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Jeanette Bos – Statia Song | LensCulture
Jeanette Bos – Statia Song | LensCulture Statia – an 8 sq/miles island officially named St. Eustatius, washed by the waves of the Caribbean Sea, hurtled by history’s forces. Centuries ago a major staple market and centre for slave trade, home to wealthy European merchants, fiercely fought over b via LensCulture: https://www.lensculture.com/projects/96198-statia-song Louis and Jan…
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Leslie Hall Brown – Re-Visioning | LensCulture
Leslie Hall Brown – RE-VISIONING | LensCulture The original images for this series were made with a Diana camera, which I then re-visioned, adding additional layers to deepen the visual experience. This work is based in part on the psychology of James Hillman, who said that the poetic basis of mind pl via LensCulture: https://www.lensculture.com/projects/97520-re-visioning…
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A Powerful Look Inside Austerity-Hit Greece | TIME
A Powerful Look Inside Austerity-Hit Greece See a humbling, intense meditation on the fragility of social cohesion via Time: http://time.com/3767465/see-inside-austerity-hit-greece/ It is this Greece that photographer Angelos Tzortzinis set out to capture. Over the course of six years, he has documented the effects of austerity measures in his native country, one he says he no…
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Antone Dolezal & Lara Shipley – Devil’s Promenade | LensCulture
Devil’s Promenade – Photographs and text by Antone Dolezal & Lara Shipley | LensCulture The Ozark backwoods are a place you feel — dark nooks in the woods and the banks of rivers, the smell of wet life and decay, a steady insect hum, the mysteries of darkness and light via LensCulture: https://www.lensculture.com/articles/antone-dolezal-lara-shipley-devil-s-promenade The Ozark…
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Agnieszka Sosnowska – In My Backyard: Iceland | LensCulture
In My Backyard: Iceland – Photographs and text by Agnieszka Sosnowska | LensCulture Set against the grand, wild majesty of the eastern Icelandic landscape, these searching self-portraits are one woman’s attempts to connect with herself and forge a basic understanding with her environment via LensCulture: https://www.lensculture.com/articles/agnieszka-sosnowska-in-my-backyard-iceland For a long time I thought that photographs showed…
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Bud Glick: Chinatown | LENSCRATCH
Bud Glick: Chinatown 1980’s New York City was a stew of music, drugs, and excess bumping up against populations of hard working immigrants just trying to provide for their families. Photographer Bud Glick was there with his camera, but his focus turned away from disco nights via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2015/04/bud-glick-chinatown/ 1980′s New York City was a…
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Philip-Lorca diCorcia’s East of Eden Pictures America’s Fall From Grace | American Photo
Philip-Lorca diCorcia’s East of Eden Pictures America’s Fall From Grace The U.S. debut of an ongoing series by one of the most influential photographers of our time
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Jacob Aue Sobol – I, Tokyo | LensCulture
I, Tokyo – Photographs by Jacob Aue Sobol | LensCulture “As much as possible, I worked from instinct via LensCulture: https://www.lensculture.com/articles/jacob-aue-sobol-i-tokyo As much as possible, I worked from instinct. Taking photos resembles an improvised game. I feel that the more a photo is spontaneous and unplanned, the more it becomes alive, the more it moves…
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‘Living on a Dollar a Day’ Captures the Silenced Minority on Poverty’s Edge – Feature Shoot
‘Living on a Dollar a Day’ Captures the Silenced Minority on Poverty’s Edge – Feature Shoot Starvation: In the Charan slum settlement of northern India, Kalpana, 20, starves one of her children Sangeeta, 2, while her sister Sarita, 5-months-old, right, sleeps in comfort, above right, in… via Feature Shoot: http://www.featureshoot.com/2015/04/new-book-captures-silenced-minority-lives-edge/ Pulitzer-prize winning photographer, Renée C.…
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Love and Loss on the Road to Arkansas – NYTimes.com
Love and Loss on the Road to Arkansas Nina Robinson’s plans for a fun Southern road trip took a detour when her grandmother died. She ended up delving deep into the rituals and routines of her family. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/04/02/love-and-loss-on-the-road-to-arkansas/?module=BlogPost-Title&version=Blog When Nina Robinson boarded a Greyhound bus from New York to Arkansas last October,…
