Category: Portfolios & Galleries
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Sarah Hoskins: The States Project: Kentucky | LENSCRATCH
Sarah Hoskins: The States Project: Kentucky I was recently introduced to Sarah Hoskins’ work as a fellow Lexington photographer who imbeds themselves into communities for their practice. I was immediately intrigued by her ability to get access to these small communities and show their intimate mome via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2019/06/sarah-hoskins-the-states-project-kentucky/ I was recently introduced to Sarah…
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Chernobyl Disaster: Photos From 1986 – The Atlantic
Photos From the 1986 Chernobyl Disaster Thirty-three years ago, a series of explosions destroyed Chernobyl’s reactor No. 4, starting a blaze that burned for 10 days and sent a plume of radiation around the world—and that was just the beginning of the disaster. via The Atlantic: https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2019/06/chernobyl-disaster-photos-1986/590878/ As the HBO miniseries Chernobyl comes to a…
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Afro-Ecuadoreans Maintain Identity Through Spiritual Practices – The New York Times
Afro-Ecuadoreans Maintain Identity Through Spiritual Practices The photographer Johis Alarcón documented not just the indelible influence of African culture in Ecuador, but also how the descendants of enslaved women maintained their culture. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/31/lens/afro-ecuadoreans-identity-spiritual-practices.html The photographer Johis Alarcón documented not just the indelible influence of African culture in Ecuador, but also how the descendants of…
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Graciela Iturbide’s Art of Seeing Mexico | The New Yorker
Graciela Iturbide’s Art of Seeing Mexico In the course of her half-century-long career, Iturbide has dedicated herself to documenting the daily lives, the mores, and the remarkable diversity of Mexican people, always with an eye for the dignity of her subjects. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/graciela-iturbides-art-of-seeing-mexico Four years ago, at the age of seventy-three, the…
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A scroll through Jerry Hsu’s bizarre camera roll
A scroll through Jerry Hsu’s bizarre camera roll Back in 2006, skateboarder Jerry Hsu got a Blackberry. He began taking notes, snapping visual one-liners, jotting down locations and references that he’d send by BBM to friends. “By today’s standards, those photos are really bad but back then it was like, via Huck Magazine: https://www.huckmag.com/art-and-culture/photography-2/a-scroll-through-jerry-hsus-bizarre-camera-roll/ In…
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Rediscovering Garry Winogrand’s long forgotten color work – Feature Shoot
Rediscovering Garry Winogrand’s long forgotten color work – Feature Shoot Garry Winogrand (American, 1928-1984). Untitled (Cape Cod), 1966. 35mm color slide. Collection of the Center for Creative Photography, The University of Arizona. During the 1950s and ‘60s, Garry Winogrand made… via Feature Shoot: https://www.featureshoot.com/2019/05/rediscovering-garry-winogrands-long-forgotten-color-work/ Known best for his black and white photographs that pioneered a…
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Ashly Stohl: The Days are Long and the Years are Short | LENSCRATCH
Ashly Stohl: Days & Years I remember a day long ago, when I was cleaning out my purse, removing such items as a rotten banana, a half eaten protein bar, wads of kleenex and a few other sticky and seen-better-days items, plus numerous happy meal toys, all co-mingled with my adult p via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2019/05/karen-navarro/…
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Pieter-Jan De Pue : Kings of Afghanistan
Pieter-Jan De Pue : Kings of Afghanistan Filmmaker and photographer Pieter-Jan De Pue spent almost eight years in Afghanistan. There he worked on his award-winning film The Land of the Enlightened. As well as researching, preparing and making his film, PJ also continued to take photographs. His photos are portraits of people and landscapes, as…
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Juxtapoz Magazine – Travis Jensen Explores One of the Last Real San Francisco Neighborhoods In Stunning Black & White
Juxtapoz Magazine – Travis Jensen Explores One of the Last Real San Francisco Neighborhoods In Stunning Black & White San Francisco seems to be the “example” city these days. The example of gentrification, of tech booms, of extreme wealth, of extreme poverty, of liber… Link: https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/photography/travis-jenson-explores-one-of-the-last-real-san-francisco-neighborhoods-in-stunning-black-white/ For seven years, Travis Jensen has embedded himself in…
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These Portraits of Metalheads Go to 11 – The New York Times
These Portraits of Metalheads Go to 11 Returning to venues where he attended metal shows years ago, Matthew DeFeo captures the vulnerability behind these artists’ angsty facades. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/16/lens/these-portraits-of-metalheads-go-to-11.html Returning to venues where he attended metal shows years ago, Matthew DeFeo captures the vulnerability behind these artists’ angsty facades.
