RAGNAR AXELSSON : GLACIER

 

Glacier (Qerndu, 2018)

Photograph © Ragnar Axelsson

Photograph © Ragnar Axelsson

Photograph © Ragnar Axelsson

Photograph © Ragnar Axelsson

Photograph © Ragnar Axelsson

"The glacier…hides a mysterious life of it’s own, but if we are lucky, as we follow it down from the peak of the mountain it covers, it will allow us glimpses of some of the many odd creatures of ice and ash, and deep secrets from centuries past, it carries with it to the sea.” 

– Ragnar Axelsson

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Ragnar Axelsson, a longtime Leica photographer affectionately known as RAX, is one of Iceland’s heroes, documenting the Arctic for over 35 years. He's authored many books, photographing the people, weather, and landscape, in some of the most remote and isolated regions around Iceland, Greenland, and Siberia. He’s won numerous awards for this work, including over 20 Icelandic Photojournalist Awards;The Leica Oskar Barnack Award (Honorable Mention); The Grand Prize, Photo de Mer, Vannes; and Iceland’s highest honor, the Order of the Falcon, Knight’s Cross, for his work in the Arctic. 

His steadfast belief in the importance of documenting the life and changes in the Arctic, has been the driving force behind creating his most recent book, Glacier. A must-have for the astonishing beauty of the region (gorgeously printed in Italy), as well as for those of you following our world's current environmental and climate-change issues. This book is "an ode to the glacier," the current status is they are shrinking 100 meters per year, with scientists predicting they will disappear within two centuries.

In Jonathan Blaustein’s book review of Glacier in The New York Times Lens Blog (12.28.2018), he writes; “Earth’s surface, in his abstracted, horizon-less photographs, does look like a massive supine dragon or an impossibly immense dinosaur, some reptilian beast with cracked, rough-hewn skin and eyes about to open.” 

"The pearls of Iceland are it’s Glaciers," Ragnar Axelsson responded.

GLACIER

Photographs and Text by Ragnar Axelsson

Foreword by artist Olafur Eliasson
Reykjavík: Qerndu, 2018
Icelandic version: Jökull 

Link To Purchase Glacier or Jökull

Ragnar Axelssons "Glacier" exhibition at Ásmundasal Art Center in Reykjavik

Icelandic Photographer, Ragnar 'RAX' Axelsson

BEN LOWY: The Comment Section

 © Benjamin Lowy 2017

 © Benjamin Lowy 2017

 © Benjamin Lowy 2017

 © Benjamin Lowy 2017

 © Benjamin Lowy 2017

 © Benjamin Lowy 2017

 © Benjamin Lowy 2017

© Benjamin Lowy 2017

"I’m a big fan of graphic novels—an oft derided literary genre—where morality is drawn in black and white; the hero and the villain. There is little patience for ambiguity in the battle between the two. I am over-simplifying comics, but in its essence it has always been a battle between good and evil. Though, like all good fantasy or science fiction, it masks real world issues under the veil of disposable entertainment. The 2016 election felt like an opportune time for me to combine the illustrations of what I saw, with the textual airings of our collective inner monologues. Twitter as the comic book thought bubble." – Benjamin Lowy, 2017

THE COMMENT SECTION

The Comment Section creatively interprets the divisive political landscape during the 2016 United States presidential campaign. Through illustrations and curated public comments, Lowy depicts the enmity between Republicans and Democrats, conservatives and liberals, globalists and nationalists, among others. He pairs documentary images turned into illustrations taken during the yearlong run-up to the presidential election, with the absurd rhetoric that filled newsrooms and social media news feeds. The Comment Section gives readers a visual peek into what shook the psyche of a nation. It is a reflection on the growing mis/use of social media and the breakdown of dialogue.’

BUY IT HERE

lowyimages.com/books/the-comment-section

All illustrations were made from unaltered photographs taken on assignment by photojournalist Benjamin Lowy for Time Magazine, The New York Times Magazine, and The Wall Street Journal. All tweets and comments were publicly accessible. "Special thanks goes to my partner Marvi Lacar and my editors Stacey Baker, Olivier Laurent, Paul Moakley, Sarah Morse, Kira Pollack, Abby Sher, and Kathy Ryan."

