Photos have been encaged for too long. It is time to release and use the information they all carry within: Let’s create a new photo file format that will liberate them.
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.”
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
Fifty years ago, in March 1965, 3,500 U.S. Marines landed in South Vietnam, the first American combat troops on the ground in a conflict that had been building for decades.
Michel vanden Eeckhoudt presented the world as a set of jokes, gags, both in the working world and in the street. One child wears a mask. Another is seen in a burst of sunlight. And the owner of a dog on a leash seems pursued by a menacing shadow. But the smile they bring to one’s face—he had a keen eye that could anticipate situations and capture without flourish or effect. Michel immerse us in a world that cannot work. Better to smile, even if we’re still thinking about it deep down.
Michel vanden Eeckhoudt, 1947-2015. Today is truly a bitter day.
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
Photographer and writer Ken Weingart has been producing interviews for his Art and Photography blog, and he has kindly offered to share a few with the Lenscratch audience over the next few months. Today, Ken shares an interview with Siri Kaur, a conceptu
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.
In the last few years, skyrocketing rents and neighborhood changes have killed some of Brooklyn’s favorite DIY, or “do-it-yourself,” music venues. This…