Marcus du Sautoy: Symmetry, reality's riddle

un poco más de la revolución

20 de noviembre, día de la revolución mexicana...

wow andres marroquin

andres creates an imagery that is both document and simbolic. his images are very beautiful and engaging. take a look at his zapallal/yurinaki series.

taking the picture and the picture taken

some pictures of solo show suburbia mexicana @ galeria de la ciudad, aguascalientes, mexico

pictures by Lourdes Valdez

when i close my eyes

i like long weekends with music

international discoveries II show

wow alexander gronsky

the beautiful images by alexander gronsky. a mix of narrative and documentary that refreshes image making.

de viaje/ juan jose estrada

vean unas fotos realmente conmovedoras por el fotografo y promotor cultural juan jose estrada de guatemala. visiten su blog aqui.

Announcing the 2009 Aperture Portfolio Prize Winner and Runners-Up

All of us at Aperture Foundation would like to thank everyone who submitted work to the 2009 Aperture Portfolio Prize. This year, Aperture’s editorial and limited-edition print departments—four staff members and three work scholars in all—reviewed over seven hundred portfolios. Our challenge was to select one top prize and five honorable mentions from this overwhelming response. Thus, we are pleased to present Alexander Gronsky’s The Edge/Pastoral as this year’s winner. Congratulations also to Keliy Anderson-Staley, Off the Grid; Alejandro Cartagena, Lost Rivers; Maureen Drennan, Meet Me in the Green Glen; Jason Hanasik, He Opened Up Somewhere Along the Eastern Shore; and Mark Lyon, Landscapes for the People. more info here

critical mass 2009 book finalists

CM09: Our Book Award Finalists!
Congratulations to our Book Award Finalists!


Jody Ake

Carl Bower

Alejandro Cartagena

Toni Greaves

Birthe Piontek

Christopher Sims



Each of these artists will be asked to submit a proposal and from those, two books will be selected for publication by photolucida. Once those books are published, they'll be sent to each and every person involved with Critical Mass 2009. Well done! Thanks to all!

in photolucida top 50, 2009

Jenn Ackerman
Jody Ake
Leslie Alsheimer
Jane Fulton Alt
Carl Bower
Andrea Camuto
Manuel Capurso
Alejandro Cartagena
Pelle Cass
Edmund Clark
Victor Cobo
Caleb Cole
Scott Dalton
Dorothee Deiss
Mitch Dobrowner
Jade Doskow
Ed Freeman
Lucia Ganieva
Judy Gelles
N W Gibbons
Toni Greaves
Alexander Gronsky
Jessica Todd Harper
Jessica Ingram
Samar Jodha
Mary Shannon Johnstone
Jimmy Lam
Laurie Lambrecht
David Leventi
Larry Louie
Benjamin Lowy
Simone Lueck
David Maisel
Sarah Malakoff
Rania Matar
Tim Matsui
Mark Menjivar
Brad Moore
Kate Orne
Ara Oshagan
Rachel Papo
Bradley Peters
Alexis Pike
Birthe Piontek
Ellen Rennard
Betsy Schneider
Peter Sibbald
Christopher Sims
David Taylor
Phillip Toledano
Will Steacy
Serkan Taycan

more info here

ricardo martinez roa y fernando gomez: maquetas y miradas, curaduria de domingo valdivieso y alejandro cartagena

international discoveries II

wow manuel vazquez

some beautiful images. the digital used magnificently. manuel´s page here.

bieke depoorter

i really enjoy the embrace of the digital glitches in biekes´ images. it is an open embrace of the limits of photography used to produce an almost painterly representation of the dramatic life of people from small villages in russia.



"For three periods of one month, I have let the Trans-Siberian train guide me alongside forgotten villages, from living room to living room. Some Russian words, scribbled on a little piece of paper, allowed me to be welcomed and absorbed in the warm chaos of a family. Accidental encounters led me to the places where I could sleep. The living room, the epicentre of their life, establishes an intimate contact between the Russian inhabitants".

sebastian friedman

sebastian friedman ganó la feria del libro de artistas de fotoseptiembre 2009. su trabajo segurismos es una representación del problema latinoamericano de inseguridad. mas información en su página.

for a good weekend: the felice brothers

am further north than south...

Gabriel Benaim

el artista panameño-israelita gabriel bernaim presenta una serie que titúla telaviv at 100 en la que presenta una ciudad llena de formas contrapuestas, especialmente por los puntos de vista y decisiones de composición que éste hace.







su uso del blanco y negro genera una abstracción que cae agradable a la vista, haciendonos espectadores activos. gabriel parte de la fotografía topográfica, pero en su busqueda formal hace que sus imágenes sean documentos contundentes y placenteros de ver.

algunas de las imágenes nos recuerdan a los trabajos de joe deal y lee freidlander, pero de manera renovada y aceptando el pasado histórico haciendo sus fotos aún más interesantes de observar.

lee friedlander:




joe deal:

you must be a masochist...

UNSEEN at Randall Scott Gallery, october 22, 2009

a great group of colleagues put together by curator ruben natal-san miguel. don't miss it! more info here



ruben: as an Art Collector, I address the challenge that most art lovers constantly face… the search of new art and the issues of acquiring work for small spaces. By using the salon style for this show I demonstrate different themes and techniques, presented in a very traditional manner, that work within a confined space. Space should not limit your desire for collecting…the sky is the limit!

100 fotografos contemporáneos en méxico