Hunter Barnes is a documentary photographer working in America today. His photographs document aspects of American culture and communities ignored by the mainstream. Roadbook, published by Reel Art Press, is a timeless collection of Hunter’s portraits. Hunter’s artistic gaze focuses on the faces of proud and diverse groups of people who are consistently misrepresented in the modern American narrative “For years I’ve traveled with my cameras capturing moments of time with the people the road has led to me.”
Category: Portfolios & Galleries
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Hunter Barnes : Roadbook
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Mark Duffy: Vote No. 1 | LENSCRATCH
Mark Duffy: Vote No. 1 – LENSCRATCH
Politicians are on our radar these days, and Irish photographer Mark Duffy captures a humorous look at those with the desire to lead in his series, Vote No. 1. The project reminds us to look a little closer at our candidates and see beyond the heroic presentation of candidates. Vote No. 1 has been released
via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2015/11/mark-duffy-no-1-vote/
Politicians are on our radar these days, and Irish photographer Mark Duffy captures a humorous look at those with the desire to lead in his series, Vote No. 1. The project reminds us to look a little closer at our candidates and see beyond the heroic presentation of candidates
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Inside the Belgian Town at the Center of the Paris Attacks Investigation | TIME
Inside the Belgian Town at the Center of the Paris Attacks Investigation
Sebastien Van Malleghem embedded with police forces in Molenbeek, Belgium
via Time: https://time.com/4120858/inside-the-belgian-town-at-the-center-of-the-paris-attacks-investigation/
Sebastien Van Malleghem, a Belgian photographer, may have some insight. In 2011, Van Malleghem was in Molenbeek, at the start of a four-year project on law and order in his native country. “I was following police officers in what is called Brussels West, a part of the capital that is considered, by authorities, as a hotspot,” he tells TIME. “The crime rate there tends to be higher than in other neighborhoods
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Full Bleed: Labyrinth | VICE | United States
Full Bleed: Labyrinth
Jason Jaworski’s Labyrinth was created while traveling for 13 days through slums in the Philippines, accompanied by a group of little people.
Link: https://www.vice.com/en/article/wd733w/full-bleed-labyrinth-v22n12
These photos are from Jason Jaworski’s Labyrinth, a collection he created while traveling for 13 days through slums in the Philippines. He was accompanied by a gang of little people who, after finding out he was from Los Angeles, thought he was a film director because of all the equipment he had. He told them he was just a photographer, but they didn’t believe him and together they created a kind of collaborative theater
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China’s Last Communist Village | VICE | United States
China’s Last Communist Village
Nanjie used to be a shining example of communism at work. Today, it’s a fading time capsule where young Chinese nationals can indulge their ‘Maostalgia.’
Link: https://www.vice.com/en/article/yvxjmg/chinas-last-communist-village
Today the town still plays old communist theme songs on loop through its loudspeakers. It’s become a tourist attraction for Chinese nationals interested in seeing how life used to be. Australian photographer Tim Fenby spent some time there this year and spoke to VICE about life in China’s last communist village.
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Status Update: Silicon Valley in the MirrorReading The Pictures
Status Update: Silicon Valley in the Mirror
Considering Silicon Valley and the tech boom in the face of the character, diversity and the perseverance of the Bay Area.
via Reading The Pictures: https://www.readingthepictures.org/2015/12/silicon-valley-in-the-mirror/
Surveying the show, it’s too rich and multitudinous to reduce the cultures and the social currents into rich or poor, digital or analog, slick or well-worn. Still, in juxtaposing communities, physical and otherwise (in some cases, pridefully, in other cases, desperately) because two of the artists dealt directly and ironically with the tech boom, one could look at the show as “catching the light” (or the shadow) Silicon Valley casts over the entire region.
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Boundaries and Renewal in Bosnia – The New Yorker
Boundaries and Renewal in Bosnia
Ziyah Gafić’s photographs explore the invisible lines of partition that remain in Bosnia, twenty years after the signing of the Dayton Peace Agreement.
via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/boundaries-and-renewal-in-bosnia
It is at once the ingenuity and the irony of Ziyah Gafić’s photographs that they contain these invisible territorial boundaries—like Bosnia today, you can’t necessarily see the lines of partition in Gafić’s images until you pry into them a bit
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The Modern Spirits of Ebony and Jet – The New York Times
The Modern Spirits of Ebony and Jet
Images of the empty interiors at the modernist headquarters of the Johnson Publishing Company uncannily embody the spirit of the groundbreaking African-American company that occupied the building for 40 years.
via Lens Blog: https://archive.nytimes.com/lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/12/03/the-modern-spirits-of-ebony-and-jet/
Since February 2013, Barbara Karant has holed up for six hours at a time inside the former Chicago headquarters of the Johnson Publishing Company. Armed with lunch, lights, a tripod and her camera, she was there to photograph the building’s abandoned interiors.
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Portraits of the American Truck Driver | VICE | United States
Portraits of the American Truck Driver
Photographer Ryan Shorosky spent a year working as a truck driver. This is a collection of photos taken during his time on the road.
Link: https://www.vice.com/en/article/ppxvvv/us-diesel-truckin-nationals-427
I began photographing my life on the road after finishing four months of training and transitioning into the lifestyle of a long-haul truck driver, a mental and physical process aimed towards building enough experience to drive an 80,000-pound vehicle independently
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Turkey divided after a summer of blood – Correspondent
Correspondent
via Correspondent: https://correspondent.afp.com/
Suddenly, an explosion shook the square. I initially didn’t think it was a bomb and a party official on stage told the crowd it was a blast from a nearby generator and called for calm. But about 10 minutes later came a second blast, suggesting it was something much more serious.
