Emily Shur has lots of work. My favorite is the polaroid stuff.

Shortlisted for the National Portrait Photographic Prize 2009…

‘This body of work, “Si Dios Quiere” (If God Wants) explores issues of intimacy and distance within my mother’s family in Argentina. The house where she grew up and the people who are part of that life serve as characters.’

It is worth checking out Blake Fitch’s online portfolio simply because of the superb website design.  The fact that within it holds such fantastic work makes it criminal to miss.  This particular series Expectations of Adolescence captivated me as Fitch has “explored the changes that accompany this phase of a …

“There was a limit to showing my thinking, emotional things as the photographs: I wanted to add something to my photographs.”

Gitty and her daughter at a friend’s house in Monsey. “Mummy loves you as high as the sky” Gitty says. Gitty is a 23-year-old woman who grew up in the ultra-orthodox world of the Satmar Jewish community in Kiryas Joel, north of New York City. Being that her grandparents are …