Posts Tagged ‘photography’

Finding Vivian Maier

Finding Vivian Maier

In recent years the photography world has fallen head-over-heels in love with a previously unknown street photographer named Vivian Maier. She lived her life as a nanny in Chicago, raising a family three children and taking photographs all the while. Thousands of negatives ended up in a storage-unit auction late in the last decade, and […]

Sámi-Walking with Reindeer/ Photos by Erika Larsen

Sámi-Walking with Reindeer/ Photos by Erika Larsen

Erika Larsen knew she wanted to photograph the reindeer herders who live as nomads throughout northern Scandinavia and Russia, known as the Sámi. In order to truly immerse herself in their culture, Larsen initially worked as a housekeeper for a Sámi family. She cleaned bathrooms and learned to cook reindeer while earning the trust and […]

Massif Management

Massif Management

Writing on the New Yorker‘s website, Jessie Wender notes the formation, last year, of Massif Management, a photo agency that represents a group of surfers who are also photographers.: I’m not sure that surf photography has a discernible style, as opposed to an established iconography, but the best of this work carries with it a […]