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Photographer Documents the Perilous Journey of Central American Migrants to the U.S. – Feature Shoot
Photographer Documents the Perilous Journey of Central American Migrants to the U.S. – Feature Shoot The Suchiate River is the crossing point between Mexico and Guatemala for thousands of Central American migrants hoping to make it to El Norte, the United States. They cross the water on a couple of beat-up intertubes with planks of…
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A bold and beautiful portrait of Brazil – The Washington Post
A bold and beautiful portrait of Brazil With the 2016 Olympics on the horizon in Rio de Janeiro, a look at Brazil’s vibrancy through a Washington Post photographer’s Instagram. via Washington Post: http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/in-sight/wp/2015/04/22/a-bold-and-beautiful-portrait-of-brazil/ Ahead of the upcoming 2016 Olympics to be held in Rio de Janeiro, Washington Post staff photographer Bonnie Jo Mount traveled to…
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Migrants at the gates, lives in the balance along the shores of Europe – The Washington Post
Migrants at the gates, lives in the balance along the shores of Europe Hundreds of migrants have perished at sea journeying to Europe, and hundreds more await asylum assessments at the door of coastal European cities. via Washington Post: http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/in-sight/wp/2015/04/21/migrants-at-the-gates-lives-in-the-balance-along-the-shores-of-europe/ Panos Pictures photographer Carlos Spottorno has been documenting incoming immigrants and their experience along various…
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Above And Beyond: Bill Shapiro on Kacper Kowalski | PDN Photo of the Day
Above And Beyond: Bill Shapiro on Kacper Kowalski Kacper Kowalski happened to be standing beside his brilliant picture and told me he’d been an architect who traded that in order to do two things he really loves—flying and photography.
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Mark Steigelman: Shooting Out the Back Window of a Fiat 500 « The Leica Camera
Mark Steigelman: Shooting Out the Back Window of a Fiat 500 Faced with the rigors of a daily three-hour commute on congested highways, he decided to record his wry observations of the folks in the cars behind him, transforming boredom into fine art.
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African-American Life, Double-Exposed – NYTimes.com
African-American Life, Double-Exposed “Through the African American Lens,” culled from a Smithsonian collection, shows how photography — and black photographers — reshaped a people’s image. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/04/17/african-american-life-double-exposed/?module=BlogPost-Title&version=Blog The late 1930s image by Eliot Elisofon shows Zack Brown taking a picture of two dapper African-American men on a Harlem street. It challenged the then-dominant…
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A Visual Remix – NYTimes.com
A Visual Remix Some artists have become digital collectors, turning other people’s pictures into new images with new meanings. Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/19/magazine/a-visual-remix.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&_r=0 In the seven years between the invention of the daguerreotype and Whitman’s visit to Plumbe’s, the medium had become popular enough to generate an impressive, and even hectic, stream of images. Now, toward the…
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Searching for Peace and Justice in Guatemala – NYTimes.com
Searching for Peace and Justice in Guatemala The civil war ended almost 20 years ago, but the country is struggling to bring justice to communities shattered by the conflict. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/04/15/searching-for-peace-and-justice-in-guatemala/?module=BlogPost-Title&version=Blog The war no longer rages, but conflicts persist. That realization led James Rodriguez, a Mexican-American photographer living in Guatemala, to document the…
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Photographer of Missing Nigerian Girls’ Belongings: Our Attention Was Not Enough | TIME
Photographer of Missing Nigerian Girls’ Belongings: Our Attention Was Not Enough “If my job is to create change, I have failed” via Time: http://time.com/3821976/nigeria-chibok-missing-girls-glenna-gordon-boko-haram/ “If a photographer’s only job is to take the photos, then I succeeded. If my job is to create change, I have failed”
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Chris Jordan – Miracles and Tragedies: Conveying the Wonder of Life Through Photographs | LensCulture
Miracles and Tragedies: Conveying the Wonder of Life Through Photographs – Photographs by and interview with Chris Jordan | LensCulture Inspirational artist Chris Jordan shares his views on the power of photography — “Art has always made an immeasurably important difference in human culture, and right now might be the most potent time ever for…
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The Impossibly Meticulous Photography of Andrew Myers — Vantage — Medium
The Impossibly Meticulous Photography of Andrew Myers It’s funny. It’s weird. And we can’t stop looking at it. via Medium: https://medium.com/vantage/the-impossibly-meticulous-photography-of-andrew-myers-92a868aa0b58 In the age of digital image making, we’ve grown to accept that even the most photorealistic images are really just electronic fabrications. It’s led to visual sensibilities that make the real and the unreal…
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Digging for Gold in the Andes – The New Yorker
Digging for Gold in the Andes Moises Saman photographed unregulated gold mining in the ramshackle town of La Rinconada, in the Peruvian Andes. via The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/digging-for-gold-in-the-andes The mines at La Rinconada, a bitter-cold, mercury-contaminated pueblo clinging to the glaciered mountainside, are “artisanal”—small, unregulated, and grossly unsafe. To stave off disaster, the miners propitiate…
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Knut Skjærven: Looking at Street Photography, Part 2 « The Leica Camera
Knut Skjærven: Looking at Street Photography, Part 2 My ambition was never to do yet another study on perception or to embark on an academic path to street photography. What interested me, was to see how I could use the tools as a photographer. Pictures, not words, have the highest priority.
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Photographer Documents the Rapid Development of Chongqing, a 21st Century Megacity – Feature Shoot
Photographer Documents the Rapid Development of Chongqing, a 21st Century Megacity – Feature Shoot If you’re measuring by sheer space, Chongqing is the largest city in China. Over the last few decades, it has grown so large that in 1997 its status was changed from that of a city in Sichuan province to a direct-controlled…
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Portraits from Rio de Janeiro’s ‘Cracklands’ | AP Images Blog
Portraits from Rio de Janeiro’s ‘Cracklands’ A makeshift portrait studio — a scavenged chair set in front of a white backdrop, illuminated by two small lights — draws crack users from their dark, nightmarish surroundings. Some users open up and tell their stories, while others reveal it only through their eyes.
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Mother, Son, Schizophrenia – The New Yorker
Mother, Son, Schizophrenia The Indian photographer Sohrab Hura’s photo journal “Life Is Elsewhere” shows his mother’s struggle with mental illness. via The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/mother-son-schizophrenia “There is a lot of suffering in this house,” the Indian photographer Sohrab Hura writes in a note printed at the beginning of his photo journal “Life Is Elsewhere.” In…
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Eye-Opening Photos Shed Light On a Community Living by Railroad Tracks in Kolkata – Feature Shoot
Eye-Opening Photos Shed Light On a Community Living by Railroad Tracks in Kolkata – Feature Shoot For Life and Lines, Kolkata-based photographer Debosmita Das documents daily life in an illegal slum that runs along an active railroad track, through which trains pass a mere foot or two from makeshift shelters at intervals of ten or…
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Les Boutographies 2015 : André Lützen, Zhili Byli – The Eye of Photography
Les Boutographies 2015 : André Lützen, Zhili Byli As a sequence “Zhili Byli” (Once upon a time…) combines images of contemporary living and housing conditions with a series of portraits of residents from the city of Arkhangelsk. The city in northwest Russia is plunged into freezing temperatures for eight months a year, sometimes as low…
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Tara Fallaux – The Ferris Wheel Kids | LensCulture
Tara Fallaux – The Ferris Wheel Kids Louis and Jan have always lived the carnival life. They travel from fairground to fairground with their Ferris wheel, living life in constant motion. This portrait series examines life between wheels, the family unit and the unshakeable bonds of brotherly love.