Category: Portfolios & Galleries
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Nicola Lo Calzo, Cham: Memories of a Living Past – The Eye of Photography
Link: For nearly seven years now, Italian photographer Nicola Lo Calzo has documented the multiple lineages and the various manifestations of the memories of colonial slavery, of the resistances to it, of its abolitions. He documents these memories because they create life, because they irrigate our present with wisdom and knowledge of the other that is essential to us.…
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The hectic streets of Manhattan by Tomaso Baldessarini – The Eye of Photography
Link: 28mm Edition I Manhattan, by German photographer Tomaso Baldessarini is an intoxicating, emotional and at the same time documentary roller coaster ride. One single camera, a 28mm lens and the proximity of the photographer to the objects of the photographs allow the observer to submerge into a special world. The series is a piece…
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Masaki Yamamoto’s At home – The Eye of Photography
Link: Exhibited at the Mind’s Eye gallery in Paris, Masaki Yamamoto’s family photographs strike one by their candor. His family’s life is presented to us in all its spontaneity. No embarrassment, and at the same time not a trace of exhibitionism or indulgence. These shots have the force of veracity. Beautiful, bold, surprising images which…
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Les visas de l’ANI – Massimo Branca: Inside, outside, under Bucharest – The Eye of Photography
Link: For its fourteenth edition, the National Association of Iconographers (ANI) is showing three photographers chosen from among the favourites at the Visa pour l’Image photojournalism festival in Perpignan in 2016. The winners are being shown at the École de l’Image des Gobelins in Paris from November 6th to December 14th, 2017. The ANI has…
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Pieter Hugo, Between the devil and the deep blue sea – The Eye of Photography
Link: What separates, what connects us? How do people live with the shadows of cultural oppression or political domination? The South African photographer Pieter Hugo, born in 1976 in Johannesburg, explores these questions in his portraits, still lifes and landscape photographs. In his images, Pieter Hugo captures the traces and scars of people as well…
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Ballenesque, a retrospective of Roger Ballen – The Eye of Photography
Link: Known for his probing, often challenging images that exist in a space between painting, drawing, installation and photography, yet until now, no comprehensive retrospective on African photographer Roger Ballen has been released yet. Based on an entirely new appraisal of his archive, one that looks beyond his monographic projects for the first time, the…
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Yorgos Yatromanolakis’ dreamlike Crete – The Eye of Photography
Link: Yorgos Yatromanolakis is a Greek photographer, originally from Crete. He is currently working on a project on dreamlike images of the fauna and flora of his child hood island, Crete. He explains that, for him, photography is the most direct narrative way for passing on and sharing his personal history. This project is a…
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Michael Wolf, life in cities – The Eye of Photography
Link: German photographer Michael Wolf’s started his series entitled Life in Cities in 2011. An update of his project now on view at Christophe Guye Galerie in Zürich gives an even deeper insight in Wolf’s extensive, culturally investigative and artistic work on life in mega-cities. His projects document both the architecture and the vernacular culture…
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Organ Vida: A Croatian photo festival that just keeps getting better
Organ Vida: A Croatian photo festival that just keeps getting better Zagreb’s annual photo festival continues to grow via Medium: https://witness.worldpressphoto.org/organ-vida-a-croatian-photo-festival-that-just-keeps-getting-better-4a55cacbb120 There are four constants in the Organ Vida Festival: it happens in Zagreb, Croatia; every year it gets bigger; festival founder Marina Paulenka is at the center of it; and visitors will see some…
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A Look at the Heart-Wrenching Moments From Equal Rights Battles – The New York Times
A Look at the Heart-Wrenching Moments From Equal Rights Battles All the major battles for equal rights — racial, ethnic, gender, sexual orientation, disability — are explored in “The Good Fight.” via Lens Blog: https://archive.nytimes.com/lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2017/12/14/a-look-at-the-heart-wrenching-moments-from-equal-rights-battles/ The 54-mile march for voting rights from Selma to Alabama’s state capital, Montgomery, took more than good legs and sturdy…
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Lianzhou Museum of Photography : A Zhang Hui retrospective – The Eye of Photography
Link: As a result of his roots in the Chinese society, Zhang Hui’s work focused on social issues very early on. One and Thirty, Group Photos, Public Bathhouse, or Yumen Project: these projects are all reflections on the lives of the underprivileged in the Chinese society through experiments of intervention. Social issues such as political…
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Searching for a new experience of Congo – The Washington Post
Perspective | Searching for a new experience of Congo Photographer Leonard Pongo chose a more personal approach to documenting the country of his roots, Congo. via Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/in-sight/wp/2017/12/07/searching-for-a-new-experience-of-congo/ Leonard Pongo’s photographs of Congo are raw and guttural. They radiate with the sort of unease that comes with discovering a long-sought-out place — one that…
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Zhang Kechun’s The Yellow River – The Eye of Photography
Link: The idea of this project came to me while reading the novel River of the North by Zhang Chengzhi. Once I started, the current of reality submerged my spirit. The river which previously was the source of so many myths no longer existed. Its future does not remain less radiant, in the image of…
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Article 350 – The Leica Camera Blog
Link: This year saw the situation in Venezuela deteriorate to breaking point with an economy on the verge of collapse, severe shortages of food and medical supplies, and accusations of human rights abuses carried out by the country’s embattled Socialist government. Opponents to Hugo Chavez’s successor, Nicolás Maduro, failed in attempts to remove him from…
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Women Photograph: Best Photos of 2017 — Women Photograph
Link: Here’s a selection of some of our favorite work from Women Photograph members this year — from assignment work, long term documentary projects, and personal stories around the globe.
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Lianzhou Festival 2017: He Bo, Kurt Tong, Jiang Zhenqing & Huang Guaier – The Eye of Photography
Link: The 2017 edition of the Lianzhou Photo Festival, held from December 2, 2017 to January 2, 2018, mainly focused on the selfie and looked at how social networks have changed photography. Among the works presented were Huang Guaier’s images of the world who question the indistinct border between virtuality and reality; Jiang Zhenqing’s humanistic…
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Top Photos of 2017 – Jonesblog
Link: This is my now traditional New Year’s post, written in the late hours of December 31st, sipping something delicious while waiting for Midnight. Like previous years summaries, this entry is a bit of a year end summary and a selection of my best photographic efforts for the year that reflect where the year has…
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Stéphane Lavoué, Dream of a Winter Night – The Eye of Photography
Link: With the title of his series The Kingdom, Stéphane Lavoué, right from the beginning, puts us in a double reality. It is a very concrete “kingdom”, that of the Northeast Kingdom, a region of lakes and forests in the northeast of Vermont, one of the least populated states in the United States (twelve inhabitants…
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Dan Ziskie’s pulsating street life images of New York – The Eye of Photography
Link: Dan Ziskie is a Manhattan-based photographer and actor. As an actor, he is best known for his recurring role of Vice President Jim Matthews in House of Cards and the politically connected banker in post-Katrina New Orleans in Treme, among other parts. He began photographing in the early 1970s in Chicago while working for the commercial…
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Inside One of America’s Last Pencil Factories – The New York Times
Inside One of America’s Last Pencil Factories (Published 2018) A photographer captures a colorful world of craft and complexity. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/12/magazine/inside-one-of-americas-last-pencil-factories.html A photographer captures a colorful world of craft and complexity.