I'm a huge fan of The Big Issue http://www.thebigissue.org.au/, I try to purchase a copy every time I cross paths with one of the vendors. It's the most fantastic concept, each vendor has a background of hardship, they sell the Big Issue and keep % of the proceeds for themselves to help them adjust and provide an income which in turn provides confidence and a sense of self-worth back into the community. Support the edition whenever you can. Whilst reading the issue (which by the way is always a great read), there was an article about a New York photographer called Amy Stein, so I visited her website http://www.amysteinphoto.com and am officially a huge fan.
Her work explores our evolving isolation from community, culture and the environment. She has been exhibited nationally and internationally and her work is featured in many private and public collections such as the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Museum of Contemporary Photography, the Nevada Museum of Art, the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art and the West Collection.
The exhibition above is based on a new natural history. Within the scenes above and below, she explores the relationship between human and animal and how as humans we have changed the 'natural history' of flora and fauna through out the world. Animals and humans have to learn to co-exist together there is no choice, and humans need to be tolerant of animals, after all this was their world we invaded.
In another series of portraits, I love the sense of fun in some of the below images titled "Halloween in Harlem"
My favourite is Spiderman, what's yours?
Thanks to the Big Issue for introducing us to this amazing photographer.
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