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Category: Portfolios & Galleries
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The Elegant Vulnerability of Rineke Dijkstra’s Portraits – Feature Shoot
The Elegant Vulnerability of Rineke Dijkstra’s Portraits
Odessa, Ukraine, August 7, 1997 Marianna (The Fairy Doll) 2014 (videostill) Dutch photographer Rineke Dijkstra is a relentless formalist, always cool to the touch, bringing a taste of August Sander’s…
via Feature Shoot: https://www.featureshoot.com/2018/07/the-elegant-vulnerability-of-rineke-dijkstras-portraits/
Dutch photographer Rineke Dijkstra is a relentless formalist, always cool to the touch, bringing a taste of August Sander’s skillful psychology to her portraiture. In June 1992, she traveled to Hilton Head Island to begin Beach Portraits, a series of full-length photographs filled with awkward glamour and quiet grandeur, provoking a response, a sense of evaluation waiting to happen in the moment. Do you like what you see? Want to know more? Each photograph reads as an invitation beyond the moment into something infinitely richer and more complex.
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The Extreme Cyclists of the Navajo Nation | The New Yorker
The Extreme Cyclists of the Navajo Nation
For some Navajo, cycling offers a way to connect with their landscape and heritage.
via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/the-extreme-cyclists-of-the-navajo-nation
For some Navajo, cycling offers a way to connect with their landscape and heritage.
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The 2018 Road Trip Exhibition | LENSCRATCH
The 2018 Road Trip Exhibition – LENSCRATCH
“Think this is such an amazing photograph. It reminds me of images from the Farm Security Administration like Dorthea Lange and Walker Evans. The light and tonality is fantastic and I enjoy the confusion it creates around the theme of a road trip. Is this man and his dog on a road trip? Do they
via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2018/07/the-2018-road-trip-exhibition/
Many thanks to our stellar juror, Shawn Bush, whose own project, Golden State, lives in the Road Trip realm. Shawn also recently took his own road trip from Rhode Island to Wyoming where he will begin teaching this fall. We had so many fantastic submissions and it was a treat to go through all your offerings.
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South Africa Week: Alexia Webster | LENSCRATCH
South Africa Week: Alexia Webster – LENSCRATCH
Alexia Webster’s Street Studio project began in 2011 and in the years since she has photographed thousands of sitters across the African continent and beyond. Though the project represents a departure from her personal and professional work, the series aligns with a direction she sees her work heading in the future. “I’m interested in having
via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2018/07/south-africa-week-alexia-webster/
Alexia Webster’s Street Studio project began in 2011 and in the years since she has photographed thousands of sitters across the African continent and beyond. Though the project represents a departure from her personal and professional work, the series aligns with a direction she sees her work heading in the future. “I’m interested in having work that’s a conversation between the me and the subject,” she says. Webster’s engagement project also reflects an impulse common to many South African photographers: to push the boundaries of the medium as a tool for transforming society. “Photography in South Africa,” Webster says, is always having a slightly different conversation than any other photographic space in the world. We grapple with things quite intensely — ideas of self and identity and place and politics and memory — and the photography does the same.
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One Young Photographer on Reshaping the World Through Powerful Images (Sponsored) – Feature Shoot
One Young Photographer on Reshaping the World Through Powerful Images (Sponsored)
Born and raised in Harlem, New York, Flo Ngala has always had creativity running through her veins. She found her voice early on by staging self-portraits in her bedroom and…
via Feature Shoot: https://www.featureshoot.com/2018/07/one-young-photographer-on-reshaping-the-world-through-powerful-images-sponsored/
Born and raised in Harlem, New York, Flo Ngala has always had creativity running through her veins. She found her voice early on by staging self-portraits in her bedroom and documenting her community on her daily route to and from school, and since then, she’s used her talents to amplify the voices of others. As a photographer for some of the biggest names in the music and fashion industries, she’s helped shape modern popular culture, while at the same time staying true to her candid, authentic aesthetic and interest in telling real, human stories.
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The internet’s forgotten sh*t pics are accidentally amazing
The internet’s forgotten shit pics are accidentally amazing
Doug Battenhausen has been mining defunct websites for years – harvesting the best pictures that nobody else cares about.
via Huck: http://tco.mutualcp.com/article/doug-battenhausen-internet-history-found-photography
To relieve the boredom of his day job, Doug Battenhausen has been mining defunct websites for years – harvesting long-discarded gems from the bottom of the web.
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Susan Meiselas’ Work Has Changed How We Think About Photojournalism. Her Retrospective Actually Does It Justice. – Mother Jones
Susan Meiselas’ Work Has Changed How We Think About Photojournalism. Her Retrospective Actually Does It Justice.
