Dig Down a Little Deeper and You’ll Find Me
Living in Pennsylvania and traveling through the cities and towns, long before photographer Niko J. Kallianiotis picked up a camera, helped him shape his perception of what America is, or isn’t. His project entitled America in a Trance is an observation of the fading American dream so typified in the northeastern Pennsylvania landscape but widespread across the United States.
Retracing the Route of a Country Doctor in Rural Indiana
Inspired by the iconic work of W. Eugene Smith, Rebecca Norris Webb traces the route of her father, a country doctor, in the new book Night Calls.
Iris Hassid: Seeing the Other Side
The first monograph by Israeli photographer Iris Hassid, A place of Our Own, takes viewers into the day-to-day life of four young Palestinian women from Israel.
Behind the Masks: Faces of Those Fighting COVID-19
Photos of nurses by portrait photographer Cedric Matet are on display in the town of Montpellier, in France, until March 21. The exhibition “Behind the Masks” shines the spotlight on Covid-19 teams at the Montpellier University Hospital.
In a League of Her Own: Ida Wyman, Girl Photographer in a World of Men
A new exhibition looks at rare color photographs of documentary photographer Ida Wyman made on the streets of New York in the 1940s.
Best Regards, Hicham Benohoud
They are the successors of Nadar, Paul Strand, Florence Henri… Their images continue to enrich the world history of photography and our own impatient eyes. Blind shares the memories of some magical encounters with these virtuosos of the camera, soloists in black & white or in color, artists faithful to gelatin silver photography or bewitched by digital technologies. Today: Hicham Benohoud, from truancy to the poetics of space…
Joan E. Biren’s Touching Portraits of Lesbians
The reissue of Joan E. Biren’s Eye to Eye: Portraits of Lesbians, which was first published in 1979, is cause for celebration. During a historical era characterized by political urgency and high hopes, being seen – having agency – was inextricably linked to effecting social change. The expanded version of her out-of-print photobook, a classic of photographic literature, […]
Photos Capturing the Grit and Glamour of 1970s LA
Los Angeles in the 1970s was an age filled with grit and glamour. The allure of Hollywood in its gilded age hasn’t faded; today, fashion, music, and film all pay homage to the 1970s and the glitterati that inhabited it then. But LA had a less glamorous side, too; photographer Gary Krueger captured the frenetic, […]
By the Creek, Opposite of a Meadow
In order to reconnect with her homeland, document remnants of identity, and trans-generational connection to Slovakia, Michaela Nagyidaiová planned a journey across the country. She captured places and people linked to her parents’ memories of vacationing in Slovakia during socialism and explored her own recollections of childhood.
Gilles Caron: A Witness to an Imperfect World
The book Gilles Caron, Un monde imparfait accompanies the eponymous exhibition, which was on view in Reims and is traveling to Cherbourg starting April 24, 2021. Blind invites you to discover Gilles Caron’s remarkable work through his photographs and the testimony of Robert Pledge, director of the agency Contact, who was close to the photographer who died suddenly at the age of thirty.
Philip Wolmuth, Socially Concerned British Photographer, Dies at 70
Reflecting on the life and legacy of British photographer Philip Wolmuth, who used the camera as a tool of liberation in the fight for social justice.
Paris In Photos: An Accessible Collection
Thinking about starting a photography collection? Thanks to the Internet, auction sales are now more accessible to many more people. While some are aimed at experts, as they’re devoted to great figures or famous collections, others are aimed at amateurs. “Paris Seen By Various Photographers,” organized by Christophe Gœury, is one such example.
A Camera and Three Chords: Documenting the D.I.Y. Ethos of Punk
Celebrated photographer and film director Michael Grecco revisits his archive to unearth images capturing the raw power of punk music.
How Ebony Became the Gold Standard of Black American Photo Magazines
A lavish new photography book celebrates the legacy of the magazine that chronicled the extraordinary progress of Black America throughout the twentieth century — and beyond. It coincides with the announcement of Ebony‘s rebirth this month.
