I search to photograph people and places that carry some memory of another event and lead me, like stepping stones, back and forth in time and space, between dreams and reality. I look for visceral connections, a chemistry of sorts, an essence or spark, the spirit of the thing.
Category: Portfolios & Galleries
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Karoliina Paatos: The American Cowboy | LENSCRATCH
Karoliina Paatos: The American Cowboy – LENSCRATCH
What compels a photographer from Finland to make work about the American West? Seven years ago, Karoliina Paatos began to make photographs in Idaho, Nevada, and Oregon in search of the American cowboy. Over the years, she built a series that is at once cinematic, majestic, and intimate, using landscape and portraits to define the
via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2016/12/karoliina-paatos-the-american-cowboy/
The book itself, The American Cowboy is beautifully crafted with a sewn linen cover and an open spine revealing photographs of “found moments, found people, and found objects” gathered from years of immersion observing this unique culture that so defines man and nature
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The abstraction of reality – The Leica Camera Blog
David Adam Edelstein grew up in Hawai’i and China, and currently lives and works in Seattle, Washington with his brilliant daughter and smart, beautiful wife, neither of whom take any of his whiny artistic crap. He has had a camera with him at all times since his parents made the expensive mistake of giving him one when he was eight. He thinks sharpness is overrated and is moderately distrustful of color.
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Chobi Mela 2017: Arko Datto, Pik-Nik – The Eye of Photography
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 phenomenon.
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Classic Photographs Los Angeles : Mmm, mmm, good – The Eye of Photography
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 set up at Bonham’s was modest and handsome, a quiet setting for a collegial weekend during which two dozen veteran dealers could genuinely engage with clients and, for much of the time, with each other. The Women’s March and the torrential rains may have had a dampening effect on attendance, but the audience seemed engaged and left fully sated.
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Alex Majoli, Skēnē – The Eye of Photography
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 human condition and call into question darker elements of society. The title of the exhibition, SKĒNĒ, refers to a structure forming the backdrop of an ancient Greek theater
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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 for the New York Times, she covered the breakdown of Venezuela’s public hospitals, workers flocking to illegal gold mines, people turning to drug smugglers to get out of the country, as well as a wave of extrajudicial killings at the hands of the police and military.
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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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The edge of the world by Sibylle Bergemann – The Eye of Photography
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 New Zealand, with his project “Where Love Is Illegal,” the approach of liberal Western media can reinforce the notion that homosexuality in Africa is a “perversion” of traditional African values introduced by foreigners, or a colonial legacy that imposed European religious conservatism and rails against such relations as “unnatural.”
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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 fan letters to Leonardo DiCaprio. It would have been fairly standard Norman Rockwell Americana — if it hadn’t taken place in an enclosed compound in Saudi Arabia operated by the world’s largest oil company.
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Vichy : Liu Bolin, Camouflage and Confrontation – The Eye of Photography
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 in supermarket shelves, the door of a safe, a pile of coal, a newspaper kiosk display. This rare retrospective of his work enables the public to discover his spectacular images, which are also works of resistance. In becoming this “invisible man” who shows up where he is not expected, Liu Bolin affirms his stubborn and insubordinate presence in a world that tends to deny the uniqueness of everyone’s destiny.
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Vichy : Stephen Shames, Power to the people – The Eye of Photography
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 distributions, protest demonstrations, confrontations, funerals… After that, for twenty years, Stephen Shames documented life in the Bronx