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Moving on to 35mm: My Joel Sternfeld series

Without a doubt I have much more 35mm film stored away than I do 4×5. Over the years, because of the nature of 35mm film, I was able to accumulate mass quantities of it for fairly cheap and accumulate a … Continue reading

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The Jetsons family portraits

An oldie from last year apparently, but I just came across it on M&W’s Tumblr. This image a wall lined with The Jetsons family portraits was once owned by Kanye West in his former LA home. Man, I would love … Continue reading

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JR Portrait Series wins 2011 TED PRIZE

Street artist JR who is best known for his FACE2FACE portrait series along the West Bank Barrier wall, was this year’s TED PRIZE winner for an outstanding idea of how art can change world communities. JR’s large-scale portraits have popped … Continue reading

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Portraits of television screens turning off

I love this project by German photographer Stephen Tillmans on the fading light that older televisions exhibit when being turned off. It’s one of those technological artifacts that are fading fast as LCD televisions takeover. Ignant has more photos from … Continue reading

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Sudanese family portraits in Australia

Photo by Lee Grant When I lived in Melbourne, Australia, one thing that stuck out at me was the class differences and racial tension between Sudanese communities and their surrounding Australian natives. The Sudanese people are almost segregated into districts … Continue reading

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These 99 people did not just run the 2010 NYC marathon

Or did they? It’s hard to tell… One of the photo features on The New York Times today is this collection of 99 portraits of runners who have just completed the 2010 ING NYC Marathon. The photos were taken by … Continue reading

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