“I realize the impossibility of capturing every single ordinary moment and that catching those real moments is innately challenging, but it is that struggle makes those stolen images so much more powerful.”
The gulf will always be there and the beaches are just as beautiful as they’ve ever been.
Maybe there are times to simply accept the truth of life as it is, not as it ought to be. Perhaps these imperfect images are the truest signposts of a world to come, indications of the need for rebirth.
Every surface of every object in Chennai seemed to be like this wall: faded paint, crumbling, pockmarked, rusted – a whole universe of texture and color.
Photographs of our possessions and domestic patterns can be portraits, just like the photographs of our faces.
From The Economist: Twentieth-century man. “Nothing is more hateful to me than photography sugar-coated with gimmicks, poses and false effects,” wrote August Sander in 1927. “Let me speak the truth in all honesty about our age.” Like a lepidopterist, Sander captured and classified his fellow Germans, arranging them by profession, social class and family relationships. [...]
Everlasting Moments, the beautiful story of a Swedish woman whose photography gives her hope.
Two very different approaches to the deadly serious topic of sex trafficking.