Category: Portfolios & Galleries
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Step into the Bold Graphic of London’s streets – Feature Shoot
Step into the Bold Graphic of London’s streets In Rupert Vandervell’s Geometrix, the city of London is fiercely rendered in black and white. via Feature Shoot: https://www.featureshoot.com/2016/07/step-into-the-bold-graphic-of-londons-streets/ In Rupert Vandervell’s Geometrix, the city of London is fiercely rendered in black and white. Investigating “the juxtaposition between the urban background and the human form,” the series…
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Picking Tobacco Under an Unforgiving Sun in Mexico – The New York Times
Picking Tobacco Under an Unforgiving Sun in Mexico César Rodríguez has been documenting the plight of Huichol tobacco workers in Mexico, who have toiled for years exposed to the elements and chemicals. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/08/09/picking-tobacco-under-an-unforgiving-sun-in-mexico/?&_r=0&module=Slide®ion=SlideShowTopBar&version=SlideCard-4&action=Escape&contentCollection=Blogs&slideshowTitle=Picking%20Tobacco%20Under%20an%20Unforgiving%20 César Rodríguez wanted to be a photographer, but fear and self-doubt proved overwhelming. Instead, he threw himself into setting…
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Tyler Haughey photographs motels in his series “Ebb Tide.”
The Historic Midcentury Modernist Motels of the New Jersey Coast Staying overnight at one of the more than 150 motels in the Wildwoods can feel like traveling back in time. via Slate Magazine: https://slate.com/culture/2016/08/tyler-haughey-photographs-motels-in-his-series-ebb-tide.html Staying overnight at one of the more than 150 motels in the Wildwoods can feel like traveling back in time.
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Photographer Documents Her Brother’s Battle with Schizophrenia – Feature Shoot
Link: Growing up alongside her older brother Raymond in Southwest Florida, photographer Kathryn E Harrison often felt as though her sibling was living a half life.
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New Flophouses: Chinatown’s Internet Cafes – The New York Times
New Flophouses: Chinatown’s Internet Cafes Amid a housing crisis, the Lower Manhattan businesses serve as an unlikely safety net, where people pay as little as $7 a night for a roof over their heads. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/08/19/new-flophouses-chinatowns-internet-cafes/?&_r=0&module=Slide®ion=SlideShowTopBar&version=SlideCard-6&action=Escape&contentCollection=Blogs&slideshowTitle=New%20Flophouses%3A%20Chinatown%E2%80%99s%20Internet%20Ca “It’s like prison,” said Harry Jumonji, describing the tense environment of Freedom Zone on Eldridge Street, where…
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Earth, Air, Fire, Water: Our Twitter/Instagram Favs of the Week – Reading The Pictures
Earth, Air, Fire, Water: Our Twitter/Instagram Favs of the Week – Reading The Pictures The elements are all there in our social media roundup, from the Mediterranean to King’s River to Vegas. And of course, Election ’16 continues to generate plenty of heat. via Reading The Pictures: https://www.readingthepictures.org/2016/09/water-fire-social-media-favs/ Earth, air, fire, water. The elements are…
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The Future Perfect at ICP and Photoville | LENSCRATCH
The Future Perfect at ICP and Photoville – LENSCRATCH “Like writing, photography is a tool adaptable to literary and prosaic ends, suited to eulogize, lambaste, control, scandalize, foster intimacy, or remind us of our shared ethical core.” – Yola Monakhov Stockton, Lead Curator of The Future Perfect The Future Perfect, a new exhibition featuring work…
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After Years in Prison, Man Emerges a Talented Street Photographer
After Years in Prison, Man Emerges a Talented Street Photographer Donato Di Camillo’s “how I got into photography” story is different. You won’t hear it’s like at the camera store check out counter, and we can pretty via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2016/09/12/years-prison-man-emerges-talented-street-photographer/ Donato Di Camillo‘s “how I got into photography” story is different. You won’t hear it’s…
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From Boston to the world – The Leica Camera Blog
Link: Magnum photographer Constantine Manos has taken epic images that have long trascended in the minds of those who love photography.
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Visa pour l’image 2016 : Frédéric Noy, Ekifire half-dead – The Eye of Photography
Link: For a number of years, Frédéric Noy has been recording the lives of LGBTI people in East Africa, victims of social ostracism regardless of the legal situation in the country concerned.
