Portfolios & Galleries

Isolationism in Photography: William Mark Sommer: The Loneliest Highway – LENSCRATCH

What does it mean to be alone? To be isolated from the people and things we hold dearest? Since the pandemic, it seems like we all have an answer to this very question. Some people embraced the mandatory isolation while others struggled being forced to be

via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2023/07/isolationism-in-photography-william-mark-sommer-the-loneliest-highway/

Artist William Mark Sommer explores what it meant to be truly alone in his project, The Loneliest Highway. Taking a road trip along the Lincoln Highway in Nevada, Sommers documented spaces that felt barren and empty due to the COVID-19 pandemic, in an effort to capture this new way of living — closed off and separated from one another

July 17, 2023

Agnès Varda’s Storyboard of French Village Life | The New Yorker

Agnès Varda’s Storyboard of French Village Life

A new exhibition showcases the filmmaker’s startlingly original form of incidental portraiture.

via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/agnes-vardas-storyboard-of-french-village-life

A new exhibition showcases the filmmaker’s startlingly original form of incidental portraiture.

July 14, 2023

Ari Salomon: 6 Feet Apart – LENSCRATCH

This week we are featuring projects seen at the Medium Photo Portfolio Reviews. If a future anthropologist were to go back in time to 2020 and look for clues to a world wide pandemic, the masks and gloves and hand sanitizers would be deep into landfills,

via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2023/07/ari-solomon-6-feet-apart/

Artist Ari Salomon has created a project of unique typologies that reflect the symbols created to assist us in staying covid-free. As the world returns to some new form of normalcy, these remnants become part of our histories, paint and tape etched into sidewalks and floors. In viewing a collection of this new language, Solomon moves these humble gestures into a new artform of street art. The work is expanded by a zine and unique installations.

July 10, 2023

My Mom Wants To Go Back Home – Photographs by Hanna Hrabarska | Interview by Sophie Wright | LensCulture

Documenting her journey from Ukraine to The Netherlands with her mother, Hanna Hrabarska’s visual diary grapples with the experience of being forced to leave one’s home in the face of war—and the challenges of arriving in a new country

via LensCulture: https://www.lensculture.com/articles/hanna-hrabarska-my-mom-wants-to-go-back-home

Documenting her journey from Ukraine to The Netherlands with her mother, Hanna Hrabarska’s visual diary grapples with the experience of being forced to leave one’s home in the face of war—and the challenges of arriving in a new country.

July 9, 2023

The Lower East Side’s Folk Historian | The New Yorker

The Lower East Side’s Folk Historian

For four decades, Clayton Patterson has been the neighborhood’s most dogged artist-archivist.

via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/the-lower-east-sides-folk-historian

Patterson’s photographs served as plainspoken time capsules of the community. In a 2008 documentary called “Captured,” which chronicles his life on the Lower East Side, he says, “Looking out on the street is like being in an aquarium, and when I look out on the street I see this activity all day long.”

July 9, 2023

Marcia Bricker Halperin: Kibbitz & Nosh: When We All Met at Dubrow’s Cafeteria – LENSCRATCH

Opening Kibbitz & Nosh: When We All Met at Dubrow’s Cafeteria is like stepping through the revolving doors of that now-defunct establishment, into the world of New York’s vanished cafeteria culture. Marcia Bricker Halperin’s evocative black and white phot

via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2023/07/marcia-bricker-halperin-kibbitz-nosh/

Opening Kibbitz & Nosh: When We All Met at Dubrow’s Cafeteria is like stepping through the revolving doors of that now-defunct establishment, into the world of New York’s vanished cafeteria culture. Marcia Bricker Halperin’s evocative black and white photographs transport us there with the same wonder she felt when she first entered Dubrow’s on a cold morning in 1975

July 4, 2023

Independence Day celebrations in Philadelphia are special to this Inquirer photographer

An extra special Fourth | Scene Through the Lens

Staff photographer Tom Gralish looks back at four decades at The Inquirer.

via https://www.inquirer.com: https://www.inquirer.com/photo/pulitzer-photojournalism-tom-gralish-photographer-newspaper-photographer-20230703.html

This year the holiday is extra special for me as it also marks my 40th anniversary at The Inquirer.

