Tag: Zed Nelson
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bmi Voyager » Maximum Exposure
Link: “THE HUMAN MIND SHOULDN’T BE EXPOSED TO SUCH SHOCKING THINGS,” says Zed Nelson, the award-winning British photographer famous for his pictures taken in some of the most lawless areas of the world. Yet Nelson’s not talking about being arrested and locked in a hut in Sudan or even getting dengue fever with the French…
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Zed Nelson’s Photos of Hackney, London
Link: Both crime-ridden and trendy, Hackney is one of the host boroughs for the Olympic Games in London. Zed Nelson’s work appeared on Lens in 2010, showing how bodily transformations reflect globalization. Altered Bodies » It is also the home of the photographer Zed Nelson, who spent much of his childhood in this racially and…
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Gun Nation Revisted
Link: Over a two-year period I encountered scenes both bloody and harrowing: hospital emergency rooms, morgues and the confused aftermaths of random shooting sprees. After every new massacre, the newspaper headlines were always the same: “We thought we were the safest place in America.”
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Zed Nelson’s ‘A Portrait of Hackney’ Depicts the Mélange of Cultures in a Gentrifying East London Neighborhood – Feature Shoot
Zed Nelson’s ‘A Portrait of Hackney’ Depicts the Mélange of Cultures in a Gentrifying East London Neighborhood For many of our readers the story of waves of hipsters gentrifying previously undesirable neighborhoods, eventually and circumstantially pushing out the previous communities, will be a familiar one. For photographer… via Feature Shoot: https://www.featureshoot.com/2014/08/zed-nelson/ As Nelson writes in…
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Zed Nelson captures the debilitating effects of gentrification in Hackney – British Journal of Photography
Zed Nelson captures the debilitating effects of gentrification in Hackney – 1854 Photography Shot over four years, Nelson’s new documentary hones in on a single street in Hackney, where 150-year-old eateries meet hipster coffee joints and £2m penthouse flats via 1854 Photography: https://www.1854.photography/2019/11/zed-nelson-the-street/ Shot over four years, Nelson’s new documentary hones in on a single…
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Zed Nelson: The Family
Link: Zed Nelson: The Family | Le Journal de la Photographie In 1991, Zed Nelson decided to take a series of formal family portraits of his friends who were about to have a child. Every year on the same day, Nelson photographed them in black-and-white against a neutral background, according to the same strict protocol,…
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Bodies Altered in Pursuit of Beauty – Lens
Bodies Altered in Pursuit of Beauty Zed Nelson documents bodily transformations. As Nadia Sussman reports, he thinks they reflect globalization as much as a Starbucks in Beijing. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/31/showcase-145/ Playing on the conventions of commercial photography, Zed Nelson has explored the reach of the global beauty industry in “Love Me,” an artful catalog…
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PDNPulse: Former VII Director Signs Prominent Photogs to New Management Company
The artists Institute represents are Jodi Bieber, Rena Effendi, Lauren Greenfield, Rob Hornstra, Nadav Kander, Gillian Laub, James Longley, Gerd Ludwig, Joshua Lutz, Amanda Micheli, Richard Mosse, Zed Nelson, Jehad Nga, Simon Norfolk, James Pomerantz and Paul Shambroom. Link: PDNPulse: Former VII Director Signs Prominent Photogs to New Management Company