BEN ARNON: Documents Life at PhotoNola

A classic hat lays next to the pew beside the foot of a 102-year old gentleman at Berean Baptist Church in Philadelphia. Photograph (c) Ben Arnon

"Police Your Racism" - Protestors demonstrate against police brutality at Union Square in New York City in July 2016, days after the back-to-back killings of Alton Sterling and Philando Castille. Photograph (c) Ben Arnon

Several teams of girls await their Irish dance performances backstage in the 8-hand Mid-Atlantic Regional Competition in Philadelphia. Photograph (c) Ben Arnon

A bucking bronco throws tosses a rider and his hat to the ground at the Friday Night Rodeo in Dubois, Wyoming. Photograph (c) Ben Arnon

 

I met Ben Arnon, a New York City-based visual journalist, at PhotoNola 2016 Portfolio Reviews. His work focus's documentary reportage, street portraiture, and the impact of human existence on urban landscapes. He documents the unflinching honesty of people’s lives and is particularly interested in examining themes of socio-economic, racial and class dynamics amongst and within communities of people.

Photographs from Ben’s most recent work, entitled "RIO," are on view throughout New York’s Chelsea Market to December 31, 2016. Photographs from Ben’s “Black Lives Matter” series were exhibited at Davis Orton Gallery from October 8 to November 13, 2016, and were exhibited during the 2016 DNC Convention in Philadelphia at an exhibition called Truth To Power.  

Ben writes frequently for the Huffington Post, offering social commentary on a wide array of topics including visual arts, culture, society, digital media, and politics.    

benarnonphoto.com

huffingtonpost.com/ben-arnon

RUTH GRUBER: PhotoJournalist Humanitarian Author Dies at 105

“I had two tools to fight injustice — words and images, my typewriter and my camera....I just felt that I had to fight evil, and I’ve felt like that since I was 20 years old. And I’ve never been an observer. I have to live a story to write it.”–NY Times

Photographer, journalist, author Ruth Gruber (September 30, 1911 - November 17, 2016) died at age 105. Gruber stumbled into one of the great rescue stories of the Holocaust when the U.S. government appointed her to escort nearly 1,000 Jews across U-boat infested waters to the shores of the United States. I spoke to Gruber for La Lettre on the night she received the International Center of Photography's Cornell Capa Award in 2011 at age 100.

The New York Times Obituary by Robert D. McFadden, November 17, 2016: ….Over seven decades, she was a correspondent in Europe and the Middle East and wrote 19 books, mostly based on her own experiences. Acting for President Franklin D. Roosevelt, she escorted nearly 1,000 refugees from 19 Nazi-occupied nations to a safe haven in the United States on a perilous trans-Atlantic crossing in 1944. They included the only large contingent of Jews allowed into America during World War II. As with many of her exploits, the rescue became the subject of one of her books, “Haven: The Dramatic Story of 1,000 World War II Refugees and How They Came to America” (1983). It was made into a two-part CBS mini-series in 2001, starring Natasha Richardson as Ms. Gruber. Read more in The New York Times…..

THE 8th CARMIGNAC PHOTOJOURNALISM AWARD: Slavery and the Trafficking of Women

CALL FOR APPLICATION THEME

SLAVERY AND THE TRAFFICKING OF WOMEN

The purpose of the Carmignac Photojournalism Award is to support the winning photojournalist in undertaking a photographic and investigative assignment, and providing a global platform for their work to be seen and collected. The Carmignac Foundation collaborates with the winner throughout the entire project by offering the laureate 50,000€ to go into the field, financing a monograph and developing and staging an international touring exhibition upon their return, in Paris and then in London at the Saatchi Gallery. Four photographs from this work will be integrated into the Carmignac Collection.

The 8th edition of the Carmignac photojournalism Award is devoted to modern day slavery and its incidence among women.

