This short video produced by Ramtin Nikzad for the New York Times captures the rise and fall of a courtroom sketch artist, Gary Myrick, in Texas. This…
For the next two weeks, Lenscratch will be celebrating the 2014 CENTER Award Winners. We are thrilled to align with such a wonderful organization that honors, supports, and provides opportunities to gifted and committed photographers. For 20 years, CENTER
“Urbes Mutantes: Latin American Photography 1944–2013,” which opens Friday at the International Center of Photography in New York. Exploring photographic movements in eight countries – Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Mexico, Peru and Venezuela – the show evokes the constant change, and sometimes chaos, of Latin American cities, which have been a crucible of social realignment, cultural expression and political upheaval.
Ross Mantle lives and works between Brooklyn, NY and his native Pittsburgh, Pa. His work often focuses on the relationships between person and place. He regularly photographs throughout the Northeast…
Photographer Jack Hill and reporter Anthony Lloyd of The Times of London escaped to Turkey after they were kidnapped, beaten and shot by a rebel gang in Syria, the newspaper has reported. The two journalists had been in Aleppo accompanied by bodyguards, a
I corresponded via email with three prolific VII photographers—Ashley Gilbertson, Ron Haviv and Gary Knight—on the things that motivate and inspire them.
Tomeu Coll Austral Dust Give it all up again. Hit the Road. -Roberto Bolaño I heard about a place in Chile where there lived the “Inhabitants of the Stars”. This story was told by a friend that mi…
Alexander Chekmenev’s national and ethnic identities have whipsawed during the upheavals since the collapse of the Soviet Union and right through the current crisis.
Without having experienced a place, it’s near impossible to not let your impressions be shaped by the media. When it comes to a place like Kabul, Afghanistan, the collective view of anyone who hasn’t spent real time experiencing will obviously skew toward