What happens when a photographer gives up photographing for 14 years? In the case of Marin-based photographer Marna Clarke, she returns to it after her partner Igor put a camera back in her hands. After a few years of fine art work, she began work on You’re Not Getting Any Younger when she was 70. She shares intimate moments less commonly shared by older photographers, which makes for immediately striking imagery. Clarke’s work is a finalist in Photolucida’s Critical Mass competition. She spoke to us more about it and the reasons she gave up photography in the first place.
On the edge of the Everglades and surrounded by the sugarcane fields of South Florida lies Miracle Village, a small religious community comprised largely of registered sex offenders. Brooklyn-based photographer Noah Rabinowitz’s project on the place is just that a portrait of a place and all of its residents, both offenders and not.
From Weegee to L.A. Confidential, both real and fiction crime stories have been well established as an object of intrigue. From April 25-27, Fototeka will be exhibiting images from a massive archive of Los Angeles Police Department crime scene and evidence photos, some dating back to 1925, on view for the first time ever as part of Paris Photo Los Angeles.
Tokyo-based photographer Hajime Kimura didn’t have an easy time finding a slaughterhouse that would allow him to photograph on the premises. With his project Tracks, Kimura’s aim was to show all aspects of the uses of horses in Japan. For this, he needed to photograph in a slaughterhouse because horse is eaten in Japan. It’s neither eaten often, nor is it a delicacy or controversial. Because horses cost far more than other animals to raise and maintain, it’s expensive. Kimura guesses that farmers consume it more than anyone else for the simple reason that they have access.