In 2008, Josh Meltzer, staff photographer and multimedia journalist at The Roanoke Times in Roanoke, Virginia, accepted a Fulbright Scholarship to work and teach in Mexico. There he created a multimedia project about the migration of indigenous families within Mexico. A selection of his work from his Fulbright year won the Grand Prize Professional Award from Photophilanthropy in 2010.

He is interviewed about his work in Mexico by photojournalist James Gregg on The Image, Deconstructed.

Great work, by a great photographer. Worth the read.

www.imagedeconstructed.com/post/spotlight-on-josh-meltzer

The New York Times LENS blog has a feature on the Photo League which 60 years ago, being the victim of Cold War witch hunts and blacklists, shut down after 15 years of trailblazing documentary photography. The group influenced a generation of photographers who transformed the documentary tradition.

See more on at lens.blogs.nytimes.com.

Photojournalist Jenna Isaacson’s work-in progress on the culture of thrift stores in the United States is now featured on American-Journal.org.

All Thrifty States is a photography project aimed at documenting thrift stores in each of the 50 states. Part journalism, part art and part sociology, the project spotlights thrift culture, regional donation patterns, environmentally friendly consumption and the current state of America’s economy.

All Thrifty States began as a personal project for Isaacson in 2010. Isaacson visited thrift stores in 10 states, and before long the project gained momentum in the photo community.

See Jenna’s project on American-Journal.org.

The NYT LENS blog has a feature on photographer Jules Allen’s new book “Double Up.”  A retrospective of images he made 30 years ago at Gleason’s Gym in New York. He has gone there to train and he ended up making photographs.

Really cool stuff here.

Read the NYT LENS story at lens.blogs.nytimes.com.

I recently came across a work in progress by Baltimore, Maryland photographer Jonathan Hanson. He is “examining the daily life” in his city which he calls a “complex relationship with drugs, poverty, crime and the struggle to preserve community.”

I am looking forward to seeing more of this project.

Take at look at his work-in-progress at www.jonathanhansonphotography.com.

American photographer Greg Constantine spent a month photographing Nubians in a Nairobi slum Kibera. The Nubians are just one chapter in Greg’s project “Nowhere People.” His work has been recognized on the NYT Lens Blog.

View Greg’s images on the NYT Lens Blog.

More from the “Nowhere People” project can be seem at www.nowherepeople.org.

BagNewsSalon is pleased to offer this exclusive audio slideshow interview featuring Michael Kamber, and a focused look at the issue of military censorship, including the photos he’s insisted on being seen.

View the interview on www.bagnewsnotes.com.

Photojournalist Mario Tama has spent the last 5 years covering the aftermath of hurricane Katrina. A great selection of his images are featured on the New York Times LENS Blog.

Click here for Mario Tama’s essay.

More of Tama’s work can be found on his website www.mariotama.com.

IMPACT: An Online Exhibition.

Visit the inaugural IMPACT online exhibition, a new project exploring the blog medium as a venue for photographic work. RESOLVE is excited to be hosting this experimental new project.

Each “gallery” includes a series of images a photographer has uploaded to their blog along with the same IMPACT logo, all related to the idea of “Outside Looking In.”

By allowing viewers to move between different photographer’s online galleries, we hope to gain exposure for their work while providing a multifaceted visual study of the chosen topic.

The IMPACT team wants to remind viewers of the important role photographers play around the world, so we asked participants to share images from a project where they had an impact or were impacted themselves.

Please help us increase this project’s IMPACT by sharing it with your community.

Enjoy!

View the online exhibition.

The IMPACT Team: Yumi Goto, Miki Johnson, Paul O’Sullivan, Jeremy Wade Shockley

Peter Turnley’s 50-image essay of the aftermath of the earthquake in Haiti is featured on The Online Photographer. As usual, Peter’s work is comprehensive, compassionate, and personal.

View Peter Turnley’s essay on The Online Photographer.