Alexander Krohmer travels the world, making impromptu, collaborative portraits of people and groups he meets in the streets. He uses a technique that is simple, yet strikingly effective — he shows us the same people from the front and from behind.
The portraits in Encounters stand out in part because they present the audience with two views of the same people—a presentation that deepens our engagement with each photograph’s subject. Looking at the photos of folks facing away from me, I felt more at ease to inspect the details in their clothing or the way they hold their bodies. New features jumped out at me, like the humanizing wrinkles in someone’s shirt, or a tattoo I hadn’t noticed.
Md Enamul Kabir is a Dhaka based freelance photographer since 2014 after completed Advance Course in Photography Begart Institute of Photography, Dhaka. He is also a part of the ‘OnEdge Street’ collective. For him, photography is all about moment and story which becomes the witness. He prefers his photos to be concise and cohesive and he tries to achieve the best result possible with fewer subjects. Enamul loves to take photos of animals. His works has selected for several National, International Photography festival, Newspapers, Magazine including Miami Street Photo Festival, StreetFoto San Francisco, HIPA, Daily Star, and National Geography and many more. He won an award from Sony World Photography Award-18 (National Award-2nd), London Street Photo festival (Single Category-3rd), Focus the story (Honorable Mention), StreetFoto San Francisco (Series-1st & Cage Match-1st). Enamul believes in “Being a good human being is much more important than being a good photographer.”
4Back to Nicaragua for a Pioneering Photographer of Rebellion
On a late spring day in New York, the acclaimed documentary photographer Susan Meiselas was in her basement studio on Mott Street preparing for a summer retrospective of her work at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
But with news of a percolating insurrection trickling out of Nicaragua, where she made her name in the 1970s with gritty, intimate images of the Sandinista Revolution, she was itching to get on a plane. “If I go, I know I will not be able to come back,” the 70-year-old Ms. Meiselas said. “I know I will be pulled into the current of history. It’s very hard for me now: do I pack my bag?” For 12 years, she added, “I never unpacked it except to do laundry.”
There’s something not quite right about the photographs in Chris Dorley-Brown’s book “The Corners” (published by Hoxton Mini Press). The scenes are ordinary enough — intersections in East London with people going about their normal business — but there’s a tranced stillness about them: a feeling of being in some kind of fugue state. I’m referring not only to the people in the pictures; I’m also describing the effect induced in us, the people looking at them. And when I said there was something not right about them, maybe I meant the exact opposite: something too right, eerily ordinary.
6The Top 10 Movies About Photography Everyone Should Watch
Movies are one of my favorite things, so of course, movies about photography are even better. Here are 10 movies every photographer should watch.
Some of these are about a photographer, while some use photography as a throughline, but all feature it prominently in some way (save for the third on the list). The list is in no particular order.