Exploring the Mystical Drama of Life Through Photography
A new exhibition at International Center of Photography in New York and a new book mediate on the role of documentary photography in our ever-changing world, offering a slice of life that is poetic in form.
Photographs of New York’s Isolation in Lockdown
When COVID hit New York City last March, placing one of the busiest cities in the world in a seemingly endless period of stasis, the photographer Brea Souders moved upstate to a remote area, staying at a home situated at the end of a cul-de-sac. During that intense period of isolation, she began to notice people who, […]
Shedding New Light on the Marginal Lives and Lifestyles of the African Diaspora
Organized around the work of four different photographers, the exhibition (Un)hidden, on view now at the Dominique Fiat gallery in Paris, provides a glimpse of various forms of resistance.
Discovering Sudanese Photography
Destination Sudan, accompanied by photographer Claude Iverné, who in 2005 founded Elnour,* a not-for-profit that is both a photo agency and a library with a collection of more than 20,000 photos, books, films, and other documents . Objective: the conservation and dissemination of this little-known chapter in the history of African photography.
The Anonymous Project: Our Big Family Album
Since 2017, Lee Shulman, a filmmaker and founder of The Anonymous Project, has been collecting photographic slides of anonymous people. He has unearthed forgotten gems in attics and lent a second life to family memories captured in Kodachrome. The Polka Factory invites viewers to the exhibition American Stories, featuring previously unseen photographs.
A Tender Portrait of Teen Girls Coming of Age
Deanna Templeton’s new book What She Said explores the struggle for independence, agency, and self-expression that defines female adolescence.
Imagining a World Somewhere Else from Sweden
Photographer Per-Olof Stolz has photographed the suburbia of his hometown Rydebäck, in southern Sweden, where his family bought a house in the 1960s. A simple documentation of the middle-class life, which tells about both prosperity and isolation.
Haunting Photos of Midnight Crossings at the US/Mexico Border During the 1980s
American photographer Ken Light looks back at his time at the US/Mexico border in the 1980s when The Border Patrol began hunting migrants in the dead of night.
Creating a New Language for Black Male Desire
Using fantasy and mysticism to disrupt the historical portrayal of Black masculinity, interdisciplinary artist Shikeith creates liberated images of desire.
How the 1970s Revolutionized the Art of Photography
A new online exhibition by PDNB Gallery explores how photographers working in the 1970s transformed not only the language of photography, but invented new ways of seeing the world.
Jacques Léonard’s Gypsy Snapshots
Life in the heart of a Barcelona gypsy community in the 1950s, as if you were there, shown through the sensitive lens of Jacques Léonard, a Frenchman who spent time living in their midst.
A Portrait of Africa on the Cusp of Independence
Recently rediscovered photographs from Todd Webb’s five-month trip to Africa offer a look at the relationship between independence and imperialism in the Global South.
Donna Ferrato: A Life Dedicated to Women’s Liberation
Having scoured her archives to collect 50 years’ worth of photographs of women, depicting their ecstasies and their breakdowns, Donna Ferrato publishes a troubling tribute to feminine power.
The Endangered Future of Greenland’s Heroes
Icelander Ragnar Axelsson has devoted his career to photographing the Far North. His documentary photographs have earned him multiple awards, including the prestigious Icelandic Photojournalist Award, and have appeared in LIFE, National Geographic, and Le Figaro. He now publishes Arctic Heroes with Kehrer, a tribute to the sled dogs of Greenland.
The Rising Stars of Ethiopian Photography
Ethiopia’s enormous capital, Addis Ababa, is currently undergoing unprecedented urban change. In the wake of gargantuan modernization work, a new generation of photographers is jumping energetically on this evolving subject: the city and its people.
