In an open field, a soldier lays limp, face down in the grass.The ghostly image recalls the early documentation of war by Mathew Brady, Timothy O’Sullivan and Alexander Gardner, but unlike these photographers, Karl Burke has never set foot on a battlefield. His images of death and destruction were shot in the trenches of a virtual world.Mr. Burke photographed these pictures inside one of a new crop of interactive video games where players compete online as the United States military, insurgents, or, at one point, Taliban in simulated versions of wars including Iraq and Afghanistan.“The lines are beginning to blur,” said Mr. Burke, 42, an Irish photographer based in Dublin.In an era of electronic warfare where killer drones are navigated from military bases thousands of ... Continue reading →
May 23, 2012, 4:52 pmPictures of the Day: Egypt and Elsewhere By THE NEW YORK TIMES Photos from Egypt, Pakistan, Israel and Colorado.Follow Lens on Facebook and Twitter. Continue reading →
May 23, 2012, 4:52 pmPictures of the Day: Egypt and Elsewhere By THE NEW YORK TIMES Photos from Egypt, Pakistan, Israel and Colorado.Follow Lens on Facebook and Twitter. Continue reading →
In recent years, Zanele Muholi threw her energy to documenting gay, lesbian and transgender people in South Africa and beyond. As a photographer and activist, she showed a different side of their lives and struggles as she compiled an unrivaled archive.And now it is gone.On April 20, while she was in South Korea for a film screening and her partner was at work, thieves broke into Ms. Muholi’s Cape Town apartment and stole more than 20 hard drives containing years of documentation: photography, video, interviews — but took nothing else. Ms. Muholi, 39, had been compiling a thorough record of the lives of gays and the challenges they face. Her work is considered controversial, as traditional views collide with the more tolerant attitudes of a ... Continue reading →
May 22, 2012, 4:41 pmPictures of the Day: Iraq and Elsewhere By THE NEW YORK TIMES Photos from Iraq, Pakistan, India and Florida.Follow Lens on Facebook and Twitter. Continue reading →
jamesestrin 36 photos · 725 followers “Rowing on the harlem river. I have a great job.” Continue reading →
Myra Greene grew up in New York, where she was used to being around people of different races. But as she embarked on her photographic career, her work and travels took her to places where she was the only African-American.And she knew it.“I’m always thinking about race,” she said. “I recognize it when I’m the only black person in a room. My white friends will notice I’m the only black person, too. But they don’t notice a room full of white people.”They might now.“My White Friends” is a series of some 50 portraits of — you guessed it — Ms. Greene’s white friends. Shot in color, and posed to the point of performance in some cases, the images delve into questions of race and self-perception. ... Continue reading →
Myra Greene grew up in New York, where she was used to being around people of different races. But as she embarked on her photographic career, her work and travels took her to places where she was the only African-American.And she knew it.“I’m always thinking about race,” she said. “I recognize it when I’m the only black person in a room. My white friends will notice I’m the only black person, too. But they don’t notice a room full of white people.”They might now.“My White Friends” is a series of some 50 portraits of — you guessed it — Ms. Greene’s white friends. Shot in color, and posed to the point of performance in some cases, the images delve into questions of race and self-perception. ... Continue reading →
May 21, 2012, 5:30 pmPicture of the Day: Yemen and Elsewhere By THE NEW YORK TIMES Photos from Yemen, Lebanon, Nepal and Italy.Follow Lens on Facebook and Twitter. Continue reading →
There were hundreds of photographers covering the Occupy Wall Street protests when Alex Arbuckle arrived at Zuccotti Park in downtown Manhattan last September.Some were daily newspaper or wire service photographers, others were documentary photographers moved by the nascent popular movement, many were amateur photographers sympathetic to the cause.Mr. Arbuckle, photographing for a photojournalism class at New York University, was among the sympathizers. Still, he thought the images shown in the media didn’t accurately reflect what he was seeing on the ground.Alex Arbuckle Police officers near Union Square. Oct. 26, 2011.“I felt that the depiction of the cops and protesters was mostly sensationalist and reductive,” said Mr. Arbuckle, 21. “It seemed like the only protesters who showed up in the news were the wild, trouble-making fringe ... Continue reading →