“Every picture tells a story and has another story behind it: Who’s photographed? Who made it? Who found it? How did it survive?”
via Mother Jones: https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/07/susan-meiselas-work-has-changed-how-we-think-about-photojournalism-her-retrospective-actually-does-it-justice/
It was fitting that not long before the opening of her major retrospective at the San Francisco MoMA this summer, Susan Meiselas was back in Nicaragua, making photos. Her coverage of the Nicaraguan revolution 40 years ago helped launch her career; now, at the opening of her exhibition in mid-July, she lamented the current state of the Central American country, once again embroiled in a violent revolution to overthrow a repressive government. The script has flipped with Daniel Ortega, brought to power by the Sandinasta revolution that Meiselas covered, accused of a brutal crackdown on protesters.
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Photographers on Photographers: Lori Vrba and Keith Carter | LENSCRATCH
Photographers on Photographers: Lori Vrba and Keith Carter – LENSCRATCH
For the entire month of August, photographers will be interviewing photographers–sharing image makers who have inspired them, who they are curious about, whose work has impacted them in some way. I am so grateful to all the participants for their efforts, talents, and time. -Aline Smithson I first met Keith Carter ten years ago in
via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2018/08/photographers-on-photographers-lori-vrba-keith-carter/
I first met Keith Carter ten years ago in Santa Fe, New Mexico. I had hit an all-time creative low and was thinking of throwing in the photographic towel but decided to give Keith’s workshop a try as one last desperate attempt to jump start myself. Having grown up in a small town just down the road from Keith’s southeast Texas home, we understood much of each other right away and became fast friends. He did in fact revive my photographic life that week and became a mentor of sorts as I got busy making my way as a full time working artist. Of course I have great respect and appreciation for Keith’s imagery but it has actually been his philosophies for how to sustain a creative life that I most value. I hear his voice in my head when I feel defeated or lost. It is his ideology I turn to when I am crippled by self-doubt. I would not have stayed alive as an artist without these truths and I am forever grateful to Keith for his wisdom and friendship.
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Find time for ‘Finding Home’ – Witness
Find time for ‘Finding Home’
In 2016, TIME began telling the story of newborn baby Heln and her family, who are Syrian refugees seeking asylum in Europe. Heln’s mother…
via Medium: https://witness.worldpressphoto.org/find-time-for-finding-home-9610a098b47
In this powerful interactive, Taimaa tells of the frustrations of waiting for asylum, the quiet moments of new motherhood, and the lonely struggle to fit in in a new land, through a series of text messages with TIME video journalist Francesca Trianni. The intimate and immersive page features photographs by Lynsey Addario and reporting by TIME’s Aryn Baker.
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Photos of Abandoned Russia – The Atlantic
Photos of Abandoned Russia
For years, photographers have traveled across Russia finding and photographing intriguing ghost towns, empty Soviet factories, toppling houses, and crumbling churches.
via The Atlantic: https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2018/08/photos-of-abandoned-russia/566984/
Across the vastness of Russia—the world’s largest country, at some 6.6 million square miles—and over the span of its long history, countless houses, factories, churches, villages, military bases, and other structures have been built and then left behind: imperial-era palaces, log cabins of pioneers in the Far East, Christian cathedrals, massive Soviet blocks of concrete, speculative-mining camps, and more. For years now, photographers have traveled across Russia finding and photographing these intriguing ghost towns, empty Soviet factories, toppling houses, and crumbling chapels.
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Photos of Colombia’s violent past and uncertain future
Photos of Colombia’s violent past and uncertain future
Photographer Mads Nissen reflects on his time in Colombia during the height of its turmoil, documenting the people impacted by conflict in the country.
via Huck: https://www.huckmag.com/article/photos-of-colombias-violent-past-and-uncertain-future
Danish photographer Mads Nissen reflects on his time in Colombia during the height of its turmoil, documenting the people impacted by conflict in the country.
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This Photographer Shot the Radical Protests That Inspired Occupy Wall Street – VICE
This Photographer Shot the Radical Protests That Inspired Occupy
Thirty years ago, Q. Sakamaki started taking photos of the artists and anarchists resisting gentrification in NYC.
Link: https://www.vice.com/en/article/ywkxgb/q-sakamaki-photographer-tompkins-square-park-riots-1988
Thirty years ago this week, Q. Sakamaki began taking photos of the artists and anarchists resisting gentrification in New York City.
