#FotoWeb – Ten Best Photography Links You Shouldn’t Have Missed Last Week (4 – 10 May)













Moms and daughters, life in the Alps, Mecca and lots of portraiture in the new #FotoWeb, our usual round-up of the photo links we liked the best during the previous week.
Every week, we select ten of our favorite links to photographic series published on the web over the previous seven days. We call it #FotoWeb.
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China Dreaming
Olivia Martin-McGuire wandered the streets of Shanghai and asked people to close their eyes and imagine “the future or the past, anywhere but the present”. Via Phases.

Winners of 2015 LensCulture Portrait Awards
Lots of portraits to see here. Via LensCulture (Photo Daesung Lee).

Fascinating Photographs of Mecca by Brilliant Toufic Beyhum
Stunning images by Toufic Beyhum from Mecca and from inside its largest mosque where, technically, taking photographs is prohibited. Via It’s Nice That.

Kamil Sobolewski
For his series Rat King, Polish photographer Kamil Sobolewski has put together a series of uncanny, black&white found photographs. Via Der Greif.

These Photos Beautifully Capture the Complex Relationship between Mothers and Daughters.
Captivating portraits of mothers and daughters by Rania Matar (we previously featured Rania’s series A Girl and Her Rooms). Via Slate.

Hegemony or Survival
Former US Army sergeant Hector Membreno-Canales references fine art tropes to speak of war and conflict. Via Vantage.

Les Intentions Fantaisistes
This neat little series by photographer Marion Berrin is all about the colors and the shapes. Via Another Place.

Alpine Half-Life
Andrew Phelps takes an ironic look at the cultural relationship between the Alps and its inhabitants. Via Formagramma.

Steve Veilleux’s Photographs Dismantle a Pre-Fab Lie
Billboards showing happy families and nice suburban homes look absurd when illuminated by the flash in the middle of a pitch dark night, as Steve Veilleux‘s photos attest. Via Humble Arts Foundation.

Boring Postcards, USSR
Italian photographer Marco Citron “has appropriated the aesthetics of vintage postcards to showcase the idiosyncratic architectural experiments of the Soviet era”. Via The Calvert Journal.

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And here’s a few highlights from our own posts of last week:
The Swimmers – Searching for Identity in a Globalized World

Italian Homes – #FotoFirst

Christopher Frank Beitz – Followers

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