photographic essays
photographic essays
girls just wanna have fun…
Miss Favela bar scene in Brooklyn, NY. Photo by Isabela Eseverri – One light off camera Rooftop party in Manhattan, NY. Photo by Madeleine Stevens – One light on camera We just did a one day small strobe lighting class in my loft in NY where I will be spending the next two weeks …
Tom Hyde – After The Fall
Tom Hyde After The Fall As the moist air rolls off the Pacific Ocean to first encounter the North American land mass it slams headlong into the Olympic Mountains, rises up, cools off, and dumps. Of all the regions in the lower 48 states, this is wettest and this is where I live. Nearly 10 …
Leeor Kaufman – Sabras – The Story of Wadi Fuqin
Leeor Kaufman-Sabras The Story of Wadi Fuqin Wadi Fuqin, a small Palestinian village, carries the inconceivable complexities of the current Israeli/Palestinian conflict. The village is a well preserved model of a traditional agricultural way of life, developed thousands of years ago. The community has harnessed the water flowing from the valley’s eleven springs to nourish …
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NIGHT RAIN RIO
From new book coming, HOW TO TAKE BETTER PICTURES : USEFUL THOUGHTS FOR PHOTOGRAPHERS EVERYWHERE Every time i get ready to quit Burn, something happens which keeps me in the game for another 5 minutes…I am sure you can imagine I often have to ask myself “is all this really worth it?”…a pretty …
James Rowan – Trespassers Will Be Shot
James Rowan Trespassers Will Be Shot This body of work is a photographic survey of the American landscape. It weds traditional documentary photography and my own inclination toward cinematic, or dreamlike, imagery. The project was inspired by years of traveling throughout the country, particularly in the southern United States. These photographs were shot spontaneously. They …
“the answer is blowin in the wind…”
yes, Bob Dylan had it right..answers for life tend not to be empirical but rather instinctive gut level decisions based on the moment and circumstance…we TRY to have rules to follow, methods, reason, and sage advice…any of that really work for you? most likely instinctive decisions seem to play the largest role for most …
Lucia Herrero – Tribes
Lucia Herrero Tribes ‘Tribes’ is a social analysis, a raw portrait of occidental society. Groups of families and friends set themselves up by the sea equipped to spend a day in the sun. All this, harmoniously juxtaposed, seems like a poem of customs that reveal with humor, color and tenderness, the profundity of a whole …
Manjari Sharma – Darshan
Manjari Sharma Darshan Historically considered a mechanical device to keep record, photography didn’t even start to find a place in galleries until the 20th century. It’s no surprise then that paintings and sculptures of Hindu deities were the dominant way to experience Indian mythology. As an Indian traditionally raised in Mumbai, despite my extensive …
Victor Cobo – Behind the Smoke Colored Curtain
Victor Cobo Behind the Smoke Colored Curtain ESSAY CONTAINS EXPLICIT CONTENT The images that I collect are often as much about myself as they are about the subjects being photographed. A broad exploration of real and imagined journeys, which often entail not only a physical displacement but also a psychological and emotional passage. The act …