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Marc McAndrews: American Ultraviolence | LENSCRATCH

Marc McAndrews: American Ultraviolence

Photographer’s Photographer, Marc McAndrews’ new project, American Ultraviolence, allows us entree into the world of extreme wrestling, where blood and posturing are part of the spectacle. Marc’s work often explores fringe cultures, including his well-reg

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Photographer’s Photographer, Marc McAndrews’ new project, American Ultraviolence, allows us entree into the world of extreme wrestling, where blood and posturing are part of the spectacle. Marc’s work often explores fringe cultures, including his well-regarded project, Nevada Rose that took a look at life in legal brothels. This access comes from being present and being curious and hours and hours behind a wheel.

May 6, 2015
Berenice Abbott, Writing Her Own History – NYTimes.com

Berenice Abbott, Writing Her Own History

The expanded archives of the pioneering photographer Berenice Abbott detail not just the range of her eye, but also the obstacles she confronted and overcame.

via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/05/06/berenice-abbott-writing-her-own-history/?module=BlogPost-Title&version=Blog

Laid out on the counter were portraits of the famous and the nameless, unpretentious wedding pictures, grandiose industrial architectural details, midcentury American scenes and close-ups of a brain, a wrench and a creepy-crawler. Next to them, a few yellowed notes. One, signed by the French writer Jean Cocteau, declared: “She exposes her delicious memory. She is a chess game between light and shadow.”

The subject? His friend, the noted 20th century photographer Berenice Abbott.

May 6, 2015
Paris Photo LA 2015 : Diary of David Hume Kennerly – The Eye of Photography

Paris Photo LA 2015 : Diary of David Hume Kennerly

As a photographer, and one who truly loves other people’s pictures, I try not to be critical, but when I see so many photographs in one place, my mind immediately goes into contest judging mode. I can’t help but sort the vast display of work into winners and losers categories. And that’s how most people look at art, whether they admit it or not, especially if they want to buy something.

May 5, 2015
Victor Dragonetti – in Process | LensCulture

LensCulture – Contemporary Photography

Discover and share the best in contemporary photography

via LensCulture: https://www.lensculture.com/projects/104412-in-process

The photographic essay “in Process” was done during the protests of 2013 and 2014 in São Paulo, Brazil.

May 5, 2015
Daimon Xanthopoulos – Portrait of West Africa’s Secret Societies | LensCulture

Daimon Xanthopoulos – Portrait of West Africa’s Secret Societies | LensCulture

Magic and secret societies play an important role in society of Sierra Leone and Liberia. It is something that is everywhere and part of politics, culture and religion. Secret societies can be found in all levels of society. Magic and the fight against wi

via LensCulture: https://www.lensculture.com/projects/99697-portrait-of-west-africa-s-secre

Magic and secret societies play an important role in society of Sierra Leone and Liberia. It is something that is everywhere and part of politics, culture and religion. Secret societies can be found in all levels of society. Magic and the fight against witchcraft is one major reason that the secret societies are so influential. All secret societies are using herbs and ceremonies to fight against the witchcraft. Witched people or children are being persecuted by a special healers union and even killed in some occasions. In the villages there are bush schools and dancing devel ceremonies. A portrait of mystical Sierra Leone, meeting traditional priests, hidden societies and magical healers.

May 5, 2015
Carla Kogelman – New Dutch Photography Talent: Carla Kogelman | LensCulture

carla kogelman – New Dutch Photography Talent: Carla Kogelman | LensCulture

A prime example of an upcoming and hardworking talent is Carla Kogelman (1961, Raalte). A selection of her black and white children’s portraits was featured in New 2013 and presented with a World Press Photo award in 2014. Recently she received a grant fr

via LensCulture: https://www.lensculture.com/projects/104439-new-dutch-photography-talent

A prime example of an upcoming and hardworking talent is Carla Kogelman (1961, Raalte). A selection of her black and white children’s portraits was featured in New 2013 and presented with a World Press Photo award in 2014. Recently she received a grant from the International Festival Photoreporter in the Baie of Saint Brieuc which will give her the opportunity to document the Xhosa generation in South Africa and Kogelman was shortlisted for the Sony World Photography Awards. Considering her previous success, were curious to hear how her career had progressed and decided to catch up with the Dutch photographer whose work evokes that of the American Sally Mann.

