PHOTOLUTION

Research, inspiration and some photographs by Borja Prada

“I drove over six thousand hours with cops around the country to get the pictures. You have to be there”

Donna Ferrato

Lise Safarti

Discover the world. Take pictures. Live cheaply.

—Donna Ferrato

Miguel Angel Sanchez

Saul Leiter

It began to drive me nuts,” he said. “I knew we had problems, there were drugs and crime. But there were also people going to work and school. But then you have these photographers, who will remain nameless, who go in and make you think Bed-Stuy was nothing but shooting galleries and crack houses.”
(…)
“As someone who grew up in a community that I feel was poorly represented in the media, when I go to other communities, I try to be hyper-aware and hyper-sensitive and not regurgitate the same visual information, but to push myself beyond what I expect,” he said. “If everything was about reconfirming what I thought I’d find, why get on a plane?

—Damaso Reyes for The NY Times

Damaso Alonso, The Europeans

Ross
© Borja Prada

Ross

© Borja Prada

Todd Heisler

Donald Weber