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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 main city this weekend, offers some answers. With a theme of “Designing Futures,” and with photography featuring large-scale cinematic productions with elaborate sets, props and subjects as collaborators, the festival celebrates creative thinking in a quest for new ideas and experimental forms of storytelling.

January 10, 2020
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 lines that separate the objective from the personal are crossed and recrossed with hopes of touching down on an image that feels both near at hand and wonderfully irretrievable. For their latest print sale, the legendary photographers at Magnum scoured their extensive archives to rediscover the pictures that best capture the theme of “intimacy.”

via Feature Shoot: https://www.featureshoot.com/2015/11/magnum-photographers-reveal-their-most-intimate-photographs/

For Up Close & Personal: The Most Intimate Photographs from Magnum, more than fifty Magnum photographers have selected images, which will each be sold as signed 6×6 inch square prints

January 10, 2020
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 move and a leg is gone. Or an arm. Or an eye.

Photos by Oscar B. Castillo

January 10, 2020
‘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 over 100 US artists who took on the very ephemeral task of presenting America

January 10, 2020
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 mirror of the essential oneness of mankind throughout the world,” Steichen wrote.

January 10, 2020
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 a stone thrown into a still pool, autism displaces

via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2015/11/bruce-hall/

Bruce and Valerie have created a book of their experiences that uses words and images to tell their story. Immersed: Our Experience with Autism contains five years of writing, seven years of photography, and ten years of experiences

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
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, Tanzania, Kenya, and Somalia—whose coastlines he has documented

January 10, 2020
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 dikes that protected their rice paddy from the Bay of Bengal’s brackish waters.

January 10, 2020
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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 different from the official narrative. I remember as a kid I would go to the library and I would get biographies of Indian chiefs. I knew from a very young age that the Indians were not the bad guys. I was kind of the odd one out. I kind of would remove myself into the woodwork to watch. And it turned out to be great training to be a photographer.”

January 10, 2020
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 prior censorship on the media.

January 10, 2020
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, Allez, at Photolucida and experience

via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2015/10/erika-gentry-allez/

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, Allez, at Photolucida and experience her time-based prints in person (seeing the work online only allows for a partial experience, as the images are large and detailed). While in Europe, Erika often experiences the landscape from a train window and that sense of land and time passing fold into her examination of panoramic motion.

January 10, 2020
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 was Eisenhower, it was McCarthy, and I knew that there was an alternative narrative that wasn’t being told, that was different from the official narrative. I remember as a kid I would go to the library and I would get biographies of Indian chiefs. I knew from a very young age that the Indians were not the bad guys. I was kind of the odd one out. I kind of would remove myself into the woodwork to watch. And it turned out to be great training to be a photographer.”

January 10, 2020
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 most. Taking care of his family and photographing his two daughters growing up along the way. His latest book “The Middle of Somewhere” is a visual testament to his family dedication. This is Sam’s second book on his family, the first being “Postcards From Home”. Both essays were featured here on Burn prior, so yes we are proud.

January 10, 2020
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 out to me about his work is

via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2015/11/jerry-siegelstates-project-alabama/

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 out to me about his work is his use of color. The vibrancy and detail he captures combined with his love and nostalgia for the region creates his truly unique vision of the Black Belt.

January 10, 2020
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 in Photography and Videography at the University

via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2015/10/peter-goin-states-project-nevada/

Peter Goin is an American photographer best known for his work within the altered landscape

January 10, 2020
Fred Mortagne: Skating in L.A. « The Leica Camera

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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 Westgate.

January 10, 2020
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

January 10, 2020
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 in both Mexico and the United States. Antonio

via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2015/10/antonio-gomez-states-project-nevada/

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 in both Mexico and the United States

January 10, 2020
See the True Cost of Burmese Jade | TIME

See the True Cost of Burmese Jade

“The biggest natural resource heist in modern history.”

via Time: https://time.com/4102167/jade-mining-myanmar-burma/

The reality, as captured by Burmese photographer Minzayar Oo, is that as Burma emerges from a half-century of military dictatorship, with landmark general elections on Sunday, this precious stone is all about the Southeast Asian nation’s enduring misery.

January 10, 2020