Kevin Bubriski arrived in Nepal as a Peace Corps worker. He has returned over the decades to capture its stark landscapes and resilient people, offering a reminder of a vanishing world.
many regions were isolated in an untouched Middle Ages. This is the Nepal that is intensely and starkly portrayed in Kevin Bubriski’s early photographs. He arrived in Nepal in 1975 as a 20-year-old Peace Corps volunteer who was assigned to build gravity-flow pipelines in the villages in the Karnali region.
Sylvia Plachy’s approach to photography has remained constant, even if her gear or technique has changed at times. She tries to make everything disappear, to forget who she is. For one, she does not like to talk when she takes pictures. “Of course, you have to with people,” she said. “Sometimes. But I usually prefer just to smell it and be there and understand it through instinct.”
“If you travel a lot,” writes Wim Wenders, “if you like roaming about in order to lose yourself, you can end up in the strangest places. I think it must be a kind of built-in radar, which often takes me to places that are either peculiarly quiet or peculiar in a quiet sort of way.”
Coney Island’s boardwalk is far from the minds of most New Yorkers during this brutally cold February. But the photojournalist Yunghi Kim ventured to the end of the Q train this winter to see how the seagulls, the Cyclone, the Polar Bear Club, and the local residents were faring during the snowy off-season.
Dubbed “wonderfully surreal” (and “slightly insane”), Rimaldas Viksraitis is renowned for his uncompromising and honest look at rural Lithuanian life—in this exclusive interview, we share never-before-published pictures and get touchingly personal insight
In the world of Lithuanian photography, Rimaldas Vikšraitis is one of the top names—and one of the most mysterious. Although he won a coveted “Discovery Award” at the Rencontres d’Arles in 2009 (and had a book published accompanied with a warm introduction by Martin Parr), these accolades did not entrench Vikšraitis in the spotlight. Indeed, a few years on and he remains without a website, an email address or even a cellphone. In many ways, he is much the same person who first picked up a camera in 1971 and started snapping the daily, rural life around him…
The photographer Lorenzo Tugnoli set out for Kabul with the author, Francesca Recchia, to do a portrait of the city’s creative scene for a very special book project. In their “The Little Book of Kabul,” they show that Afghanistan has more to offer than just war and destruction
Last summer, British photographer Guy Martin stumbled upon an unexpected gift shop in the suburbs of Istanbul, Turkey. It sold memorabilia associated with the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria
For this new edition of The 2015 Photographer’s Guide to Photo Contests, we’ve partnered up with the World Photography Organisation. Get a fresh look at over 25 photo competitions worldwide, including new insights on which photo contests are worth your ti
For this new edition of The 2015 Photographer’s Guide to Photo Contests, we’ve partnered up with the World Photography Organisation. Get a fresh look at over 25 photo competitions worldwide, including new insights on which photo contests are worth your time, which you should skip, plus two exclusive interviews with photographers who have been shortlisted in the prestigious Sony World Photography Awards.
couchsurfin’ the world is a photodocumentary book project about web- based hospitality communities
Internet communication has grown rapidly in the last decade with increase in the use of social network applications such as facebook.com. These networks
To understand the reality of hospitality networks I made five separate journeys documenting the differing motivations and uses of hospitality networks by my protagonists. All of my navigators differing in social and personal backgrounds as they explored lands foreign to themselves, following both individuals and friends traveling together, each journey in a different part of the world, and in a different mode of travel.
A Bangladeshi photographer who grew tired of seeing poverty portrayed in the usual ways had a brainstorm: He lived with his subjects and had them collaborate with him.
Scenes of poverty are inescapable in a country like Bangladesh, where Western media and charities use them to generate outrage, sympathy and — sometimes — donations. That bothered Shehab Uddin, a former newspaper photographer in Bangladesh who knew there was more to the story than downtrodden people victimized by poverty, not to mention photojournalists.
Benjamin Grant, creator of the Daily Overview wants to give viewers that experience from the comfort of their desk. Every day (or just about), Grant posts a beautiful image of our world from above.
Artist Masumi Hayashi: A Student’s Tribute written by Beth Dubber Masumi Hayashi was a tenured photography professor at Cleveland State University for 24 years. I was fortunate to have been a student of hers for 5 of those years, 1994-1999. Masumi had a h
Masumi Hayashi is perhaps best known for creating striking panoramic photo collages, using smaller color photographs (typically 4-by-6-inch prints) like tiles in a mosaic. Many of these large panoramic pieces involve more than one hundred smaller photographic prints; the rotational scope of the assembled collage can be 360 degrees or even 540 degrees. Much of her work explores socially uncomfortable spaces, including prisons, relocation camps, and Superfund cleanup sites.
My project, developed throughout 2009, wants to show the conditioning street photographers receive from norms, but also stereotypes that the laws on privacy have brought in people’s minds. The search for poses preventing a face from being recognizable, un
Henri Cartier Bresson spoke about moments showing a world. Is this possible and compatible with requests for a photographic consent form? It’s a work attempting to say “look what I may show if I follow the laws, even with all the possible originality and imagination”. What could photography narrate without the possibility of describing everyday life through faces and actions of the common people? This work is my cry for help…
An intimate, strange and quirky family diary chronicling over several years the everyday lives and relationships of typical middle-class kids and teens as they come of age in the ever-changing but sheltered milieu of contemporary suburban America (in Utah
Happy Valley is an intimate, strange and quirky family diary chronicling over several years the everyday lives and relationships of typical middle-class kids and teens (my nieces and nephews) as they come of age in the ever-changing but sheltered milieu of contemporary suburban America (in Utah).
Shalmon Bernstein was attuned to the “show within a show,” where people were revealed by their costumes or context. He is now rediscovering the gems in his own archives.
Shalmon Bernstein arrived in the New York magazine world in the early 1970s with a fully developed eye, a clear, sober voice and a sense of purpose. “I thought in terms of being able to change people’s perceptions,” he said. Then, a decade later, he simply stopped, for reasons that even now are hard for him to explain. “What made me stop?” he asked the other day from his home in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn. “What was more important to me?” Money was a part of it, he said. But looking back now, he saw another force at work.
“I think I felt totally defeated by anything I was doing.”
a provocative new exhibition at the Bronx Museum of Art, “Three Photographers From the Bronx: Jules Aarons, Morton Broffman and Joe Conzo,” which opens Feb. 26. The disparate subjects of its three Bronx-born, socially conscious photographers — the civil rights movement, life outside Manhattan and community advocacy — would at first seem to have little in common.
I’m a street photographer. My pictures define who I am, how I think, what I like and, of course, how I see the world. While my primary interest is photographing people – their behavior, gestures and appearance – I also consider myself a social documentarian. My portfolio, “Out of the Norm” that I showed at the ASMP reviews included work from my projects about smokers, the NYC subway and recent street photography. While I’m self-taught, I have taken master classes at the International Center of Photography and the Maine Media Workshops. I’ve lived in New York City my entire life and can’t imagine living anywhere else.
See what happens to one tiny tropical village in Costa Rica when showered with 8 million flower petals for Sony’s new 4K TV campaign. Shot over a period of two…
This is an aerial view of the Za’atari refugee camp near the Jordanian city of Mafraq, some five miles from the border with Syria. Last July, it housed 144,000 refugees. In the desert. But for the lack of little things like trees, it could almost be mistaken for the grid plan of Chicago that you see when flying into O’Hare
