American Tribes, by Alan Clarke

Esquire US
March 2010 Amer­i­can Tribes,
by Alan Clarke

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Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere by Ryan McGinley

by Ryan McGinley

‘Every­body Knows This Is Nowhere’ is a new Ryan McGin­ley exhibit that is cur­rently show­ing at Team Gallery in NYC until April 17^th 2010. The images are a depar­ture from Ryan’s usual out­doors and land­scapes set­ting. They were all taken in his NYC stu­dio. More images (warn­ing: NSFW, full frontal) after the jump.

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Tanya Johnston

Cana­dian multi-disciplinary artist and graphic designer liv­ing and work­ing in Mon­tréal. For over 18 years Tanya John­ston has worked in all areas of print, deliv­er­ing pos­i­tive and mem­o­rable com­mu­ni­ca­tion solu­tions grounded by a com­mit­ment to ideas and design. (more…)

How To Take Pictures During Wintertime

Win­ter is always asso­ci­ated with cold cli­mate and snow. For pho­tog­ra­phers who are inter­ested in tak­ing pic­tures dur­ing the win­ter­time, it can be a dif­fi­cult task to do so; espe­cially this is a sea­son of very cold weather. These pho­tog­ra­phers have to with­stand the extreme cold weather, and also need to have patience in order to take pho­tographs dur­ing the win­ter­time. This arti­cle fur­ther elab­o­rates sev­eral guide­lines you can learn and fol­low on how to take pic­tures in the win­ter season.

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Herero

The Herero are a peo­ple belong­ing to the Bantu group, with about 240,000 mem­bers alive today. The major­ity live in Namibia, with the remain­der liv­ing in Botswana and Angola. Most are employed as work­ers on large farms or earn their liv­ing as mer­chants or trades­men in the cities. There is also a grow­ing num­ber of professionals.

They speak Herero (Otji­herero), and partly Por­tuguese in Angola, Eng­lish in both Botswana and Namibia, and Afrikaans in Namibia.

The Ova­herero are a Bantu-speaking peo­ple and are tra­di­tion­ally cattle-herding pas­toral­ists. Herero land (Ehi Rova­herero) belongs to the com­mu­nity and has no fixed bound­aries. Herero tra­di­tion revolves around cat­tle. In Herero cul­ture, a man with­out cat­tle is noth­ing. The Herero have a bilat­eral descent sys­tem. A per­son traces their her­itage through their father’s oruzo (plural: otuzo) and their mother’s eanda (plural: omaanda) [3]. Chief­tains have lit­tle power in Herero soci­ety, and since each group estab­lished itself inde­pen­dently from each other, these groups often raided one another. But when the nation faced an exter­nal threat from a com­mon enemy, the var­i­ous chiefs banded together. (more…)