Innholdsfortegnelse for July 2021 i Lens Magazine

A recent assignment taught me that I could find a whole world of wildlife within most city limits with little effort and local introspection. I'm not, of course, speaking about zoos.- Mark Edward Harris My epiphany came in Lubbock, Texas, home to the legendary Buddy Holly. While they can't hold a tune as well as the guitarist and songwriter, Lubbock’s prairie dogs are constantly belting out songs of their own in Prairie Dog Town, a protected area established in the 1930s by early conservationists Mr. and Mrs. Kennedy Clapp. In my own backyard of Los Angeles, Griffith Park, which dates back over a century, is home to a wide range of wildlife from deer to mountain lions. Overseas I've seen the same successes of early conservation efforts by people long…

IN THIS SERIES OF DEEP SPACE PHOTOGRAPHY (KNOWN AS ASTROPHOTOGRAPHY), I TOOK ALL IMAGES WITH A TELESCOPE, CAMERA, AND SKY TRACKER. THANKS TO HOURS OF EXPOSURE TIME FOR EACH PHOTO AND CUTTING-EDGE TECHNOLOGY, I WAS ABLE TO PHOTOGRAPH AND PORTRAY SOME OF THE MOST ICONIC DEEP SPACE TARGETS THAT ARE HUNDREDS, THOUSANDS, AND EVEN MILLIONS OF LIGHT-YEARS AWAY FROM US. ALL SHOTS WERE TAKEN WITHIN THE UK." - KASRA KARIMI KASRA KARIMI Kasra Karimi is a British-Iranian multi-award-winning filmmaker, a painter and Astronomy photographer based in London, UK. Karimi’s films and photography projects have been featured in well-known international photography magazines such as Aesthetica, BBC’s Sky at Night magazine, and AstroBin. During the first ten years of his creativity, Karimi made fine art photos inspired by Arthouse cinema. Then, in…

The Iberian Peninsula is a geographical concept formed by Spain and Portugal, two geographically united countries but separately by an invisible border. 'THE IBERIANS', the essay focused on my travels in these territories throughout the first two decades of the 21st century. Visually narrating the things that happen while wandering around Iberia, how to write in a sketchbook. Knowing a specific territory gives depth and meaning to my project; that is why my work is a continuous journey through Spain and Portugal. These are places where I explore the concepts of territory, borders, light, memory, and identity through observing the other. As Fernando Pessoa wrote: "… Portugal and Spain, it would be said that the two countries have finally realized that a border if it separates, also unites and that…

Some of Hayman’s earliest photographic work took place shortly after the 1976 earthquake in Guatemala, where he went to aid the U.N.’s disaster relief efforts. While there, he fell in love with the environment and the people who lived there, a trait he would continue throughout all his future travels. Through an unabashedly humanist lens, these photographs depict a time and a place deeply rooted in its historical moment and universal in their exploration of what constitutes beauty, life, and community. Since the 1970s James Hayman, an L.A based visual artist and filmmaker, has been documenting communities worldwide through a humanist lens. After studying photojournalism and being disillusioned with its limitations during a photoshoot at the Nixon White House, Hayman’s photographic career turned to collaborate with communities he encountered throughout…

BRICK WORKERS FROM BANGLADESH You can see them all around Bangladesh. There are hundreds of them. Some say more than 15,000. The high chimneys along the rivers and cities pouring constantly smoke into the air. Millions of bricks are burned there. But the price is high and paid by the local and from far coming workers and the environment surrounded by those factories. Bangladesh is a rapidly urbanizing country having a 163 million population. This generated a very high amount for cheap building materials and gave brickmaking ago. But most of them are illegally built. In late 2019 excavators flanked by Bangladesh riot police are at work demolishing illegal soot-belching brick kilns around the smog-choked capital Dhaka, forcing migrant laborers out of work and back to their villages. This led…

