Haunted Houses is a long-term photography project and collection of recorded ghost stories in over eighty haunted sites throughout the United States. The series was inspired by turn of the century spirit photographs and Victorian ghost stories written by women as a means of articulating domestic discontents.
What started out for Stephen Shames as an assignment for Look magazine back in 1977 turned into an epic 22 year project documenting the lives of young boys in the Bronx, New York.
In 2004, photographer Molly Landreth began documenting the varied lives of queer Americans. Seven years later, the Embodiment project consists of more than 80 portraits and 18 short films.
Looking back at the recent PhotoStories multimedia conference held last month in Rotterdam, the National Film Board of Canada showed its sensitive side with its deeply emotive and interactive multimedia projects.
Over the past four decades, documentary photographer Arlene Gottfried captured the vibrant Puerto Rican community that moved into her Crown Heights neighborhood in Brooklyn, a place where she remembers having her first Salsa lesson with a new neighbor.
TIME contract photographer Peter Hapak captured the dancers of the Cuban National Ballet in rehearsals as they prepared to embark on a US tour this month.
A rare chance to see the video installation, now on view at the Aperture Gallery in New York City till June 23rd 2011.
This evening the International Center of Photography in New York City will honor Elliot Erwitt with a lifetime achivement award. In an interview with LightBox he says, “I think great pictures start great conversations. It’s the stuff of life, just talking with the people that are around.”
Like many New York City based photographers Peter van Agtmael rushed over to the World Trade Center Site on the eve of the killing of Osama Bin Laden to see how people would react to the news. After making some work in the crowd overtaken with the media and young revelers he decided to head home to sleep, confused by the reactions of the crowd, and waiting to see what the morning would bring.
Tim Hetherington, photographer and director of the film Restrepo, was killed in the besieged city of Misratah on Wednesday April 20, 2011.