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Poetry Meets Politics in Photos of China – The New York Times
Poetry Meets Politics in Photos of China Between violent flash points in history, Liu Heung Shing saw tenderness and subversive humor in societies saturated with propaganda. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/15/lens/liu-heung-shing-china-photos.html Liu Heung Shing looked outside the car window: an imposing portrait of Mao Zedong had disappeared from the east side of Tiananmen Square. It was 1981.
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Documenting Climate Change by Air, Land and Sea – The New York Times
Documenting Climate Change by Air, Land and Sea The New York Times photographer Josh Haner has spent the past four years capturing the effects of climate change around the world and under water. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/14/lens/climate-change-josh-haner-air-land-and-sea.html The New York Times photographer Josh Haner has spent the past four years capturing the effects of climate change around…
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Juxtapoz Magazine – From Africa to China with Pieter Hugo
Juxtapoz Magazine – From Africa to China with Pieter Hugo Pieter Hugo is probably best known for his brutally frank portraits of his “kin,” mainly the Afrikaners of South Africa’s post-apartheid era. Later on… Link: https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/photography/from-africa-to-china-with-photographer-pieter-hugo/ Pieter Hugo is probably best known for his brutally frank portraits of his “kin,” mainly the Afrikaners of South…
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Jonathan Torgovnik : Intended Consequences & Disclosure (25 years later)
Jonathan Torgovnik : Intended Consequences & Disclosure (25 years later) In 2006, Jonathan Torgovnik worked on a photographic essay, on the children born as a result of rape during the genocide there in 1994. Many Tutsi women were forced to watch their husbands killed right in front of them, and then were brutally and repeatedly raped…
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A Daughter’s Portrait of Her Mother Through Dementia | The New Yorker
A Daughter’s Portrait of Her Mother Through Dementia Dementia is often ugly, stressful, and isolating; for the photographer Cheryle St. Onge, taking pictures of her mother is a way of expressing happiness, connection, and love. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/a-daughters-portrait-of-her-mother-through-dementia The photographer Cheryle St. Onge is an only child. Her father was a physics professor…
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In Photos, Eudora Welty Captured Life in 1930s Mississippi – The New York Times
In Photos, Eudora Welty Captured Life in 1930s Mississippi Before her career as a distinguished fiction writer, Eudora Welty applied her short-form prowess to photographing life in Depression-era Mississippi. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/09/lens/eudora-welty-photos-mississippi.html Before her career as a distinguished fiction writer, Eudora Welty applied her short-form prowess to photographing life in Depression-era Mississippi.
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Two and a Half Decades Observing Life in Rural America | The New Yorker
Two and a Half Decades Observing Life in Rural America From the eighties into the two-thousands, Sheron Rupp traversed the United States, with her camera, lingering in the yards of the small towns she visited and documenting the ways that private life can spill out into public view. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/two-and-a-half-decades-observing-life-in-rural-america The subjects…
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The CENTER Awards: Project Launch Grant Winner: Igor Tereshkov | LENSCRATCH
The CENTER Awards: Project Launch Grant Winner: Igor Tereshkov Congratulations to Igor Tereshkov for being selected for CENTER’s Project launch Grant recognizing his project, Oil and Moss. The Project Launch Award is granted to an outstanding photographer working on a fine art series or documentary project. The gran via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2019/05/the-center-awards-project-launch-grant-winner-igor-tereshkov/ Congratulations to Igor Tereshkov…
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Examining Identity, Race and Responsibility Among White South Africans – The New York Times
Examining Identity, Race and Responsibility Among White South Africans Sydelle Willow Smith’s photos tease out the complexities of her white South African compatriots, who grapple with the question of national origin. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/01/lens/examining-identity-race-and-responsibility-among-white-south-africans.html Sydelle Willow Smith’s photos tease out the complexities of her white South African compatriots, who grapple with the question of national origin.
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Same Pictures. Same Places. 68 Years Apart. – The New York Times
Same Pictures. Same Places. 68 Years Apart. In iconic locations, we recreated New York Times photos from 1951. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/01/nyregion/nyc-photos-from-1951.html The things we hold have changed, but the maneuvers are the same.