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”.
Category: Portfolios & Galleries
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Paris vs Shanghai, Mirrors between East and West – The Eye of Photography
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Hiroshi Okamoto – Recruit « burn magazine
Hiroshi Okamoto – Recruit
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.
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World-Class Photojournalism, at Home in the South Bronx – The New York Times
World-Class Photojournalism, at Home in the South Bronx
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.
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Winning the White House – From press prints to selfies – The Eye of Photography
“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.”
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The unforgettable images of legendary photographer Bruce Davidson – The Washington Post
The unforgettable images of legendary photographer Bruce Davidson
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.”
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FotoFirst — Philipp Gallon, a German in the US, Shows Us the Face of Rural America | FotoRoom
FotoFirst — Philipp Gallon, a German in the US, Shows Us the Face of Rural America
As a European, Philipp Gallon found that much of America is very different than what the US is typically portrayed like in movies and TV shows.
via FotoRoom: http://fotoroom.co/anthology-common-conversation-philipp-gallon/
37 year-old German photographer Philipp Gallon presents his outsider’s view of contemporary America in An Anthology of Common Conversation
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Bill Yates, Sweetheart Roller Skating Rink – The Eye of Photography
The photographer’s iconic series of gelatin silver photographs were shot in 1972-1973 and for nearly 40 years, the project lay untouched in a box. At his family’s urging, Yates began to show the work and was met with immediate success, becoming a top 50 winner 2013 of PhotoLucida Critical Mass Award
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Todd Hido’s “Intimate Distance” – The New Yorker
Todd Hido’s “Intimate Distance”
Hido’s images are sumptuous and full of things to look at, but they suggest untold tales and possibility.
via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/todd-hidos-intimate-distance
The photographs gathered in Todd Hido’s new book, “Intimate Distance,” were made over the course of the last twenty-five years. During that time, Hido has worked on several substantial groups of pictures, often simultaneously, photographing landscapes, byways, signs, suburbia, interiors, fabrics, and faces
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FotoFocus, An alternative understanding of the documentary photograph – The Eye of Photography
it might be forgiven if not every last one of the thousands of images presented quite fit the biennial’s theme, “the Undocument,” which is meant to explore, according to biennial literature, “alternative understandings of the documentary photograph—its claims to objective realism and simultaneous potential for pure fantasy.
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Simon Kossoff: The States Project: Kansas | LENSCRATCH
Simon Kossoff: The States Project: Kansas – LENSCRATCH
Simon Kossoff is my neighbor. He lives in Lawrence, Kansas: a quaint but progressive college town situated at the base of Mount Oread, home to the University of Kansas. Kossoff lives in the Sunflower state but finds his inspiration on the road. I discovered his work two years ago and was immediately stricken by its
via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2016/10/simon-kossoff-the-states-project-kansas/
When Kossoff moved to Kansas City in 2008, he immediately embarked on a series of photographic road trips in an attempt to plot what he has described, as a collection of psychic coordinate points, between the American that he brought with him from England and the America which he was discovering on his explorations
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On the Ground in Hurricane-Wrecked Haiti | TIME
On the Ground in Hurricane-Wrecked Haiti
“Everything is broken and scattered for as far as the eye can see,” says Andrew McConnell
via Time: https://time.com/4526988/haiti-hurricane-matthew-andrew-mcconnell/
Irish photographer Andrew McConnell was in the Haitian capital, Port-au-Prince, for an assignment about education when forecasters started to track a powerful hurricane forming off of the coast of the Caribbean island. Colleagues he was with decided to leave—they were already due to fly out—but he opted to stay.
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Tales from the Cold Wilderness of the Russian Far North – Feature Shoot
Tales from the Cold Wilderness of the Russian Far North
Elena Anosova pays an unusual and meticulous attention to textures.
via Feature Shoot: https://www.featureshoot.com/2016/11/tales-from-the-cold-wilderness-of-the-russian-far-north/
Elena Anosova pays an unusual and meticulous attention to textures. Their feature throughout her project, Out-Of-The-Way, is striking and varied; the patterns of a wallpaper not quite the same as the icing sugar rush of falling snow, a lacelike net curtain creating a different visual effect than a roiling cloud of mist above a landscape. Of her textural focus, she explains: “there are many lifestyle details that immerse the viewer… My approach is one of the additional strokes that tells the story of this place, its state of being frozen in time and space.”
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A Taxi Driver’s Photos of New York – The New York Times
A Taxi Driver’s Photos of New York
Ryan Weideman, a photographer who took a taxi shift to make ends meet, turned his camera on his fares during the 1980s and ’90s.
via Lens Blog: https://archive.nytimes.com/lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/11/10/a-taxi-drivers-photos-of-new-york/
The inside of a New York taxicab is a place where the public realm blurs with the private, especially on the overnight shift. People fight, make love, eat takeout, throw up, fall asleep, concoct plans for world domination or a good night’s sleep. Many act as if the driver is not there. Ryan Weideman, a photographer who drove a taxi shift to make ends meet, decided to let them know that he was
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Nancy Baron, Palm Springs: The good life goes on – The Eye of Photography
The dreamy Palm Springs vibe washes over the traveler at the first sight from land or air of the vast wind mill farm sprouting from the Southern California desert, surrounding the town like guards at the gate to paradise. Their whirling blades seem to clear the air, invoking a strong shift in sense of place.
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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