"The Typhoon is the only vessel in the Mediterranean with the sole purpose to clean up the most inaccessible Greek coastlines, which has become, unfortunately, in some places a waste concentration. This initiative is within the A.C. Laskaridis Charitable Foundation "Project Typhoon," an important and indeed ambitious initiative for the maritime environment and its maintenance. Typhoon operates in the Greek waters as the catalyst for protecting the environment from pollution and fulfills the scope for the mega vision and mission set by the Foundation’s founder, to contribute with determination in the clean-up of Greece’s coastlines as well as that of its thousand islands – small and big ones, from any type of pollutants." - Pygmalion Karatzas Pygmalion Karatzas Photography was selected by the A.C. Laskaridis Charitable Foundation to document the…

For as long as I can remember, I’ve had a love affair with the written word, and it’s this everlasting love of storytelling that ignites my passion for creating visual stories. Add to the mix my unending curiosity to traverse the unknown, take the path less traveled, see remote and otherworldly places, and my imagination runs wild. My work explores my own grandiose ideas of an adventurous life, following my curiosity for all things strange and magical and my battles with the realities of everyday life. I purchased my first camera in June 2018 and put myself straight into manual mode. Next, I taught myself to use the camera, and in September 2018, I discovered the world of conceptual fine art photography and immediately started teaching myself Photoshop. I haven’t…

It’s a great pleasure to feature an exclusive interview with Trevor Cole, one of the most influential cultural & Travel photographers worldwide. He has won countless international awards; he is a significant contributor to the 'Atlas of Humanity' project and has exhibited his work through solo exhibitions on many continents. He is best known for capturing the beauty and the hidden tribes of Western and Eastern Omo, Harar, the Danakil desert, and the highlands of Ethiopia. His travel workshops are the rising stars when looking for the unique adventure of turning the ordinary into the extraordinary. "Capturing inimitable moments today to reflect upon tomorrow. My own 'take' as a geographer photographer!"- Trevor Cole I was born in the City of Derry but have lived most of my life outside the…

I grabbed my camera and jumped in the water again, as usual… however, this time, instead of photographing models, I started looking up - at the other side mirror. The things I saw were definitely not what I expected to see. Let’s say it was a very different reflection because the water surface was moving. This movement brings out features we are missing in regular mirrors. It was not a reflection; it was an opinion." – Alex Sher. A NEW SERIES OF FINE ART PHOTOGRAPHY BY LA-BASED PHOTOGRAPHER ALEX SHER | LA ART SHOW. LA CONVENTION CENTER. JULY 29 - AUGUST 1, 2021 For the first time, Touchon Gallery will be presenting a one-of-a-kind art project called 'REFLECTIONS | The Other Side' by an LA-based underwater fine art photographer Alex…

A STUNNING COLLECTION OF OVER 270 PHOTOGRAPHS AND STORIES HIGHLIGHTING MICHAEL’S 24 TRIPS TO CUBA. VANISHING CUBA is a visual storytelling project by American photographer Michael Chinnici. The collection depicts Cuba’s changes as it emerges from more than 60 years of isolation and decay. Michael’s 24 trips to Cuba have yielded tens of thousands of photographs, thought-provoking, and emotional stories, creating lifelong friendships. Vanishing Cuba is about capturing the past, present, and future of Cuba, and even more so, about capturing the "Soul of Cuba." Michael’s love affair with Cuba and the Cuban people clearly comes through in this compelling and beautifully produced book. THIS LONG-AWAITED LARGE-FORMAT COFFEE TABLE BOOK IS AVAILABLE IN THE "SILVER EDITION", THE "DELUXE EDITION" AND THE COLLECTOR SERIES "RESERVE EDITION", LIMITED TO JUST 300 COPIES.…

Scott Probst, Born in Sydney, Australia. "As I grew up, my family lived in several locations in the country of New South Wales, and I came to appreciate life' west of the range' as a child, roaming around the area my family lived in and often camping in various places. I have been taking photographs as a central creative activity for about forty years. My projects were made during bushwalks in Australia, traveling and simply from what is around me while I was living in various Australian cities and in Vancouver, Canada, for four years. Major projects in recent years have included two residencies in Ólafsfjörður, Iceland, where I spent roughly three months each in the winter of 2015/16 and then during the summer of 2018. My main interest in…