the photo project: Friday Finds

Its Friday and that means that its time for the first weekly installment of Friday Finds. This group of posts will be my end of the week wrap up of some the blogs, websites, articles and shows that I have come across during the week.

First, I would like to share some gems that I came across earlier in the week. These images were taken at the time when the famous dioramas that we all know and love were being made at the American Museum of Natural History here in New York City. You can find the rest of the images at http://images.library.amnh.org/

Wooden framework, first stage for mounting elephant

via http://images.library.amnh.org/

Museum staff painting background and mounting animals for Tiger Group

via http://images.library.amnh.org/

Preparing African Buffalo Group

via http://images.library.amnh.org/

Next are the lovely images from Magda Biernat's project entitled 'Inhabited'. These images make me want to travel and take pictures. With a background in architectural photography, Magda Biernat perfectly frames these dwellings in different countries and brings to mind the photographs of the infamous Bernd and Hilla Becher. (Click here for a link to their work if you are not familiar. You won't regret it.) I could look at this first picture all day.

San-Zhr Pod Village, Taiwan. 2008

via www.magdabiernat.com

Green Bay Resort #1, Taiwan, 2008

via www.magdabiernat.com

Tipi Resort, Swakopmund, Namibia

via www.magdabiernat.com

Finally, it is with a heavy heart that I post a link to the current show at Yossi Milo gallery of the late Tim Hetherington's photographs from Liberia and Afghanistan. I had the pleasure of working with Tim for many years at the studio that retouched and printed his incredible photographs. Over the years, I spent many hours sitting and talking with Tim about these very images. He cared so deeply about his work as a photojournalist and a film maker and remained humble and gracious through out his career, despite the numerous awards and notoriety that he received. I vividly remember looking at the raw files of the Sleeping Soldiers on his laptop with him, soon after he returned from Afghanistan. This is an absolutely stunning body of work and it is quite rare for such a poetic project to be created in time of war while embedded with a platoon. Tim's photographs are both beautiful and haunting. He was an incredible story teller, a talented photographer and a gentleman. He is greatly missed and this exhibition should be seen by all. RIP Tim.

Click here for the show's homepage at Yossi Milo. The show will be up until May 19th.