Category: Portfolios & Galleries
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Zheng Gangfeng, Wenzhou – The Eye of Photography
Link: Wenzhou, a small city located in the southeast corner of China, is one of the most developed regions in terms of privatized economy in the country. The “Wenzhou Model” of economic development and modernization has been well known both in China and abroad.
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Chobi Mela 2017: Arko Datto, Pik-Nik – The Eye of Photography
Link: Picnicking is far from a simple affair in eastern India. In a land where the fleeting months of December to February offer the only time to ‘enjoy’ the otherwise unbearable tropical sun, picnicking is a winter pastime that’s taken very, very seriously. This work, done between 2013 and 2015 takes a look at this…
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The Best Things We Saw at PHOTOFAIRS San Francisco | American Photo
Link: Six exhibitions that blew us away
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Magnum Photos Blog
Link: John Stanmeyer crouched under a rock on the border between Armenia and Turkey to avoid a rainstorm in April 2015. From his vantage point, he could make out the remains of a decaying, centuries-old bridge that once linked the two countries.
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Classic Photographs Los Angeles : Mmm, mmm, good – The Eye of Photography
Link: Classic Photographs Los Angeles is the comfort food of photography fairs: warm and satisfying, a kinder, gentler throwback to the hotel fairs of the early 1980’s. The Unseen Eye was there to get out of New York and to take a look, do a walkthrough and book signing. He had a yummy time. The…
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Alex Majoli, Skēnē – The Eye of Photography
Link: Italian photographer Alex Majoli documents the thin line between reality and theatre in a series of photographs, which will be on view from February 16 – April 1, 2017 at Howard Greenberg Gallery in New York. The photographs, made in Congo, Egypt, Greece, Germany, India, China, and Brazil between 2010 and 2016, explore the…
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Venezuela: Meridith Kohut Chronicles the Country’s Collapse | Time.com
A Visual Record of Venezuela’s Collapse Meridith Kohut won the Overseas Press Club of America’s Feature Photography prize via Time: https://time.com/4709051/venezuela-meridith-kohut/ Over the last four years, as Venezuela descended into economic and social chaos, Meridith Kohut, a Houston-born photographer based in Caracas, built one of the most complete photographic chronicles of the country’s collapse. Working…
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Dubai, the World’s Vegas – The New Yorker
Dubai, the World’s Vegas A frictionless layover in a non-place of a city. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/dubai-the-worlds-vegas Photography by Ben Thomas
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Alina Van Ryzin, Close ties at Bryn Mawr College for women – The Eye of Photography
Link: For three years, the American Alina Van Ryzin photographed the daily life at her women’s college and the close ties forged between her classmates at Bryn Mawr, near Philadelphia.
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The edge of the world by Sibylle Bergemann – The Eye of Photography
Link: Although she has only been rediscovered lately, Sibylle Bergemann is one of the most well-known photographers of the former GDR. Her sensitive approach to the realities of Eastern German life and her unmistakable, subjective point of view, which continuously drew new, poetically surreal images from reality, are distinctive in her work
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Looking at New Generations of African Photographers – The New York Times
Looking at New Generations of African Photographers A new generation of African artists, inspired by their predecessors and helped by technology, has been redefining how Africans look at themselves. via Lens Blog: https://archive.nytimes.com/lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2017/05/08/looking-at-new-generations-of-african-photographers/ While powerful work on lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender issues in Africa has been done by documentary photographers like Robin Hammond of…
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Feng Liu, photographer of Chicago’s melting pot – The Eye of Photography
Link: Feng Liu is a Chinese photographer who lives in Chicago. He is one of the oldest readers of the Eye of Photography. Taking pictures is his reason for living. He makes dozens of photos per day. A year ago, he created his blog. Here is the story of a passion.
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Anytown, U.S.A. — in Saudi Arabia – The New York Times
Anytown, U.S.A. — in Saudi Arabia Ayesha Malik’s new book will examine her hometown, Dhahran, a 22.5-square-mile gated community for employees of Saudi Aramco. via Lens Blog: https://archive.nytimes.com/lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2017/06/20/anytown-usa-in-saudi-arabia-ayesha-malik-aramco/ Ayesha Malik had a pretty idyllic childhood. She spent her days biking down tree-lined streets past green lawns and modest houses, going to softball practice and writing…
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Vichy : Liu Bolin, Camouflage and Confrontation – The Eye of Photography
Link: Master of camouflage, Liu Bolin uses his body to literally melt into his chosen background and produce some amazing photos. For more than ten years, this artist who seems to pass through walls has used the same modus operandi. With the help of his assistants who paint him from head to toe, he hides…
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Vichy : Stephen Shames, Power to the people – The Eye of Photography
Link: During the years 1960/70, Stephen Shames was the loyal chronicler of the “Black Panther Party”, the African-American emancipation movement that invented some radical forms of opposition. Faithful fellow traveler of the movement, during seven years Stephen Shames produced images that retraced the daily lives of a people on the move: debates, clothing and food…
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Vichy : Modds, A French portraitists’ agency – The Eye of Photography
Link: In the landscape of photographers’ agencies, Modds, founded in 2011, is unique. It is run by an unusual team of two young women activists who fiercely defend their artists—eighteen portraitists with strong personalities who continuously sweep the front pages of the most prestigious magazines, such as Vanity Fair, Figaro Madame, as well as Libération…
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Eugene Richards, master of political photography – The Eye of Photography
Link: Eugene Richards’s photographs speak to the most profound aspects of human experience: birth, death, and the grinding effects of systemic poverty. His style is unflinching yet poetic, and his photographs are deeply rooted in the texture of lived experience. Through his photographs, writings, and moving image works, Richards confronts challenging subjects with an impassioned…
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The free women of Sonja Hamad – The Eye of Photography
Link: It is said that death at the hands of a woman deters a martyr from entering paradise. One third of all Kurdish fighters in Western Kurdistan are women. Unafraid of death and fulfilled by their passion for their homeland and their love for their families and people, these women muster up the courage to…
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After a Century, Syrian Refugees Return to Armenia – The New York Times
After a Century, Syrian Refugees Return to Armenia A century ago their ancestors sought shelter in Syria after escaping the genocide perpetrated by the Ottoman Turks. Now Syrian Armenians reverse the trek. via Lens Blog: https://archive.nytimes.com/lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2017/06/27/after-a-century-syrian-refugees-return-to-armenia/ Ms. Kamay had been living in Morocco when she returned to Armenia’s capital, Yerevan, in 2015 and was quickly…
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Portrait of Santa Rosa – americanreportage
Link: Santa Rosa is dying. The town of nearly 2,800 is pressed against New Mexico’s largest freeway — once a booming destination, now a place long-haul truckers spend a night and move on.