We finish the week with this portrait from Gordon Burniston:

© Gordon Burniston

More here.

Joe Stevens provides ample evidence with his project ‘Vans and the Places They Were’ of the power of visual repetition:

From the artist: “‘Vans and the places they were’ documents surviving custom and conversion vans across the West and examines the dialogue which exists between a van’s design aesthetic and that of its surrounding environment. The project began in 1996 and currently consists of hundreds of images shot on 120 film.”

More here.

For our pick today we are branching out into sports photography to feature this image of Skeleton Bob gold medalist Amy Williams:

© Clive Mason/Getty Images

Good sports photography can often transcend straightforward reportage. This particular image capturing the particular lonely intensity of the skeleton event.

More Olympic images here.

Our pick today is a set from Noah Kalina who came to prominence via his photo everyday project.

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All photos © Noah Kalina

Our selected set is from his ‘What Happens in Vegas…’ project. More here.

Our pick today is a short article from the Guardian: New Topographics: photographs that find beauty in the banal.

Presidio, Texas, Feb 21st 1975 by Stephen Shore

The article introduces William Jenkins’s 1975 exhibition which “rewrote the rules of landscape photography” and serves as a brief, but useful primer for anyone discovering the ‘New Topographics’ genre for the first time.

There is a book about the ground breaking exhibition.

Our final pick of the week is from Jasen Strickler:

Night Watering

© Jasen Strickler

Via Flak.

Our pick today is a “remembrance and celebration” of Larry Sultan from Daylight Magazine (in collaboration with Obit Magazine).

Photo: Larry Sultan

From the 17th February to 13th March, at the Lucy Bell gallery in St Leonards on Sea, London based photographer Linda Lieberman will be exhibiting ‘Ocean’ a collection of mainly black and white photographs along with some hand-coloured images presenting a strong message “that ecologically man cannot ignore what feeds him socially, politically, economically and spiritually.”

Ocean - Linda Lieberman

Ocean: The Preview

Linda Lieberman & Lucy Bell

More information here.

I won’t keep you in suspense any longer. Our selection today is from Dennis Darzacq:

All photos © Dennis Darzacq

More here.

Our first selection this week is Lens Culture’s video interview with Roger Ballen.

© Roger Ballen

The photo above is from Ballen’s ‘Shadow Chamber’ series.

More on his portfolio site here.