Shot over four years, Nelson’s new documentary hones in on a single street in Hackney, where 150-year-old eateries meet hipster coffee joints and £2m penthouse flats
Shot over four years, Nelson’s new documentary hones in on a single street in Hackney, where 150-year-old eateries meet hipster coffee joints and £2m penthouse flats
Breton né à Paris en 1941, vétéran de Magnum Photos depuis quarante-deux ans, Guy Le Querrec a trois amours dans sa vie. La photographie est évidemment sa
A Breton born in Paris in 1941, a Magnum veteran for the past 42 years, Guy Le Querrec has three loves. Photography is his greatest passion, but he also has an innate talent as a teacher, which was detected by Marc Riboud. It was Riboud who asked him to create a workshop at the Arles Photo Festival in 1976. His subsequent master classes have trained many amateur and professional photographers alike including Patrick Zachmann (another Magnum member). This exhibition for Arles + Jimei arrives at the 30th anniversary of his Arles workshop in China, which he conducted in Fujian in Xiamen and Quanzhou, along with eight trainees from the Arles Festival in 1988. His second love is his “country” of origin, Brittany, where he has photographed relentlessly over the years. And third, as a music lover, he is passionate (and knowledgeable) about jazz.
Magnum’s 2019 Pictures of the Year edit has been made by Magnum president Thomas Dworzak. One image taken over the last twelve months by each active Magnum photographer is collected here, providing an incisive visual review of 2019’s global goings-on. Dworzak shared these thoughts on the process of creating the selection:
Time again for my annual New Year’s tradition, written in the wee hours of New Year’s Eve, reflecting back on the previous year through the context of the photographs my favorite images I’ve created throughout the year.
When Marzio Emilio Villa revisited the site of his adoption in Brazil, he found answers to some pressing questions – and was able to recapture his own story, picture by picture.
The street is common ground for the society writ large, perhaps the most free and open space in the world. It offers both a world of anonymity and community, for…
For members of Magnum Photos, the street has long been a proving ground: a place they could always step into the flow of action and capture life unfolding before their eyes. In the new book Magnum Streetwise (Thames & Hudson), editor Stephen McLaren brings together some of the best works made by the cooperative over the past 70 years, exploring the continuums of urban life that exists across time and space.
Swedish photographer Simon Johansson’s newest book, “The Young Ones” (journal, 2019), celebrates that time in our lives. The book’s black-and-white photos are themselves wistful, nostalgic depictions of childhood. We see children, well, being children: They do cartwheels, play with their dogs, peer out windows, go to parties and play with their friends. These are most of the things children all around the world do, although these particular photos were mostly made of children living in Europe.
Photographer Michael Magers visited Japan for the first time back in 2012. “For most of it, I fumbled around like everyone else,” he remembers. “Especially in the days before I was able to really use Google Maps.” It wasn’t until he connected with Shinji
Since first visiting as a tourist, photographer Michael Magers has been enchanted by Japan. His new book collates work from the past eight years – in which he‘s captured a country bursting with ‘endless possibility’.
The Israeli photographer Michal Chelbin has made images of Ukrainian teen-agers at two different locations during two distinct periods: first, in the Donetsk region of eastern Ukraine, in 2008, and then in and around Kyiv, in 2019. Each time, her subjects were on the precipice of adulthood, attending their high-school graduation, an event that includes a prom. Our view is that of an outsider, although Chelbin’s father was born in western Ukraine, and she grew up fascinated by the black-and-white portraits that he had brought with him when he left as a child. In some of Chelbin’s photographs, the teens re-create those old styles: a subject stands, for instance, with a hand resting on the shoulder of a peer sitting nearby. Unlike teens in the U.S., the young men’s dress varies quite a bit, from tuxedos or conventional suits to brightly colored jackets or uniforms. The young women wear ball gowns or more casual short skirts.
Their odysseys have also brought them to Bihac, a city in Bosnia’s northwestern borderlands. They have alighted here because it is on the way to where they hope to end up, Croatia. Associated Press photographer Manu Brabo has traveled there to examine the conditions these migrants face.
