The week before Christmas a man named Warren “Gator” Taylor took three hostages in a Wytheville, VA Post Office. Taylor said that his “growing anger at the federal government for a variety of reasons,” led him to the Post Office to “end it all.” The standoff was short lived. What I found the most interesting [...]
PBS POV has a been broadcasting independent documentaries since 1988. I was saw an amazing piece there today called 34x25x36 by Jesse Epstein. The short documentary is about a company located in City of Industry (a town comprised mainly of factories and warehouses outside LA) called Patina V Mannequin Factory. The video, one piece in [...]
Photographer Danny Lyon needs a better editor for his writing, his spelling and grammar need help. But this isn’t the point. The point is that he’s written a great essay about being a photographer in the age of the digital camera, the death of newspapers and the Iraq/Afghanistan/Pakistan war. Lyon has spent the last four [...]
This is one thing that’s wrong with digital photography, it’s not about taking good pictures, it’s about faking good pictures. This is a massive portrait project called Exactitudes from Ari Versluis and Ellie Uyttenbroek. I am always in awe of Steve McCurry’s beautiful portfolio. Visualdiaries does some amazing essays, especially this one called Korean Portfolio, Part One by [...]
Here are a couple different takes on “the future of magazines.” Although it seems like a lot of people these days have something to say (mainly that there may not be one). But, Sports Illustrated has a nice tablet demo, while Mag+ uses some cool animation. Some amazing work from Christer Strömholm. The work in Japan [...]
[via LensCulture] “Salt Water Tears” is an essay by Munem Wasif in Bangladesh. Wasif, who himself is Bangladeshi, shows how a twice-daily two or three hour journey to get clean drinking water is a life or death job. (Be sure to view the slideshow for the large images)
When I got home today there was a wonderful present waiting for me. Looking In: Robert Frank’s The Americans – Expanded Edition, the brand new 500-page, 50th Anniversary printing. The book’s release coincides with a show that is now at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Last week a friend of mine told me [...]
Here’s an eerie photo essay about abandoned shopping malls. [via TMN] Michael Wolf’s work has always fascinated me. His website is well organized and gives an amazing glimpse into the many unknown levels of Chinese culture, like this piece on the origin of Chinese acrobatics. A new magazine “by street photographers for street photographers.” I guess [...]
Marco Vernaschi is an Italian photojournalist and writer. He has been working with the Pulitzer Center on an amazing body of work documenting the effects of cocaine trafficing in West Africa. As he says, “showing how criminal networks led by Hezbollah and Al Qaeda destroyed a whole country in just a few years.”
Johann Hari, one of my favorite writers, has just posted a great essay about whether the Internet has brought us closer together or further apart.
