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.
Category: Portfolios & Galleries
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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 Wounded Knee, the site of the bloody oppression of the Lakota Native Americans over a century ago.
The flag is a reflection of Spencer’s inner state as he started photographing in 2003 for what would become his book, “This Land” (University of Texas Press, 2017). The images started out dark — a reaction to jingoism that saturated the country after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and before the Iraq War.
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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 be where Emmett Till was murdered. A tranquil suburban subdivision was the site of untold suffering in 1838, when Cherokee Indians had to endure a brutal winter as the government forced them westward on the Trail of Tears.
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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 can never be appreciated enough; but also the
via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2017/08/kent-nishimura-the-states-project-hawaii/
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 can never be appreciated enough; but also the resilience that goes along with that.
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New Brunswick College of Craft and Design – Photographer Kelly Baker: Telling Untold Stories
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“I went to school for a lot of years to become an anthropologist, so I became obsessed with storytelling and identity. I drew that interest into my photography practice, and then I became obsessed with how you could tell a story just with a face.”
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A Photographer Finds Terror and Magic on the Banks of a River (NSFW) – Feature Shoot
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 there like ghosts.
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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 Standing Rock, N.D., burned around him in February. The structures, many of them considered sacred by the Native Americans who began the protests against the Dakota Access Pipeline, had been set on fire so the authorities preparing to enter the encampment would not be the people who destroyed them.
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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 protest over the removal of a Confederate monument served as a smokescreen for spewing racist and anti-Semitic hate. They show the counterprotesters who gathered to uphold the values of democracy and justice. They depict the murder and injury of some of these courageous individuals.
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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, with a childhood barefoot, wild and free. In part my photographic work pulls from my childhood freedoms and adventures that still exist so strongly in my mind. Today we live on a small block of land where I strive to replicate this childhood for my children… it is here in our wild and wonderful surroundings that I endeavor to tell their story .. Life as it is.
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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 Third Platoon, Fourth Squad, Alpha Company, First Battalion, Eighth Marines. Then came the explosion, followed by a ringing silence. Gunfire and shouting soon resumed, breaking a momentary spell. The noise, dust and confusion of battle made it difficult to know what had just happened.
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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 possibilities and influence of artistic mentorship, tracing the paths of visual thinking exchanged among artists and how ideas are developed and manifested in the process of an
Opening 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 possibilities and influence of artistic mentorship, tracing the paths of visual thinking exchanged among artists and how ideas are developed and manifested in the process of an evolving artistic practice”. At the core of this exhibition is selected work by three artists Amanda Boe, McNair Evans, and Kevin Kunishi along with collaborative projects with their mentors – Jason Fulford, Todd Hido, Mark Mahaney, Mike Smith, and Alec Soth.The opening reception if from 6-8pm and the exhibition runs through October 14th, 2017.
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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.”
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 was before Afghanistan.
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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 accompanied by an emotional image by staff photographer Paul Kitagaki Jr. The daily story might have faded from public memory if another staff photographer, Renée Byer — who is married to Mr. Kitagaki — had not been moved by that image to dig deeper. The results of her exploration are on exhibit this week at the Visa Pour l’Image photo festival in Perpignan, France.
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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 Guam. She had become a certified underwater scuba diver, picked up needlepoint as a hobby and had taken photos mainly to show her friends and family the unusual mixture of island life and military culture in United States territory.
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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 year, he was in Trump Tower in New York making portraits of President Trump, and he photographed the high-profile James B. Comey testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee. But a recent assignment to a rural county fair in the Midwest was something of a homecoming for McClain. He grew up in a log house on a gravel road near a state forest about an hour south of Indianapolis. McClain jumped on a flight at Reagan National Airport just outside Washington to St. Louis, then drove three hours to Kahoka, Mo., to spend four days at the Clark County Fair — about as rural and middle America as one can get.
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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 raised in Western Canada. After a
via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2017/08/western-canada-thomas-gardiner/
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 raised in Western Canada. After a few years away from home, he returned to reflect upon and react to the landscape and its inhabitants through photography. Placing an appraisal on Gardiner’s work beyond one tempered in pure aestheticism, i’d argued his images empower a narrative of expanse and pastoralism that is particular to the Canadian West. And similar to much of the work conducted on Canadian identity and environs, Gardiner’s work raises more questions about the relationship between land and inhabitant than it settles and I like that.
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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, the Museum of Modern Art bought two of Larraín’s photographs. At 27, Henri Cartier-Bresson invited him to join the prestigious photo agency Magnum. At 41, he stopped taking pictures.
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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 Brooklyn, she has seen the blocks around the Fulton Mall change seemingly overnight as another new luxury building sprouts up. That tension, between the old and new, the past and the present, runs through “Brooklyn Photographs,” an 11-person group show Ms. Ferrer organized that opens Thursday at BRIC Arts.