Tania Franco Klein’s work is highly influenced by her fascination with social behavior and contemporary practices such as leisure, consumption, media overstimulation, emotional disconnection, the obsession with eternal youth, the American dream in the Western world and the psychological sequels they generate in our everyday life. Her latest solo exhibition, Proceed to the Route, is currently on view at Rose Gallery.
National Geographic readers voted a heartbreaking photograph by Ami Vitale as the top photograph of the decade. Vitale’s image shows the moment just before Sudan, the last male northern white rhinoceros on earth, died. In the photo, Sudan is comforted by Joseph Wachira, a caretaker at Ol Pejeta Conservancy, in Kenya. National Geographic readers voted for the image in an online poll in December 2019.
The Levee: A Photographer in the American South presents a body of photographs by Sohrab Hura in which the artist explores themes of connection, persp…
The Levee: A Photographer in the American South presents a body of photographs by Sohrab Hura in which the artist explores themes of connection, perspective, and place. The landscapes and portraits of The Levee trace Hura’s travel along the Mississippi River from its confluence with Ohio to the far reaches of the delta in Louisiana.
Each year, I teach a year long Personal Project class at the Los Angeles Center of Photography where photographers continue with or create new bodies of work, produce artist’s books or catalogs, hone their articulation and consider their influences. To sa
Each year, I teach a year long Personal Project class at the Los Angeles Center of Photography where photographers continue with or create new bodies of work, produce artist’s books or catalogs, hone their articulation and consider their influences. To say that I’m proud of these artists is an understatement–I’m amazed by their dedication to their craft and their journey as photographic artists. It has been a complete pleasure to spend 2019 with them.
Happy New Year! I hope this year brings you all good things, from health and happiness to creativity and continued successes. Thank you for sharing your favorite photograph of 2019! I know that favorite doesn’t necessarily mean best–it can be a favorite
Happy New Year! I hope this year brings you all good things, from health and happiness to creativity and continued successes. Thank you for sharing your favorite photograph of 2019! I know that favorite doesn’t necessarily mean best–it can be a favorite for sentimentality, remembrance of the experience, or just because it moved something inside of you. Enjoy this six part post and start the new year off with photography.
Goran Tomasevic, a photojournalist with Reuters, spent the year 2019 covering unrest and conflict in Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and South America.
Goran Tomasevic has worked as a photojournalist for Reuters for more than 20 years, covering some of the biggest events and stories around the world. In 2019, Tomasevic was among a team of Reuters photographers awarded the Pulitzer Prize in the Breaking News Photography category. Throughout the past year, he traveled to locations in Europe, Africa, and South America to photograph the faces and stories of unrest and conflict, from anti-government protests in Lebanon and Chile, to ongoing warfare in Libya, to warring tribes in Kenya’s Ilemi Triangle, and more. Below, in roughly chronological order, is a look at some of the stories brought to us through Goran Tomasevic’s lens in the past year.
“I lost my sense of home,” Franco Klein says of her life lived between Mexico City, California and London. Recently I had the great pleasure of attending an exhibition walk-through with Mexican artist Tania Franco Klein of her solo show, Proceed to the Ro
Recently I had the great pleasure of attending an exhibition walk-through with Mexican artist Tania Franco Klein of her solo show, Proceed to the Route at the Rose Gallery in Santa Monica. Tania is a compelling story teller and provided an engaging narration and perspective of work that takes the viewer through a cinematic journey of internal and external road trips.
Merry Christmas! I have to admit that I’m not a religious person, but I’m all in when it comes to Christmas. The lights, the decorations, the tree, the fantasy of Santa and the reindeer are wonderful distractions from politics and the end of the world as
I have to admit that I’m not a religious person, but I’m all in when it comes to Christmas. The lights, the decorations, the tree, the fantasy of Santa and the reindeer are wonderful distractions from politics and the end of the world as we know it. This is the third time I’ve featured Jesse Rieser’s terrific project, Christmas in America: Happy Birthday Jesus, first in 2013, then again in 2016. The good news is that this is an 8 year effort and it just gets more delicious with each year. He completed the project this year with work made in New York. His perspective of examining this holiday/religious/commercial event from the outside, makes us see the folly and the magic of saying Happy Birthday to Christ.
