Category: Portfolios & Galleries
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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.
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Juan Pablo Bellandi – The Tale Nobody Tells « burn magazine
Juan Pablo Bellandi – The Tale Nobody Tells Juan Pablo Bellandi The Tale Nobody Tells [ EPF 2018 SHORTLIST ] My job as a Photographer of the pólice in Venezuela for more than two years has taught me through crude lessons to see myself as a p… via burn magazine: https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2019/04/juan-pablo-bellandi-the-tale-nobody-tells/ My job as a…
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Fashioning the Feminine Ideal in the Photos of Martine Gutierrez – Feature Shoot
Fashioning the Feminine Ideal in the Photos of Martine Gutierrez – Feature Shoot Martine Gutierrez, Girl Friends (Rosella & Palma 4), 2014. Martine Gutierrez, Line Up 5, 2014. Martine Gutierrez, Girl Friends (Anita & Marie 3), 2014. Martine Gutierrez is a star, restoring… via Feature Shoot: https://www.featureshoot.com/2019/04/fashioning-the-feminine-ideal-in-the-photos-of-martine-gutierrez/ Martine Gutierrez is a star, restoring performance art…
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Blue Earth Alliance: Richard Street: Knife Fight City and the Kingdom of Dust | LENSCRATCH
Blue Earth Alliance: Richard Street: Knife Fight City and the Kingdom of Dust A hard-luck story from a hard-luck place, Richard Street’s “Knife Fight City and the Kingdom of Dust” takes us to Huron, the poorest town in California. Direct on-camera flash lends a Weegee-like aesthetic to desperate scenes of migrant men running afoul via…
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This City Is an Overcrowded, Illogical, Inhospitable Marvel – The New York Times
This City Is an Overcrowded, Illogical, Inhospitable Marvel Berenice Abbott captured the egomania and wanton development of New York’s streetscapes almost a century ago. The city is still at it. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/25/lens/berenice-abbott-portraits-of-modernity-new-york.html A generation before Kouwenhoven, Berenice Abbott captured this heathen beauty in a portfolio of photographs she called “Changing New York,” which was exhibited…
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Blue Earth Alliance: Tim Matsui: Leaving the Life | LENSCRATCH
Blue Earth Alliance: Tim Matsui: Leaving the Life One of the remarkable aspects of Tim Matsui’s “Leaving the Life” is the work he’s done to make sure that the project is more than an affecting, well-told story. For Matsui, creating an award-winning documentary film was just the beginning. He ran a succes via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2019/04/blue-earth-alliance-2/…
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The Racial Bias Built Into Photography – The New York Times
The Racial Bias Built Into Photography Sarah Lewis explores the relationship between racism and the camera. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/25/lens/sarah-lewis-racial-bias-photography.html This week, Harvard University’s Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study is hosting Vision & Justice, a two-day conference on the role of the arts in relation to citizenship, race and justice. Organized by Sarah Lewis, a Harvard professor,…
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Juxtapoz Magazine – Double Vision: The Photography of George Rodriguez
Juxtapoz Magazine – Double Vision: The Photography of George Rodriguez Since the 1950s, George Rodriguez has quietly documented multiple social worlds—in California and beyond—that have never before been displayed togethe… Link: https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/photography/double-vision-the-photography-of-george-rodriguez/ Since the 1950s, George Rodriguez has quietly documented multiple social worlds—in California and beyond—that have never before been displayed together, a rare mix…
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Juxtapoz Magazine – Double Vision: The Photography of George Rodriguez
Juxtapoz Magazine – Double Vision: The Photography of George Rodriguez Since the 1950s, George Rodriguez has quietly documented multiple social worlds—in California and beyond—that have never before been displayed togethe… Link: https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/photography/double-vision-the-photography-of-george-rodriguez/ Since the 1950s, George Rodriguez has quietly documented multiple social worlds—in California and beyond—that have never before been displayed together, a rare mix…
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Dave Heath: A Master of Photographing Solitude – The New York Times
Dave Heath: A Master of Photographing Solitude Standing between documentary and art, the black-and-white work of Dave Heath captures the world as quiet and contemplative. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/24/lens/dave-heath-dialogues-with-solitudes.html In Dave Heath’s vision, even the smushed faces of young lovers smooching is a picture of loneliness and alienation. The woman’s eyes are slightly open, not meeting the…
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Looking at San Francisco Through Hamburger Eyes – Feature Shoot
Looking at San Francisco Through Hamburger Eyes – Feature Shoot Mark Murrmann Ted Pushinsky Back in 2001, brothers Ray and David Potes were putting out photo zines the old fashioned way. Ray would edit and art direct while Dave ran… via Feature Shoot: https://www.featureshoot.com/2019/04/looking-at-san-francisco-through-hamburger-eyes/ Back in 2001, brothers Ray and David Potes were putting out…