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I’m not a professional photographer, but a serious amateur trying to find my perspective… During Lexington, Kentucky’s recent Roots & Heritage Festival, a drum circle forms in the Lyric, a segregationist-era theater. A leading entertainment center in the African-American community, the Lyric hosted first-run films, black films and entertainers like The Temptations, Cab Calloway, Duke Ellington, Sarah [...]
David McGowan is a photographer in Michigan currently doing a study of the culture of garage sales and their relationship to the sluggish economy. His work can be found at humanfiles.com. David’s photo: “Playing dogs can look more fierce than they actually are.”
I’m working on my essay in catania’s prison (sicily). This girl ask me to portrait here while she was studing for an university exam. See more of Cristina’s work at www.cristinafaramo.com
Make a wish Submitted by Loulou d’Aki This story, Make a Wish, tells todays’ life in the Yeshiva Chabad Lubavitch of Venice, where young men from all around the globe come to continue their studies of the Torah and the Talmud. It is estimated that there are presently more Jews studying in Yeshivot than at [...]
I was heading back to the office after covering the Democrats election celebration party and came across this image. I kinda like it. What do the rest of you think?
I photograph Asian communities in British Columbia and Washington State a lot, trying to show how their cultures are both retained and modified into a hybrid Asian-Canadian or Asian-American identity. The challenge with folkloric events like this meeting of the Northwest Chinese Cultural Association in Bellingham, WA, is to get beyond focusing on just the [...]
Michael Rawcliffe is a photojournalist who likes to work on long-term essays. This photograph was taken in Manchester, England, at a City Sports event outside the Town Hall. The coach and contestants are warming-up in tune with the music being played to entertain the spectators. I saw the potential and took the opportunity. Using a [...]
I’m a freelance photographer from Spain working between fashion and photojournalism. In the last year I mainly worked in several assignments in Senegal that still are unpublished. I want to colaborate with some magazines or agencies for that. This picture was taken at night in a big avenue while these women where walking on the [...]
When a house becomes a home: Submitted by Stephen Uhraney My name is Stephen Uhraney, I am a Toronto based documentary photographer. Recently I made way through the doors of downtown Toronto’s Seaton House, the large shelter that offersmedical assistance and life skills training to homeless men with a range of needs,including very poor health, drug and [...]
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