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New year, new ventures...we here at The Photographic Journal proudly present our first book, Kate Sweeney: Residence, a collection of images created by @kate_sweeney during her time as our photographer-in-residence. We must say, it is exquisite. Designed by TPJ's founder, @augi_sanchez , this book contains the very best both TPJ and Kate have to offer, and shows Kate's evolution as an artist during her time working with us. We could not be happier with this book, and hope it'll give you as much joy to hold as it's given us to make. LINK TO PURCHASE IS IN OUR PROFILE!!!!!!
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2 years ago
More from the intro to our latest photo essay, by @karla.read "Rooted in a personal reading of Dominican culture, Imagined Order draws from a visual world where Catholicism, superstition, sensuality, and myth coexist. The series is interested in how fantasy is not separate from reality, but woven into its texture shaping how intimacy, fear, beauty, and belief are lived and imagined." LINK IS IN OUR PROFILE
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From the intro to our latest photo essay, by @karla.read "Rather than portraying the Caribbean through familiarity or spectacle, the series constructs a more unstable and interior landscape ; one where bodies, animals, gestures, and natural elements become emotionally and spiritually charged. In these images, the ordinary slips into a mythic register: a figure may feel like an apparition, a domestic scene like ritual, a landscape like prophecy." LINK IS IN OUR PROFILE
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5 days ago
Head to our website! Check out our latest photo essay, by @jtrav !!!!! Make your day better by looking at beautiful photos! Be inspired! Let your heart grow! LINK IS IN OUR PROFILE!
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9 days ago
From the intro to our latest photo essay, by @jtrav "Life is loud and messy, a constant scramble at times. Elodie and I carved out a moment to run around Venice and chase the light through the noise of the Santa Monica Pier. An ode to urgency, to the frantic rush, and to the beauty found by simply taking one step at a time." LINK IS IN OUR PROFILE
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12 days ago
More from the intro to our latest photo essay, by @ph.joepansa "This long-term reportage documents the lives of the fishermen of Mola di Bari, my hometown, capturing a profession and way of life increasingly at risk of disappearing. Deeply rooted in the town’s identity, artisanal fishing now exists on the margins, threatened by economic pressures, environmental changes, and generational rupture." LINK IS IN OUR PROFILE
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16 days ago
From the intro to our latest photo essay, by @ph.joepansa "Since 2022, I have immersed myself in the fishermen’s daily routines, building relationships based on trust, time, and shared experience. Access to their boats and personal spaces was granted gradually, through patience and mutual respect. This closeness allowed me to document not only the physical labor of fishing but also the emotional weight carried by these men—the solitude at sea, the solidarity among crews, and the resilience in the face of an uncertain future." LINK IS IN OUR PROFILE
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19 days ago
From the intro of our latest photo essay, by @willmalone "Abandoned carts are often associated with homelessness, and while that association is accurate, I argue that they also symbolize human nature as a whole. They exist across the full spectrum of human life and emotion. Every cart left where it doesn't belong has been touched by someone with a vibrant story of their own." LINK IS IN OUR PROFILE
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2 months ago
From the intro of our latest photo essay, by @willmalone "One night I was driving through the parking lot at our local Target, and I saw a perfectly positioned red shopping cart, leaned up on a curb as if worshipping the red glow of the local Hibachi Buffet. This scene opened my eyes to the secret life of shopping carts all over the country. As I continued pulling the thread of this project, I found comedy and tragedy. Sadness and silliness..." LINK IS IN OUR PROFILE
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2 months ago
From the intro of our latest photo essay, by @imoutta_ "This series positions adornment as both aesthetic choice and cultural language, honoring the ways Black and Brown communities use shine as expression, resistance, celebration, and inheritance. Let Me See Ya Gold Shine! asserts that this visual language belongs in galleries, museums, and contemporary spaces, not as trend or novelty, but as art, presence, and proof." LINK IS IN OUR PROFILE
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2 months ago
From the intro of our latest photo essay, by @imoutta_ "Let Me See Ya Gold Shine! is a photographic series that magnifies the adornment, swag, and self-authored luxury of Black and Brown people. Using a literal magnifying glass, the work enlarges gold, silver, grillz, tooth gems, and other forms of personal ornamentation, objects often dismissed as excess or spectacle, and reclaims them as sites of beauty, power, and cultural authorship." LINK IS IN OUR PROFILE
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2 months ago
From the intro of our latest photo essay, by @gustavogusmao__ "Re-Tinto (deep-colored in Portuguese) is the undeniable presence of those who inhabit the border of exclusion, the thin line between existence and oblivion. It is the color that imposes itself, that does not dilute. The shadows of a diaspora in eternal evidence, of a history that cannot be removed, forgotten, or deported. A testament to the permanence of a people marked by repetitions and the erasure of their own history, under the walls of a city that repeats cycles of exclusion." LINK IS IN OUR PROFILE
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2 months ago