Peter Beste – True Norwegian Black Metal
Peter Beste‘s series on Norwegian heavy metal music is ironically very poetic. Heavy metal is not a genre of music that I’m inclined to listen to and would possibly leave me to have stereotypical judgments towards the scene. However Beste’s extensive work on Norwegian black metal extends to express very...
Rich-Joseph Facun – Sonoran Desert
Rich-Joseph Facun is a captivating documentary photographer. He has an impressive list of portofolios on his website, a wide range of subjects and all equally stimulating. I had a hard time picking a single image, there are many stunning ones to choose from. This shot is from his series Sonoran...
Jesse Marlow’s Street Work
I’ve been a fan of Jesse Marlow’s work for a while now. You can find his work at In-Public. So when i saw that The F Blog did an interview with the Australian photographer, i was really excited. you can check it out here. There’s somegthing about the imagery of...
Erika Larsen’s Young Blood
Erika Larsen’s series Young Blood studies youth, their guns and their prey. The young hunters and their catch are documented in Larsen’s work. The images are eerie yet completely innocent. “…Walk with them as they take leadership as the catalysts for rebirth.”
Tony Fouhse’s USER
Drugs in Ottawa? The quite clean streets, polite, hard working, captial city has drug users? Tony Fouhse depicts a complet flip side to the city in his series USER, Portraits of Crack Addicts. The portraits were taken on the same corner from late summer to early fall in 2007. The...
Benoit Aquin wins first Prix Pictet
Last week, Montreal photographer Benoit Aquin was awarded the new global Prix Pictet for his China’s Dust Bowl series. The prize focuses on sustainability and short listed 18 environmental inspired photographers. Among them where fellow Canadians Edward Burtynsky and Robert Polidori along with Carl De Keyzer and Munem Wasif.
Voting time
Wow…can’t wait to see what happens tonight and then for the next four years. The world is watching. Alex Webb, Magnum photographer, has shot quite a bit of essays on this political campaign and you can find them at Magnum but also at InSight America. InSight America is an innovative...
My Critical Mass Picks
The long list of the Critical Mass shindig is out. I went through the list looking for names that i was unfamiliar with, did a short research and these are the two photographers that stuck out – to me. Zhou Mi and Jeffris Elliott. Now, i’m not just talking about...
Rian Dundon’s Between Love and Duty: Chinese Youth Culture
Rian Dundon’s black and white work is stunning. These images are part of the series Between Love and Duty: Chinese Youth Culture.
Ali Richards An Honest Hunt
Deer hunting has started over here, so i think this series is rather fitting for the local hunters. Ali Richards has some really captivating imagery in her series An Honest Hunt.
Jacob Aue Sobol’s series Sabine
This is a wonderful and brilliant series by Jacob Aue Sobol. His work is sensitive and gritty and just awesome. This is really a lovely story. I think i’ve fallen for Sabine as well… “When this new existence suddenly starts to function – despite the arctic cold he can provide...
