Link: It’s Nice That : Illustrator Andrew Groves does weird, charming, fun things for some big names

Recurring motifs include the outdoors, tree stumps, magic and strange little men and there’s just the right mix of charm and weirdness which keeps his work fresh and interesting

Link: Maggie Steber’s 25-Year Quest to Photograph Haiti’s Beauty – NYTimes.com

To much of the outside world, the image of Haiti — when it pops up at all — is one of catastrophes, both natural and man-made. Violence, grinding poverty, flood, earthquakes all leave a lingering image of a benighted nation bereft of tender moments.

Maggie Steber thinks that’s nonsense — and she has the pictures to prove it.

Don’t be misled, they aren’t all tender quiet moments, the photos are…

1. a funeral
2. pilgrims
3. dancing
4. looting
5. a slum resident weeping
6. a presidential inauguration
7. a voodoo spirit of death ceremony
8. crying mourners at funeral
9. a schoolgirl
10. a dead man in an alcove
11. a country market
12. “when the man reached the shore, another policeman shot him in the head, and his body was thrown into the back of a truck.”
13. cart pullers resting
14. market day
15. homeless boys in voodoo temple
16. a boy
17. Haitians searching the rubble for valuables
18. residents of a state-run home for the aged, whose dormitory collapsed

Link: Maggie Steber’s 25-Year Quest to Photograph Haiti’s Beauty – NYTimes.com

To much of the outside world, the image of Haiti — when it pops up at all — is one of catastrophes, both natural and man-made. Violence, grinding poverty, flood, earthquakes all leave a lingering image of a benighted nation bereft of tender moments.

Maggie Steber thinks that’s nonsense — and she has the pictures to prove it.

Don’t be misled, they aren’t all tender quiet moments, the photos are…

1. a funeral
2. pilgrims
3. dancing
4. looting
5. a slum resident weeping
6. a presidential inauguration
7. a voodoo spirit of death ceremony
8. crying mourners at funeral
9. a schoolgirl
10. a dead man in an alcove
11. a country market
12. “when the man reached the shore, another policeman shot him in the head, and his body was thrown into the back of a truck.”
13. cart pullers resting
14. market day
15. homeless boys in voodoo temple
16. a boy
17. Haitians searching the rubble for valuables
18. residents of a state-run home for the aged, whose dormitory collapsed

Link: L E N S C R A T C H: Carl Corey

We are a country of entrepreneurs, self-starters, and determined individuals that make up the core of our American dream.  Long before the Fortune 500′s, there were mom and pop day-to-day desires to carve out a living, and a life on one’s own terms.  Carl Corey takes a look at those self-starters who have created family businesses in Wisconsin and have managed to stay afloat for 50 years or more.

Right spot. Right moment.

Brighton’s Skyler Milne celebrates his third goal of the game. Brighton vs. Bingham high school boys’ soccer, second round 5A tournament, Friday, May 18, 2012 in Sandy, Utah.

Link: New York – Tokyo-Ga : Ensemble c’est tout | La Lettre de la Photographie

In solidarity with the recent events that have shaken Japan, the curator Naoko Ohta has conceived a large-scale photography project. One hundred photographers roamed the streets of Tokyo to take the pulse of this bustling metropolis turned gathering place.