July 4, 2023

South of the River – Photographs by Nico Froehlich | Text by Joanna L. Cresswell | LensCulture

Doused in bright sunlight, friends and strangers are immortalized in front of Nico Froehlich’s lens, coming together to form “South of the River” — a fond portrait of the area of London where he grew up

via LensCulture: https://www.lensculture.com/articles/nico-froehlich-south-of-the-river

Doused in bright sunlight, friends and strangers are immortalized in front of Nico Froehlich’s lens, coming together to form “South of the River” — a fond portrait of the area of London where he grew up.

July 3, 2023

CENTER Blue Earth Fiscal Sponsorship: Matilde Simas – Woman Rising, Surviving Human Trafficking – LENSCRATCH

Congratulations to Matilde Simas for being selected for Blue Earth Fiscal Sponsorship Award recognizing her project, Woman Rising: Surviving Human Trafficking. CENTER is pleased to add the Blue Earth Fiscal Sponsorship to their services for photographers

via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2023/06/center-blue-earth-fiscal-sponsorship-matilde-simas-woman-rising-surviving-human-trafficking/

At the core of this work resides the belief that visual storytelling has the power to change the world. Woman Rising: Surviving Human Trafficking is a multimedia and civic engagement project that strives to educate communities on the atrocity of human trafficking and encourage them to support survivors as they heal and rebuild their lives.

June 7, 2023

The Afro-Esotericism of Awol Erizku | The New Yorker

The Afro-Esotericism of Awol Erizku

The prolific artist knows that contemporary Blackness, made and unmade on the stage of capitalism, is as much defined by its spiritual reckonings as it is by the elemental stuff.

via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/the-afro-esotericism-of-awol-erizku

The prolific artist knows that contemporary Blackness, made and unmade on the stage of capitalism, is as much defined by its spiritual reckonings as it is by the elemental stuff.

June 7, 2023

CENTER Excellence in Multimedia Storytelling Award – Harvey Castro – Los Olvidados – LENSCRATCH

Congratulations to Harvey Castro for being selected for CENTER’s Excellence in Multimedia Storytelling Award recognizing his project, Los Olvidados. The Excellence in Multimedia Storytelling Award recognizes outstanding storytellers using lens-based media

via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2023/06/center-excellence-in-multimedia-storytelling-award-harvey-castro-los-olvidados/

These stories are a powerful reminder of marginalized communities’ ongoing struggle in the wake of natural disasters. Their plight highlights how a lack of equity and representation leaves them without effective agency, struggling to survive and rebuild. It is essential to remember that natural disasters have a lasting impact, and we must provide support to ensure that communities can recover and thrive. By highlighting these stories, I hope to bring attention to the need for action and change in the face of climate-related disasters. – Harvey Castro

June 4, 2023

Life Along Israel’s Separation Wall | The New Yorker

Life Along Israel’s Separation Wall

The photographer Ofir Berman captures two entangled realities.

via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/life-along-israels-separation-wall

Israelis are forbidden from crossing the wall to Palestinian city centers, yet the Israeli photographer Ofir Berman has managed to find a way to her subjects, through Palestinian friends she met while working in a refugee camp in the Greek island of Leros. Once she got to know the stories of the people living in the West Bank, she says, “I wasn’t able to look back.” Berman has spent the past year frequenting both sides of the wall, documenting daily life in one of the most contested stretches of land in the world. Her lens captures the rhythms of men, women, and children who happen to be Israeli or Palestinian, of routines that appear strikingly similar for occupier and occupied

June 2, 2023

CENTER Me&Eve Grant: Mykle Parker – Rage 4 Rights – LENSCRATCH

Congratulations to Mykle Parker for being selected for CENTER’s Me&Eve Grant recognizing their project, Rage 4 Rights. The Me&Eve Grant provides financial support to a woman, female-identified, non-binary, transgender, gender non-conforming, or two-spirit

via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2023/05/center-meeve-grant-mykle-parker-rage-4-rights/

Rage 4 Rights is an ongoing series documenting the controversial group Rise Up 4 Abortion Rights, and its dedication to the fight for equality and access to free/safe legal abortions available to all women in the United States through daring, nonviolent, disruptive protest that illuminate that rage women are feeling after Roe vs Wade was overturned.

