📸 New Photo Book on the Traveller Subculture, James Cameron + Christy Lee Rogers

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New Photo Book Celebrates the Traveller Subculture

“Travellers opened me up to a way of thinking and forced me to question the way I was living my life. Some of these are: How much do we really need to be happy? How much do we need to live and survive? What is better, a short life filled with vast experiences or a long one that is sedentary and unexamined? 

“They taught me that we really don’t need much to find happiness. They also have these intense, raw relationships forged by helping each other find their way and survive. These intense relationships and acceptance into a tight community exemplify how our life happiness is directly related to those relationships we make and those live, in-person experiences we share with others. The traveling experience makes their lives full.” –Michael Joseph, photographer

“lost & found” is available online, in physical bookstores, and through Kehrer Verlag.

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EXHIBITIONS

'Only the Future Revisits the Past'

Across close to a decade, Senegalese photographer Omar Victor Diop has used self-portraiture as a means to embody historical characters and movements that re-tell the often overlooked story of African Diasporas. His work is currently on view at the Centre for Contemporary Photography (CCP) in Melbourne, Australia alongside artists Marta Bogdańska, Nikki Lam, Tace Stevens, and Stephanie Syjuco. The exhibition on view through May 12 and curated by Catlin Langford, “looks towards the past - via archives, institutional and museum collections, family histories, and historic depictions - to speculate future states and possibilities.”

READER SUBMISSIONS

‘On the Third Day’

“On the Third Day” is a symbolist narration of Genesis that explores the moment reality detached from the realm of metaphysics, creating its own boundary in space/time.

“This project also explores the unbalanced fight between light and darkness. The former forever pierces and defeats the latter, but neither has meaning without the other, representing the free will God has given us within our consciousness as humans.” —Davide Esposito, photographer

PRINT SALE 

James Cameron commissioned underwater photographer Christy Lee Rogers to create $10M worth of art featuring stars from "Avatar: The Way of Water" as part of the “Keep Our Oceans Amazing” campaign, with Disney's support. The art features Zoe Saldaña, Sigourney Weaver, and Kate Winslet. The initiative pledges to donate all net sales proceeds to The Nature Conservancy, aiming to raise $10M for the cleanup and preservation of ocean habitats and the protection of ten extraordinary marine species. Buy prints here.