SPOTLIGHTChasing Light Through Color: A Conversation with Liz NielsenThis artist’s lifelong fascination with luminous color sparked her resolve to put the camera aside, instead using her photographic materials to capture pure representations of light and synaesthesia.Read More
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Chasing Light Through Color: A Conversation with Liz Nielsen
This artist’s lifelong fascination with luminous color sparked her resolve to put the camera aside, instead using her photographic materials to capture pure representations of light and synaesthesia.
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Strolling around Prospect Park in Brooklyn with a cart full of photographic gear in tow, Bruce Polin creates revealing, compelling portraits of New York City’s diverse inhabitants.
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“These portraits present the diversity of gender: there are as many ways to live as there are people, and each one deserves a closer look.” This photographer uses her camera to offer agency to her non-binary subjects, allowing them to frame their...
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Strolling around Prospect Park in Brooklyn with a cart full of photographic gear in tow, Bruce Polin creates revealing, compelling portraits of New York City’s diverse inhabitants.
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Best of July 2018: Deadlines for Competitions, Grants, Festivals and More
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In Japan, drivers rated “y ūryō untensh”—excellent driver—have their own stands at major stations and special markings on their cabs. Highly-rated drivers offer their passengers solitude and privacy. Here, a series of street portraits that pay...
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The Best of LensCulture, Vol 2
Here are 162 award-winning photographers you should know. These exciting contemporary photographers come from 38 countries on five continents, and they are making remarkable work right now in diverse cultures around the world. It’s fresh, inspiring, insightful and thought-provoking.