As Latin America and the Caribbean say goodbye to another year, The Associated Press offers a look back at some of the most interesting happenings of 2015 through the eyes of the region’s photojournalists.
Category: Portfolios & Galleries
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Alessandro Penso is TIME’s Pick for Photo Story of the Year | TIME
Alessandro Penso is TIME’s Pick for Photo Story of the Year
The Italian photographer explains what motivated him to stick with the story
via Time: https://time.com/4139666/alessandro-penso-photo-story-of-2015/
The Italian photographer explains what motivated him to stick with the story
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2015: The Year in Photos, May-August – The Atlantic
2015: The Year in Photos, May-August
As the year comes to a close, it’s time to take a look back at some of the most memorable events and images of 2015, starting with the months of May through August.
via The Atlantic: http://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2015/12/2015-the-year-in-photos-may-august/419655/
Among the events covered in this essay (the second of a three-part photo summary of the year): Rohingya migrants fleeing Burma, the end of David Letterman’s Late Show, the demolition of Candlestick Park, the birth of the U.K.’s Princess Charlotte, wildfires in California, and much more
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MuCEM : I Love Panoramas – The Eye of Photography
This exhibition originated in an exchange between the two curators, Laurence Madeline and Jean-Roch Bouiller. It started with a text message, “I love panoramas” (a phrase spoken by Jean Dujardin in the French spy movie OSS 117) which crossed one of their phones like a flash of lightning. Familiar to artists, this flash of lightning is some little detail, an epiphany that engenders the work: in this case, an exhibition.
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The Sellers Way: Lessons on Life, Love, and Connectedness | PROOF
Matt Eich: One day, while wandering a small village in southeastern Ohio, I stumbled on a rugged-looking man and his two sons cleaning up muddy dirt bikes at a car wash. Most of the folks I had encountered up until this point were incredibly distrustful of outsiders, so I was immediately drawn in by his open demeanor. He seemed just as curious about me as I was about him.
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Daoud Aoulad-Syad : Retrospective – The Eye of Photography
The power of his images come from a detail, a gesture, an expression or an attitude. He has never set out to seek poetry; he doesn’t need to wait for it or watch out for it. His instinct is always alert. His love for the art of photography opens the way to an imperceptible imaginary. The everyday he reveals is constantly in motion. Most of the time, it would escape our attention in the blink of an eye. Fortunately, Daoud is among us, there with us.
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TIME Picks the Top 10 Photos of 2015 | TIME
Here are the 10 Most Important Photos of 2015
Carefully culled from thousands, TIME selects the best photos of the year
via Time: https://time.com/4145154/top-10-photos-2015/
Each photograph selected for TIME’s Top 10 photos of 2015, carefully culled from thousands and presented here unranked, reflects a unique and powerful point of view that represents the best of photojournalism this year.
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Cyril Marcilhacy – The Village « burn magazine
Cyril Marcilhacy – The Village
Cyril Marcilhacy The Village Brann du Senon, former homeless, former biker, ex-con and eternal rebel, decided to change his life two years ago. After an eventful existence and several heart-attacks…
via burn magazine: https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2015/12/cyril-marcilhacy-the-village/
Brann du Senon, former homeless, former biker, ex-con and eternal rebel, decided to change his life two years ago. After an eventful existence and several heart-attacks, he became a housing rights activist, bought a field in Fontainebleau forrest, 80 kilometers away from Paris, some old caravans he accommodated, and organized a community to host homeless people. Since then, men – and some women – thrown into the streets, come relax in this improvised village. The aim is to provide them with shelter and food to enable them to consider more serenely reintegration.
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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.
Over the years, Marvin Newman has repeatedly fixated on everything from old women’s calves and men sprawled out on park benches, to sewer covers and mannequin heads sporting hats.
“I saw one or two and thought, ‘Gee whiz, this really could be something so special if you really zero in on it
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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.
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 first visited the massive Arctic island in 1995, no one spoke of such things. Instead, she was fascinated by the indigenous Inuit and Inughuit cultures, and the impossible hues of an endless landscape. She was so intoxicated by the colors that she gave up shooting in black-and-white.
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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, where Tim Pawlenty, the former Minnesota governor seeking the Republican nomination, had a campaign stop at a golf course. At the event, Mr. Hoffman, learned that Webster City’s largest employer, Electrolux, had recently closed its local factory. Mr. Hoffman decided to take a step back from the campaign trail to explore the effects of that economic setback on Webster City and its residents.
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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 elevates her storytelling into cinematic stills, each image insightful and adding to
via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2016/02/preston-gannaway-between-the-devil-and-the-deep-blue/
Preston Gannaway’s fine art sensibility elevates her storytelling into cinematic stills, each image insightful and adding to the plot line. For 15 years, she has focused on intimate stories about American families and marginalized communities while addressing themes such as gender identity, class and our relationship to the natural world. The series featured today, Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea, examines the culture of the Chesapeake Bay in Virginia.
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Paris : Colin Delfosse, Out of Home – The Eye of Photography
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, aesthetic point of view, the direction of his or her approach and the major challenges presented by the project, supports each exhibition.
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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 December. Situated on a narrow barrier island, Shishmaref was founded over 400 years ago as a seasonal fishing settlement. Cold weather and natural ice barriers used to protect the shore, but now the municipal village, home to some 600 residents, faces the immediate threat of inundation.
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New York : Meryl Meisler – The Eye of Photography
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. The photographs drift between the kitsch-filled rooms of Meisler’s hometown in Long Island to the gritty clubs and streets of disco-era New York.
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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 States and twenty foreign countries