Category: Portfolios
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Jonathan Hyams
Jonathan Hyams is a Canadian documentary photographer who is bringing us impressive series of pictures illustrating some of the most difficult locations and conditions where people live. His work for OXFAM, Globe and Mail, Ottawa Citizen, the New Internationalist, Christian Aid, and UNICEF is shown on photoshelter.com. Here I present you his series about sex…
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Lucas Foglia
Allow me a stop at one set of documentary photos from a reportage of Lucas Foglia around a group of American people who are trying more or less seriously to come back to their wild roots. They call it re-wilding and it happens in the Southeastern United States of America. Out of concerns about the…
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World images
Sometimes, pictures are simply amazing. Today, I want to share a few very good images with you. Shockingly beautiful and astonishingly surprising. London by night by Jason Hawkes, brought to us by the excellent Boston.com “The Big Picture” (news stories in pictures). I try to track daily the exceptionally good photos there. Japan factories collected…
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Daria Endresen
Daria Endresen, from Norway, gives us nude photographs (she is her own model) that include a fantasy dimension that is most unusual. They speak about solitude and suffering, but not sadness. To have and not to hold So hot, yet so cold My heart is in your hand And yet you never stand Close enough…
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Corey Arnold
Sea photography is often a way to display the wonders of the water world. But there are people at sea. Corey Arnold shows how small men are in an element that is totally overwhelming.
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James Chance
The HIV virus is a strange bedfellow for tuberculosis (TB), an illness that most thought was on the brink of disappearing but is back haunting the world and most precisely the poorest countries, the most fragile ones. James Chance offered us a series of photographs witnessing the daily drama of these men and women taken…
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Fred Relaix
A French photographer, for Bastille Day! Fred Relaix is a very apt photographer (his web site is witnessing this), but he has some images that I defintely loved. During a travel to Zimbabwe, he brought back black-and-white photos that are just beautiful. This gallery also exists in printed book format.
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Chiara Goia
When is a black-and-white photography not only black-and-white? Chiara Goia made a striking documentary out of a visit to a Chinese sculptor’s village. Men are living in the white snow and fog of a millions of tiny stone chips.
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Alejandro Chaskielberg
Light, night, color. Those are the real ingredients of photography that you can see gathered in Alejandro Chaskielberg pictures and they are assembled in a surprising way. You will be attracted to the result. Update: While I was preparing this portfolio publication, I learned that Alejandro received the Emerging Photographer Grant 2009. Congratulations!