A century ago their ancestors sought shelter in Syria after escaping the genocide perpetrated by the Ottoman Turks. Now Syrian Armenians reverse the trek.
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.
Santa Rosa is dying. The town of nearly 2,800 is pressed against New Mexico’s largest freeway — once a booming destination, now a place long-haul truckers spend a night and move on.
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?
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.
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
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.
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.
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…
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.
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.
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…
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
“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.”
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.
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.
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.
The pictures from Charlottesville, Va., reveal what pictures of oppression and violence generally do not: the ordinary people who typically perpetuate white supremacy.
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.
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…
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.
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.
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.
