Category: Portfolios & Galleries
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Wrestling’s Daily Struggle in Guatemala – The New York Times
Wrestling’s Daily Struggle in Guatemala Although the golden age of professional wrestling has faded in Guatemala, on weekends some hard-core devotees don masks and meet at a garage turned arena. via Lens Blog: https://archive.nytimes.com/lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/12/18/wrestlings-daily-struggle-in-guatemala/ Everyone loves a winner. But as everyone knows, somebody has to lose. Indeed, for Guatemala City’s wrestlers, life itself is a…
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Top 25 News Photos of 2015 – The Atlantic
Top 25 News Photos of 2015 The past year has been a series of tumultuous news stories, from the massive migration crisis and the war and terror those migrants are fleeing, to historic images of faraway Pluto, a U.S. Supreme Court ruling supporting same-sex marriage, and widespread protests about continued inequality. via The Atlantic: http://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2015/12/top-25-news-photos-of-2015/419184/…
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We Are Surveilling (and Photographing) Your Tweets — Vantage — Medium
We Are Surveilling (and Photographing) Your Tweets We’ve scraped tweets from all across the United States. Now they’re in a book and you can peep us peeping at others. via Medium: https://medium.com/vantage/we-are-surveilling-and-photographing-your-tweets-167a490e952e We’ve scraped tweets from all across the United States. Now they’re in a book and you can peep us peeping at others.
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Lianne Milton – Song of the Quetzal « burn magazine
Lianne Milton – Song of the Quetzal Lianne Milton Song of the Quetzal This project explores the complexities of post-civil war recovery and the struggle to find peace and security from the Guatemalan Civil War among the indigenous po… via burn magazine: https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2015/12/lianne-milton-song-of-the-quetzal/ This project explores the complexities of post-civil war recovery and the struggle…
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Marvin Newman Beyond the Single Image – The New York Times
Marvin Newman Beyond the Single Image “Sequentially Sought,” an exhibition at the Howard Greenberg Gallery in Manhattan, showcases Marvin Newman’s sometimes tongue-in-cheek series from 1950s New York and Chicago. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/01/08/marvin-newman-beyond-the-single-image/?module=BlogPost-Title&version=Blog%20Main&contentCollection=Multimedia&action=Click&pgtype=Blogs®ion=Body Over the years, Marvin Newman has repeatedly fixated on everything from old women’s calves and men sprawled out on park benches, to…
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Greenland’s Endless (for Now) Landscape – The New York Times
Greenland’s Endless (for Now) Landscape The seemingly endless and frozen landscapes around Greenland’s indigenous villages are vanishing and with them, a way of life. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/01/19/greenlands-endless-for-now-landscape/?&_r=0&module=CloseSlideshow®ion=SlideShowTopBar&version=SlideCard-9&action=keypress&contentCollection=Blogs&pgtype=imageslideshow Greenland is frequently in the news these days, its melting icebergs and receding sea ice a bellwether for climate change. But when the Finnish photographer Tiina Itkonen…
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The ‘Hijacked’ Life of Migrants in Johannesburg | TIME
The ‘Hijacked’ Life of Migrants in Johannesburg Jonathan Torgovnik’s photographs highlight the squalid conditions facing African migrants in Johannesburg via Time: https://time.com/4155787/johannesburg-jonathan-torgovnik/ Jonathan Torgovnik’s photographs highlight the squalid conditions facing African migrants in Johannesburg
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After Factory Closing, Iowans Live Realities of Global Economy – The New York Times
After Factory Closing, Iowans Live Realities of Global Economy When Electrolux closed its factory in a small Iowa town, residents learned how globalization is more than just a buzzword tossed about during presidential caucuses. via Lens Blog: https://archive.nytimes.com/lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/01/28/iowa-brendan-hoffman-factory-electrolux/ Brendan Hoffman had just started photographing Iowa’s political rituals in 2011 when he went to Webster City,…
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Preston Gannaway: Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea | LENSCRATCH
Preston Gannaway: Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea – LENSCRATCH There are photographers who document people and places, and then there are storytellers who can weave narratives out of the threads of human experience, with the ability to tell stories that are below the surface and often overlooked. Preston Gannaway’s fine art sensibility…