May 31, 2023

In Visible Light – Street Photography Awards 2021 Winner | LensCulture

In these award-winning photographs by Sam Ferris, intense golden sunlight bounces off the steel-and-glass urban canyon walls of Sydney’s Central Business District — illuminating passersby and setting the stage for countless fleeting encounters on the city

via LensCulture: https://www.lensculture.com/solo-exhibition/sam-ferris-in-visible-light

In these award-winning photographs by Sam Ferris, intense golden sunlight bounces off the steel-and-glass urban canyon walls of Sydney’s Central Business District — illuminating passersby and setting the stage for countless fleeting encounters on the city streets.

May 25, 2023

Sin City: Las Vegas Photography, Through the Decades

From Harry Gruyaert’s photos from the 1980s to Christian Lutz’s documentation of the City of Lights, explore Las Vegas photography over time.

via Feature Shoot: https://www.featureshoot.com/2023/05/sin-city-las-vegas-photography-through-the-decades/

Geoffrey Ellis captures the spirit of Las Vegas in the 1970s and 80s, while Markus Altmann photographs the city in the 1990s. Meanwhile, Stephanie Diani introduces us to the legends of burlesque, while Stefanie Moshammer shows us why Vegas is known as the “strip club capital of the world.” In this collection of Las Vegas photography, six photographers document Sin City, then and now.

May 25, 2023

Rachel Demy: between, everywhere – LENSCRATCH

To be a tour manager and a photographer is to be attuned to the slightest of details. The exact time every band member needs to be on stage for sound check; ensuring that every piece of gear is on the tour bus at the end of the night. The exact slant of l

via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2023/05/rachel-demy-between-everywhere/

Between, Everywhere is the culmination of my experience as a photographer, professional tour manager, and Death Cab for Cutie family member. This book is about a band, but more specifically, a band on tour. Tour is something I know a lot about.

May 24, 2023

The 2023 MOTHER Exhibition – LENSCRATCH

What a complete pleasure to spend time with your hundreds of submissions and see all the considerations of MOTHER. Thank you for joining in this 5 part exhibition, so keep scrolling. For those who celebrate, Happy Mother’s Day, and for those who don’t, th

via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2023/05/the-2023-mother-exhibition-part-3/

What a complete pleasure to spend time with your hundreds of submissions and see all the considerations of MOTHER. Thank you for joining in this 5 part exhibition, so keep scrolling. For those who celebrate, Happy Mother’s Day, and for those who don’t, thank you for celebrating Mother nature and mothering in the animal world. No matter, enjoy the exhibition!

May 14, 2023

Arrivals and Departures America – The Leica camera Blog

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Images as a way to connect with people: photographer Jacob Aue Sobol’s pictures have captured numerous encounters. Arrivals and Departures America is a journey through all of the 50 United States. However, the series is primarily an encounter between the people there and Sobol himself.

May 8, 2023

A Photographer’s Brutal Images of Small Pro-Wrestling Shows | PetaPixel

A Photographer’s Brutal Images of Small Pro-Wrestling Shows

The glamor of WWE it is not.

via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2023/05/03/photographers-brutal-images-from-small-pro-wrestling-shows/

Photographer Michael Watson has spent the last decade traveling to small, independent wrestling shows capturing the brave men and women who put their bodies on the line night after night.

May 4, 2023

Ocho Puntas – The Leica camera Blog

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The Ocho Puntas in Barcelona can be seen as an outdoor altar. Spanish photographer David Salcedo chose this meeting place for his artistic series with the Leica Q2.

April 24, 2023

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