You might like the bright, minimalist work from Spanish photographer Aleix Plademunt. I especially like espectafors where he turns some beautiful vistas into waiting rooms and his cult gallery and scotland grey too. See more at Galerie Waltman in Paris.
Check out these great photos from Will Govus. You’ll like his haunting, tense nighttime photos and his captures of teenage summer. You might also be impressed that he’s a teenager in North Georgia.
Chinese photographer Chen Jiagang makes large, beautiful images of the vacant factories and and scarred landscapes of what is the equivalent to China’s Rust Belt. If you want to see more of these photos or read about the Third Front, where these photos were taken in the Southwestern provinces of Guizhou, Sichuan and Yunnan, you should download the entire 79 page book Forbidden City (8MB .pdf) for free.
Scottish New Yorker Rory Donaldson is able to create really interesting imagery by digitally stretching the corners of his photos to make something entirely new and transformative. A show of his work just closed at the Winkleman Gallery in NY.
You should look at Elizabeth Fleming’s photographs. With beautiful photos of the smallest details of family life in her series Life is a series of small moments, it’s almost as if Fleming is answering Sally Mann’s rustic, humid Southern life lived outdoors with her own suburban New Jersey interiors that are no less delicate and attentive.
Great photo by AP photographer Emilio Morenatti in the New York Times of a lawyer at a protest in Pakistan.
At the The Main Event Brooklyn Boy Scouts sold hamburgers for $1.50. See more about this night at a Brooklyn Bingo Hall. And take a look at more great photos from Bryan Derballa. Don’t miss his blog as well.
Amazing portraits from South African photographer Pieter Hugo. I especially like he photos of Nigerian men and their animals in The Hyena & Other Men as well his odd family portraits in Messina/Musina. And then there’s Looking Aside. Hugo’s work will be shown at the Yossi Milo Gallery in New York soon.
The Guangdong Museum of Art in Guangzhou, China is showing an exhibition of 45 contemporary Mexican photographers. Curated by Francisco Mata and Pedro Meyer, The Gaze of 45 Mexican Photographers has 450 photos available for browsing on the website. It’s a daunting volume of great work– but just keep clicking, it gets better the more you see. You can also browse by photographer.
Check out New York photographer Tanyth Berkeley’s series of haunting portraits in Orchidaceae. Scroll below the photos to read an interview with her. See more of her photos at the Bellwether Gallery.
New York photographer Chris Buck does some pretty amazing editorial work.
Finnish photographer Jyrki Parantainen of the Helsinki school makes some interesting images using strings and pushpins attached to his subjects.
New York photographer Noah Kalina is probably best known for his Noah K. Everyday project where he’s taken a self-portrait everyday since 2000. But I also really like Kalina’s other photos in his portfolios. Great portraits and night shots. And, weirdly a portrait taken on a doorstep five doors down from me (I see that dude all the time). His self-portraits in Las Vegas are great, and funnier the more you see.
German photographer Jan Von Holleben’s series Dreams of Flying does a great job at capturing the spirit of kids’ imagination and creativity without being corny. And also check out the photos inspired by Dreams of Flying taken by kids.
You’ll be surprised at what English photographer Nicholas Hughes can do with just trees and water. More of his painterly ghost trees are on view at The Photographers’ Gallery in London through Nov. 3.
I love these wrinkled old James Spencer photos from the 70s–especially the ones of Muhammad Ali and James Brown with a mustache. The interview is great, but watch the video too.
Boston.com has a great behind the scenes of a recent Greg Crewdson photo shoot in Pittsfield, Mass. With a crew of 30 people, huge cranes, the town’s cops shutting down traffic, and it’s fire department recruited to hose down all the streets to give it that freshly rained look, Crewdson’s one photo is an entire afternoon of entertainment for the town.
Great photos from New York photographer Joe Holmes. He has consistently amazing daily photos on his site. But I also like his series AMNH with photos of silhouetted people in front of dioramas in the American Museum of Natural History. And great stuff in his Workplace project of photos of peoples cubicles and desks. Holmes is represented by the Jen Bekman Gallery in NYC.
Here’s a 1982 clip of Garry Winogrand talking about how he takes photos.
For the Road Trip show at Mixed Greens Gallery in NYC, photographer Amy Stein has created a Google Map of her Stranded series. The 61 photographs in the series are marked on the map to show the location where the pictures were taken.