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Tragedy in an Instant, Photographed for a Lifetime | PROOF
Link: I will continue to photograph, film, and document major points in Saleh’s life for as long as he continues to welcome me into his world. Our lives have woven together, and Saleh’s indomitable spirit continues to inspire me every day.”—Deanne Fitzmaurice
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Rosalind Fox Solomon, Inward and Out – The New Yorker
Rosalind Fox Solomon, Inward and Out In her black-and-white photographs, Fox Solomon offers intimate acquaintance with characters and subjects far and wide. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/rosalind-fox-solomon-inward-and-out Fox Solomon’s new book, “Got to Go,” is personal by both definitions. The collection’s subject matter is quite diffuse, with photographs shot over three decades, in the United…
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Greta Pratt: A Cloud of Dust | LENSCRATCH
Greta Pratt: A Cloud of Dust – LENSCRATCH History is never one-sided. It is multi layered, multi sided, complex. It is personal and it is communal. I am fascinated by the ways the past is relived on the contemporary landscape and how the story changes in the telling and with time. Photographer Greta Pratt’s work…
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Berlin : Stephen Shore, Retrospective – The Eye of Photography
Link: “I wanted to make pictures that felt natural, that felt like seeing, that didn’t feel like taking something in the world and making a piece of art out of it.” Stephen Shore
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Paris : Colin Delfosse, Out of Home – The Eye of Photography
Link: The “Escale à la Grange aux Belles” is a citizen-driven, people’s educational project, supported by the Ile de France Region. Each year there are 8 exhibitions that aim to raise awareness on social problems and deal forcefully with realities that are often unrecognised. A video portrait of the photographer, presenting his or her experience,…
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Nowhere to Go Amid Alaska’s Melting Ice – The New York Times
Nowhere to Go Amid Alaska’s Melting Ice With tides rising from climate change and with money tight, villagers on an Alaskan barrier island are unsure how, or when, they will relocate. via Lens Blog: https://archive.nytimes.com/lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/03/04/nima-taradji-alaska-climate-ice/ Alaska’s Chukchi Sea was only just starting to freeze when Nima Taradji arrived at the Inupiat village of Shishmaref last…
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New York : Meryl Meisler – The Eye of Photography
Link: Steven Kasher Gallery has inaugurated last week its new solo exhibition devoted to Meryl Meisler’s earliest work. The exhibition includes over 35 black and white prints. The photographs capture the drama and exuberance of the 1970s, when pop-psychology encouraged everyone from suburban Long Island housewives to drag queens and disco queens to self-actualize and act out.…
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10 Things to See at FotoFest Houston | TIME
10 Things to See at Fotofest Houston The nation’s longest running festival of international photography is back via Time: https://time.com/4253006/10-things-to-see-at-fotofest-houston/ The nation’s longest running festival of international photography highlights artists exploring the climate question.
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Great Britain, Strange and Familiar – The New Yorker
Great Britain, Strange and Familiar For the past forty-odd years, the photographer Martin Parr has trained his eye on all manner of British eccentricity. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/great-britain-strange-and-familiar For the past forty-odd years, the photographer Martin Parr has trained his eye on all manner of British eccentricity: our Union Jack cupcakes and mock-antique gas…
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Discover the Unsung American Female Photographers of the Past Century | TIME
The Unsung American Female Photographers of the Past Century TIME honors a selection of women trailblazers in photography via Time: https://time.com/4259851/photography-women/ TIME honors a selection of women trailblazers in photography
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Valladolid : Mike Brodie , Train and Freedom – The Eye of Photography
Link: From March 7th to April 17th Fundacion Municipal de Valladolid is presenting “Train and Freedom” by Mike Brodie in the venue of Sala San Benito. Mike Brodie is a phenomenon , a natural talented teenager, who got immediately famous through social media and was later celebrated by the art critics thanks to the two…