Kris Graves Projects is releasing LOST: II, a compilation of books showcasing twenty cities shot by twenty photographers. Photographer Andrea Modica’s contribution to the project is Lentini, which reflects thirty years of consideration of a small Italian town in the Province of Syracuse in South East Sicily. These quiet and poetic photographs give us a […]
Archives for March 2019
DEVELOPER x Michael W. Hicks
When Aline Smithson sent me Michael W. Hicks’ work, I was immediately intrigued. When I looked at his images they brought me into a world that felt just on the other side of what feels familiar. Somehow his images find a striking balance between surreal and hyper-realistic, carrying with them a gravity and strange intimacy.This […]
Al Brydon: Solargraphs
British photographer Al Brydon has a new monograph, Solargraphs, published by JW Editions in the UK that allows us to consider the world in new ways. The elements of time, surprise, and light are at the heart of his project, with some images created over a period of months. The beauty of this work is […]
Renate Aller: Mountain Interval
Photographic artist Renate Aller has a long legacy of recontexualizing the natural world with her projects “Ocean and Desert”, “dicotyledon” and the long term project “Oceanscapes – One View – Ten Years”. All support the artist’s investigation into the “relationship between Romanticism, memory and landscape – in the context of our current socio-political awareness.” She […]
Elliot Ross: Plainsmen
In Elliot Ross’s series, Plainsmen, we are called to the interior American West—a place which, from an outsider’s perspective, is generally romanticized and oversimplified. The region is too often ignored unless it is politically convenient, and it is sometimes flippantly referred to as flyover country. As a person who grew up in rural Colorado, Ross […]
Nick Brandt: This Empty World
The damnation of animal life, the debasement of human life, the destructive conjugality between the two: it is not just the animals who are the victims of environmental devastation, but also the humans now inhabiting these landscapes. – Nick Brandt Nick Brandt’s most recent effort to call attention to the “escalating destruction of the natural […]