I read this morning in the U Bahn an interview with Magnum’s Thomas Hoepker, in a back number of Profi Foto. Hoepker is undoubtely one of the big names in documentary photgraphy and has produced a bunch of images that are already part of our collective memory. I had the chance to see him during […]
Charles Traub. He would become very renowned a few years later - and his color work is simply astonishing -, yet I love his b&w street snaps from the early 70’s in Chicago.
(Here a link to Traub’s photography do’s and dont’s, posted in September in Alec Soth’s blog)
Frank Kalero, a Spanish photographer and editor of Ojo de Pez (a documentary photography magazine, now in stand-by mode) is travelling the Amazonas up till Manaus, where the mother river and the Black river clash. He regularely uploads the trip photos to his blog. The sets offer a candid look at the characters of the […]
Thyson Thorne and Josef Reyes take you for a walk. Beautiful project!
(via 2point8)
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Posted 20 November 2007
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The online paper Eines Tages (part of Der Spiegel) devotes one article (Die Kunst des Crash, the Art of Crash) to Arnold Odermatt, a Swiss policeman who captured with his RolleiFlex 40 years of accidents.
Odermatt bringing the scene to light
A short profile here and here (both in German). A book here. And more shots here.
(Heartbeats of an upheaval world) is the name of a war photo exhibition in Barcelona, at Obra Social CajaMadrid. Ten of the best Spanish war photgraphers present 100 breathtaking pictures. A must.
Northern Ireland. (c) Paco Elvira
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Posted 05 November 2007
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South African photgrapher Pieter Hugo’s ‘the hyena and other men’ portraits are impressive, menacing -they leave no escape.
Chris Jordan
‘Pants rack in a women’s clothing store, St. Bernard Parish’ from the series ‘In Katrina’s wake’
(c) Agata Madejska
(c) Andrej Krementschouk
(c) Marget Hoppe
Gute Aussichten this year’s edition has awarded the work of 11 young photographers, straight out of school. I particularily like 3 of them:
- Agata Madejska abstracts common playground elements and transforms them into suggestive contours.
- Andrej Krementschouk presents a delicate reportage on his Russian hometown.
- Leipzigerin Marget Hoppe’s project […]
