Donato Di Camillo doesn’t come from a “traditional” photography background. He comes from prison.
Category: Portfolios & Galleries
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Pistoia : Ferdinando Scianna, At Play – The Eye of Photography
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 imaginary characters that play a different game in that parallel world compared to the other, compulsory and random game of life.
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Paris : Gil Rigoulet, England 70-80 – The Eye of Photography
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 an exotic Anglo-Saxon society.
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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 uses the city as a series of graphic shapes against which to cast solitary figures passing through that draw the eye of the viewer in towards them.
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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.
César Rodríguez wanted to be a photographer, but fear and self-doubt proved overwhelming. Instead, he threw himself into setting up a chocolate shop in his Mexican town, Tepic. It did well, letting him forget about photography.
Or so he thought.
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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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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.
“It’s like prison,” said Harry Jumonji, describing the tense environment of Freedom Zone on Eldridge Street, where he had been staying with his girlfriend for months. “You got to be high to sleep.”
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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 end of the line. The photographer’s subject is Southern California, although he is not interested in the usual myths. His eye instead turns toward the elements: fire, desert, pavement, scrub. If the volume contains a single emblematic image, it may be the first one—a hand, tattooed with seven stars across the palm, raised not in supplication but to block out the relentless glare of the sun.
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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 had just become a nominee to the esteemed Magnum photo collective and was already noted for his alienated black-and-white images capturing the American social landscape.
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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 the sky.
via Feature Shoot: https://www.featureshoot.com/2016/09/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 the sky.
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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 World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001. Later she put some of those images together in diptychs and triptychs.
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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 habitually and inevitably along dirt roads in the rural of Bács Kiskun, Békés and Csongrád counties
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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, where or even if it will manifest.
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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., supermarket. The image from 1972, by Stephen Shames, documents an initiative to protect the elderly in a crime-ridden neighborhood. It doesn’t just show community activism, it also challenges lurid media stereotypes about the organization responsible for the initiative: the Black Panther Party.
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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 is “politically salient, couched in national issues,
via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2016/08/stump-at-the-candela-gallery/
The Candela Gallery in Richmond, Virginia kicks off the season with a new exhibition, STUMP, featuring a line-up of photographic artists whose work is “politically salient, couched in national issues, or generally steeped in concerns we are all facing.”