Candela Books and Gallery has just released a new exhibition and book, Pine Tree Ballads by Paul Thulin. The exhibition runs through April 20, 2019 at the Candela Gallery in Richmond, Virginia and the book is available for order here. Pine Tree Ballads in a fantastical reimagining of place, in particular, an island off the […]
Archives for March 2019
Developer x For Freedoms
It Is A Miracle We Are Standing Here. The title of the exhibition currently hanging at the International Center for Photography speaks to the crisis of modern day social fabrics, art making, and political climate. When For Freedoms and I began discussing the creation of this show, and how we could use it as a […]
Rick Schatzberg: The Boys
Rick Schatzberg and I began e-mailing about today’s post back in July–he had recently graduated from the University of Hartford with an MFA and had a new project The Boys, about friendship, memory, loss, and the inner narrations we carry through the years. I had just seen the movie Three Identical Strangers and his project hit […]
Tracy L. Chandler: At the Edge
Tracy L Chandler’s compelling and poignant series Edge Dwellers is photography at it’s best. The work speaks to the power of the medium as a vehicle for bearing witness, for understanding and contemplating humanity, and for providing connection to unseen populations. Tracy’s large format capture of marginalized individuals who make their home on the edges […]
Kristen Bartley: Flower Mound
Light is a distinct character in Kristen Bartley’s series, Flower Mound. It glows, invites, and evokes a range of sentiment. It identifies character and is indicative of Bartley’s fondness for her humble suburban muses. It is warm and calm. It allows her to record and remember. The contrasting shadow alludes to the weight of loss […]
Robert Schultz and Binh Danh: War Memoranda: Photography, Walt Whitman, and Memorials
Almost two years ago I sat down with poet and photographer Robert Schultz at the Medium Festival of Photography and experienced his stunning and delicate portraits of Civil War soldiers and their loved ones in the “flesh of leaves”, using the “chlorophyll print” process he learned from artist Binh Danh. The portraits are drawn from […]