May 5, 2015
Photographers Revisit the Site of the Vietnam War, 40 Years Later – Feature Shoot

Photographers Revisit the Site of the Vietnam War, 40 Years Later – Feature Shoot

Berlin-based photographers Miguel Hahn and Jan- Christoph Hartung, who together form Hahn+Hartung, go against the grain of tradition war photography in that they are drawn not to modern-day battlefields but rather those that have been forgotten and buried

via Feature Shoot: http://www.featureshoot.com/2015/05/photographers-revisit-the-site-of-the-vietnam-war-40-years-later/

Berlin-based photographers Miguel Hahn and Jan- Christoph Hartung, who together form Hahn+Hartung, go against the grain of tradition war photography in that they are drawn not to modern-day battlefields but rather those that have been forgotten and buried by decades of history. For Texas Saigon, the duo returned to the scene of the Vietnam War, piecing together a story told by wounds that remain unhealed—if bandaged—forty years after the Fall of Saigon on April 30th, 1975.

May 4, 2015
ICP Infinity Awards 2015 : Larry Fink – The Eye of Photography

ICP Infinity Awards 2015 : Larry Fink

It is easy to be dismayed. The path has grown more complex, however if you are obsessed, you live with a blessing.

May 4, 2015
Andre Kertesz, Watching From Above – NYTimes.com

Andre Kertesz, Watching From Above

From his window perch, Andre Kertesz captured candid moments where his subjects were unaware the master photographer was watching them.

via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/05/04/andr-kertsz-watching-from-above/?module=BlogPost-Title&version=Blog

A new show at the Stephen Bulger Gallery in Toronto titled “Surveillance” seeks to answer that question, featuring photographs Kertesz, who died in 1985, made using telephoto lenses, or at times a telescope attached to his camera. The show takes a photographer known for his still lifes, portraits of artists, and later work from his apartment overlooking Washington Square Park and places him on an entirely different stage.

May 4, 2015
Burundi’s Political Tension | AP Images Blog

Burundi’s Political Tension

Photos by Jerome Delay

May 3, 2015
Tetsuya Kusu – American Archives | LensCulture

American Archives – Photographs and text by Tetsuya Kusu | LensCulture

A Japanese photographer set out to challenge his own stereotypes and find the “real” America

via LensCulture: https://www.lensculture.com/articles/tetsuya-kusu-american-archives

As a member of the last generation to adore America, I was struck by a desire to see the real America—so I got in a car and hit the road. There, in between the vaguely nostalgic scenery I remembered, I found people who lived commonplace, dull, and unsurprising ordinary lives just like us. My stereotype of America changed its shape and began manifesting itself in front of me with a strange sense of familiarity.

May 2, 2015
Smithsonian Magazine – Moving Pictures: Insight from a Photo Editor | LensCulture

Moving Pictures: Insight from a Photo Editor – Interview with Smithsonian Magazine editor Molly Roberts | LensCulture

With decades of experience in the industry under her belt, Chief Photography Editor Molly Roberts speaks about the importance of strong visual foundations and photography’s ability to stop you in your tracks

via LensCulture: https://www.lensculture.com/articles/smithsonian-magazine-moving-pictures-insight-from-a-photo-editor

In talking with young photographers, even ones whose work I really like, I want to encourage them to know more: about the history of photography, the people who have walked the paths they are walking. There are so many different references that we should all have as part of our visual vocabulary. But some people have no idea, it feels like young photojournalists don’t learn those things any more.

