For eighty years—eight decades—he gave it his all, selecting his own (mostly unknown) images and writing his own texts. He loves to write and he does it well. As a protean artist, Duane has played many characters in his life. That’s only natural for someone who claims that photography is nothing but a lie.
La Lettre de la Photographie has posted a Duane Michals retrospective today. It’s well worth your time…
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Winner of several awards in Belgium and France, Delfosse won the PDN photo annual award in 2011 for this work on Congolese wrestlers.
As a photographer I am interested in the often-fragile relationship between people and the places they live, in how individuals, environment, and history combine to create a region with its own culture. In my project ‘So Close, So Far: Daily Life and Cartel Violence in Ciudad Juarez’, I am exploring these ideas through images of daily life in a place where the drug war calls the very concept of “daily life” into question. Combining environmental portraits and documentary reportage, I hope to document this tragic and historic time in the life of this city, when cartel violence forges an uncertain new reality.
Raquel Trujillo (in purple) is comforted by Saray Becerra at a community pinwheel vigil put on by Prevent Child Abuse Utah for Charlie and Braden Powell in the Municipal Gardens Playground Thursday, February 9, 2012 in Ogden, Utah.
Oh, my fault. Here’s a color version of the scene, with everyone included:
View the entire collection of winning images from the 55th World Press Photo Contest. The winners were selected from over 100,000 images submitted to the contest.
