February 2011 Archives

Don't miss the latest issue of Lens Culture! This edition features an eclectic mix of contemporary photography from all over the world, including work by photographers who participated in our first international portfolio review event, Lens Culture FotoFest Paris 2010.

Among the articles featured in this issue are works by Lucia Ganieva (Russia), Stephen Gill (UK), Maria Felixmuller (Germany), John Armstrong and Paul Collins (Canada/France), Natan Dvir (Israel), and Massimo Cristaldi (Italy), TED Fellow Camille Seaman (USA), Britta Jaschinski, winner of the 2010 European Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition (UK) – plus, we feature another hilarious book from Kessels/Kramer's "in almost every picture ..." series - How (not) to Shoot a Black Dog.

All our high-resolution slideshows are now visible on iPad – great for appreciating the richness and details of literally thousands of great photographs in our archives.

Lens Culture International Exposure Awards traveling exhibition will soon be opening around the world:

• Gallery 291, San Francisco, from April 28, 2011
• Gallery Dupon, Paris, from June 9, 2011
• VII Dumbo Gallery, New York, from July 14, 2011
– more details SOON!

And this is HUGE news:

Lens Culture has teamed up with Fotografiska photo museum in Sweden to launch the first international portfolio reviews to be held in Stockholm 27 & 28 May 2011. 100 photographers, 35 international reviewers, and a wealth of events.

Registration opens in March, and we expect the demand will be high, and that places will sell out quickly – especially since our reviews also coincide with the newly established Stockholm Photo Week at the end of May. So, mark your calendars — and join us in Stockholm for a wonderful new event!

Cheers!

Last week, the World Press Photo jury announced their choices for the best press photos published in 2010. Lens Culture is pleased to present a selection of the winners again this year. A record number of 108,059 images was submitted to the contest, and the number of participating photographers was 5,847, representing 125 different nationalities.

At first glance, almost all of the winning images portray doom and gloom — and lots of it. The year 2010, as depicted by the award winners, was filled with tragedy, horror, natural disaster, inhumanity, outrage and despair. The overall winner is an unforgettable image (below) by Jodi Beiber, of a young Afghan woman mutilated on the orders of the Taliban.

These difficult and disturbing images are softened (slightly) by some dream-like photos of wild animals in nature, split-second moments of seemingly impossible physical feats in the Sports category, and an ironic look at daily life captured through the random lens of Google Street View and edited with a curator's critical eye by photographer Michael Wolf.

See this article at Lens Culture for more information and a high-resolution slideshow of the winning images.