Great Portrait Advice from Award-Winning Photographers, Part 2
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Former LensCulture Award winners share their best creative advice as well as tips for advancing your career as a portrait-maker and photographer. The second in a two-part series.
A thoroughly researched series on the hometowns of famous artists—from William Eggleston to John Baldessari to Robert Rauschenberg—that questions the simultaneous “anxiety and ecstasy” of influence.
Preserving the traditions and customs of the once-magical and vibrant villages in Ukraine takes on new importance as aged villagers—in some cases, the town’s only inhabitants—start to disappear.
Drawing on the long, rich lineage of fictional self-portraiture, a pair of young French artists push this genre into a resonant new space, delicately balanced between gritty realism and a touch of magic.
How can the sound of a rising hummingbird be photographed? A meditation on photography’s ability to express visions from deep in our psyches, even to capture the invisible…
Using his family members and the people around him as inspiration, an Indonesian photographer scrutinizes the reality of our contemporary “transnational” world.
A wide-ranging discussion with one of the world’s leading curators of portrait photography—touching on temporality, identity and the changing nature of the medium itself.
A wide-ranging discussion with one of the world’s leading curators of portrait photography—touching on temporality, identity and the changing nature of the medium itself.
Dazed and disoriented after their release from prison, former inmates in Kazakhstan—some who have spent decades in jail—struggle to acclimate to everyday life once they are released.
Dazed and disoriented after their release from prison, former inmates in Kazakhstan—some who have spent decades in jail—struggle to acclimate to everyday life once they are released.
Understanding Space: Photography Through a Skater’s Eyes
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A photographer and skateboarder on art in the modern age—”an era of egotism”—and pushing his viewers towards feelings of joy, isolation, and even disgust.
Vintage family scenes, long-lost vacation souvenirs, bygone everyday life—suspended somewhere between truth and fiction, this project takes old images and fills them with new, strange vitality.
Unfortunately, it is all too easy to see Europe’s incoming refugees as anonymous, a mass exodus—but of course each of these individuals has their own story, identity, love and desires…
Nostalgic, vintage-style snapshots in which the photographer (and sometimes her sister) sit in for each and every family member. With so much photography now shared digitally, the family photo album is quickly becoming a historic artifact…
An absurd, mysterious, haunting experiment with the very concept of portraiture—using the photograph as the stage to create “questions within the image.”
A dark, deep dive into the private world of a family living in rural Kentucky: “As I turned onto the dirt road that led to the house, I was greeted by barking dogs, chickens in the trees, and a boy with sideways eyes carrying a rifle…”
We have heard about Nigeria’s terrorized schoolgirls for years—but reports and statistics alone cannot convey the vulnerability of these brave individuals. These photographs take a more conceptual approach to illustrate this contemporary trauma.
A special-edition magazine, distributed for free at Donald Trump’s inauguration, highlights the struggles of people in a small Midwestern town, who have lost their jobs and put their hope in the new president.
“It’s critical to develop a distinctive style—a visual stamp of sorts…When I’m considering an assignment, I usually think about someone’s style more than anything.” Inside The New Yorker’s photo department.
After falling in love at Bletchley Park—home base for code breakers during World War II—in the 1940s, a couple exchanges letters and pictures over the course of four decades. A story of love and devotion reconstructed through found objects.
After falling in love at Bletchley Park—home base for code breakers during World War II—in the 1940s, a couple exchanges letters and pictures over the course of four decades. A story of love and devotion reconstructed through found objects.
Heroic act of photojournalism or sensationalizing an act of terror? Discover this year’s controversial winner alongside dozens of the most important news stories from the past 12 months.
Heroic act of photojournalism or sensationalizing an act of terror? Discover this year’s controversial winner alongside dozens of the most important news stories from the past 12 months.
Distrust runs rampant in the wake of Japan’s Fukushima disaster. Besides the heartbreak of losing family members to the catastrophe, residents must cope with years-long displacement and authorities they can no longer trust.
Distrust runs rampant in the wake of Japan’s Fukushima disaster. Besides the heartbreak of losing family members to the catastrophe, residents must cope with years-long displacement and authorities they can no longer trust.
Operating night and day, in winter and summer, contemporary farms are almost unrecognizable from their counterparts 50 years ago. A look at the new, modern landscape of agriculture.
Operating night and day, in winter and summer, contemporary farms are almost unrecognizable from their counterparts 50 years ago. A look at the new, modern landscape of agriculture.
A pensive, poetic contemplation of the cosmos and the fluid nature of time: “The iron in our blood, the calcium in our bones and teeth—all of it came from the supernova explosion. We are the remnants of stars.”
A pensive, poetic contemplation of the cosmos and the fluid nature of time: “The iron in our blood, the calcium in our bones and teeth—all of it came from the supernova explosion. We are the remnants of stars.”
A unique way of life in Colombia’s village of “New Venice” is threatened by increasing water pollution. A photographer and anthropologist investigates before it disappears forever.
A unique way of life in Colombia’s village of “New Venice” is threatened by increasing water pollution. A photographer and anthropologist investigates before it disappears forever.
Rolling Stone to Christopher Street: 30 Years of Portraits
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Rolling Stone’s former chief photographer Mark Seliger discusses his current series, “On Christopher Street,” while offering invaluable advice for aspiring portrait photographers.
Oil and Water: Conflicts Over the Dakota Access Pipeline
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A temporary victory for environmentalists and Native Americans’ rights in Standing Rock Reservation, North Dakota has been reversed—what comes next is anybody’s guess.
This intense, deeply personal series looks at the highs and lows of bipolar disorder from the photographer’s own experience—while connecting his internal turmoil with feelings of uncertainty we all feel at times.
