represents the period of transmigration in cycles of different fates and destinies. The process of producing works for this series is an assignment associated…
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James Nachtwey: The Journey of Hope | TIME
James Nachtwey: The Journey of Hope From the wine-dark waters of the Aegean Sea to the back roads of the Balkans via Time: https://time.com/4065597/james-nachtwey-the-journey-of-hope/ From the wine-dark waters of the Aegean Sea to the back roads of the Balkans, James Nachtwey documents the dangerous passage
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Magnum Photos Blog
Link: This is John Vink’s second of a 12 part project, produced in collaboration with ‘The Cambodia Daily’, about the wide-ranging subject of rice in Cambodia. His comprehensive exploration will address such issues as seasonal growing cycle, religion, research, tradition, commerce, social and economic impact, climate change issues and more
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India’s Rising Tides and Temperatures – The New York Times
India’s Rising Tides and Temperatures Ghoramara and its sister islands in the Bay of Bengal are vanishing, their shoreline borders shifting, shrinking and sinking with rising temperatures and tides. via Lens Blog: https://archive.nytimes.com/lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/11/12/indias-rising-tides-and-temperatures/ Jordi Pizarro had hardly reached the muddy banks of Ghoramara Island when he stumbled across a family struggling to hold up the…
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Magnum Photos Blog
Link: Growing up as a young Jewish boy In Iowa Jeff Jacobson was always drawn to uncovering an alternative history. “I was born in 1946, so I grew up in the ‘50s,” says Jacobson. “It was Eisenhower, it was McCarthy, and I knew that there was an alternative narrative that wasn’t being told, that was…
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Life flourishes amid political chaos in Central Africa’s Chad – The Washington Post
Life flourishes amid political chaos in Central Africa’s Chad One photographer’s quiet portrait of an African society in the midst of political upheaval. via Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/in-sight/wp/2015/11/12/life-flourishes-amid-political-chaos-in-central-africas-chad/ While the Chadian constitution defends the freedom of expression, the government has regularly restricted this right, and at the end of 2006 began to enact a system of…
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Erika Gentry: Allez | LENSCRATCH
Erika Gentry: Allez – LENSCRATCH I’ve had the great pleasure to get to know Erika Gentry over the years. She has been an active board member of SPE in California, a passionate educator, and dedicated Francophile, returning to France each summer to teach workshops and make work. I was able to see Erika’s new project,…
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Seeing Politics: Rediscover Jeff Jacobson’s Alternative Approach to Political Photography | TIME
Discover Jeff Jacobson’s Alternative Approach to Political Photography Seeing Politics is TIME’s new series on the 2016 campaign via Time: https://time.com/4097619/politics-photography-jeff-jacobson/ Growing up as a young Jewish boy In Iowa Jeff Jacobson was always drawn to uncovering an alternative history. “I was born in 1946, so I grew up in the ‘50s,” says Jacobson. “It…
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Sam Harris – The Middle of Somewhere « burn magazine
Sam Harris – The Middle of Somewhere Sam HarrisThe Middle of SomewhereSam Harris is an uncommon man. He’s at home more than most. Taking care of his family and photographing his two daughters growing up along the way. His latest… via burn magazine: https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2015/11/sam-harris-the-middle-of-somewhere-2/ Sam Harris is an uncommon man. He’s at home more than…