Category: Portfolios & Galleries

  • Walker Evans’s Cuba, via Ernest Hemingway – The New York Times

    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 Hemingway. The two shared an appreciation of a spare style that would influence countless others in photography and literature. In fact, Evans entrusted Hemingway with a trove of original prints to ensure they would not be confiscated by the authorities who were violently suppressing popular outrage against the dictator Gerardo Machado.

  • 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 English Air Base—were printed in a September 1944 issue of Look magazine. In fact, during World War II, he was then lead navigator on 30 missions in the Eighth Air Force. His service, which also includes 23 combat supplies missions, earned him five Air Medals, the Distinguished Flying Cross and the French Croix de Guerre.

  • 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. He made his own Edouard Glissant’s affirmation: “To forget is to offend, and memory, when it is shared, abolishes this offense. We need each other’s memory, not for compassion or charity, but for a new lucidity in a process of Relation. And if we want to share the beauty of the world, if we want to be solidary with its suffering, we need to learn how to remember together.”

  • 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 of authentic contemporary life – “A slice of life of the present” as he says.

  • 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 remain engraved in the memory.

  • 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 this immense country with its thousands of years of history. This weak moan will soon be drowned by cries of joy; we would be wrong to not be optimistic.

  • 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 organised a lecture at the same address on 7th December 2017 from 6.30pm to 8.00pm.

  • 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 as the country’s history. His special interest is subcultures, the gap between ideal and reality. He portrays the homeless, albinos and AIDS sufferers as well as men who tame hyenas, snakes and monkeys or collect electronic waste. His models are Nollywood actors (African film industry) in costume and pose, but also his own family and friends. This is brought together in the exhibition Pieter Hugo: Between the devil and the deep blue sea, a retrospective of the photographer’s career at the Museum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte in Dortmund, in Germany, on view until May 13, 2018.

  • 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 book Ballenesque takes the reader on a visual, chronological tour of the photographer’s entire oeuvre, including both the iconic images and previously unpublished works.

  • 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 return to the land of is childhood rediscovered with the eye of the photographer he is today. The photos in this series enable him to merge his memories with his creativity . His images are tinted with a slightly strange, almost mystical atmosphere. This remarkable approach is certainly linked to the ambiguity of the relationship that each of us maintains with the past, childhood, and the enigmatic world of memory.

  • 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 of metropolises.

  • Organ Vida: A Croatian photo festival that just keeps getting better

    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 exceptional and challenging photography. This year was no different, as Organ Vida presented its theme, New Citizen, over three weeks in September. The event comprised 13 exhibitions featuring 60 artists from Croatia and around the world, 2 workshops, 2 movie projections, a portfolio review, and of course, plenty of parties. Ten thousand visitors came to the festival. Not too bad for a photo festival in a place many people haven’t heard of.

  • 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 – 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 shoes. It took defying the police, who ambushed hundreds of men, women and children — on a bridge named for a Klu Klux Klan leader — and beat them bloody. It took a court order and it took journalists covering the struggles to tell and shock the world.

  • 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 systems, modes of production, social relationship, personal identities and history have become the recurrent themes in Zhuang Hui’s work. These important explorations and the personal experience of the artist are what make up the “weight” of his work.

  • Searching for a new experience of Congo – The Washington Post

    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 forms part of the photographer’s heritage, despite the fact that Pongo had to wait until his early 20s to experience it for himself.

  • 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 power during months of street protests that turned violent, killing more than 125 people. Australian photographer, Luke Cody, traveled to Caracas, putting his own safety at risk to report on the protests. He managed to capture a series of incredibly powerful images with his Leica Q, shedding light on the volatile and violent events, which unfolded as the Venezuelan people exercised their right to revolt.

  • 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.

  • 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 project on Tibetan people; Kurt Tong’s series on Mak Ngan Yuk, an eighty seven year old woman who was his nanny and worked for his family for nearly 40 years; and He Bo’s images about the French terrorist attacks.

  • 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 taken me.

  • 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 per square kilometer). However, it is also a fictional territory constructed by his photographs, a country of melancholic haze inhabited by unique figures, each seeming to reign over their own world, reawakening the dreams of Henry David Thoreau, who, close by in Maine and Massachusetts, lived a life of rebelliousness and fusion with nature in the 19th century.