Category: Portfolios & Galleries
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The Latest Camera? A Four-Door Volvo – The New York Times
The Latest Camera? A Four-Door Volvo For Barbara Davidson, using a built-in car safety camera to create a visual narrative of her surroundings on the road offered an intriguing challenge. via Lens Blog: https://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2017/07/05/the-latest-camera-a-four-door-volvo-barbara-davidson/?module=BlogPost-Title&version=Blog%20Main&contentCollection=Multimedia&action=Click&pgtype=Blogs®ion=Body Barbara Davidson has taken her latest camera out for a test drive and is ready to rumble. Is it a stealth…
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Capturing the Birth of Rock ‘n’ Roll – The New York Times
Capturing the Birth of Rock ‘n’ Roll Eddie Rocco’s photographs contain all the action of Rock’s early days and its live-in-the-moment aesthetic. via Lens Blog: https://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2017/07/06/capturing-the-birth-of-rock-n-roll-eddie-rocco/?module=BlogPost-Title&version=Blog%20Main&contentCollection=Multimedia&action=Click&pgtype=Blogs®ion=Body Eddie Rocco’s rock ‘n’ roll photos, taken in the 1950s and early 1960s for magazines like Sepia, Hep and Rhythm and Blues, seem to have had one aim: to…
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LENSCRATCH Student Prize Honorable Mention Winner: Emanuele Amighetti | LENSCRATCH
Emanuele Amighetti: 2017 LENSCRATCH Student Prize Honorable Mention Winner – LENSCRATCH I am very pleased to feature our next honorable mention whose work highlights an important world issue. Emanuele Amighetti‘s photojournalistic photographs remind his viewers of a world mostly unseen, that of oversees wars. These strong dynamic images represent a place caught between hostility, border issues and…
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A retrospective of Duane Michals at Fundación Mapfre – The Eye of Photography
Link: The American photographer Duane Michals is the subject of a retrospective exhibition on view until September 20th at Fundación MAPFRE’s Casa Garriga i Nogués exhibition space in Barcelona.
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The Best Work I Saw at the LACP Portfolio Review, Part 2 | A Photo Editor
The Best Work I Saw at the LACP Portfolio Review, Part 2 I haven’t written a Trump column in months. I was going on about him weekly, for quite some time, so I decided to take a break. It seemed healthy, as this is not, in fact, a politics blog. R… via A Photo…
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Amid Crisis, Venezuela’s Youth Wait to Live Again – The New York Times
Amid Crisis, Venezuela’s Youth Wait to Live Again As Venezuela’s political crisis deepens, young people are desperate to find a resolution to a crisis they have inherited from their elders. via Lens Blog: https://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2017/07/20/amid-crisis-venezuelas-youth-wait-to-live-again/?module=BlogPost-Title&version=Blog%20Main&contentCollection=Multimedia&action=Click&pgtype=Blogs®ion=Body Adriana Loureiro Fernández’s images of the protests and street clashes in Venezuela are dark — masked figures emerging from shadows, backlit…
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Photos of India’s Religious Hermits and Runaway Teenagers from the Streets of San Francisco and LA – VICE
Striking Photos of Religious Hermits and Runaway Teens Photographers Nishant Shukla and Jim Goldberg share their work in our annual photo issue. Link: https://www.vice.com/en/article/pabejg/photos-of-indias-religious-hermits-and-runaway-teenagers-from-the-streets-of-san-francisco-and-la-v24n6 Photographers Nishant Shukla and Jim Goldberg share their work in our annual photo issue.