The International Labour Organisation (ILO) estimates that there are more than 2.5 million victims of modern day slavery, and women make up the majority of this number. According to Amnesty International, women represent 80% of the victims of human trafficking, of whom nearly 50% are minors. The types of exploitation are numerous: sexual, forced labor, domestic slavery…

Women are all the more vulnerable in situations where they have little protection. The countries of South and South-East Asia as well as those of Central Europe and the ex-USSR are the principal purveyors of these modernday slaves. Although abduction is the most common route into slavery, women are also sold by their own families or entrapped into joining the networks of traffickers.

Armed conflicts exacerbate discriminatory and violent behaviour towards women. In Lebanon, Jordan and Turkey, numerous camps of Syrian refugees have emerged. These refugees provide easy prey for networks on the lookout for ‘merchandise’. In Nigeria, in the Darfur region of western Sudan and in the Democratic Republic of Congo, women and girls are subject to abductions carried out to provide their kidnappers with sexual or domestic slaves.

Chaired by Monique Villa, Founder of Trust Women, the 8th edition of the Carmignac Photojournalism Award aims to make visible these forms of modern day slavery, by supporting a project with the potential to become a tool for reflection and concrete change in the fight against the trafficking of women.

THE JURY

The jury of the 8th Edition of the Award, chaired by Monique Villa, CEO of Thomson Reuters Foundation and Founder of Trust Women, will meet in November 2016 in Paris.

The panel comprises:

- Elizabeth Avedon, Independent Curator specialized in photography books
- Francesca Fabiani, Photography Special Projects, Department for Contemporary Art and Architecture, Ministry of Culture, Italy
- Thierry Grillet, Chief Curator of Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BNF)
- Olivier Laurent, Editor-in-chief of Time Lightbox
- Élisabeth Quin, Journalist, Writer and Arte TV Presenter (28 Minutes)
- The Laureate of the 7th edition, currently working in Libya

The pre-selection jury, whose task is to shortlist 12 to 15 submissions from all applications received, consists of :

- Patrick Baz, Photojournalist
- Dimitri Beck, Photo Director at Polka Magazine
- Celina Lunsford, Artistic Director of the Fotografie Forum Frankfurt.

http://bit.ly/CarmignacPhotojournalismAward

After the selection, the jury will meet the winning photographer in order to speak to him/her and to provide, if necessary, the support s/he will require throughout his/her project - from the preparation stage of the report, to its final exhibition.

The photographers must submit their projects before midnight (GMT) on Sunday 16th October 2016, by applying online on www.fondation-carmignac. com or at the following address:

http://bit.ly/CarmignacPhotojournalismAward

Theme: #Slavery and the Trafficking of #Women
Apply! #WomensRights #photojournalism #Award

CHRISTOPHE GIN : At The Collection Lambert in Avignon 3 July - 6 November 2016

 A ‘legal’ Guianese canoe, jump crossing. Oyapock River, 

April 2015 © Christophe Gin for the Fondation Carmignac

Trois-Sauts, January 2015

© Christophe Gin for the Fondation Carmignac

Illegal service station on the Surinamese bank of the Maroni,

June 2015 © Christophe Gin for the Fondation Carmignac

An exhibition dedicated to Christophe Gin, 6th Laureate of the Carmignac Photojournalism Award, on view from 6 July to 6 November at the Hôtel de Montfaucon in Avignon, is the fruit of a unique partnership with the Lambert Collection and the Fondation Carmignac.

The Fondation Carmignac aims to support and promote works of investigative photojournalism documenting areas often under represented in mainstream news coverage.

The jury for the 6^th edition, chaired by Christophe Deloire, Secretary General of Reporters Without Borders, chose Christophe Gin as the 2014 laureate of the Carmignac Photojournalism Award. 

Gin spent five months exploring the landscapes of Guiana, from border regions to the most remote Amerindian villages, where soldiers mingle with gold prospectors and exploited immigrant workers, and where local population is forced to integrate republican concepts. His photography bears witness to the reality of life in a land full of contrasts, far from the caricatures often presented through the mainstream press. 

