Category: Portfolios & Galleries
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A rare look at daily life in North Korea – Feature Shoot
A rare look at daily life in North Korea The Hands That Rock the Cradle. We tend to see a “classic” media narrative on North Korea. These children sitting under the Leaders’ portraits in the playroom of a provincial… via Feature Shoot: https://www.featureshoot.com/2016/09/rare-look-daily-life-north-korea/ Prior to his first visit to North Korea back in 2014, the…
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Maria Gruzdeva, Border – The Eye of Photography
Link: BORDER is a journey along the Russian border, the longest national border in the world, which spans over 60,000 km. This book will take you on a unique trip from the warm regions of the Caucasus to the extreme cold of the North – to the Russian temporary ice base Barneo, drifting into the…
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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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Greece: Thousands of Migrants, Refugees Trapped After Influx
Trapped in Greece Thousands of migrants and refugees remain stranded after the historic influx via TIME.com: https://time.com/refugees-migrants-stranded-in-greece/ He was among thousands stranded at a squalid encampment there since officials in Macedonia, the focus of Issa’s gaze, had closed the crossing before his family could soldier on the well-trodden path through the Balkans into Western Europe…
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15 Photoville Exhibitions We Can’t Wait to See – Feature Shoot
15 Photoville Exhibitions We Can’t Wait to See © Sophie Gamand There’s nothing like Photoville. For New York City’s single largest annual photography event, United Photo Industries has repurposed over sixty shipping containers, transforming them into miniature art… via Feature Shoot: https://www.featureshoot.com/2016/09/15-photoville-exhibitions-cant-wait-see/ There’s nothing like Photoville. For New York City’s single largest annual photography event,…
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Candy and Poison – The New Yorker
Candy and Poison For her portrait series “Icons,” Parker Day photographed New York d.j.s, models, and club kids from social media. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/portfolio/candy-and-poison Parker Day grew up hanging around her father’s comic-book shop, in San Jose. There were certain shelves, the ones with explicit comics by the likes of R. Crumb, that…
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Photographing Lagos, ‘As Much an Experience as a Place’ – The New York Times
Photographing Lagos, ‘As Much an Experience as a Place’ Robin Hammond set out to document Lagos, a teeming metropolis where “intimacy and exclusion, love and hate, laughter and insult regularly rub shoulders” on its streets. via Lens Blog: https://archive.nytimes.com/lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/09/22/photographing-lagos-as-much-an-experience-as-a-place/ Robin Hammond: I have been an outsider most of my life. As an immigrant or photographer…
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Marissa Roth: My War | LENSCRATCH
Marissa Roth: My War – LENSCRATCH Photojournalist and documentary photographer Marissa Roth has a long photographic legacy of documenting the effects of war. She recently put down her camera to curate an unusual exhibition that shares personal photographs and stories of Vietnam veterans. The exhibition, My War: Wartime Photographs by Vietnam Veterans, contains 72 images…
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They Say New York Is Overphotographed. He Disagrees. – The New York Times
Photographing New York’s Streets, Where ‘Everything Feels New’ Andre Wagner gave up his dream of playing professional basketball to capture the streets of New York with his camera, seeking out moments to make “images that you could never plan for.” via Lens Blog: https://archive.nytimes.com/lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/09/15/they-say-new-york-is-over-photographed-he-disagrees/ Growing up in Omaha, Andre Wagner dreamed of playing professional basketball…
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Paris vs Shanghai, Mirrors between East and West – The Eye of Photography
Link: A priori there is nothing common between Paris and Shanghai. Bringing together these two different cities may seem surprising but the confrontation through images seemed particularly interesting because I worked for several years on a project called “Black Light”. It’s a series of books on iconic cities with the spirit of a “crime thriller”.
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Hiroshi Okamoto – Recruit « burn magazine
Hiroshi Okamoto – Recruit Hiroshi Okamoto Recruit “I want to die.” During February 2013, this e-mail was sent by my best friend in my university, who was doing his job-hunting then. In Japan, more than half a mi… via burn magazine: https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2016/09/hiroshi-okamoto-recruit/ “I want to die.” During February 2013, this e-mail was sent by my…
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World-Class Photojournalism, at Home in the South Bronx – The New York Times
World-Class Photojournalism, at Home in the South Bronx When the Bronx Documentary Center opened five years ago, Manhattan-centric curators scoffed. Not anymore. From Eugene Richards to emerging talents, the B.D.C. has created a diverse and dedicated community of photographers. via Lens Blog: https://archive.nytimes.com/lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/09/25/world-class-photojournalism-at-home-in-the-south-bronx/ When Eugene Richards opens his next exhibit, it will not be at…
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Winning the White House – From press prints to selfies – The Eye of Photography
Link: “While professional press photographers continue to cover every campaign stop for major media outlets like their predecessors, they are now joined by thousands of amateur photographers,” adds Susan Carlson, Assistant Curator of ICP and van Dijk’s co-curator for Winning the White House. “With the rise of smart-phone technology and the rapid rate at which…
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The unforgettable images of legendary photographer Bruce Davidson – The Washington Post
The unforgettable images of legendary photographer Bruce Davidson Davidson’s work has been collected in a new retrospective book. via Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/in-sight/wp/2016/09/15/the-unforgettable-images-of-legendary-photographer-bruce-davidson/ Photographer Bruce Davidson was shooting scenes of urban poverty on East 100th Street in New York, when a woman asked him why he was there. When he said he was shooting images of…
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FotoFirst — Philipp Gallon, a German in the US, Shows Us the Face of Rural America | FotoRoom
FotoFirst — Philipp Gallon, a German in the US, Shows Us the Face of Rural America As a European, Philipp Gallon found that much of America is very different than what the US is typically portrayed like in movies and TV shows. via FotoRoom: http://fotoroom.co/anthology-common-conversation-philipp-gallon/ 37 year-old German photographer Philipp Gallon presents his outsider’s view of…
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Juxtapoz Magazine – Stacy Kranitz’s “Speak Your Peace” published by Here Press
Juxtapoz Magazine – Stacy Kranitz’s “Speak Your Peace” published by Here Press Stacy Kranitz has developed an extensive body of work over the past six years while she has been living and working in the Appalachian mountains of No… Link: https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/photography/stacy-kranitz-s-speak-your-peace-published-by-here-press/ Stacy Kranitz has developed an extensive body of work over the past six years…
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In Conversation: The Photographs of Alice Austen and Christine Osinski | LENSCRATCH
In Conversation: The Photographs of Alice Austen and Christine Osinski – LENSCRATCH Although the world has changed dramatically over the past century, there are some things that have remained very much the same. A new exhibition makes that point with a series of photographs by two photographers who captured daily life on Staten Island one…