All Things Art & Photography
Viviane Sassen is a fashion photographer who lives in Amsterdam but her heart beats for Africa. What I like about her work is how she somehow weaves the personal & fashion with street & high art. It’s always what she does not show you that makes you want more. See her series Ultra-Violet and her Sketch Book
via the artists web site
Next to her husband Alfred Stieglitz, Todd Webb has had more access to the artist than just about anyone. His archive is here
via the web site
The ironic title does not prepare you for this haunting series about youth traveling by trains and on the lam.
A Period of Juvenile Prosperity: The Photographs of Mike Brodie (aka The Polaroid Kidd)
A Period of Juvenile Prosperity depicts the gritty youth subculture of freight train hoppers and squatters. From 2004 – 2009, Brodie created a prolific body of work which introduces viewers to an alternative lifestyle based on the constant movement of train travel across America.
via Yossi Milo Gallery
The World Photograhy Awards were announced with Norwegian photographer Andrea Gjestvang taking the top L’Iris d’Or prize for her series of youth portraits who survived the July 2011 massacre on the island of Utoeya, near Oslo.
via the web site
List of winners
Maybe the greatest living documentary photographer working today and this folks is Sebastião Salgado’s magnum opus: Genesis-Earth Eternal
via the web site