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Photo London – Photo London 2015: Editors’ Preview | LensCulture
Photo London 2015: Editors’ Preview – Photographs will be exhibited at the 2015 Photo London | LensCulture FRESH: A highly selective early preview of just some of the contemporary photography that will be on display (and for sale to collectors) at Photo London, May 21-24, 2015 via LensCulture: https://www.lensculture.com/articles/photo-london-photo-london-2015-editors-preview#slide-4 An all-new world-class photography fair opens…
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Photographer’s Hustle: When Recklessness Meets Responsibility | American Photo
Photographer’s Hustle: When Recklessness Meets Responsibility In early 2007, a 24-year-old Bryan Derballa arrived in New York City with little cash and big ideas. “I flew into La Guardia with two suitcases, a skateboard, and a backpack, and I took a bus and subway from the airport,” he recalls. “On the stairs I’d take one…
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Jim Casper – 65 Amazing Photo Series Inspired by the Earth | LensCulture
65 Amazing Photo Series Inspired by the Earth – Selected by the Editors of LensCulture | LensCulture The wonders and calamities of nature and life on Earth seem as endless as the cosmos themselves — Here are 65 amazing photo series that draw their inspiration from the beauty of nature, the cycles of life, changing…
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Marcus Bleasdale – Rape of a Nation | LensCulture
Rape of a Nation – Photographs and text by Marcus Bleasdale | LensCulture An unflinching, outraged report about the ongoing human tragedy occurring in the Congo—along with a video interview with the photographer behind these powerful images via LensCulture: https://www.lensculture.com/articles/marcus-bleasdale-rape-of-a-nation The continuing human tragedy of Congo is not a statistic. It is a continuing human…
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Guerrero and the Disappeared – The New Yorker
Guerrero and the Disappeared Matt Black’s portraits of life in Mexico’s poorest state since forty-three students went missing. via The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/guerrero-and-the-disappeared For years, the photographer Matt Black has been documenting life in impoverished indigenous communities of southern Mexico, for an ongoing project called “The People of Clouds.”
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YPF 2015: The Emergence of Young Burmese Photographers Hkun Lat : Fogs of War, a Kachin Tragedy – The Eye of Photography
YPF 2015: The Emergence of Young Burmese Photographers Hkun Lat : Fogs of War, a Kachin Tragedy Kachin photographer Hkun Lat, is only 18 years old, he started photography a year ago with YPF’s workshop and at 17 was the youngest finalist in 2014 with an essay on opium in the Kachin state. He is…
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The Hard-Drinking British Abroad, Photographed By One of Their Own — Vantage — Medium
The Hard-Drinking British Abroad, Photographed By One of Their Own The first time I went abroad was in 1986; the destination was the party town of Magaluf, Majorca. Aged 14, already a seasoned beer drinker… via Medium: https://medium.com/vantage/the-hard-drinking-british-abroad-photographed-by-one-of-their-own-af62fbaf1085 Booze-soaked childhood holidays motivate a new photobook about young Brits’ summer-long debauchery
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Khalik Allah – Shoot Cameras, Not Guns: Harlem Streets | LensCulture
Shoot Cameras, Not Guns: Harlem Streets – Photographs and text by Khalik Allah | LensCulture Raw, unvarnished, straight from the night-lit corners of Harlem, New York via LensCulture: https://www.lensculture.com/articles/khalik-allah-shoot-cameras-not-guns-harlem-streets Photography is my inside joke with God. He alone knows that time doesn’t exist. I use photography as a tool to extend the now; not to…
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Brian M. Cassidy and Melanie Shatzky present a dark vision of childhood fun in their series, “The Children.”
A Pensive Look at Childhood Fun Photographs of children, especially children playing, tend to be a little hokey and predictable. That’s a pitfall that Brian M. Cassidy and Melanie… via Slate Magazine: http://www.slate.com/blogs/behold/2015/03/23/brian_m_cassidy_and_melanie_shatzky_present_a_dark_vision_of_childhood_fun.html Photographs of children, especially children playing, tend to be a little hokey and predictable. That’s a pitfall that Brian M. Cassidy and…