  

CHRISTOPHE GIN  

The Collection Lambert en Avignon

5 rue Violette - 84 000 Avignon

3 July - 6 November 2016. 

Tuesday to Sunday 11am to 6pm

Every day in July and August 11am to 7pm

collectionlambert.com

  

Christophe Gin was born in 1965 in Nevers. A self-taught photographer, he started his career in the early 1990s, with the photo report Nathalie conduite de pauvreté (Nathalie: Conduct of Poverty, 1994-2001), which was shot behind closed doors and explored the inner workings of misery by focusing on Nathalie, who agreed to have her daily life photographed for seven years. The method is minimalist, getting as close to the protagonist as possible, with the photographer disappearing to give the audience a better view of the subject.

Following this work, Christophe Gin wanted to avoid being trapped in a specific genre, and felt the need to discover new horizons, which led him to explore French Guiana for the first time in 2001. Encountering and understanding this society would be a long and arduous process, taking the photographer to Brazil, Colombia, Bolivia and Suriname. A second series came out of it: Le Pont des Illusions (The Bridge of Illusions, 2002-2014).

His work has been the subject of numerous exhibitions, inlcuding Rencontres Photographiques de Guyane in the capital Cayenne, the Galerie Fait et Cause in Paris, at Shenyang (China), the China International Photo Festival in Lianzhou, the Visa pour l’Image event in Perpignan and PhotoEspaña.

christophegin.org

SUSAN MAY TELL: Appalachia and The Rust Belt

Appalachian Mist, Altoona Pennsylvania, 2012

Photograph (c) Susan May Tell

Mama's Kitchen, Elkins, West Virginia, 2012

Photograph (c) Susan May Tell

Replica, Elkins, West Virginia, 2012

Photograph (c) Susan May Tell

The Spirit of Brownton, Brownton, West Virginia, 2012

Photograph (c) Susan May Tell

Steel Mill Memories, Steubenville, Ohio, 2012

Photograph (c) Susan May Tell

"SEEN AND FELT: Appalachia, 2012" is a portfolio of photographs of contemporary rural Appalachia and the Rust Belt: West Virginia, Ohio and Pennsylvania. The photos were taken with Tri-X (b+w) film in my Leica during a summer journey in 2012. The prints are gelatin silver. – Susan May Tell

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A few summer's ago, Fine Art Photographer Susan May Tell disappeared for several months. I'm used to hearing from or read about Susan everywhere and often. As a former freelance photo-journalist for The New York Times (eventually covering the Middle East), Life Magazine, the Philadelphia Inquirer, Agence France Presse, Crain’s New York Business, the Washington Post, and finally on staff for The New York Post covering Sports, May Tell knows her way around "Photography." Now, as ASMP-NY’s Fine Art Chair, she organizes and moderates some of the best Fine Art Photography Conversations in New York, including an extraordinary evening with panelist's Howard Greenberg (Howard Greenberg Gallery owner), Jeff Rosenheim (Curator of Photographs at The Metropolitan Museum of Art), and Brian Wallis (Chief Curator at the International Center of Photography). Involved in all aspects of creating the successful ASMP-NY's Fine Art Portfolio Reviews twice a year, May Tell also advises about great photo exhibitions around town in her monthly Newsletter.

But one summer she just vanished. No emails, no phone calls, no news on Facebook. Months went by. Silence. More silence. And then slowly, a few posts letting us know she was in the darkroom with hundreds of rolls of film. And months after that, a few emails to say she was (still) editing hundreds or more images. Much later, she posted the results on her website of her 4,000 mile road trip through Appalachia (!) sleeping in campsites and sometimes sleeping in her car. You can read an excellent Interview with Susan May Tell that explains all about it. It's an informative and great read...begin HERE

Susan May Tell

and

An Interview with Susan May Tell

and check out her moving Series: 

"A Requiem: Tribute to the Spiritual Space at Auschwitz"

RADCLIFFE 'RUDDY' ROYE: Instagram Activist

 

January 10, 2014 Gabriel -- self proclaimed son of David.