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Fairfax photographer documents moments of hope in the Congo
Fairfax photographer documents moments of hope in the Congo
“I thought, if two friends can find each other in the middle of this and there’s laughter, then there’s hope for the Congo.”
via The Sydney Morning Herald: https://www.smh.com.au/national/fairfax-photographer-documents-moments-of-hope-in-the-congo-20151113-gkyec6.html
When Kate Geraghty visited Mugunga II internally displaced people’s camp in war-torn Congo, many of the people she photographed had lost everything. Their homes, their possessions, their loved ones. Conditions in the North Kivu camp were dire – diseases had spread and everyday more bodies were being sent to mass graves.
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Ken Light’s What’s Going On? Is a look back at American during the turbulent 1960s and ’70s (PHOTOS).
Powerful Photos From America’s 1960s and ’70s
Fourth of July celebrations can honor our nation’s founding while also reflecting on darker periods of history. In 2015, David Rosenberg wrote about…
via Slate Magazine: https://slate.com/culture/2016/07/ken-lights-whats-going-on-is-a-look-back-at-american-during-the-turbulent-1960s-and-70s-photos.html
Ken Light knew he would become a photojournalist on April 28, 1970. While studying at Ohio University, Light traveled to Ohio State University, where he photographed the student riots that took place a week before the tragic events at Kent State University.
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Paris Terror Attacks: Photographing the Aftermath
Photographing the Aftermath of Paris’ Terror Attacks
Associated Press’ Jerome Delay portrays the intense grief felt by Parisians
via Time: https://time.com/4113202/paris-attacks-jerome-delay-photography/
Associated Press photographer Jerome Delay turns his lens on the intense grief felt by Parisians
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Kourtney Roy : Enter as fiction
By traversing Route 66 – the Mother Road, as it is known in America – she captures the forgotten landscape of mythic America: “If you go to the West, take my way…”, as sung by Nat King Cole. This is the West that stirs up our nostalgia for the “road” of Easy Rider, Thelma and Louise and Baghdad Café.
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Soul Boys, Ravers, and Pillheads: Sweaty Photos of Classic British Club Culture | VICE | United States
Soul Boys, Ravers, and Pillheads: Sweaty Photos of Classic British Club Culture
We got a special selection of images from Lost in Music, an upcoming photography exhibition that charts the history of dance music and club culture in the UK.
Link: https://www.vice.com/en/article/4wbkqn/40-years-of-uk-club-culture-288
Tomorrow, London’s theprintspace are launching Lost in Music, an exhibition that charts the history of dance music and club culture with a collection of 500 images
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Meet the Christian Minorities of the Middle East | TIME
Meet the Christian Minorities of the Middle East
Two Italian reporters traveled nine countries, documenting Christian communities
via Time: https://time.com/4076766/meet-the-christian-minorities-middle-east/
Two Italian reporters traveled nine countries in four years, tracing the most ancient Christian communities in the world
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Portuguese Migrants Struggle to Find Relief in Angola – The New York Times
Portuguese Migrants Struggle to Find Relief in Angola
When Portugal’s economy hit the skids, it sparked a return migration to Angola, its oil-rich former colony. This time, the Europeans are in the subservient role.
via Lens Blog: https://archive.nytimes.com/lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/12/17/portuguese-migrants-struggle-to-find-relief-in-angola/
Joan Bardeletti, a French freelance photographer who focuses on documenting the changing dynamics of urban life across Africa, knew the time had come to visit the southwest coast and check out Angola’s new settlers.
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Japanese-Americans Imprisoned, but Unbowed, During World War II – The New York Times
Japanese-Americans Imprisoned, but Unbowed, During World War II
A photojournalist’s discovery that his father was among thousands of Japanese-Americans confined to internment camps during World War II led him to seek out survivors who had been photographed by Dorothea Lange.
via Lens Blog: https://archive.nytimes.com/lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/12/11/japanese-americans-imprisoned-but-unbowed-during-world-war-two/
Paul Kitagaki Jr. had just started out as a photographer in the late 1970s when an uncle mentioned to him that Dorothea Lange had once photographed his father and extended family waiting to board a bus in Oakland, Calif. Their destination? A temporary detention facility, one of 15 assembly centers along the West Coast, before they were sent to one of 10 permanent internment camps where 120,000 Japanese-Americans were confined after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
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Thomas Michael Alleman: The Unwinding | LENSCRATCH
Thomas Michael Alleman: The Unwinding – LENSCRATCH
Thomas Alleman has created a number of significant projects about what’s outside the front door–his focus on the ubiquitous American Apparel billboards made us consider the placement of these visual scars; his long-term project, Sunshine and Noir, finds black and white beauty on the streets of cities around the world; Dancing the Dragon’s Jaw explores the 1980’s
via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2015/12/thomas-michael-alleman-the-unwinding/
Today we go back to his beginnings as a photographer with a personal, powerful and poignant project, The Unwinding, that shows a family in decline at which Thomas had a ringside seat. This series garnered a place in the Top 50 in Critical Mass this year, and in my opinion, it is well deserved.