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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 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.

April 6, 2015
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

This work is based in part on the psychology of James Hillman, who said that the poetic basis of mind places psychological activities in the realm of images and that the mind seeks to explore images rather than explain them

April 6, 2015
Barb Peacock: Hometown documents over three decades of life in a small New England town (PHOTOS).

This Photographer Spent 33 Years Capturing the Subtle Changes in Her Small New England Town

While taking a documentary photography class at Boston’s School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Barb Peacock was told she could travel the world looking…

via Slate Magazine: http://www.slate.com/blogs/behold/2015/04/05/barb_peacock_hometown_documents_over_three_decades_of_life_in_a_small_new.html

While taking a documentary photography class at Boston’s School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Barb Peacock was told she could travel the world looking for great shots, but a good photographer has the ability to find them in her own backyard.

April 6, 2015
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 longer recognizes.

April 6, 2015
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 backwoods are a place you feel. The dark nooks to hide, made in encroaching woods and the banks of rivers, the smell of wet life and decay, a steady insect hum, all create a backdrop for a people with a particular fascination for the mysteries of darkness and light. Here some of the oldest stories of humanity are told — wanderers’ lost souls and paths taken towards good or evil — but with a local twist in the tale of a strange orb of light.

April 5, 2015
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 the viewer what the world looked like. It wasn’t until college that I learned that a photograph could tell a story. While studying photography at Massachusetts College of Art I began a series of self portraits that now span 25 years. I was 18 years old when I began to take them. These self portraits helped me better understand who I was and what I hoped to become. I still continue to make these self-portraits, but in a new setting: in 2005 I married an Icelander and moved to a farm in the eastern part of Iceland.

April 5, 2015
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 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 and onto the streets of New York’s Chinatown. For three years, he captured Chinese residents and their workplaces revealing a very different reality in the same metropolis. Bud has continued to revisit and make work about NYC’s Chinatown for 30 years and is a supporter of the Museum of the Chinese in America.

April 5, 2015
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

April 4, 2015
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 from showing to existing.

April 2, 2015
‘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. Byer, has traveled to 10 countries spread over four continents in the past four years documenting the myriad lives lived on less than a dollar a day. The photographs, both harrowing and inspiring, are Byer’s way to span the ever-widening gap between the haves and the have-nots.

April 2, 2015
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, she had big plans.

April 2, 2015
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 this May — Photo London. Centrally located at the grand Somerset House on the Thames, Photo London offers a vibrant celebration of photography in all of its forms. The world’s finest galleries will be there to sell to collectors, with some startlingly fresh work by established masters as well as many new and emerging talents. LensCulture’s editors have created a highly selective preview of some of the work that excites us the most — see them in the slideshow above.

April 1, 2015
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 heavy bag, then go back and get the other one, doing these shuttles every 20 feet. Finally this 6-foot-2 Puerto Rican transgender gal came up and said, ‘Honey, you look like you need some help!’ She got me to my friends’ house where I was staying. It was a great welcome to New York.”

March 31, 2015
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 weather and environments, and much more

via LensCulture: https://www.lensculture.com/articles/lensculture-editors-65-amazing-photo-series-inspired-by-the-earth#slide-33

The editors of LensCulture hope you find some inspiration from these 65 photographers whose work ranges from the poetic and sublime, to conservation, activism, documentary, reportage, landscape, wildlife, marco, micro, and humanity’s impact on the planet we call home

March 31, 2015
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 tragedy. It is fourteen hundred and fifty tragedies every day. It is countless more than that if you include the orphaned, the bereaved, the widowed, and all the ripples of truncated lives that spread from a single death. It is you and me and our children and our parent, if we had the bad luck to be born into the world this book portrays.

March 28, 2015
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.”

March 27, 2015
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 dedicated to be a photojournalist and works for several newspapers. At the 7th Edition of Yangon Photo Festival his work “Fogs of War, a Kachin Tragedy” won the 2nd Prize for Best Story.

March 26, 2015
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

March 25, 2015
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 preserve the past. The past cannot be preserved because it does not exist. So to me, photography is a testament to time’s vulnerability.
Shoot cameras, not guns. And raise sons righteous. I follow the injunction to love God supremely and your neighbor as yourself. All of this is brought into my photography. Photography is a dissemination point for me to say that there is beauty in everyone.

I only shoot at night…I want to remind people we’re in outer space…I photosynthesize under the street-lamps with the hood champs and the impoverished.

March 24, 2015
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 Melanie Shatzky try to avoid in their series “The Children,” which makes summertime play look half magical/half nightmarish.

March 24, 2015