Photograph © Ruddy Roye Instagram.com/ruddyroye

December 31, 2013 The Designer (Unfinished and Unedited) I believe by design I am a designer. Shiny as a petal that was stained from last mornings early rain: Polluted water, skipping on second hand smoke to fill the banks of the raging rivers, rising again like streaming steam, steeped in soilings, to fall again like a Congolese Sapeur on flavoured flowers. I am by design, a designer. Grounded as any root pushing pass dirt and the contaminated loot we pretend to be fodder We call it organic, stringing, and slinging, profane pharmaceuticals into the earth to fertilize our minds I am by design, a designer. Made by man reaching to be higher, but being developed by our local sponsors Acting like we are better than the four legged creatures we carry in our DNA like that man Adam or was it Noah? Watching the world from our hand as we click away blindly with our index finger, Our gaze firmly pointed at the other. Instagram.com/ruddyroye

November 19, 2013 Extract from The Four Seasons (Unfinished, Unedited) Fall And he carried a broken black bag, with his needs and things. A bag that carried no food or clothes, But was filled with his dreams and pills. It is his whole-- Filled with all his earthly possession. Clutching tight it's twisted secrets He uses it to deflect life's cruel weapons. It's is a traveled bag, A carried bag Through centuries and Cross terrains It has been a beaten bag A mistreated bag left to hang in the harsh sun and the pouring rain. I watched him, face blackened, hidden by frustration, he is Everyman invisible and worn. Slowly, I watch him run from the sun and straight into the shadow and pleats of his broken black bag. Instagram.com/ruddyroye

January 29, 2014 "Another Year" -- Happy Birthday, Mom. Every year time sifts each atom that magically shapes her cheeks. It bunches up her brows And tries to redraw the smile etched across her two molded peaks used to pull the universe in. It pulls her eyes forward and forces her to weep Changed in a blink, stopped with a click. She was someone's moon, The waning pregnant shape now wrinkled and barren Was what I first howled at. I wore my first crown sliding down her future while she laid on her back. These days I bemoan time spent chasing a liquid dream hugging this brittle basket of American pies and picket fences watching my dough slip through unraveling seams. I am missing all her seasons. She sits for my camera singing, about a day to come when she will again see her beginning. So I steal a page, and her cheeks flick forward to mimic the click of another year. Straining itself through the magical sift of atoms I see her age peeling away with the tears That drip in this basket called distance and absence drying up to flake away like her life captured in a stare. Instagram.com/ruddyroye

December 27, 2013 Cyclops -- Walking with my eight year old today and talking pictures. He was trying to convince me that he knew what ingredients should be in a good picture. It was a fantastic couple of miles worth of conversation. Instagram.com/ruddyroye

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Radcliffe 'Ruddy' Roye is a Brooklyn based documentary photographer specializing in editorial and environmental portraits and photo-journalism photography. "Radcliffe is inspired by the raw and gritty lives of grassroots people, especially those of his homeland of Jamaica. He strives to tell the stories of their victories and ills by bringing their voices to matte fiber paper." With over 64,000 Instagram followers, Roye has redefined the art of communicating through images and words.

RUDDY ROYE.com

The photographs on this website are a Must-See!

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 Radcliffe Roye, Tuesday March 11 7pm

SVA, 136 West 21st Street, room 418F, NYC

i3: Images, Ideas, Inspiration Lecture Series

presented by MPS Digital Photography 

Photograph © Ruddy Roye

As seen in "The Street Types of New York"exhibition

co-curated by Paul Moakley and Anthony LaSala
Alice Austen House Museum, 2013

Photograph © Ruddy Roye

As seen in "The Street Types of New York"exhibition

co-curated by Paul Moakley and Anthony LaSala
Alice Austen House Museum, 2013 

I first saw Roye's portraits in an exhibition last summer curated by Time Magazine Deputy Photo Editor Paul Moakley and Photo Editor Anthony LaSala. I was blown away by his work and very honored he recently accepted my invitation to talk to my School of Visual Arts BFA Photography program students.
 

Ruddy Roye gave my students an inspirational, moving and informative talk and presentation of his work. He generously shared his own life experiences and career path. Thank you so much, Ruddy Roye.

