Eamon Mac Mahon grew up at the edge of the boreal forest, in a coal mining town in the foothills of the Rockies. Ever curious, he wondered about the towns in the far northwest of Canada and Alaska that existed without any roads leading to them. These towns were quite literally landlocked and were situated amidst vast areas of uninhabited land. Beginning in 2004, Eamon began traveling with a bush pilot to visit and photograph these far-flung communities each autumn.
A life sentence in Louisiana means life. More than 85% of the 5,100 inmates imprisoned at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola are expected to die there. Until the hospice program was created in 1998, prisoners died mostly alone in the prison hospital. Their bodies were buried in shoddy boxes in numbered graves at the prison cemetery. Grace Before Dying charts the extraordinary breakthrough in humanity that has helped transform one of the most dangerous maximum security prisons in the United States, Louisiana's notorious Angola prison, into one of the least violent. Join Lori as she discusses this revelatory work.
Daylight Multimedia and the Center for Documentary Studies are proud to present the work of Tamas Dezso, winner of the 2011 Daylight/CDS Photo Awards Project Prize. In his project, "Here, Anywhere," Dezso probes the landscapes and inhabitants of Hungary during the country's transition from communism.
Work from the winners of the 2011 Daylight/CDS Photo Awards will be on view at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University from September 19–December 22, 2011. More information at documentarystudies.duke.edu
Featuring photographs and commentary by: Stan Gaz, Sharon Harper and Phillip Scott Andrews. This selection of portfolios is pulled from Issue 9, offering a taste of what's in Daylight Magazine's most recent print edition.
In her portrait series The Brothers, Elin Hoyland captures intimate moments shared by Harald and Mathias who have lived together on a small farm in Norway throughout their entire lives. At once a moving testament to familial togetherness and a documentation of a fading way of life, Elin's photographs evidence an incredible sense of belonging and routine the brothers savored.
With a rich history stretching back over a millennium, Cairo has become one of the densest urban centers in the world and the largest metropolitan area in Africa. In this podcast, photographer Jason Larkin highlights new construction in Cairo's desert outskirts. These satellite cities and private gated communities aim to provide exclusive isolation for the city's elite while over 40% of Egyptians live on less than two dollars per day.
In his series "Rooftop", Brad Temkin documents the growing trend of green roofs and rooftop gardens all over the world. These large-format elevated landscapes serve as important markers of the cultural shift towards sustainable design. In addition to commentary by the artist, this podcast features an interview with Katherine Ware, Curator of Photography at the New Mexico Museum of Art, and musical accompaniment by the Grateful Dead.
In offSET Lacey Terrell turns her camera away from the action on the film sets she is documenting towards the spaces where "the artifice of movie making and the ‘real’ intermingle." Lacey explores the subliminal spaces between and behind the scenes to find her own "mysterious slivers of narrative that highlight the overlooked, the unexpected, and the poetic." Music by Thievery Corporation.
Jon Edwards photographs the simplicity and beauty of those living in agrarian life by focusing on the places they inhabit and the relationships they build within their communities. Daylight is proud to present photographs from Edwards' project 'A Life' of John Ryan whose quiet labor has afforded him an admirable, elegant and at times, trying co-existance with his surroundings and place in time.
Featuring narration by Alejandro Cartagena along with a selection of work from the just-released monograph Suburbia Mexicana.
108 pages
36 color photographs
Introduction by Karen Irvine
Essay by Gerardo Montiel Klint
Interview by Lisa Uddin
Cartagena captures both the destruction that rapid urbanization has imposed on the landscape and the phenomenon of densely packed housing. He takes pictures of dried-up river beds that attest to the water misallocation and depletion brought about by the construction, and he depicts perpetual rows of tiny houses slicing directly into the foothills of the picturesque mountains that surround Monterrey. Only the landscape appears capable of limiting their proliferation, the mountains and rivers the only forces able to contain their sprawl. Ultimately Cartagena documents the chaos and destruction that result from scant or misguided urban planning. He lives in downtown Monterrey, and he cares deeply about its land, its people, and its future. Understanding that overdevelopment is not just a local problem, he works hard as an artist to share his photographs as one clear plea for responsible, sustainable development in a rapidly changing world.Text adapted from the Introduction by Karen Irvine, Curator, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College,Chicago. Co-published with Photolucida.ShareThis
