J-F Vergel Photography

09/24/2023

Bugatti Ratrod

08/04/2020

"It was the summer of 1962. I had just finished my third year at the University of Chicago. My 650cc Triumph motorcycle was damaged, leaving me grounded and bored. One of my classmates, Linda Pearlstein, had been arrested in civil rights demonstrations in Cairo, Illinois. With contacts from Linda, I put my 35 mm Nikon F reflex into an old army bag, asked my sister-in-law to drive me to Route 66 at the city’s edge, stuck out my thumb, and hitchhiked south. I thought I was just going on an adventure."
~ Danny Lyon

I put my 35 mm Nikon F reflex into an old army bag, asked my sister-in-law to drive me to Route 66 at the city’s edge, stuck out my thumb, and hitchhiked south. I thought I was just going on an adventure.

08/03/2020

"These photographers made cameras all by themselves at home. And you can too!"

These photographers made cameras all by themselves at home. And you can too!

07/12/2020

"These women do a terrific job in the photographic arts. And we're uplifting their voices in this storyboard. Take a look at our spotlights on them all."

These women do a terrific job in the photographic arts. And we're uplifting their voices in this storyboard. Take a look at our spotlights on them all.

07/06/2020

"Photographer and Indiana University Northwest professor Jennifer Greenburg has been gathering vintage negatives for years. In her work Revising History, Greenburg appropriates these black and white images by digitally inserting herself as a main character, mimicking the gestures of the moment and the clothing of the period. By circumventing someone else’s photographs and calling them her own, Greenburg exhibits the innately false nature of memory and the family snapshot."

Photographer and Indiana University professor Jennifer Greenburg has been gathering vintage negatives for years. In her work Revising History, Greenburg appropriates these black and white images

05/08/2020

"Everything is not what it seems in Everett Kennedy Brown's captivating photographic series on Japan's samurai. While Brown's photographs look like artifacts from the warriors' feudal-period heyday, they document the unique fashions and aesthetic of modern-day samurai.

His subjects are members of a community of samurai descendents in Soma, Fukushima, who keep the fighters' traditions alive today. The American photographer used a 19th-century technique to achieve the look of the images. "The wet plate collodion process dates from the 1850s and the images produced look old and historical," Brown told CNN of his images, which are on display at hpgrp Gallery in New York this month.

Photographing residents of the town in this style "provided them with an opportunity to think about their place in history," Brown said."

Everything is not what it seems in Everett Kennedy Brown's captivating photographic series on Japan's samurai. While Brown's photographs look like artifacts from the warriors' feudal-period heyday, they document the unique fashions and aesthetic of modern-day samurai.

05/04/2020

Uncanny!!!

"Sorry, but you aren't that special. At least when it comes to your appearance. Canadian photographer François Brunelle has released a twin photo series called “I’m not a look-alike!” where he features models that look very much the same and aren't even related."

https://www.boredpanda.com/unrelated-look-alikes-portraits-francois-brunelle

Sorry, but you aren't that special. At least when it comes to your appearance.

04/29/2020

"Cady Chaplin is an intensive-care nurse at Lenox Hill Hospital. She just turned thirty. Her closest friend at work is Karen Cunningham, who is twenty years older and made a mid-career turn from photography to nursing. When they met, five years ago, Chaplin and Cunningham hit it off immediately. They live in the same neighborhood—South Park Slope, in Brooklyn—and often take the subway together to the hospital, which is on East Seventy-seventh Street, in Manhattan. Along the way, the two I.C.U. nurses talk about everything from the latest Tilda Swinton movie to the intricate and dangerous procedure of intubation.

These days, the days of COVID-19, Chaplin and Cunningham inhabit a twilight world that is celebrated by their fellow New Yorkers but only faintly seen. Cunningham, an admirer of the “Country Doctor” photographs that W. Eugene Smith took for Life, in 1948, wanted to document what was going on in the intensive-care units and got permission from the hospital to bring her camera to work. She photographed her friend over two long shifts in mid-April."

At the peak of New York’s crisis, a health-care worker brought her camera to the I.C.U.

04/02/2020

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"Wildlife photographer Peter Beard has been reported missing, according to police in New York.

The 82-year-old is best known for his photographs of African wildlife, along with the journals he wrote to accompany them.

His personal life was just as notorious, and Mr Beard collaborated with and became friends with Andy Warhol and Salvador Dali, among other renowned artists."

Photographer described as ‘missing vulnerable adult with dementia’ who may need medical attention

02/18/2020

"Kodak Alaris has posted a detailed warning for film photographers, explaining that the new CT scanners being installed to check carry-on bags across the United States will almost certainly ruin your film, even after a single pass.

The PSA/warning was posted to the Kodak Professional page, where Kodak Alaris details how they worked directly with the TSA at John F. Kennedy airport to test the new scanners. CT scanners have been used to scan checked luggage for years—which is why Kodak has always recommended you carry it on and request it be hand-checked—but now that they’re being expanded to carry-on luggage as well, the company wanted to better “assess the risk.”

Kodak Alaris has posted a detailed warning for film photographers, explaining that the new CT scanners being installed to check carry-on bags across the