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…
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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.
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.
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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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.
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 she was not allowed to browse, so she would dream up her own stories inspired by the covers of the forbidden works
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 in the countries where I have lived and worked, I have not truly belonged. I’ve been a foreigner for so long that I don’t really know anything else. It has become part of who I am.
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 by 22 Vietnam veterans (with more
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Photojournalist and documentary photographer Marissa Roth has a long photographic legacy of documenting the affects of war. She recently put down her camera to curate an unusual exhibition that shares personal photographs and stories of Vietnam veterans
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 in New York and becoming the toast of the town.
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”.
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…
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“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.
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 a Chelsea gallery or a major Midtown museum. It will be at a location that he much prefers: the Bronx Documentary Center.
“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 images are released on social media, the 2016 campaigns are seeing an even greater demand for visual content. This provides us with a timely opportunity to explore photography’s significant role in elections. We look forward to continuing the dialogue with the Mana Contemporary incarnation of the show.”
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 the ghetto, she responded, “What you call a ghetto, I call my home.”