April 30, 2015
A Prisoner in His Own Home — Vantage — Medium

A Prisoner in His Own Home

Photographer Lisa Krantz documents the cycle of obesity with empathy

via Medium: https://medium.com/vantage/a-prisoner-in-his-own-home-93c155afba0e

Photographer Lisa Krantz documents one man’s struggle with obesity

April 30, 2015
Inside Sudan’s War-Torn Darfur | TIME

Inside Sudan’s War-Torn Darfur

Photographer Adriane Ohanesian followed refugees hiding in the Marra Mountains

via Time: http://time.com/3834434/sudan-darfur-rebels-civilians-photos/

Photographer Adriane Ohanesian followed refugees hiding in the Marra Mountains

April 28, 2015
Discover African Migrants’ Long Journey Through the Sahara | TIME

Discover African Migrants’ Long Journey Through the Sahara

Before reaching Europe, migrants travel through the lawlessness of the Sahara

via Time: http://time.com/3835789/africa-migrants-niger-pictures/

Before they can reach the Mediterranean and Europe, migrants must travel through the lawlessness expanses of the Sahara

April 28, 2015
Sarker Protick photographs the Bangladeshi film industry in his series, “Love Me Or Kill Me.”

Behind the Scenes of the Fast-Paced, Small-Budget Movies of Dhallywood

Growing up in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Sarker Protick would look forward to Friday afternoons, when, on the national television channel, he could count on…

via Slate Magazine: http://www.slate.com/blogs/behold/2015/04/27/sarker_protick_photographs_the_bangladeshi_film_industry_in_his_series_love.html

Growing up in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Sarker Protick would look forward to Friday afternoons, when, on the national television channel, he could count on the screening of a Dhallywood film. Full of epic romances and cartoonish violence, the movies made by the country’s film industry were exercises in extremes, made quickly and with small budgets to appeal to the widest possible audience. For the young Protick, they offered a glimpse into a fantastical world.

April 28, 2015
A Complex Self-Portrait of Africa – NYTimes.com

A Complex Self-Portrait of Africa

A prizewinning Nigerian photographer has devoted himself to documenting his nation’s social and political growth, offering an alternative narrative to the usual story of Africans as victims.

via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/04/28/a-complex-self-portrait-of-africa/?module=BlogPost-Title&version=Blog

Holding a retrospective exhibit after only 15 years as a professional photographer may seem unexpected. But such was the timing for Akintunde Akinleye, the only Nigerian photojournalist to have won a World Press Photo prize, in 2007. Since then, he has continued his work for Reuters, capturing life in the heart of Lagos, whose population of more than 20 million makes it Africa’s largest city.

April 28, 2015
What Nepal’s Earthquake Left Behind – The Atlantic

The Ruins of Nepal

Nepalis started fleeing their devastated capital of Kathmandu on April 27 after Saturday's earthquake killed more than 3,700 people and toppled entire streets, as the United Nations prepared a “massive” aid operation.

via The Atlantic: http://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2015/04/what-nepals-earthquake-left-behind/391559/

Nepalis started fleeing their devastated capital of Kathmandu on April 27 after Saturday’s earthquake killed more than 3,700 people and toppled entire city blocks

April 27, 2015
Jordi Cohen: Act of Faith « The Leica Camera

Jordi Cohen: Act of Faith

I make fundamentally social reports. My work attempts to convey emotions linked to cultural aspects of different countries and civilizations. I try to photograph emotions, in an intuitive picture style. In many of my reports, I show people in situations of ecstasy, outside themselves

April 27, 2015
Rebuilding Lives After a Factory Collapse in Bangladesh – NYTimes.com

Rebuilding Lives After a Factory Collapse in Bangladesh

An hour after the Rana Plaza garment factory collapsed in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Abir Abdullah got to the scene unsure where to begin taking pictures. More than a thousand people had died and hundreds more were trapped alive in the rubble. Injured workers were screaming and crying all around him as rescue workers pulled bodies from the debris.

April 23, 2015