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
Category: Portfolios & Galleries
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Wanderlust-Inspiring Views From Swampy’s Year Riding the Rails | American Photo
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.”
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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
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.
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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 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.
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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 eight-member international jury for the LensCulture Emerging Talent Awards 2015
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Bologna : Foto/Industria 2015 Hong Hao – The Eye of Photography
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.
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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
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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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.
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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 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
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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 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.
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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, Tanzania, Kenya, and Somalia—whose coastlines he has documented
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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 dikes that protected their rice paddy from the Bay of Bengal’s brackish waters.
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Magnum Photos Blog
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.”
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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 prior censorship on the media.