French-Hungarian photographer Pol Kurucz presents his fourth supercharged series, Poor Billionaires, inspired by the deep social void in Brazil
Category: Portfolios & Galleries
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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.
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Photographers edit photographers: Tanya Habjouqa’s provocative and mysterious images – The Washington Post
Perspective | Photographers edit photographers: Tanya Habjouqa’s provocative and mysterious images
NOOR photographer Nina Berman edits the work of her colleague Tanya Habjouqa.
via Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/in-sight/wp/2017/08/11/photographers-edit-photographers-tanya-habjouqas-provocative-and-mysterious-images/
This post is part of the In Sight series, “PHOTOGRAPHERS edit PHOTOGRAPHERS.” In this installment, NOOR photographer Nina Berman edits the work of her colleague, Jordanian photographer Tanya Habjouqa. Habjouqa is a founding member of Rawiya, the first all-female photo collective of the Middle East, and she is currently based in East Jerusalem. Habjouqa’s project, Occupied Pleasures, received support from the Magnum Foundation and achieved a World Press Photo award in 2014. Culminating in a namesake book by FotoEvidence, it was heralded by Time magazine and the Smithsonian Institution as one of the best photo books of 2015.
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Romania’s Summer Is So Hot They’re Calling It ‘Lucifer’ – VICE
Photos of Romanians Battling the Hottest Summer in Half a Century
Romanian photographers capture the country’s hottest August since 1951.
Romanian photographers capture the country’s hottest August since 1951.
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States of America: Photography from the Civil Rights Movement to the Reagan Era – The Eye of Photography
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, Louis Draper, William Eggleston and Bruce Davidson, as well as Stephen Shore, who in November will be the subject of a major retrospective at MoMA in New York. This exhibition stretches from the Civil Rights Movement to the Reagan Era, three decades that shaped the polarized landscape of Trump’s America, and explores tectonic shifts in American society and politics, from the decay of city centers and the decline of industry to suburban sprawl and the development of mass advertising.
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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 normal practice and use photographs that ordinarily
via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2017/09/the-2017-photographic-conversations-exhibition/
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 normal practice and use photographs that ordinarily might not see the light of day. And, to be honest, it’s stimulating, inspiring, and fun to work with another photographer.
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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. In some of his photographs, the use of elaborate lighting and staging techniques can make it difficult to divine what is real and what isn’t. Recently, while preparing to travel to Pyongyang to take pictures for Evan Osnos’s New Yorker piece “The Risk of Nuclear War with North Korea,” Pinckers knew that he would be entering a controlled environment, closely shaped by state officials, and he was fascinated by the knowledge that the scenes he photographed would be orchestrated by a foreign power.
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Michal Cala, Silesia 1975-1985 – The Eye of Photography
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 massive employment for the area, the environmental issues were ignored.
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Vanessa Gilles, Dosta: Words and Memories of Gypsy Women – The Eye of Photography
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 and attachment to one’s roots. Children are playing in front of the camera seemingly carefree, while women eye it with a stare that says a lot about the years of discrimination which is still omnipresent.
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Gérard Uféras, Bolshoi Song – The Eye of Photography
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 company in the world. It inspires amateurs of ballet and gathers the greatest dancers of the former USSR.
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Emil, Towards Horizon – The Eye of Photography
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 authentic. His wanderings in the small towns and villages are strolls in an unknown land, introspective walks, a return to his childhood. His photos are neither cynical nor idealist. They are only a moment in life, a declaration of love for a Russia that begins far away from Moscow.
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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.
Though Monika Bulaj grew up in Communist Poland, she was nonetheless a devoutly Catholic child who studied mystics and dreamed of a life as a cloistered nun. But her teenage discovery that her grandmother’s town was once home to thousands of Jews who perished in the Holocaust set her on a different path: a 30-year journey documenting persecuted religious minorities around the world.
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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 the town.
via Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/in-sight/wp/2017/10/09/manenberg/
A suburb of Cape Town, South Africa, Manenberg was established in the Cape Flats, a vast low-lying sand dune, during the late 1960s by the apartheid government as an area for “colored” families. Marginalized by geography, history and a dominant culture, today most of Manenberg’s estimated 35,000 to 52,000 residents live in overcrowded and problematic conditions. There are around 8,000 households in Manenberg, 52 percent of which are headed by women.
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The Unseen Eye keeps One Eye Open – The Eye of Photography
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. Rauschenberg is the most generous fellow around, looking at any and every portfolio at the many reviews he attends. In Portland, he was one of the founders of The Blue Sky Gallery, a terrific not-for-profit space in The Pearl District.
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Genevieve Gaignard, In Passing – The Eye of Photography
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 drag queen, Gaignard interrogates her own intersectional identity as a biracial woman as well as the often murky, difficult terrain of race, class, and gender in contemporary culture.
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Luis Fabini’s Cowboys of the Americas – The Eye of Photography
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 gaucho in charge of the mate passed it around the men, one at a time. They were cattle drovers, herding a thousand head of cattle back to the estancia. I took a chance and asked the eldest one, “Who is the gaucho?” After a long silence he said, “The gaucho is the land he treads upon.” The authority and conviction of the old gaucho’s words had an immediate impact on me, and the phrase would become the cornerstone of my work and my guiding compass as I embarked on a journey through South and North America, photographing the different groups of cowboys.