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Articles by Bruce Polin
What’s the Opposite of a Cellphone Photo? (Published 2019)
lens Walking around Prospect Park with a 100 pounds of gear, including a boxy 8 by 10 camera, Bruce Polin collaborated with strangers to make idyllic portraits. “Peter & Santino, Prospect Park,” 2017. March 14, 2019 Photographers often talk about making pictures rather than taking them: constructing something from the scene in front of the camera that is related to it but not subordinate to it. A photo of a tree or a soldier has a life independent of its subject.
Topophilia - Video interview with Peter Braunholz | LensCulture
This project is about the poetry of space found in rural regions. For this series, I worked in many European countries; I traveled from village to village and traversed more than 20,000 miles in total. My work is also related to Arthur Danto’s idea of art in his book, The Transfiguration of the Commonplace. As the main motif of this project, I chose to photograph common spaces in small towns away from traffic routes. I concentrate on both their material and immaterial qualities.
The LensCulture Guide for Emerging Photographers
Helping photographers move forward creatively and professionally is at the core of what we do at LensCulture. Over the years, we have worked hard to develop resources, tools and opportunities to do just that. To create this guide, we asked our network of photography industry professionals to offer their advice on photo competitions, portfolio reviews and marketing for photographers.
The Wake of Dust: Contemporary Ruins in the Age of Photography
When you first encounter French artist Thomas Hauser’s photographic sculptures, they appear to be made of antiquated, aged materials, only revealed as something more modern by their contemporary jagged edges and intentional asymmetry. These objects—what he calls modules—form the backbone of Hauser’s work. Interlaced with photographs of his own making, the modules trigger the sense of nostalgia that often comes with confronting something archaic.
A Greater Truth: Samuel Gratacap’s Les Invisibles
In recent years, immigration, flight and displacement have dominated the news cycle and occupied a central position in the public discourse. For many, migrants are seen as a potential threat to social peace and cohesion in Europe and abroad. On the other side of this debate, persecution and violence have forced hundreds of thousands of people to flee their homes and make their way to safer countries.
The Representative Office
There is a lot of information in Franky Verdickt’s photographs of quiet urban scenes in contemporary Taiwan. These atypical street photos are distinguished by their controlled (cool) color and bright night-time lighting. They artfully blend a hyperreal sharpness of focus with the blur of speed. And, finally, the isolation of the humans in these scenes makes them seem small and insignificant amidst the soaring scale of the surrounding architecture and infrastructure.
Hamburg Triennale 2018 In Review: Enacting Change Through Photography
Are we able to rethink and change humanity? This is the provocative and stimulating question that Polish curator Krzysztof Candrowicz considered while building the theme for this year’s Hamburg Triennale of Photography, now in its 7th edition. It is Candrowicz’s second year directing the festival. “Everything we acknowledge so far is the result of previous evolutions and turning points in the history of humankind.
Satisfactory Glitches: Tracing the Inspiration Behind Feng Li’s “White Night”
As a civil servant for the Sichuan provincial Department of Communication, Feng Li is regularly tasked with photographically documenting local events in his hometown of Chengdu for the organization’s Propaganda Department. Having access to peculiar places and scenarios, he is regularly exposed to a steady stream of new and interesting subject matter.
George’s Bath - Photographs by Corinna Kern
“George’s Bath” is an exploration of the world of George Fowler, 72, who is affected by hoarding. Focusing on a single location inside George’s four-bedroom house, namely his bathtub, this project detaches his condition from the clutter through which it is usually conveyed. Having lived in George’s house for two months, my attention was drawn by the constant changes taking place in his bathtub, often on an hourly basis, while the rest of his house remained under the myriad accumulated clutter.