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Coming of Age as a Girl in Gaza, in Photos – Feature Shoot
Coming of Age as a Girl in Gaza, in Photos Yara and her brother waiting for their father to return with schwarma as an evening treat after a recent conflict ended. Beauty is important everywhere. A girl shows off her… via Feature Shoot: https://www.featureshoot.com/2017/08/coming-age-girl-gaza-photos/ When the Istanbul-based photojournalist Monique Jacques traveled to Gaza in 2012,…
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After Combat, a Photographer and a Marine Find Common Ground – The New York Times
After Combat, a Photographer and a Marine Find Common Ground A photographer went from taking the picture of a Marine under fire to collaborating with him on a book about war and its emotional aftermath. via Lens Blog: https://archive.nytimes.com/lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2017/08/22/combat-photographer-marine-ptsd-book/ My camera shutter whirred as a rocket-propelled grenade wobbled toward Sgt. Thomas James Brennan, leader of…
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Begin Anywhere: Paths of Mentorship and Collaboration Amanda Boe, McNair Evans, Kevin Kunishi with Jason Fulford, Todd Hido, Mark Mahaney, Mike Smith & Alec Soth | LENSCRATCH
Begin Anywhere: Paths of Mentorship and Collaboration Amanda Boe, McNair Evans, Kevin Kunishi with Jason Fulford, Todd Hido, Mark Mahaney, Mike Smith & Alec Soth – LENSCRATCH On September 7th, San Francisco Camerawork opens the exhibition, Begin Anywhere. It’s a unique curation about mentorship and artistic collaboration*. Curated by Monique Deschaines, Begin Anywhere explores “the…
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Photos of War-Torn Life in Afghanistan – VICE
Australian War Photographer Andrew Quilty on Life in Afghanistan “The optimism of 2013 has gone.” Link: https://www.vice.com/en/article/paa3an/australian-war-photographer-andrew-quilty-on-life-in-afghanistan Just a few years ago, Andrew Quilty thought he’d landed his dream job. The photographer was working for a big Australian newspaper, shooting photos that would end up splashed across the front page every other day. But that…
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They Worked for America. Now These Afghans Face Violence and Poverty Here. – The New York Times
They Worked for America. Now These Afghans Face Violence and Poverty Here. Afghans who risked their lives working for the U.S. military were granted safe haven in California. Danger awaited them there as well. via Lens Blog: https://archive.nytimes.com/lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2017/09/05/they-worked-for-america-now-these-afghans-face-violence-and-poverty-here/ Their ordeal was covered by The Sacramento Bee in a touching story about the funeral that was…
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At Home and on Assignment in Guam – The New York Times
At Home and on Assignment in Guam For most of the year that Nancy Borowick has lived in Guam, no assignments had come her way. North Korea changed all that. via Lens Blog: https://archive.nytimes.com/lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2017/08/23/at-home-and-on-assignment-in-guam/ After a year of small-town American life with a twist of tropical island paradise, Nancy Borowick finally felt at home in…
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Matt McClain photographs the county fair in Missouri – The Washington Post
Perspective | Stepping away from the national stage, a photographer returns to Midwest roots Washington Post photographer Matt McClain goes back to his roots to photograph a small Midwestern town’s county fair. via Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/in-sight/wp/2017/09/05/stepping-away-from-the-national-stage-a-photographer-returns-to-midwest-roots/ Washington Post staff photographer Matt McClain often finds himself photographing some of the biggest players in politics. Earlier this…
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Western Canada: Thomas Gardiner | LENSCRATCH
Western Canada: Thomas Gardiner – LENSCRATCH Thomas Gardiner is my favourite Canadian photographer you’ve never heard of. A busy man, he doesn’t spend much time pushing his wares, although he should, because they’re really good. Like Tupperware from a trade convention, everyone could use it. A son of the Prairies, photographer Thomas Gardiner was born and…
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Pol Kurucz, Poor Billionaires – The Eye of Photography
Link: French-Hungarian photographer Pol Kurucz presents his fourth supercharged series, Poor Billionaires, inspired by the deep social void in Brazil
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The Lessons In Sergio Larraín’s Introspection – Vantage – Medium
The Lessons In Sergio Larraín’s Introspection Why a Chilean photographer quit fame in pursuit of mysticism and solitude via Medium: https://medium.com/vantage/introspection-4ce0ae3d8e48 Sergio Larraín was never quite a star. But he was a great photographer. Self taught, the Chilean picked up his camera skills during a trip through Europe in the 1950s. When he was 25,…
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Ruin and Reinvention in a Transforming Brooklyn – The New York Times
Ruin and Reinvention in a Transforming Brooklyn In “Brooklyn Photographs,” a group show at BRIC Arts, 11 photographers showcase the tension between old and new in Brooklyn’s changing neighborhoods. via Lens Blog: https://archive.nytimes.com/lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2017/09/06/ruin-and-reinvention-in-a-transforming-brooklyn/ Elizabeth Ferrer has witnessed this transformation since arriving in New York in 1980. As a vice president at BRIC Arts in downtown…
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Photographers edit photographers: Tanya Habjouqa’s provocative and mysterious images – The Washington Post
Perspective | Photographers edit photographers: Tanya Habjouqa’s provocative and mysterious images NOOR photographer Nina Berman edits the work of her colleague Tanya Habjouqa. via Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/in-sight/wp/2017/08/11/photographers-edit-photographers-tanya-habjouqas-provocative-and-mysterious-images/ This post is part of the In Sight series, “PHOTOGRAPHERS edit PHOTOGRAPHERS.” In this installment, NOOR photographer Nina Berman edits the work of her colleague, Jordanian photographer Tanya…
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Romania’s Summer Is So Hot They’re Calling It ‘Lucifer’ – VICE
Photos of Romanians Battling the Hottest Summer in Half a Century Romanian photographers capture the country’s hottest August since 1951. Link: https://www.vice.com/en/article/d33d4a/photos-of-romanians-battling-the-hottest-summer-in-half-a-century Romanian photographers capture the country’s hottest August since 1951.