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Photo essay: Women at risk in central Asia's heroin highway

madamjujujive — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 20:30:33 -0800

House of Happiness - photos by Rena Effendi of women in the Ferghana Valley, part of central Asia's ancient Silk Route now known as "the heroin highway" - "a geographical and cultural mishmash where three countries and many ethnicities cluster." More about the photos. (Some photos NSFW) Rena Effendi is an Azerbaijan-born social documentary photographer focusing on post-Soviet and postwar melding of cultures and the oil industry's effects on people. Her site includes a generous sampling of selections from her book Pipedreams, a chronicle of lives along the pipeline in Azerbaijan, Georgia and Turkey. Really, all the photo essays in her portfolio are well worth exploring - I particularly liked the Xinaliq wedding series, Twenty-something in Tehran and the powerful series on the Georgia conflict. Warning: As many photographer's portfolios are wont to be, her site is in flash so avoid it if that bugs you.

The Human Survey

blaneyphoto — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 10:42:57 -0800

The Human Survey is a photo project by Nathan Jones. "We want to go from city to city and shoot thousands of portraits. We average a portrait every minute, and shoot just about every person that walks by us."

It's very fancy on old Delancey Street, you know.

miss lynnster — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 12:10:58 -0800

11,000 Manhattan street corners.

Alastair Levy

nthdegx — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 03:53:49 -0800

Alastair Levy is a photographer.

Great photographers

Matthias Rascher — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 08:28:41 -0800

Great photographers: Clark Little (surf photography), Nick Brandt (mostly African wildlife), John Hyde (mostly wildlife and Alaska), Veronika Pinke (landscapes), Dale Allman (miscellaneous; particularly beautiful are his Australian cityscapes and the HDR/DRI photos), Ansel Adams (the undisputed master of nature photography who died in 1984; famous quotes: "You don't take a photograph, you make it.", "A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words. "), Michel Rajkovic (mostly marine landscape, exclusively in black and white). And again, as a tribute to a gifted artist who died far too early, the work of Bobby Model (adventure photographer). Last but not least: Onexposure, probably the biggest collection of quality photography on the net.

RIP Bobby Model

Matthias Rascher — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 15:39:34 -0800

Bobby Model, brilliant adventure photographer, died Wednesday, September 16, 2009, at the age of 36. Here are some examples of his beautiful work.

How Could This Happen to Annie Leibovitz?

chunking express — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 11:03:40 -0800

How Could This Happen to Annie Leibovitz? "This" being broke-ass-broke. More or less.

Alice Austen, American photographer

Morrigan — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 17:34:58 -0800

Alice Austen (1866-1952) was a pioneering American female photographer who documented life in turn of the (last) century Staten Island. Her home, Clear Comfort, is a National Historic Landmark where she lived for many years with Gertrude Tate. Contrary to their wishes, they are not buried together. The board of Austen House discourages the use of the collection to study their relationship.

Catching a moment in time

Abiezer — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 20:17:41 -0800

His photographs recorded life along the Scotswood Road, the working class district in the West End of Newcastle made famous in Geordie song. James (Jimmy) Forsyth had come to make his home there having volunteered for war work as a fitter in one of the local factories, moving up to Newcastle from his native South Wales. In 1954, aware that change was coming and no longer working having lost an eye in an industrial accident, Forsyth began to document his community and surroundings. A self-taught photographer, Jimmy "picked up a cheap folding camera in one of the pawn shops. There wasn’t much to adjust, just as well, because I’ve never known what to do...I’m just an amateur...just capturing what I knew was going to disappear." Jimmy died last Saturday, aged 95.

Michael Ackerman

Houyhnhnm — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 21:03:08 -0800

Michael Ackerman is an Israeli-born photographer whose haunting visions of New York, Varanasi, and Poland are characterized by their grainy texture, extreme contrast, and uncompromising intensity. Ackerman was awarded the Young Photographer Infinity Award by the International Center of Photography in 1998 and has since published two books, the prize-winning End Time City (1999) and Fiction (2001). Exhibitions of his work have been held across Europe and North America, and he is expected to publish his third book, Half Life, in 2009.

Too old for photography

klausness — Wed, 06 May 2009 07:46:24 -0800

Expiration Notice is an on-line magazine dedicated to work by emerging photographers over 35. An interesting counterpoint to the usual hyping of "young and emerging artists." (via)

a man and a camera

adamvasco — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 12:25:09 -0800

He has documented Pine Ridge; worked extensively in Pakistan and Afghanistan for the last several years; as well as hitchhiking across Siberia.

Aaron Huey is a photographer.

(link is flash; you can navigate from inside of it by clicking down the sidebar.)
He has walked across America with his dog Cosmo, whilest keeping a journal. He also has a blog. Here are is a taster of his work. Last april Verve Photo named him as one of the new breed of documentary photographers. (There are links to many others on the right sidebar)

Caught in the ring flash

klangklangston — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 20:35:16 -0800

Lina Scheynius I like her loose, ethereal snapshot style, and the playful sexuality. Nudity.

