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
Category: Portfolios & Galleries
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Vichy : Stephen Shames, Power to the people – The Eye of Photography
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Vichy : Modds, A French portraitists’ agency – The Eye of Photography
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 and the Inrocks
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The free women of Sonja Hamad – The Eye of Photography
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 face the heavily armed IS in Syria. One of their most recent victories includes the recapturing of the City of Kobane in northern Syria from the IS. These women refuse to succumb to the patriarchal view of the role of women that regards women as objects, trapped in their homes, and upholding the family’s honor. It is without exaggeration to say that one could describe the current Kurdish feminist movement viewed from a military, ideological, and organizational perspective as the world’s strongest movement on behalf of the rights of women. This series by Sonja Hamad entitled Jin – Jiyan – Azadi (Women, Life, Freedom) pays them homage.
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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.
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 let the good times roll. Not for him the brooding pose, the soulful gaze, the glimpse into the inner life of the creative artist. His was an aesthetic of action: hips swinging, pipes roaring, fingers popping, taffeta crumpling. Even when his subjects were lying down, as in his shot of the Carolina fireball Esquerita recumbent at a Texas diner (slide 2), they’ve got bounce by the ounce.
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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 loss. Amighetti’s photographs show the life of people who have been displaced through
via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2017/07/lenscratch-student-prize-honorable-mention-winner-2/
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 loss. Amighetti’s photographs show the life of people who have been displaced through the tragedies of war for over two decades.
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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 captivated by the stories of Syrian Armenians she met in her neighborhood and through volunteer work with the nonprofit Armenian Redwood Project. Last year, she teamed up with an Armenian freelance photographer, Anush Babajanyan, to share those narratives with the world.
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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.
Barbara Davidson has taken her latest camera out for a test drive and is ready to rumble. Is it a stealth Leica? An extravagant Hasselblad? An ascetic Sony?
No. It’s a four-door Volvo XC60.
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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.
Photographers Nishant Shukla and Jim Goldberg share their work in our annual photo issue.
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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 Editor: https://aphotoeditor.com/2017/08/04/the-best-work-i-saw-at-the-lacp-portfolio-review-part-2/
It’s the end of July in a place known as “The Ultimate Rocky Mountain Hideout,” the tiny town of Carbondale, Colo., tucked beneath the soaring mountains just north of Aspen. Winter sports and the cold snows are absent. Summer around here is considered “Cowboy Christmas,” when the landscape is dotted with homegrown rodeos that have cowboys and crowds wandering from one small town to another.
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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.
Adriana Loureiro Fernández’s images of the protests and street clashes in Venezuela are dark — masked figures emerging from shadows, backlit by flames or wrapped in swirls of tear gas. People flash a gun or a knife, or show off stones that would soon be launched at police. She gets up close, which is bold considering she once had a fear of crowds. Still, she has gotten used to pushing herself, physically and emotionally, as she witnesses the political chaos that continues to upend her homeland.
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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, she expected to see evidence of violence and war, and she did. But she also saw something else: pieces of herself as a preteen, teenager, and young woman, mirrored in the many girls who called this place their home. Over the course of five years, she came back to tell their stories, compiled in the upcoming book Gaza Girls: Growing Up in the Gaza Strip.
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How Robert Shults Photographed His Own Homeless Experience | PDNPulse
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Western Canada: Elyse Bouvier | LENSCRATCH
Western Canada: Elyse Bouvier – LENSCRATCH
One of my supervisors in Toronto said I should talk to this girl who is doing her MFA thesis on Chinese Westerns in Alberta. As someone budding to be an expert in the representation of rural communities in Western Canada I thought, ‘brilliant!’ This was Elyse Bouvier, a Calgary photographer who ended up exploring, in great detail,
via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2017/08/western-canada-elyse-bouvier/
One of my supervisors in Toronto said I should talk to this girl who is doing her MFA thesis on Chinese Westerns in Alberta. As someone budding to be an expert in the representation of rural communities in Western Canada I thought, ‘brilliant!’ This was Elyse Bouvier, a Calgary photographer who ended up exploring, in great detail, the very essence of rural food culture. Since then I’ve photographed, exhibited, and collaborated with Elyse, we are currently working on a project that looks at interesting and alternative gems in Alberta. We’ve had many conversations on food, culture, photography representation and identity in Western Canada. She was also part of the Imaginations special edition I co-edited where she collaborated with Dr. Lilly Cho on a piece called Recalibrating Intimacy. Note: The below conversation took place late one night over distant bourbons in Calgary, Ab and Mundare, Ab. For many communities in Western Canada it is hard to bridge the gap of distance.
