Category: Portfolios & Galleries
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How Robert Shults Photographed His Own Homeless Experience | PDNPulse
Link: Formerly homeless photographer Robert Shults recently explained in a Q&A with PDN the ethical and esthetic challenges of photographing homeless people, and how photographers can approach the topic in ways that dignify the subjects and elicit empathy and deeper understanding on the part of viewers.
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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…
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Caleb Stein – Down by the Hudson « burn magazine
Link: ‘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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Jeffrey A. Wolin: Pigeon Hill Portraits: Then and Now | LENSCRATCH
Jeffrey A. Wolin: Pigeon Hill Portraits: Then and Now – LENSCRATCH In the good company of film makers such as Michael Apted and photographers such as Nicholas Nixon, artists who revisit subjects over many decades, is the powerful work of Jeffrey A. Wolin. In the late 1980’s, Jeffrey began photographing the residents of Pigeon Hill,…
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A Changed Landscape for Abortion Rights in Texas – The New York Times
A Changed Landscape for Abortion Rights in Texas After access to abortion services were curtailed by Texas law, a photographer set out to document women on both sides of the debate. via Lens Blog: https://archive.nytimes.com/lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2017/08/16/a-changed-landscape-for-abortion-rights-in-texas/ Today, the fight over access in South Texas continues, with the effects of H.B. 2 not just visible in closed…
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Brendan Hoffman: Webster City | LENSCRATCH
Brendan Hoffman: Webster City – LENSCRATCH Brendan Hoffman ‘s project, Webster City, speaks, in a profound way, to America today. It’s the America that is often overlooked, often forgotten, and may have affected the outcome of our recent presidential election. What happens to a community reliant on one employer, when that company moves its business elsewhere? …
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Visa Pour l’Image: long live the reportage – The Eye of Photography
Link: The International Festival of Photojournalism in Perpignan once again takes its visitors on a world tour, offering a fresh look at the state of the planet beyond the narrative clichés often made necessary by the urgent need to document.
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Inside Afropunk — The Undefeated
Inside Afropunk Photos and words from a weekend celebration of black beauty and culture via Andscape: https://andscape.com/features/inside-afropunk/ Kholood Eid is a documentary photographer based in New York City. When not working on assignment or personal projects, she’s teaching photography to middle schoolers at the Bronx Documentary Center.
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‘This Land’: America’s beauty in photographs – The Washington Post
Perspective | ‘This Land’: America’s beauty in photographs Photographer Jack Spencer traversed the country for over a decade, capturing darkness and beauty. via Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/in-sight/wp/2017/08/18/this-land-searching-for-americas-identity-in-photographs/ There is only one flag in Jack Spencer’s photographic portrait of America. It withers under time and the elements, a symbol of bitterness instead of pride. It is at…
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Unearthing America’s Hidden History – The New York Times
Unearthing America’s Hidden History From tranquil suburban subdivisions to pastoral fields, Andrew Lichtenstein has sought out seemingly-ordinary places that in the past were scenes of struggle and conflict. via Lens Blog: https://archive.nytimes.com/lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2017/08/31/unearthing-americas-hidden-history/ Andrew Lichtenstein sees history all around, even when it’s not evident at first glance. A pastoral, sun-drenched Mississippi cotton field turns out to…
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Kent Nishimura: The States Project: Hawaii | LENSCRATCH
Kent Nishimura: The States Project: Hawaii – LENSCRATCH I happened to come across Kent Nishimura’s moving projects online while I was experiencing somewhat similar life-circumstances as the images, with an inundation of emotions and grief. It was his work that showed me not only the Heart with which we live our lives and how that…
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New Brunswick College of Craft and Design – Photographer Kelly Baker: Telling Untold Stories
About – New Brunswick College of Craft and Design NBCCD offers certificate and diploma programs in fine craft and design to learners looking to forge sustainable, create careers. Learn more. via New Brunswick College of Craft and Design: https://nbccd.ca/about/ “I went to school for a lot of years to become an anthropologist, so I became…
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A Photographer Finds Terror and Magic on the Banks of a River (NSFW) – Feature Shoot
Link: Indonesian photographer Aji Susanto Anom still carries with him the stories he heard as a child. In Javanese mythology, he says, the river is where people cast off their bad luck. When people make offerings here, evil spirits and unfortunate thoughts are thrown out into the water and left behind. At night, they linger…
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Land, Loss and Rebirth in Standing Rock – The New York Times
Land, Loss and Rebirth in Standing Rock Photos taken by Larry Towell at Standing Rock over a period of six months are being exhibited at the Visa Pour l’Image photo festival in Perpignan, France, this month. via Lens Blog: https://archive.nytimes.com/lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2017/09/04/land-loss-and-rebirth-in-standing-rock/ PERPIGNAN, France — Larry Towell watched as the remains of the main protest campsite at…
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The Faces of Bigotry: When the Hoods Come Off – The New York Times
The Faces of Bigotry: When the Hoods Come Off The pictures from Charlottesville, Va., reveal what pictures of oppression and violence generally do not: the ordinary people who typically perpetuate white supremacy. via Lens Blog: https://archive.nytimes.com/lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2017/08/21/the-faces-of-bigotry-when-the-hoods-come-off/ The photographs from Charlottesville, Va., last weekend tell multiple stories. They document a rally, “Unite the Right,” where a…
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Niki Boon – Wild and Free « burn magazine
Niki Boon – Wild and Free Niki Boon Wild and Free Grew up on a farm in rural New Zealand, with a childhood barefoot, wild and free. In part my photographic work pulls from my childhood freedoms and adventures that still exi… via burn magazine: https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2017/08/niki-boon-wild-and-free/ Grew up on a farm in rural New Zealand,…