Zach Wolfe on Alfamega:
This shot is front of the Hilliard Street [Residence] Hotel, which is off of Auburn Avenue and Edgewood Street, downtown [in Atlanta]. It’s abandoned now and completely boarded up; it was in the process of being shut down at that point. The nickname on street is Pink City—crackhouse, whorehouse, pretty much one [...]
excerpted from RESPECT. Magazine, Volume 1, Issue 3, on sale now:
As a sophomore at Mount Vernon High School in Iowa, Zach Wolfe took a photography elective to fill out his credits. Despite having grown up painting and drawing under the influence of creative parents and a grandmother who was an abstract artist, he had no [...]
Chris Buck, who, amongst other things, snapped the photo adorning the front cover our latest issue, was actually featured in our second issue. During our time with him, we found Chris to be incredibly insightful and courteous. And we have no good excuse for not having put up our interview with him sooner. Please forgive [...]
PHOTO: Sian Kennedy/RETNA
On November 19, 1998, Sian Kennedy showed up at the temporary residence of a new rapper being touted as the next big thing for the following year. The rapper’s name was Eminem. And Kennedy, on assignment for Spin magazine, started snapping images of his subject almost as soon as the door opened. The rapper [...]
Respect celebrates the images of a culture that changed a generation. These photos are the visual sound track to many lives. Respect is a photo journal for hip-hop culture that pays tribute to the other rock stars who have gone unnoticed or not gotten the recognition they deserve—the photographers. Available now at Barnes and Noble and Borders.
This Englishman doesn’t take pictures. He tries to catch lightning in a bottle and then take a flick of that. With his second book, he’s coming pretty close to pulling it off.
Today Josh Cheuse’s ‘80s snapshots are iconic, classic and intimate markers of the birth of a nation. Not that he saw it coming.
Long before Jay-Z was trading text messages with Barack Obama, Clay Patrick McBride had the idea to put Hova in the Oval Office.