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Caleb Stein – Down by the Hudson « burn magazine
‘Down by the Hudson’ is an ongoing project, a record of Caleb’s walks and interactions – mostly along a 3-mile strip of Main Street – in Poughkeepsie, NY. Poughkeepsie is a small city – population around 32,736. Approximately 19% live below the poverty line. Recent years have brought a great deal of economic hardship to this lively, character-filled place. Some people attribute this to the downsizing of IBM’s local headquarters. Others say that fault lies with the Poughkeepsie Galleria Mall, or the additions to the highway system, both of which have de-emphasized the role of Main Street. Some blame local colleges – Vassar, Marist, the Culinary Institute – for their lack of engagement with the community. In any case, Poughkeepsie is still a beautiful, resilient city with beautiful, interesting people. Lots to learn from them, no question about it.
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Western Canada: Valerie Zink | LENSCRATCH
Western Canada: Valerie Zink – LENSCRATCH
I’ve known Valerie Zink’s since I was working on my book Out West (2014) and was looking for photographers who had photographed rural Saskatchewan. In the Canadian province three times the size of the United Kingdom I only found three. This is a common theme of good documentary photography in Western Canada – its hard to come
via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2017/08/western-canada-valerie-zink/
I’ve known Valerie Zink’s since I was working on my book Out West (2014) and was looking for photographers who had photographed rural Saskatchewan. In the Canadian province three times the size of the United Kingdom I only found three. This is a common theme of good documentary photography in Western Canada – its hard to come by. Raised in rural Alberta, like a bunch of us who ‘moved on’ temporarily, she adopted the camera as a mechanism for understanding the prairies. She was part of the Imaginations special edition – North by West – that I co-edited as she collaborated on a piece called Placing Nostalgia: Affect and Photography in the New Saskatchewan with Vera Saltzman (images) and Jon Petrychyn (words).
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Photos tell intimate stories of human despair, loss and ultimately, resilience in Latin America – The Washington Post
Photos tell intimate stories of human despair, loss and ultimately, resilience in Latin America
Photographer Jon Lowenstein edits from fellow NOOR photographer Sebastian Liste’s archive.
via Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/in-sight/wp/2017/08/28/photos-tell-intimate-stories-of-human-despair-loss-and-ultimately-resilience-in-latin-america/
The next installment of In Sight’s series “PHOTOGRAPHERS edit PHOTOGRAPHERS” pairs NOOR photographers Jon Lowenstein and Sebastian Liste. In this installment, American photographer Lowenstein has made selections from Spanish photographer Liste’s body of work from South America. Here’s what Lowenstein wrote about his colleague’s work. It has been lightly edited for clarity:
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Wayne Levin: The States Project: Hawaii | LENSCRATCH
Wayne Levin: The States Project: Hawaii – LENSCRATCH
Wayne Levin and I met very briefly during a group exhibition where he was sharing a space to show his work with the South Kona Artist Collective at SKEA [ Society for Kona’s Education and Art ] on Big Island. I came to know Wayne’s work a little better over the following two years, having
via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2017/08/wayne-levin-the-states-project-hawaii/
For the past 12 years I’ve been compelled to photograph schooling fish, focusing on Akule (Big Eyed Scad–Selar crumenophthalmus). These images were taken at Kealakekua Bay and Keauhou Bay on the Kona Coast of the Island of Hawaii, and Waimea Bay on Oahu’s North Shore.