Photographer, friend, and all-around standup guy Ben Alper has updated his site with some new work. Give it a look.

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Ben Alper

I discovered the photography of Ambroise Tézenas today illustrating an article in The New York Times Style Magazine about the lingering colonial lifestyle of European ex-pats in Tangier. The story itself is worth a read, and the photographs accompanying it compelled me to Google Tézenas’ name and land on his portfolio.

Tézenas’ work alongside this piece is a perfect example of why the Times – Style Magazine or otherwise – continues to lead in terms of the the quality of its photojournalism. The sampling of images in Tézenas’ portfolio evidence a master photographer deeply concerned with the state of the world, focused on juxtaposing it’s some of its more conflicting features.

The sprawling dictatorial plazas of Turkmenistan, almost entirely devoid of people, may just depict, in an instant, the priorities of the regime there. As may the richly detailed images of Chinese workers, huddled together during their lunchbreak, in the densely populated areas surrounding the Olympic Zone.

I have never heard of Ambroise Tézenas before just now, but clearly the Times has been pretty familiar with him. Given the concerns evident in his work, choosing him for the Tangier piece makes a whole lot of sense.

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Ambroise Tézenas

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Post No. 1115

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Kentucky

Boston, last month

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Post No. 1078

I just got home from a week of Civil War pilgrimage. Photos are coming, obviously.

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Post 983

Mikaylah’s a 20 year-old Fjord member and the subject of Humble’s latest solo show. Here’s an interview she did for the art blog Privelidge House (great name) last year in which she says if she had to stare at any piece of art for a year it would be Herkules und die Lernäische Hydra by Gustave Moreau. This is her flickr.

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Mikaylah Bowman

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William “Beans” Wasserstrom

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Post 940

Saw a lot of great work and a lot of great people at Humble’s “31 Women in Photography” opening tonight. It was kind of a swanky party. This piece by Justine Reyes would look great in anybody’s house.

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Thirty-One Women