Sleepless Nights in Paris’ Red Light District

Posted in: Contemporary Photography- Jan 18, 2012 Comments Off

Photographer Christer Strömholm documents the nightlife of Pigalle’s transsexual prostitutes in the republishing of his 1986 book, Les Amies de Place Blanche.

Two Photographers’ Mission to Retrace a Lost Liberia

Posted in: Canada, Contemporary Photography, Uncategorized- Jan 16, 2012 Comments Off

When Canadian brothers Jeff and Andrew Topham returned to the war torn West African country of their childhood to re-shoot their father’s photos for a documentary, they found a nation whose photographic memory had been destroyed by war.

Leon Borensztein’s ‘American Portraits’

Posted in: Contemporary Photography- Jan 13, 2012 Comments Off

Leon Borensztein’s fierce and humane portraits, taken in working class American homes, are the subject of a new book published by Nazraeli Press.

Amc²: A Compilation of History’s Lost Cultures

Posted in: Contemporary Photography, Uncategorized- Jan 12, 2012 Comments Off

A new journal seeks to coalesce “different groups of work that illuminate lost corners of our cultural life.”