Category: Portfolios & Galleries
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Camille Lepage, Pure Colère – The Eye of Photography
Link: A publication made by Maryvonne Lepage, mother of the photographer killed in 2014 in the Central African Republic, has just been released.
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The 2017 Photographic Conversations Exhibition | LENSCRATCH
The 2017 Photographic Conversations Exhibition – LENSCRATCH The genesis of the 2017 Photographic Conversations Exhibition came from my experience of being involved in daily conversations in a 3 year project, Six Shooters, and later as part of the collaborative project, A New Nothing. These visual connections with other photographers allow me to work outside my…
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A Photographer’s Search for Cracks in North Korea’s Propaganda Machine | The New Yorker
A Photographer’s Search for Cracks in North Korea’s Propaganda Machine Max Pinckers was fascinated by the knowledge that the scenes he photographed in North Korea would be orchestrated by a foreign power. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/a-photographers-search-for-cracks-in-north-koreas-propaganda-machine The photographer Max Pinckers likes his images to call into question the truthfulness of the subjects before him.…
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Michal Cala, Silesia 1975-1985 – The Eye of Photography
Link: Silesia 1975-1985, a solo exhibition by Polish photographer Michal Cala in London focuses on his black and white series from the Silesian landscape made during his early career. Silesia is an industrial district in Poland which at the time of 1970’s and early 1980’s was experiencing its peak of development and activity. Although providing…
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Franck Vogel, Transboundary rivers and their challenges – The Eye of Photography
Link: The French photographer uses photography to tackle the destruction of ecosystems, climate change and the geo political problems of several great rivers across the world.
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Vanessa Gilles, Dosta: Words and Memories of Gypsy Women – The Eye of Photography
Link: Gypsy, Romany, Manouche… Traveling between Arles and Les Saintes Maries de la Mer, the photographer Vanessa Gilles came into contact with women of diverse origins. These women reveal themselves in her images and gaze at us with dignity. Fixed in black and white, the photographs seem to deliver a timeless message that extols pride…
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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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Gérard Uféras, Bolshoi Song – The Eye of Photography
Link: Bolshoi Theatre, literally translated – the grand theatre – is a highly reputed opera and ballet houses. The ballet company was created in 1776 by Prince Pyotr Ouroussoff and Michael Maddox by order of the empress Katarina II. Having more than 250 members, the Bolshoi Ballet is one of the most prestigious classical dance…
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States of America: Photography from the Civil Rights Movement to the Reagan Era – The Eye of Photography
Link: States of America, on view at Nottingham Contemporary in London, is an unusual survey of American photography exhibited in England. The exhibition focuses on a generation of photographers that experimented with innovative approaches to documentary photography. Drawing from the collection of the Wilson Center for Photography, the exhibition includes key works by Diane Arbus,…
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The Unseen Eye keeps One Eye Open – The Eye of Photography
Link: American Christopher Rauschenberg is one of the heroes of contemporary photography. He is first and foremost a first-class artist, represented by the estimable Elizabeth Leach Gallery in Portland, Oregon where he lives with his wife, Janet Stein. Stein is mentioned here because she is also a seemingly indefatigable second pair of eyes for Chris.…
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Luis Fabini’s Cowboys of the Americas – The Eye of Photography
Link: During the summer of 2003, while traveling around northern Uruguay, I stopped at the end of a long day to greet a few gauchos gathered around a fire by the side of a dirt road. As is customary, they invited me to share mate, their traditional beverage. As we stared into the fire, the…
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Genevieve Gaignard, In Passing – The Eye of Photography
Link: In Passing, a solo exhibition of work by Los Angeles-based artist Genevieve Gaignard, brings together several photographs made between 2015 and the present, mapping her ever-evolving performance of identity through large-format self-portraits and vernacular installations. Through an array of campy stereotypes that range from a suspicious housewife peering out a window to a Divine-esque…
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Four To Follow #3 – Witness
Four To Follow #3 The African Photojournalism Database (APJD) is a growing community of talented visual storytellers from across the continent. via Medium: https://witness.worldpressphoto.org/four-to-follow-3-9e072b528e47 The African Photojournalism Database (APJD) is a growing community of talented visual storytellers from across the continent. This month, we’re highlighting the work of four members of the APJD, John Wessels,…
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Emil, Towards Horizon – The Eye of Photography
Link: The Russian Emil Gataullin is a master of poetry in black and white, and of photography that recalls that of Henri Cartier-Bresson. It dances in a balance between austerity, deliberate reserve and romantic composition. His theme: the Russian village. A life far from the great decisions scandals, everything is in the light, honest and…
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Prayers of the Persecuted Around the World – The New York Times
Prayers of the Persecuted Around the World Monika Bulaj’s discovery that her grandmother’s Polish town was once home to a thriving Jewish community that perished in the Holocaust set her on a 30-year journey documenting religious persecution. via Lens Blog: https://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2017/10/12/prayers-of-the-persecuted-around-the-world/?module=BlogPost-Title&version=Blog%20Main&contentCollection=Multimedia&action=Click&pgtype=Blogs®ion=Body Though Monika Bulaj grew up in Communist Poland, she was nonetheless a devoutly Catholic…
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Daily life in Manenberg, South Africa – The Washington Post
Perspective | Two sisters pursue different lives in post-apartheid Manenberg, South Africa Nearly twenty-five years since the end of apartheid, Manenberg, South Africa, has not seen the fruits of democracy. Opportunities to change or improve circumstances remain few and far between. Photographer Sarah Stacke photographed two sisters each encountering their own struggles with life in…
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A Photographer and Her Subject Share a Journey Over the Decades – The New York Times
A Photographer and Her Subject Share a Journey Over the Decades In “An Autobiography of Miss Wish,” Nina Berman tells the story of Kimberly Stevens, a survivor of sex trafficking and child pornography, whom Ms. Berman has known since meeting her in London 27 years ago. via Lens Blog: https://archive.nytimes.com/lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2017/11/16/a-photographer-and-her-subject-share-a-journey-over-the-decades/ In the first pages of…
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Antoine Bruy – Outback Mythologies « burn magazine
Antoine Bruy – Outback Mythologies Antoine Bruy was the recipient of the 2017 Emerging Photographer Fund and was granted $10,000 for this essay. Burn Magazine revolves around the EPF and it is our most important curatorial contribut… via burn magazine: https://www.burnmagazine.org/epf-2017/2017/10/antoine-bruy-outback-mythologies/ Everything starts about hundred years, in 1915, when the New Colorado Gold Prospecting Syndicate, consisting…
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Walker Evans’s Cuba, via Ernest Hemingway – The New York Times
Walker Evans’s Cuba, via Ernest Hemingway To ensure his photos would not be confiscated by authorities, Walker Evans entrusted a trove of 46 prints made in 1933 Havana to his friend — Ernest Hemingway. via Lens Blog: https://archive.nytimes.com/lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2017/11/07/walker-evanss-cuba-via-ernest-hemingway/ It seems fitting that during Walker Evans’s one-month stay in Havana in 1933 he would befriend Ernest…
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Art Shay, 70 years in American streets – The Eye of Photography
Link: For over 70 years, American photographer Art Shay has documented life, combining his gifts of storytelling, humor and empathy. Born in the Bronx, New York, in 1922, Art Shay has pursued photography since his teens, and he took his first Leica to war with him. His first published photographs—documenting a midair collision over his…