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Terje Abusdal – The Forest Finns « burn magazine
Terje Abusdal – The Forest Finns
Terje Abusdal The Forest Finns [ EPF 2017 – FINALIST ] Finnskogen – directly translated as The Forest of the Finns – is a large, contiguous forest belt along the Norwegian-Swedish border, where far…
via burn magazine: https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2018/09/terje-abusdal-the-forest-finns/
Finnskogen – directly translated as The Forest of the Finns – is a large, contiguous forest belt along the Norwegian-Swedish border, where farming families from Finland settled in the early 1600s. The immigrants – called Forest Finns – were slash-and-burn farmers. This ancient agricultural method yielded bountiful crops but required large areas of land as the soil was quickly exhausted. Population growth eventually led to a scarcity of resources in their native Finland and, fuelled by famine and war, forced a wave of migration in search for new territories.
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Lies at the Colorado Photographic Arts Center | LENSCRATCH
Lies at the Colorado Photographic Arts Center – LENSCRATCH
As photographers, we are well aware that the camera lies. It is a tool of manipulation, of misrepresentation, of deceit and fiction. But the camera isn’t the only thing that lies. We tell false truths, stir up fabrications and forgeries. And that makes things interesting. The Colorado Photographic Arts Center, presents a new exhibition, Lies, featuring
via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2018/09/exhibition-lies-at-the-colorado-photographic-arts-center/
As photographers, we are well aware that the camera lies. It is a tool of manipulation, of misrepresentation, of deceit and fiction. But the camera isn’t the only thing that lies. We tell false truths, stir up fabrications and forgeries. And that makes things interesting. The Colorado Photographic Arts Center, presents a new exhibition, Lies, featuring the work of 10 contemporary artists who explore photography’s complex relationship to the truth and the effects of misinformation on American culture. The exhibition is juried by Richard McCabe, Curator of Photography at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art in New Orleans and runs through October 6th, 2018.
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94 Year Old Former LIFE Magazine Photographer Fred Lyon Shares His Incredible Photos of San Francisco
94 Year Old Former LIFE Magazine Photographer Fred Lyon Shares His Incredible Photos of San Francisco
On October 8, 2018, Fred Lyon, the legendary former LIFE Magazine photographer and author of San Francisco, Portrait of a City: 1940-1960 and San
via Laughing Squid: https://laughingsquid.com/fred-lyon-san-francisco-photos/
On October 8, 2018, Fred Lyon, the legendary former LIFE Magazine photographer and author of San Francisco, Portrait of a City: 1940-1960 and San Francisco Noir, gave a talk at The Interval at Long Now. During the talk, the lifelong San Franciscan shared stories of the events, sights and people that were represented in his photos. Mikl Em, who interviewed Lyon, kicked off the talk with “85 Photos of San Francisco” featuring a selection of Lyon’s incredible photos.
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The Humanity Of Wildlife, In 150 Photos – Feature Shoot
The Humanity Of Wildlife, In 150 Photos
In 2017, Randal Ford’s animal photographs were awarded first place and best of show in the fine art category in the International Photo Awards competition. Nearly a year later, Rizzoli…
via Feature Shoot: https://www.featureshoot.com/2018/10/the-humanity-of-wildlife-in-150-photos/
In 2017, Randal Ford’s animal photographs were awarded first place and best of show in the fine art category in the International Photo Awards competition. Nearly a year later, Rizzoli New York published his first monograph, The Animal Kingdom: A Collection Of Portraits. Over five years in the making, the book features 150 up close and personal animal portraits, from a pensive chimpanzee to a fierce spotted leopard. Proceeds from the sale of this book benefit Project Survival’s Cat Haven, a park dedicated to the preservation of wild cats.
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Gritty Photos of the Highs and Lows of Mexico City’s Underground Nightlife – VICE
Gritty Photos of the Highs and Lows of Mexico City’s Underground Nightlife
“My most creative and calm moments happen at night while the fucking bureaucrats sleep.”
For more than 20 years, Mexican photographer José de Jesús “Chucho” León Hernández has documented wild moments that could only happen in the dead of night, when Mexico City’s daytime denizens finally drift off to sleep. Chucho wanders the metropolis with his camera, popping into underground nightclubs and dark alleys, capturing stark images of drugs, sex, squalor, glamour, revelry, and death.
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The Black Sea Series – The Leica camera Blog
Istanbul-based photographer Suzan Pektaş operates as a medium between reality and dream. Her photography is a visual exploration of the mundane, the fantastical and everything in between. Be it timeless, black and white street shots, more abstract experiments with movement and light or documentary story-telling, Pektaş’s output is nothing short of prolific and invariably high in quality. For her latest series she focused on a personal story, relating to her own childhood and the time she spent on the Black Sea coast. Shot with the Leica M-P Typ 240, the resulting photographs reveal the multiple cultural layers of the region, with a touch of personal mysticism and spirituality.
