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.
Category: Portfolios & Galleries
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Paris : Gil Rigoulet, England 70-80 – The Eye of Photography
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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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The 2016 Last Days of Summer Exhibition | LENSCRATCH
The 2016 Last Days of Summer Exhibition – LENSCRATCH
As Labor Day weekend kicks off, which for me officially means the sorrowful end of lazy, golden summer days, we celebrate the last shreds of vacations spent with a wonderful offering of SIX pages of your photographs. Thank you as always for sharing your work and for reading Lenscratch. We have some fun and thoughtful
via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2016/09/the-lenscratch-last-days-of-summer-exhibition/
As Labor Day weekend kicks off, which for me officially means the sorrowful end of lazy, golden summer days, we celebrate the last shreds of vacations spent with a wonderful offering of SIX pages of your photographs. Thank you as always for sharing your work and for reading Lenscratch.
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Aaron Blum – A Guide To Folk Taxonomy « burn magazine
Aaron Blum – A Guide To Folk Taxonomy
Aaron Blum A Guide To Folk Taxonomy Appalachia pulls at me like a haunted memory. It is a place of nebulous forests, moss blankets and dark corners where secrets are kept and folklore thrives. Huma…
via burn magazine: https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2016/09/aaron-blum-a-guide-to-folk-taxonomy/
Appalachia pulls at me like a haunted memory. It is a place of nebulous forests, moss blankets and dark corners where secrets are kept and folklore thrives.
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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 semi-nomadic Australian photographer Fabian Muir’s preconceptions were much the same as everybody else’s; it’s difficult to disassociate the country from its leaders, missile tests, prisons, military parades, the famine of the 1990s or “notions of robotic factory workers who never smile”, emphasizes Fabian.
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Maria Gruzdeva, Border – The Eye of Photography
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 Arctic Ocean in proximity to the North Pole; from Kaliningrad Oblast – an exclave of Russia, its westernmost territory, to the eastern territories on the shore of the Pacific Ocean.
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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 all there, from the migrant crisis to wardrobe confrontations on French beaches to Patrick Fallon’s unavoidably gorgeous Instagram photo from King’s River
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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 from five of the most recent graduating classes at
via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2016/09/the-future-perfect/
This exhibition curated by Yola Monakhov Stockton (Lead Curator), Joana P. Cardozo, Elena Hermosa, and Rick Schatzberg, features 128 works from 26 artists and explores the role of photography and imaging technology in marking time, expressing authority and reach, and addressing human, social, and personal concerns
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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 like at the camera store check out counter, and we can pretty much guarantee it’s nothing like yours. That’s because Di Camillo developed his passion for photography behind bars.
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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.