Category: Portfolios & Galleries

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 in the West for the last decade, thought he knew the issues facing the Colorado River. He soon discovered he was wrong.

January 10, 2020
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

January 10, 2020
Calais Migrants Endure Misery of ‘Jungle’ Camps | AP Images Blog

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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.

January 10, 2020
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 to have been friends — and colleagues — with Henri Cartier-Bresson, with whom he shared a philosophy of photography.

January 10, 2020
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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

January 10, 2020
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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

January 10, 2020
Wanderlust-Inspiring Views From Swampy’s Year Riding the Rails | American Photo

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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 recently released photobook, NBD. “It lacks the stress of being corralled by commerce and advertisements, like on the streets and highways where capitalism anticipates people will accumulate.”

January 10, 2020
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,” photographer Rena Effendi tells TIME.

January 10, 2020
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a photography and video commission started in 2013 with the work of Alessandra Sanguinetti, Alex Majoli, Jonas Bendiksen, Olivia Arthur and Gueorgui Pinkhassov

January 10, 2020
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

January 10, 2020
Perpignan 2015 : ANI’s picks, Albert Bonsfils – The Eye of Photography

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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. I figured I would find hundreds of soldiers and huge fences but found myself facing a lonely and isolated border.

January 10, 2020
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 Huneault encountered a stunned population. Burning oil had torched city streets, melting underground pipes and exploding manhole covers, while liter upon liter of leaked oil gushed into the Chaudière River and seeped into the city’s ground soil. Forty-seven of the town’s 6,000 residents died.

January 10, 2020
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 eight-member international jury for the LensCulture Emerging Talent Awards 2015

January 10, 2020
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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.

January 10, 2020
How Does It Feel To Have 10 Magnum Photographers Document Your Town? | American Photo

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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.

January 10, 2020
Bologna : Foto/Industria 2015 Hong Hao – The Eye of Photography

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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 with one’s life trace.

January 10, 2020
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Seemingly classical in style, Bruno Barbey’s work holds a special place in the recent history of photography

January 10, 2020
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

January 10, 2020
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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

January 10, 2020
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 hard pressed to figure out just how to illustrate something rooted in a thicket of secretive corporations that — on paper, at least — were based in tax havens. Nondescript post office boxes were not exactly the stuff of great images.

January 10, 2020