Category: Portfolios & Galleries
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A Wide, Yet Intimate, View of Cuba – The New York Times
A Wide, Yet Intimate, View of Cuba While on assignment in Cuba, Angel Franco used a Widelux camera to work close to people while capturing a feeling of space. via Lens Blog: https://archive.nytimes.com/lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/10/26/a-wide-yet-intimate-view-of-cuba/ Angel Franco has been a staff photographer for The New York Times since 1986. He worked on assignment in Cuba in 1994…
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African Photography Comes of Age With Lagos Photo Festival – The New York Times
African Photography Comes of Age With Lagos Photo Festival This year’s Lagos Photo Festival goes beyond traditional photojournalism to explore how conceptual work can offer a deeper exploration of the issues facing the continent. via Lens Blog: https://archive.nytimes.com/lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/10/23/african-photography-comes-of-age-with-lagos-photo-festival/ The work on show at the sixth edition of the Lagos Photo Festival, which opens in Nigeria’s…
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Magnum Photographers Reveal Their Most Intimate Photographs – Feature Shoot
Magnum Photographers Reveal Their Most Intimate Photographs Intimacy plays a strange and precarious role in photography; seeing another person, place, or happening through a lens can either necessitate distance or almost unbearable closeness. When it comes to the relationship between a photographer and his or her subject, the space between is unfixed and murky; the…
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A Legacy of Land Mines in Colombia – The New York Times
A Legacy of Land Mines in Colombia The locals call them “leg breakers,” but that’s an understatement. The land mines that dot Colombia’s mountainsides do far more damage. via Lens Blog: https://archive.nytimes.com/lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/10/28/a-legacy-of-landmines-in-colombia/ The locals call them “leg breakers,” but that’s an understatement. The land mines that dot Colombia’s mountainsides do far more damage. One wrong…
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‘Mossless’ Is Taking America’s Picture | VICE | United States
‘Mossless’ Is Taking America’s Picture Ahead of their IPF show, we spoke to ‘Mossless’ photobook founder Romke Hoogwaerts about the enduring presence of print. Link: https://www.vice.com/en/article/yvxkpj/mossless-is-taking-americas-picture For the past six years, Romke Hoogwaerts and Grace Leigh’s publication Mossless has profiled emerging photographers online and in print. Their most recent issue—the third if you’re keeping count—featured…
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A ‘Family of Man’ Reunion – The New York Times
A ‘Family of Man’ Reunion To commemorate the 60th anniversary of the groundbreaking exhibit, the Museum of Modern Art has come out with a reissue of “The Family of Man,” its best-selling publication. via Lens Blog: https://archive.nytimes.com/lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/10/29/a-family-of-man-reunion/ “It was conceived as a mirror of the universal emotions in the everydayness of life — as a…
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Bruce Hall: Immersed: Our Experience with Autism | LENSCRATCH
Bruce Hall: Immersed: Our Experience with Autism – LENSCRATCH Autism is not subtle. It is not vague. It pervades everything, surfaces everywhere. It blends into the woven strands of life, of reality, attaching itself so swiftly and completely that the entire world seems recast, reformed, reimagined, rewritten. No space, no concept is left untouched. Like…
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Avoiding Taxes, Legally, Offshore – The New York Times
Avoiding Taxes, Legally, Offshore A new book looks at the baroque — and sometimes absurd — world of offshore tax havens. via Lens Blog: https://archive.nytimes.com/lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/11/03/avoiding-taxes-legally-offshore/ The collapse of Enron, with its web of offshore companies, got Paolo Woods talking with a photo editor. As big as the story was, the editor told him, he was…
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Life Along the Mosquito Coast – The New Yorker
Life Along the Mosquito Coast Like an archeologist, Guillaume Bonn has the urge to seek out and preserve whatever amounts to a legacy of the past in East Africa. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/guillaume-bonn-life-along-the-mosquito-coast Guillaume Bonn has called that eastern African coast the Mosquito Coast, because of the malarial curse shared by the four countries—Mozambique,…
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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…
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Jerry Siegel: States Project: Alabama | LENSCRATCH
Jerry Siegel: States Project: Alabama – LENSCRATCH Today, I am excited to share Jerry Siegel‘s images of the Black Belt region in Alabama. I first became acquainted with his work through The Do Good Fund, a collection of Southern photography, in which both of us have work. One of the main things that immediately stood…
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Peter Goin: States Project: Nevada | LENSCRATCH
Peter Goin: States Project: Nevada – LENSCRATCH Peter Goin is an American photographer best known for his work within the altered landscape. His work has been shown in over fifty museums nationally and internationally and he is the recipient of two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships. Goin is currently a Foundation Professor of Art…
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Fred Mortagne: Skating in L.A. « The Leica Camera
Link: Renowned skateboarding film-maker and photographer, Fred Mortagne, alias French Fred, set out to capture this urban sport with the new Leica SL. Shooting on location at the industrial canals and concrete bed of the Los Angeles River he staged the Element skateboard team with Nick Garcia, Nassim Guammaz, Alex Lawton, Dominick Walkera and Brandon…
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See Iran Coming Out of the Shadows | TIME
See Iran Coming Out of the Shadows Photographer Newsha Tavakolian takes us through the looking glass via Time: https://time.com/4098457/see-iran-coming-out-of-the-shadows/ Photographer Newsha Tavakolian takes us through the looking glass
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Antonio Gomez: States Project: Nevada | LENSCRATCH
Antonio Gomez: States Project: Nevada – LENSCRATCH Antonio Gomez is a photographer based in Las Vegas, Nevada, who teaches at the College of Southern Nevada. We both attended the Palm Springs Photo Festival in 2012, and he introduced me to his series entitled Charro. These photographs document the Charreria, which is a culture, tradition, sport and art practiced…