All photos © Giulio Di Sturco.

Despite being home to the world’s largest breakwater, the port city of Kamaishi, Japan, was partially destroyed by the earthquake and tsunami last March 11. This former capital of Samurai steel production was bombarded by the US navy during WWII, and has survived several tsunamis in the past.  Now, the surviving residents are attempting to pick up the pieces, and start life again.  Yumi Goto, a curator, discovered Giulio Di Sturco’s images of the city when he contributed to the  “3/11 Tsunami Photo Project,” an iPad/iPhone photography book app that Goto edited. “When he attempted to photograph certain areas, he was told that there was no need as there was nothing newsworthy to be found,” Goto says. “Believing that he would find people stranded there, he ignored the advice [and] reached places beyond where other photographers stopped. The enormous challenges that he faced are apparent in the photographs.” Giulio Di Sturco’s Tsunami project will be on view in the exhibition, “11-3″  at Galleria Openmind in Milano, Italy, from Nov. 24 – Jan. 20, 2012.

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All photos © Ahae

“Through My Window”, an exhibition of photographs by the Korean artist, environmentalist, entrepreneur, poet, and septuagenarian Ahae, is on view from October 13 – 22, 2011, in New York City at Grand Central Terminal’s Vanderbilt Hall. The exhibition features more than 50 images of landscape and wildlife (selected from more than one million) taken in the years 2008-2010 from one window of his home and studio overlooking a nature preserve in the countryside outside Seoul. Through his photography, Ahae seeks to call attention the extent to which nature — delicate and magnificent, modest and courageous — can thrive when left alone to flourish.

“Ahae’s tribute to the world outside his window is direct and uncomplicated; one might say normal. This normal, everyday world contains a great deal of magic, which we can discover though careful observation. And Ahae is this careful observer,” wrote Milan Knížák, General Director of Prague’s National Gallery, which has exhibited the work. The exhibit has also been to London and Moscow, and will travel to the Alinari National Museum of Photography in Florence, Italy, from December  1 through 31, 2011; and to the Magazzini del Sale in Venice, Italy,  from March 20 through April 27, 2012.

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© Damiano Levati/Red Bull Cliff Diving

The Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series is held from March through September, in locations around the world. In July, the fifth stop in the series took place in Malcestine on Lake Garda in Italy. About 15,000 spectators watched the event, not including the many people who moored their yachts and motorboats close to the steep cliffs for a good view of the competition. Each dive is scored by five judges who award points based on execution and degree of difficulty.

Photographers Romina Amato, Dean Treml, and Damiano Levanti captured the action in Malcestine for Red Bull.

Above: The Czech Republic’s Michal Navratil dives above Lake Garda. (more…)

All Photos © Richard Misrach. Courtesy of Fraenkel Gallery, SF/ Marc Selwyn Fine Arts, LA/ Pace MacGill Gallery, NY.

Richard Misrach: Graecism, a collection of six vintage dye transfer prints taken between 1979-1981, is currently on view at the Yancey Richardson Gallery. Shot during his travels in Greece and Italy as a Guggenheim Fellow, the works mark the end of Misrach’s nighttime studies and the beginning of his color photography. He shot the images of ancient architectural sites, including the Parthenon and the Roman Forum, at dusk and at night with strobe lighting and long exposures. “Misrach’s long exposures emphasize the passage of time in the terms of the celestial” Yancey Richardson Gallery says. “His wandering, exploratory eye lends to the feeling of communing with the spirits of a long lost civilization.” To see more of Misrach’s work click here.

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© Michael Kenna. Courtesy Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago.

Michael Kenna’s “Fishing Nets, Smarlacca, Veneto, Italy, 2006″ is part of an upcoming exhibition, Venice/China/Japan/Egypt/Etc., opening at the Catherine Edelman Gallery on May 7, 2010.  Alongside images from Venice, the exhibit will feature photographs from Japan, the Huangshan Mountains in China, the pyramids in Cairo, mussel and oyster beds in the Chausey Islands and rock formations in  Punta Brava. Whether photographing in his  hometown of Seattle or halfway around the world, Michael Kenna has developed a signature style that is un-mistakenly his own. Void of people, he invites viewers to meander with him through places that are both remote and heavily trafficked, reminding us of the beauty we tend to over look. To see more of his work click here.