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Leafes

Leafes - In The Mountains Belly
- Leafes is a band from Sweden that is almost impossible to get a hold of in America. I've been trying to track down more of their stuff for so long. I managed to get the songs from the tape that they put out on Release The Bats!, but couldn't find anything else until I came upon this a few months ago. In The Mountains Belly is an ep that was only released in Sweden but is available for download from the label. This is just a really great folk album, it's been in constant rotation and I think most people will enjoy it. Check them out on myspace. I don't think they will be making it to the states anytime soon so heres a live video:

Trinidad Carillo

- I heard about Trinidad Carillo's work over on Andrew Phelps' Buffet blog. He was writing about her new book Naini and the Sea of Wolves that was recently published by Farewell Books. I can't wait for my copy to arrive, the book looks fantastic. Check out a preview of the book as well as other projects here.



© Trinidad Carillo

Jessica Todd Harper

- I was reading about Jessica Todd Harper's book Interior Exposure on Flak Photo and was very impressed by her work. The first thing you'll notice is the beautiful light in each picture and also the wonderful story telling. See more of her work here.



© Jessica Todd Harper

Shane Lavalette

- Shane Lavalette updated his website with some work from Scotland from last year. There is some really great stuff in the series but like he said on his blog "it's a very rough edit". Check out this work as well as his other stuff here. I especially like his two projects Ivy League and Who Knows Where the Time Goes.



© Shane Lavalette

Mitch Epstein

- I got Mitch Epstein's book Work in the mail yesterday. For some reason I thought that the book only had the series Family Business in it but once I opened it up I realized it was a retrospective of Epstein's entire career. The book looks amazing and I am so glad that I got exposed to Epstein's other work. My favorite series in the book are his pictures from Vietnam. View more of his work here.




© Mitch Epstein

Jess Lai

- I met Jess at a party a couple of weeks ago and we started talking photo with a few friends. The next day a mutual friend sent me her website and I was pretty blown away by her work. She is a student at the School of Visual Arts in New York. Her Displacement series is wonderful and I usually don't like panoramic photos. Check out that project as well as other work here.



© Jess Lai

The New York Times Magazine

- The New York Times Magazine this week had two really great spreads of photos. The first, and sticking with my black and white theme for the day, is from photographer Lynsey Addario. Addario illustrates Dexter Filkins story about the Taliban and Al Qaeda establishing a safe haven in Pakistan's tribal areas along the Afghan border. The photos are beautiful and some of my favorite documentary work I have seen in a while. Read the story and see the rest of the work here.



© Lynsey Addario
- The second story was photographed by one of my favorite photographers Tierney Gearon. Since I first saw her show/documentary The Mother Project I have been a huge fan of Tierney. Although there are only two photos I love them both and Tierney's usual style shines though to her commercial work. The article by Susan Morgan is about the Mulleavy sisters who are soon to be fashion's next big thing and also includes behind the scenes pictures by Autumn de Wilde. See it all here.



© Tierney Gearon

Michael Garlington

- I realized that I haven't posted about any black and white photographers, I came across Michael Garlington's work looking at old issues of Seesaw Magazine. His photos remind me off a darker more disturbing Diane Arbus. Like Arbus, Garlington's an artist and photographer who takes hauntingly good portraits. His subjects are familiar faces from society's underbelly. See more of Michael's work here.

New Photography at MOMA

© Mikhael Subotzky
- I first heard of Mikhael Subotzky's work last summer in an issue of Aperature. His series Beaufort West is stunning. It is unbelievable that he was able to take such depravity and create such a beatiful body of work about it. Subotzky's series "portrays a small desert town in South Africa's Western Cape blighted by unemployment, rampant crime, domestic violence, poverty, and segregation."

The other artist that MOMA decided to put in this years fall exhibit is Josephine Meckseper. I had never seen Meckseper's work before I read about it in the New York Times this morning but it seems like it is also a quite interesting series, "In her photographs and signature vitrine displays, Meckseper explores the media's strategy of mixing political news and advertising content. Her installation includes a selection of life-size photographs of models dressed in vintage lingerie from the 1950s, from her 2006 Blow-Up series. Also included is Quelle International, a new group of pictures culled from a mail-order catalogue popular in Germany in the 1970s that have been printed on reflective Mylar." and judging by pictures on the internet from Saatchi Gallery, an even more interesting installation. I am quite excited to make a trip to MOMA to see this work in person after the exhibit opens on Wednesday. Find out more about the exhibition here.

See more of Mikhael Subotzky's work here, and more of Josephine Meckseper's work here.



© Josephine Meckseper

Gus Powell

- Gus Powell is a photographer who lives and works in New York City. He does fine art, commercial, and editorial work. Powell is probably my favorite street photographer of the moment. Check out more of his work here, my favorite series is Spanish Notebook, but all of the work is worth seeing.



© Gus Powell

Alessandra Sanguinetti

- I've been waiting for so long for the new Alessandra Sanguinetti show. While I was interning at Yossi Millo Gallery I got to see a number of the prints from the show which were absolutely fantastic, but judging from the pictures on the galleries website the best work is all new stuff that I haven't seen. This is a continuation of her series The Adventures of Guille and Belinda and the Enigmatic Meaning of Their Dreams, called The Life That Came, the photos show the two cousins that Alessandra has been photographing in Buenos Aires since 1999 entering adulthood. This is an important show and anyone that is in New York next Friday the 12th should make it out to the opening. See more of Alessandra's work here.



© Alessandra Sanguinetti

Hypocrisy

- Got this clip from the Daily Show from the MoveOn mailing list. Hilarious and scary at the same time.

Yuval Yairi

- Yuval Yairi's work is something that I normally wouldn't really like, because of it just being overly technical, but the photos in his series Palaces of Memory are pretty amazing. The colors are so vibrant and the scenes are beautiful. I wish that I saw the show when it was up at Andrew Meislin Gallery. See more work here.



© Yuval Yairi

El Guincho

El Guincho - Alegranza
- This album is so much fun to listen to, I've been putting it on everyday when I wake up, gets the day started right. El Guincho is basically the Spanish version of Panda Bear. His musical style relies heavily on the use of sampling and incorporates elements of Afrobeat, Dub, Tropicália and Rock and Roll. This is the kind of album I feel like anybody can get into. Highly recommended!

Paul D'Amato

- Paul D'Amato's newest body of work Please Be Free Now deals with the subject of the urban communities of Chicago, something D'Amato has been shooting for a long time. He has been awarded numerous grants and fellowships including a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Pollock-Krasner Grant, and a Rockefeller Foundation Grant to Bellagio, Italy. Check out this and other work spanning D'Amato's carreer here.



© Paul D'Amato