Celebrating Kamoinge, the World’s Longest Running Photography Collective
In the fall of 1963 — the final year of Jim Crow America — two Harlem-based groups of Black photographers came together to create the Kamoinge Workshop, which has since become the world’s longest-running photography collective. Taken from the Gikuyu language of Kenya, meaning “a group of people acting together,” Kamoinge provided a space for both professional photographers […]
Rania Matar’s Intimate Portraits of Social Isolation
When the COVID 19 crisis began, Rania Matar embarked on a series of portraits of people in their homes, finding a new way to connect across the divide.
Tips to Master Mountain Landscape Photography
Mountains have always made great photographic subjects. They dominate the surrounding landscape with their size and grandeur and never fail to impress with their changing reflections and dizzying peaks. Dotted with snow in winter, they naturally make for stunning shots. So here are some tips for the best ways to shoot mountain photography, if you’re lucky enough to be surrounded by the mountains.
Celebrating the Glamour and Glory of Studio 54
Rose Hartman shares her candid photographs and memories of New York’s most legendary nightclub in conjunction with the exhibition “Studio 54: Night Magic”.
Feeling Like a Child Again on the Kerkennah Islands
Travel to the Kerkennah Islands off of the Tunisian coast with French-Tunisian photographer Shiraz Bazin-Moussi.
A Harrowing Look Inside the LAPD in the 1990s
Embedded with the LAPD, photographer Joseph Rodriguez was given unprecedented access to street cops in the years following the Los Angeles Riots.
Best Regards, Henri Cartier-Bresson
They are the successors of Nadar, Paul Strand, Florence Henri… Their images continue to enrich the world history of photography and our own impatient eyes. Blind shares the memories of some magical encounters with these virtuosos of the camera, soloists in black & white or in color, artists faithful to gelatin silver photography or bewitched by digital technologies. The first in line: Henri Cartier-Bresson, the twentieth century’s most flamboyant picture snatcher…
Revisiting New York’s Legendary Drag Explosion of the 1990s
Downtown New York nightlife icon Linda Simpson looks back at the way ‘90s drag culture transformed the way we think about gender, beauty, fashion, and glamour today.
Antoine Agoudjian: An Armenian Story
For over thirty years, photographer Antoine Agoudjian has been driven by a single obsession: to document the Armenian narrative, from the ghosts of the past to the conflicts of today.
Soumya Sankar Bose: Anatomy of a Massacre
In a self-published book titled Where the Birds Never Sing, Indian photographer Soumya Sankar Bose looks at an event that the Indian government has erased from history. The result reveals the political and social complexity of the incident by combining thorough investigative work with visual poetry in several different formats.
Harry Wilks’ Iconic Car Pictures
American photographer Harry Wilks favors the everyday life. His project The Car Picture features a series of yearly photographs in front of the family car shot over a period of thirty years. An ode to family life that documents the passing of time.
Trent Parke: The Crimson Wind
Australian photographer Trent Parke, a member of Magnum Photos and winner of four World Press Photo awards, returns after a five-year hiatus with his first project since 2015. His book Crimson Line is a meditation in scarlet on industrial pollution, creativity, and light.
Larry Fink’s Penetrating Portrait of Class in America
As he approaches his 80th birthday, American photographer Larry Fink looks back at his extraordinary journey through photography in conjunction with a new retrospective of his work opening in Cologne, Germany.
Marseille: In Search of the Lost Coastline
To talk about Marseille and its coastline, Élise Llinarès and Michel Peraldi have joined forces as photographer and anthropologist. Littoral Marseille is the result of their collaboration, a book of personal commitment released by the publishing house d’une rive à l’autre.
The Infinite Present: Shooting One Film Photograph Every Day
What started as a gift from a friend became a daily experiment. Photographer B.A. Van Sise shares with us the story of three years of street photography.
Exploring the Art of Looking at Photography
Author Stephen Frailey picks up where John Szarkowski left off with his new book, “Looking at Photography” that showcases 100 seminal works made since 1980.
