Category: Portfolios & Galleries
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Yangon Festival Photo 2016: Gamma, 50th anniversary exhibition – The Eye of Photography
Link: Gamma opened its first exhibition on 50 years of a photography that it had largely created, that of action and magazine photojournalism. The place chosen for this first? the other side of the world, in a country in the throes of political change: in Burma (Myanmar). The occasion? The Yangon Photo Festival, presided over…
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The Secret Lives of Amtrak Passengers – The New Yorker
The Secret Lives of Amtrak Passengers An American photographer travelled by train across the country to capture the stories of fellow-passengers during their long-haul sojourns. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/the-secret-lives-of-amtrak-passengers The photographer McNair Evans grew up in a small town in North Carolina. During the summers, he worked repairing railroad ties on a local freight…
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The Venerable Stephen Shore Shares Wisdom Through the Lens of His Latest Project | American Photo
Link: Shore journeys to the Ukraine to explore the culture photographically
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The Unseen Eye at Doug Dubois “In Good Time” at Aperture – The Eye of Photography
Link: Doug Dubois makes photographs that other photographers only wish they could make.
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Rediscovering Southern Roots – The New York Times
Rediscovering Southern Roots Amanda Greene’s images of Southern life were inspired by her return home after 17 years in Los Angeles, where what passed for “authentic” was often nowhere near what she knew. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/04/07/rediscovering-southern-roots/?&_r=0&module=Slide®ion=SlideShowTopBar&version=SlideCard-7&action=Escape&contentCollection=Blogs&slideshowTitle=Rediscovering%20Southern%20Roots¤tSlide=7&entrySlide=1&pgtype=i Amanda Greene lives with her husband and dog in Danielsville, Ga., a town of roughly 600 people between…
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These Haunting Photos Reveal Today’s Afghanistan | PROOF
Link: Australian photographer Andrew Quilty has been photographing in Afghanistan since 2013 for publications such as the New York Times, Time, and Foreign Policy. Like many of his generation, he says, Afghanistan became part of his consciousness after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, and the subsequent U.S. invasion. A first trip meant to…
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Attitude, by Mary Ellen Mark – The New York Times
Attitude, by Mary Ellen Mark Mary Ellen Mark’s subjects often projected an unusual degree of self-confidence. A new exhibit of portraits showcases her intimate relationship to the people she photographed. via Lens Blog: https://archive.nytimes.com/lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/05/05/attitude-portraits-by-mary-ellen-mark/ Mary Ellen Mark often photographed individuals who, despite being on the fringes of society, projected an unusual degree of self-confidence. They…
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Head On Photo Festival 2016 : Catherine Leutenegger – The Eye of Photography
Link: Swiss visual artist Catherine Leutenegger’s ‘Kodak City’ is an anthology that reveals what remains of Kodak as a business and looks at the impact the company’s decline has had on the inhabitants of Rochester, where Kodak’s headquarters was situated for more than a century.
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Famous in Chicago? What a Concept – The New York Times
Famous in Chicago? What a Concept Living in the Second City may have prevented Kenneth Josephson from becoming famous, but the conceptual photographer has a new book and exhibit that underscore his place as a pioneer. via Lens Blog: https://archive.nytimes.com/lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/04/20/light-of-coincidence-kenneth-josephson/ Consider Kenneth Josephson: He was a pioneer in conceptual photography and is well-regarded in the…
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Frank Ockenfels 3 : Volume 3
https://loeildelaphotographie.com/en/frank-ockenfels-3-volume-3-kk/ The Fahey/Klein Gallery presents Volume 3, a solo exhibition of works by photographer Frank Ockenfels 3. This exhibition is a celebration of Frank Ockenfels 3’s long career and an analysis into his personal collaged journals, featured in his first publication Frank Ockenfels 3, Volume 3.
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The Hidden Stories of Arab Women – The New York Times
The Hidden Stories of Arab Women Rawiya, a collective of female Arab photographers, is challenging and changing how women in the region are portrayed. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/05/12/rawiya-the-hidden-stories-of-arab-women/?&_r=0&module=Slide®ion=SlideShowTopBar&version=SlideCard-11&action=Escape&contentCollection=Blogs&slideshowTitle=The%20Hidden%20Stories%20of%20Arab%20Women¤tSlide=1 Tasneem Alsultan was browsing in a Dubai bookstore a few years ago when she found “She Who Tells a Story,” a collection of photo essays by members…
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Photo London 2016 : International Galleries – The Eye of Photography
Link: The Rochester Institute of Technology is about to send you on a journey through Light, Movement, Emotion, and Connection, as captured over the course of one year by the university’s 70 photojournalism students.
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Donato Di Camillo’s Playful New York City Street Portraits | American Photo
Link: Donato Di Camillo doesn’t come from a “traditional” photography background. He comes from prison.
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Where Is the American Dream? Stephen Speranza Documents Life in a Declining Small Town | Fotografia Magazine
Link: IN THIS INTERVIEW > 24 year-old American photographer Stephen Speranza discusses Wilmerding, a documentary photography series about a small town in Pennsylvania, USA originally built at the end of the 19th century to house the workforce of the Westinghouse Air Brake Company. The company’s progressive abandonment of the site from the 1980s on marked the…
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Honoring a Debt to Immigrant Parents – The New York Times
Honoring a Debt to Immigrant Parents Growing up in Massachusetts, Iaritza Menjivar felt pressure to succeed and honor her Central American parents’ sacrifices. Through photography, she found an unexpected answer. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/05/11/honoring-a-debt-to-immigrant-parents/?&_r=0&module=Slide®ion=SlideShowTopBar&version=SlideCard-5&action=Escape&contentCollection=Blogs&slideshowTitle=Honoring%20a%20Debt%20to%20Immigrant%20Parents¤tSlide=5 Sometimes I wonder if my parents will ever understand why I make pictures.
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Mark Cohen’s Close-Up Street Photography – The New Yorker
Mark Cohen’s Close-Up Street Photography Cohen’s work starts in the moment that most people would look away. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/mark-cohens-close-up-street-photography Cohen pioneered an aggressive, if not invasive, approach to his craft, shortening the distance between photographer and subject until heads were lost to the frame’s edge and only collar bones and clipped limbs…
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FotoFirst – Jon Horvath Looks at the American West Myth From the Small Town of Bliss | Fotografia Magazine
Link: 37 year-old American photographer Jon Harvath presents This Is Bliss, an ongoing body of work that compares the myth of the glorious American West with the reality of Bliss, a small town in Idaho with a population of 300 people
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Pistoia : Ferdinando Scianna, At Play – The Eye of Photography
Link: To play means to wage your stakes. It means putting the world into play, taking distance from it, putting it in parentheses. Or it means using the world, using reality to invent other parallel ones, which obey different, arbitrary rules, so much more definitive because they are arbitrary. Or it means reinventing ourselves, creating…
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Paris : Gil Rigoulet, England 70-80 – The Eye of Photography
Link: I was twenty. Great Britain attracted me like a distant planet. The street was the store front, and I plunged my camera into it without inhibition. I took photos for… me. I learned to take a look, find the right distance, the right moment… I looked for words, a language able to describe such…
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Selected Works: Missy Prince | Fotografia Magazine
Link: 45 year-old American photographer Missy Prince gives an overview of her captivating work—a mix of landscape photographs and pictures of small, suburban, poor American communities