European Wildlife Photographer of the Year

Korou — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 16:40:56 -0800

The GDT's* European Wildlife Photographer of the Year; winning image is NSFW. (2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002, 2001) *Gesellschaft Deutscher Tierfotografen In April, the GDT Nature Photographer of the Year was announced. (2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002)

Foreclosures by Bruce Gilden.

chunking express — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 04:49:48 -0800

Foreclosures. A photo essay by Magnum photographer Bruce Gilden. The essay has audio, as does the you tube video of Gilden street shooting in New York. You need to watch the video of him working on the street, just to be impressed at how he doesn't get punched.

Photographs at the very beginning of London's Swinging 60's

nickyskye — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 14:29:00 -0800

Forty years ago, Swinging London was yet to swing. Everything was in black and white and, in class-bound Britain, fashion photographers were trades-men – polite, smart, seen but not heard. A new breed of snappers changed all that – Terry O’Neill, Brian Duffy, David Bailey and Terence Donovan. Bailey and Donovan started their careers in the West End studio of the doyen of fashion photographers – John French. Celebrated East London photographers at that time. Terry O’Neill, about. Brian Duffy, a well known photograph of his, David Bowie. Terence Donovan David Bailey. A bit about him and his girlfriend, Jean Shrimpton, a popular model of the day. The Counterfeit Body: Fashion Photography and the Deceptions of Femininity, Sexuality, Authenticity and Self in the 1950s, 60s and 70s The Age of Sex: Bad Boys and the Sexualized Body in 1960s Fashion Photography John French at the Victoria & Albert Museum

Man versus nature

klangklangston — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 13:54:20 -0800

Domesticated by photographer Amy Stein explores the tension between settled and wild spaces.

Stranded is another collection of work dealing with the expectations of public and private space.

More self-explanatory: Women and Guns and Halloween in Harlem. She also has a fine blog.

I longed to arrest all beauty that came before me, and at length the longing has been satisfied.

jessamyn — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 19:11:22 -0800

Julia Margaret Cameron did not begin her photography career until she was 48. She lived on the Isle of Wight in two adjacent cottages linked with a gothic tower that she called Dimbola Lodge. Many of her captivating photographs are of The Freshwater Circle, a group of artists and intellectuals centered around Alfred Tennyson, whose poems Idylls of the King, she illustrated with her photographs. Cameron's portraits of contemporaries -- Charles Darwin, George Frederic Watts, Edward Eyre, Thomas Carlyle, Julia Jackson (mother of Viginia Woolf) -- became significant because they were sometimes the only existing photographs of her subjects.

Whoa.

FunkyHelix — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 11:04:59 -0800

Joey Lawrence. No, not that one.

Milton Rogovin - Social documentary photographer

arse_hat — Sat, 15 Jul 2006 12:12:58 -0800

In the late 50's Milton Rogovin, started taking pictures at churches on the east side of Buffalo. His next project Family of Miners, began in Appalachia but would eventually span 10 countries. He returned to Buffalo's east side a number of times creating triptychs and quartets of families spanning decades.

Model Vs. Photographer

nadawi — Wed, 27 Jul 2005 19:14:14 -0800

NSFW- Model vs. Photographer "First, I really thought that the shots would be funny. Second, it was about the only truly creative idea I had ever had. While I've often seen photographers do nude self portraits, I had never seen a male photographer try to adopt the same poses as his female models. Third, what better way to blunt the criticism that most nude art degrades women? I'm saying that I'm perfectly willing to do anything that I ask my models to do. And I really think that the more feminine the pose, the funnier the shots become."

Sacred Sites

stbalbach — Tue, 30 Nov 2004 19:24:53 -0800

Sacred Sites. Martin Gray is an anthropologist and photographer specializing in the study of sacred sites and pilgrimage traditions around the world. Traveling as a pilgrim, Martin spent twenty years, visiting and photographing over 1000 sacred sites in eighty countries. 1000s of photos, Atlas of Sacred Sites, travel journal, etc..

RIP Richard Avedon.

Civil_Disobedient — Fri, 01 Oct 2004 12:47:43 -0800

Another master taken: Richard Avedon, dead at 81. Arguably the greatest portrait photographer in history, Avedon was famous not only for his fashion or celebrity shots, but also his interest in the common man, best emphasized by the book "In the American West". He was recently working on a piece, "On Democracy" when he suffered a brain hemorrhage. Many may be familiar with his simple black & white on white style from his shots for the New Yorker (he was their first staff photographer). His site is currently shrouded in respect.

Margot Quan Knight Photography

dg — Sun, 21 Mar 2004 21:20:45 -0800

Disembodied

Robert Hooke

plep — Mon, 04 Aug 2003 09:36:55 -0800

Robert Hooke. ''Robert Hooke is one of the most neglected natural philosophers of all time. The inventor of, amongst other things, the iris diaphragm in cameras, the universal joint used in motor vehicles, the balance wheel in a watch, the originator of the word 'cell' in biology, he was Surveyor of the City of London after the Great Fire of 1666, architect, experimenter, worked in astronomy - yet is known mostly for Hooke's Law ... '
More at Robert Hooke's Micrographia: a digital facsimile. 'In it we are introduced to the living cell; to microscopic fungi and the life story of the mosquito; we find the two contrasting theories about the origin of the lunar craters posed for the very first time ... '