I’m not normally a big fan of portraits, but then, these are hardly typical portraits. Very cool stuff.
I wish I could tell you more about this guy, he was quite a character, but he didn’t speak any english and there was nobody there to translate. We met him on the penultimate day of our Faces and Places Photo Tour to Oman, and was happy to pose while a few of us shot his portrait. I took 39 shots and in 37 of them he looked a lot more serious - varying from disinterested, to stern, to distracted. For frame 38 (this shot) he laughed at something that Bobbi said to him and I ended up with a much better shot as a result. Which kind of goes to show, if you don’t engage with your subject, then they probably won’t engage with you. So, thanks Bobbi :)
(via Chromasia, Faces and Places, Oman #3)
Lovely, whimsical photos by Evgenia Arbugaeva of Tiksi, her old hometown in Siberia.
(via Evgenia Arbugaeva – Tiksi | Constantin Nimigean - oitzarisme)
The first of Joerg Colberg’s Meditations on Photographs is a beautifully written exploration of a haunting studio portrait by Eduard Méhomé, “A woman sits for a final photograph with her dying mother.”
But when you see the photograph first - as I did - and then the title, it’s still a shock. Or maybe more accurately an aftershock. You see the photograph, and you think you know what’s going on, or maybe you wonder what’s going on, you wonder whether this could possibly… and then there’s the title. It’s almost as if someone knew what we would be asking and decided, “I am going to tell all these people exactly what they want to know.”
Rodney Smith shoots only with film. He has never used Photoshop and goes to the post office almost every day to stay in touch with his family and friends.
Yes, Smith may appear old-fashioned — especially to his colleagues in the picture-taking business — but his sense of imagination and storytelling are anything but. The New York-based photographer insists that despite his analog approach, his process is very involved.
“My photos might look simple and well-composed,” Smith said, “but there is so much work that goes into them, and I’m often frustrated until I finally take the perfect shot.”
For more images, visit Smith’s website.By Charlie Lieber
I’m ordinarily not a fan of set-up photos, but these are so beautiful and the result of so much detail work - in the field, not on a computer - that I can’t help admiring them.
(via armesphotography)