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Southern California, End of the Line – The New Yorker
Southern California, End of the Line Gregory Halpern’s “Zzyzx,” which takes its title from an unincorporated parcel of the Mojave desert, portrays desolation and beauty of an unforgiving sort. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/southern-california-end-of-the-line Gregory Halpern’s new photo book, “Zzyzx,” operates like a road map, or a set of road maps, leading viewers to the…
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Capturing Complexity and Color in Mexico – The New York Times
Capturing Complexity and Color in Mexico A book and exhibition feature the lush, multilayered photographs of Alex Webb — works that represent over 40 trips throughout Mexico. via Lens Blog: https://archive.nytimes.com/lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/09/06/capturing-complexity-and-color-in-mexico/ When Alex Webb first walked across the bridge from El Paso to Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, in 1975, he was a 23-year-old hotshot photographer. He…
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These Drone Photos Will Inspire You to Explore the World (Sponsored) – Feature Shoot
These Drone Photos Will Inspire You to Explore the World (Sponsored) Offset Artist Karolis Janulis always wanted wings, to see the world not as humans see it but as the birds do. The self-taught Lithuanian photographer plunged headlong into drone photography when the DJI Phantom hit the market, but his intended destination has always been…
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Capturing a City’s Emotion in the Days After 9/11 – The New York Times
Capturing a City’s Emotion in the Days After 9/11 In the aftermath of the attacks on the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001, Nina Berman documented the feelings — including loneliness, danger, love and sensitivity — of New York City. via Lens Blog: https://archive.nytimes.com/lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/09/07/capturing-a-citys-emotion-in-the-days-after-911/ Nina Berman photographed the aftermath of the attacks on the…
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Simon Móricz-Sabján – Mud Country « burn magazine
Simon Móricz-Sabján – Mud Country Simon Móricz-Sabján Mud Country The number of dirt roads is amazingly high in Hungary. Many people live habitually and inevitably along dirt roads in the rural of Bács Kiskun, Békés and Csongrád co… via burn magazine: https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2016/09/simon-moricz-sabjan-mud-country/ The number of dirt roads is amazingly high in Hungary. Many people live…
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In the Mediterranean: Leisure and Landscapes, Crisis and Conflict – The New York Times
In the Mediterranean: Leisure and Landscapes, Crisis and Conflict Nick Hannes’s fascination with the Mediterranean led him to traverse the region making pictures whose details spoke metaphorically about the political and economic upheaval of recent years. via Lens Blog: https://archive.nytimes.com/lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/08/31/in-the-mediterranean-leisure-and-landscapes-crisis-and-conflict/ Coincidence is a hallmark of Nick Hannes’s work, even though he isn’t always sure how,…
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Reconsidering the Black Panthers Through Photos – The New York Times
Reconsidering the Black Panthers Through Photos A book and exhibit document the complexities of the Black Panther Party, a storied group that the F.B.I. once deemed “the greatest threat to the internal security of the country.” via Lens Blog: https://archive.nytimes.com/lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/09/08/reconsidering-the-black-panthers-through-photos-stephen-shames/ A black man helps an older African-American woman as she shops in an Oakland, Calif.,…
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STUMP at the Candela Gallery | LENSCRATCH
STUMP at the Candela Gallery – LENSCRATCH We are gearing up for an “interesting” Fall, filled with politics not-as-usual and a campaign that will surely sully an institution once held in some regard. The Candela Gallery in Richmond, Virginia kicks off the season with a new exhibition, STUMP, featuring a line-up of photographic artists whose work…
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Photo Shanghai: Marc Riboud’s photography – The Leica Camera Blog
Link: Arts Program Director and Curator Lorène Durret has been working with Riboud for seven years and provides on behalf of Marc Riboud, thoughts on his experience, photography and Photo Shanghai.
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Migrants’ Last Hope: A Rescue on the Mediterranean Sea | TIME
Migrants’ Last Hope: A Rescue on the Mediterranean Sea Photographer Lynsey Addario followed the MV Aquarius rescue team via Time: https://time.com/4472165/migrants-last-hope-a-rescue-on-the-mediterranean-sea/ Photographer Lynsey Addario followed the MV Aquarius’ rescue team