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A Timeless Portrait of Nepal – NYTimes.com
A Timeless Portrait of Nepal 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. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/03/05/a-timeless-portrait-of-nepal/?module=BlogPost-Title&version=Blog many regions were isolated in an untouched Middle Ages. This is the Nepal that is…
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Finding Refuge in a Visual Language – NYTimes.com
Finding Refuge in a Visual Language 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…
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Wim Wenders – 4REAL & TRUE2. Landscapes. Photographs. | LensCulture
4REAL & TRUE2. Landscapes. Photographs. – Photographs and text by Wim Wenders | LensCulture To celebrate his 70th birthday, filmmaker Wim Wenders exhibits a lifetime of still photographs, which he says is “the other half of my life via LensCulture: https://www.lensculture.com/articles/wim-wenders-4real-amp-true2-landscapes-photographs “If you travel a lot,” writes Wim Wenders, “if you like roaming about in…
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A Coney Island Winter – The New Yorker
A Coney Island Winter via The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/project/portfolio/a-coney-island-winter 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…
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Rimaldas Vikšraitis – Naked Grimaces: Exposing Rural Lithuania | LensCulture
Naked Grimaces: Exposing Rural Lithuania – Photographs by and interview with Rimaldas Vikšraitis | LensCulture 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 via LensCulture: https://www.lensculture.com/articles/rimaldas-viksraitis-naked-grimaces-exposing-rural-lithuania In the world of Lithuanian…
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Lorenzo Tugnoli: The Little Book of Kabul « The Leica Camera
Lorenzo Tugnoli: The Little Book of Kabul 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
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Go Inside an ISIS Gift Shop | TIME
Go Inside an ISIS Gift Shop Photographer Guy Martin stumbled upon an unexpected gift shop in the suburbs of Istanbul, Turkey via Time: http://time.com/3722759/isis-gift-shop/ 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
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Updated! The 2015 Photographer’s Guide to Photo Contests | PhotoShelter Blog
Updated! The 2015 Photographer’s Guide to Photo Contests – PhotoShelter Blog 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 via PhotoShelter Blog: http://blog.photoshelter.com/2015/02/updated-the-2015-photographers-guide-to-photo-contests/…
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Malte Jäger – couchsurfin’ the world | LensCulture
Malte Jäger – couchsurfin’ the world | LensCulture 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 via LensCulture: https://www.lensculture.com/projects/80873-couchsurfin-the-world To understand the reality of hospitality networks I…
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An Embedded Photographer Empowers the Poor – NYTimes.com
An Embedded Photographer Empowers the Poor 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. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/02/24/an-embedded-photographer-empowers-the-poor/?module=BlogPost-Title&version=Blog Scenes of poverty are inescapable in a country like Bangladesh, where Western media and charities use them…
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Gorgeous Satellite Images Show Earth’s Evolving Landscape — Vantage — Medium
Gorgeous Satellite Images Show Earth’s Evolving Landscape The Daily Overview makes satellite images into modern art with a message. via Medium: https://medium.com/vantage/gorgeous-satellite-images-show-earth-s-evolving-landscape-9d5bc9bb3e12 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…
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Place and Vision: The Artistic Legacy of Masumi Hayashi | LENSCRATCH
Place and Vision: The Artistic Legacy of Masumi Hayashi 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 via LENSCRATCH:…
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Umberto Verdoliva – Prisoner of the Privacy | LensCulture
Umberto Verdoliva – Prisoner of the Privacy – 2009 | LensCulture 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 via LensCulture: https://www.lensculture.com/projects/18217-prisoner-of-the-privacy Henri Cartier…
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Brian Shumway – Happy Valley | LensCulture
Happy Valley – Photographs and text by Brian Shumway | LensCulture 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 via LensCulture: https://www.lensculture.com/articles/brian-shumway-happy-valley Happy Valley…
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Bela Doka – Cuba , “The Special Period”-1994-98 | LensCulture
Bela Doka – Cuba , “The Special Period”-1994-98 | LensCulture I lived in Havana , Cuba from 1994-98 during the so called “Periodo Especial (Special Period) . via LensCulture: https://www.lensculture.com/projects/76207-cuba-the-special-period-199 I lived in Havana , Cuba from 1994-98 during the so called “Periodo Especial (Special Period) .
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Looking Back With Intensity – NYTimes.com
Looking Back With Intensity 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. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/02/20/looking-back-with-intensity/?module=BlogPost-Title&version=Blog Shalmon Bernstein arrived in the New York magazine world in the early 1970s with a fully developed eye,…
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Complicating the Picture of Urban Life – NYTimes.com
Complicating the Picture of Urban Life A new exhibit features three Bronx-born photographers whose work explores the idea of community while challenging outdated, lingering notions. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/02/23/complicating-the-picture-of-urban-life/?module=BlogPost-Title&version=Blog 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.…
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Norman Borden: Milton Ellenbogen’s pick – The Eye of Photography
Norman Borden: Milton Ellenbogen’s pick 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…
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8 Million Flower Petals Shower a Costa Rican Village in a Cascade of Color
8 Million Flower Petals Shower a Costa Rican Village in a Cascade of Color – Feature Shoot 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… via Feature Shoot: http://www.featureshoot.com/2014/04/nick-meek/#!DtUtw See what happens to…
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Refugee World
Refugee World – Reading The Pictures So, what’s new about refugee camps? Well, perhaps it’s notable that they are being built in Las Vegas. via Reading The Pictures: http://www.bagnewsnotes.com/2014/04/refugee-world/ 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,…