BILL EPPRIDGE: 1938-2013

 Bill Eppridge, 2010

Photograph (c) Elizabeth Paul Avedon/All rights reserved

 Robert Kennedy, New York City
Photograph (c) Bill Eppridge/Courtesy Monroe Gallery

 Bobby Kennedy with crowd during the 1968 Presidential race
Photograph (c) Bill Eppridge/Courtesy Monroe Gallery

 Bobby Kennedy campaigns into the night, 1968
Photograph (c) Bill Eppridge/Courtesy Monroe Gallery

The Kennedy campaign travels through the Watts section of Los Angeles on the last day before the primary, 1968. Photograph (c) Bill Eppridge/Courtesy Monroe Gallery

 Robert Kennedy

Photograph (c) Bill Eppridge/Courtesy Monroe Gallery

Busboy Juan Romero tries to comfort Presidential candidate Bobby Kennedy. The burned master vintage print used for reproduction in LIFE Magazine of Senator Robert F. Kennedy Shot, Ambassador Hotel, Los Angeles, Ca, June 5, 1968. Photograph (c) Bill Eppridge/Courtesy Monroe Gallery

 Read

 TIME LightBox: In Memoriam

Iconic LIFE Photographer Bill Eppridge  

Read
NY TIMES Lens
The Moment a Photographer Became an Historian

Photographs by Bill Eppridge, courtesy of the Monroe Gallery, Santa Fe

MARILYN MONROE: Photographed by Lawrence Schiller at Steven Kasher

Marilyn By Lawrence Schiller on La Lettre (click here). Photographs by Lawrence Schiller, © Polaris Communications, Inc., All Rights Reserved, Courtesy Steven Kasher Gallery, New York

"Lawrence Schiller's Exhibition of over fifty iconic images of Marilyn Monroe—many of which have been newly discovered in his archives, opened at Steven Kasher Gallery in New York last week, his first solo show in the U.S. Schiller met Monroe when he was just a 23 year old photojournalist. He describes meeting Marilyn for the first time, "I was scared shitless. I‘d never photographed somebody who had been photographed by every photographer in the world. I learned very quickly that Marilyn knew more about photography than I did...She could look anyway she wanted." These exclusive photographs of Monroe show her as "self-aware, in control of her image, yet fragile and vulnerable, and uniquely touching." – La Lettre de la Photographie

Steven Kasher Gallery
through June 30th

La Lettre de la Photographie Monroe and Schiller (here)

RUTH GRUBER: ICP Infinity Awards 2011

Ruth Gruber, Cornell Capa Award recipient, May 10, 2011
Photograph © Elizabeth Avedon

Refugees who had been on Exodus, 1947

Photograph © Ruth Gruber

La Lettre de la Photographie / Photo Image Inguilere

My tools were words and images and I could use those tools to show injustice –Ruth Gruber, recipient of the Cornell Capa Award

Ruth Gruber photographed as a foreign correspondent for the New York Herald Tribune. In 1944, while the war and holocaust raged, Gruber was sent on a covert mission by President Roosevelt to escort 1,000 refugee’s across the Atlantic to the U.S. When she took the stage to receive her award, now 100 years old, she also took everyone’s heart." – La Lettre de la Photographie

La Lettre de la Photographie: Awards Night Guests
ICP Infinity Award Recipients

ASSAF POCKER: Scar Tissue

Cosmo
Photograph (c)Assaf Pocker /All Rights Reserved

Gia
Photograph (c)Assaf Pocker /All Rights Reserved

Van
Photograph (c)Assaf Pocker /All Rights Reserved

Van
Photograph (c)Assaf Pocker /All Rights Reserved

Liora (Portrait of the photographer's Mother)
Photograph (c)Assaf Pocker /All Rights Reserved

"Pain recognizes pain"–Assaf Pocker

Assaf Pocker was born in 1958 in Be'er Sheva, Israel. He studied Photography and Art at Jerusalem's Bezalel Academy of Art and Design and worked as a successful photojournalist in Israel throughout the 1980s. After moving to the U.S., Pocker has been working on his series, Scar Tissue, to be published by Nazraeli Press. The subject matter is pain, raw pain, and the images are very intense. You can view them here

"Scar Tissue" Nazraeli Press, Fall 2010
With An Introduction by Renee T. Coulombe, PhD