Tribes - Photographs by Lucia Herrero
Walking down a busy beach in Spain, photographer Lucia Herrero was struck by the range of human interactions, experiences and emotions on display in this very public sphere. Sitting cheek-to-jowl on the hot sand, these vacationers—young and old, and from diverse cultures—created a portrait of humanity in repose. Inspired by this tableau, Herrero decided to create a series that uses a traditional portrait set-up to pay homage to this diverse collection of people.
The Interpretation of Images: Retaining Our Humanity in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
More and more frequently, professional photographers and aspiring amateurs express fear that we live in a time of image overflow. The situation is often described in language borrowed from the apocalypse: floods, waves, seas and torrents of pictures, the sum of which threaten to wash us away. For professional image-makers, this state of being describes a reality in which their work has been irrevocably devalued. What is to be done?
Not For the Faint of Heart: Views from a Freelancer
Pete Muller was born to a lineage of visual artists. His first photo job was assisting his mother in the darkroom. A history major at college, Muller shifted towards journalism to quench his curiosity. Captivated by issues of nationalism, masculinity and violence the award-winning PRIME photographer has spent the past decade covering conflict zones for renown publications around the world.
In Brutal Presence: Documenting the Impact of the Grenfell Tower Tragedy
Tarek Gotti, Henry Dickens Court W11, Resident of North Kensington for 26 years. I lost a lot of friends in the fire. I lost a total of thirteen friends, including one family member. My kids lost most of their friends from the nurseries, and from the primary and secondary schools next door. The council was never there for us; we told them about these buildings. We saw they had lots of major works that needed to be done. We told them about this cladding, 'What is it?
Candy Beach - Photographs by Bambi No Muere
Located on Spain’s eastern Mediterranean coast, Benidorm has been one of the most famous summer destinations in the country since its port was extended in 1925, resulting in a number of hotels popping up for use by visiting vacationers. While popular tourist destinations are often avoided by the creatively-inclined, photographer Bambi No Muere approaches these concentrated areas as a hotpot of visual information, all waiting to be recorded with her camera.
Chasing Light Through Color: A Conversation with Liz Nielsen
By layering exposures and filtrations of light onto photo paper in the darkroom, artist Liz Nielsen creates innovative dimensions, landscapes and objects seemingly out of thin air. This photogram process – an historical photographic method championed by seminal figures like Anna Atkins and Man Ray – takes on a crucially contemporary perspective in Nielsen’s work. Instead of static scientific documentation, she’s interested in exploring intangible theories of quantum physics and alternative worlds.
Chasing Light Through Colour: A Conversation with Liz Nielsen
By layering exposures and filtrations of light onto photo paper in the darkroom, artist Liz Nielsen creates innovative dimensions, landscapes and objects seemingly out of thin air. This photogram process – an historical photographic method championed by seminal figures like Anna Atkins and Man Ray – takes on a crucially contemporary perspective in Nielsen’s work. Instead of static scientific documentation, she’s interested in exploring intangible theories of quantum physics and alternative worlds.
Forever Y - Photographs and text by Elie Monferier
During a night that lasted a year, I turned the camera on my generation—Generation Y—with flash and insobriety. There I met a fierce energy and impetuous youth, enamored with drunkenness and determined to enjoy their state into oblivion. We talked about love, the warmth of a cuddle and the modern couple.
Deep Park - Interview by Coralie Kraft
Ambling through Prospect Park in Brooklyn with a cart full of photographic gear in tow, Bruce Polin is an unusual sight—and yet, he explains, the curiosity he sparks with his unfamiliar equipment can lead to powerful portraits. Polin’s series Deep Park features all kinds of people: the only constant being that they have chosen to spend time in this common space.
WINNERS-LensCulture Portrait Awards 2018
The great portrait photographer Richard Avedon once said, “Faces are the ledgers of our experience.” Perhaps this is why portraits are captivating to so many people—the depth and complexity of a great portrait will always spark curiosity and interest even in people from dramatically different circumstances. Fundamentally, we want to share life’s experiences, and we often gauge ourselves by our view of others.
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