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.
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.
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.”
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
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.
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.
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.”
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
At the Silver Gull Beach Club in Breezy Point, Queens, George Etheredge documented how some New Yorkers whiled away leisure time at their summertime idyll.
via Lens Blog: https://archive.nytimes.com/lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/09/01/cabanas-daiquiris-and-squabbles-life-at-a-new-york-beach-club/
As attentions turn to the start of another school year and the approach of short, cold days, we take a look at the work of George Etheredge, who this summer has been documenting the club — “part of a disappearing world of private waterfront clubs in New York City” — alongside the Times reporter Corey Kilgannon.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
“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
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.