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Elliott Erwitt
“It’s about reacting to what you see, hopefully without preconception. You can find pictures anywhere. It’s simply a matter of noticing things and organizing them. You just have to care about what’s around you and have a concern with humanity … Continue reading
Mary Ellen Mark – American Odyssey
An image that embodies a favourite theme of hers: children acting like adults. ‘Sometimes pictures happen as you’re leaving a shoot,’ Mark says. She had been photographing a family for a story on violent children and was about to leave … Continue reading
Claire Martin – Downtown East Side
Claire Martin is from Australia and was a social worker before becoming a photographer. She documents marginialised communities living in desperate conditions in otherwise prosperous countries. These photos were took in the Downtown East Side in Vancouver of people who … Continue reading
Sally Mann – Immediate Family
Sally Mann is a photographer from rural southwestern Virginia, the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains. She took a series of photos documenting her children, Emmet, Jessie and Virginia’s childhood from 1984 to 1991. She used damaged lenses and an … Continue reading
Lewis W. Hine
I feel shamed to admit it, but this photograph has been forever etched into my mind, years ago, as possibly the best photo I have ever seen, of portraying ‘looking cool’. Slight shame about acknowledging this effortlessly ‘cool’ look stems … Continue reading
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Tagged Child Labour, Lewis Hine, Lewis W. Hine, Photography, Social Documentary
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Dorchester Days by Eugene Richards
‘I’m no kid, and the old neighbourhood isn’t the same as it was… I walk around in these streets… People who are instinctively hospitable or curious about my camera or very lonely invite me in…’
Americans We by Eugene Richards
This picture is possibly my favourite picture, of all pictures I’ve ever seen: I’m unsure whether it’s staged or natural, I’m hoping the latter. It is taken by Eugene Richards and published in his book ‘Americans We’; a collection of … Continue reading
Cocaine True, Cocaine Blue by Eugene Richards
‘The United States accounts for five percent of the world’s population and consumes 50 percent of the world’s cocaine.’ ~ Dr. Stephen W. Nicholas, a pediatric AIDS physician in Harlem, writes in the afterwood in this book. Cocaine True, Cocaine … Continue reading
Café Lehmitz by Anders Petersen
In 1968 in Hamburg a Swedish photographer named Anders Petersen walked into a bar near the red-light boulevard Reeperbahn, at the end of “die sündige Meile” (“the sinful mile”). He sat down, had a beer and got chatting to a … Continue reading
