Congratulations to Sama Alshaibi for being selected for CENTER’s Project Development Grant recognizing her project, Carry Over. The grant offers financial support to fine art, documentary, or photojournalist works-in-progress and includes a cash award to help complete a project as well as platforms for feedback and professional development opportunities for the work’s final stages. This […]
Archives for May 2019
Alfonso Almendros: To Name a Mountain
Spanish photographer Alfonso Almendros has created an elegant, layered narrative with his project and book, To Name a Mountain. Inspired by a story about landscape-painter Albert Bierstadt and the possibility that he named a mountain for a woman he loved secretly, the work is moody, dark, and poetic. It speaks to inner turmoil and desire […]
The David Rosenberg Mixtape
I’m not sure when David Rosenberg first came on my radar, but I do remember our official first meeting at the Filter Photo Festival in Chicago. David is one of those people you meet and immediately know they are special–open, engaging, talented, and knowledgeable. I’ve had the good fortune to spend time with David at […]
Isa Leshko: Allowed to Grow Old
Some years ago I wrote about Isa Leshko’s poignant and important work with elderly animals-my feature was just one of many as the project had tremendous resonance with people all over the world. I am happy to share that the project is now a book, Allowed to Grow: Portraits of Elderly Animals from Farm Sanctuaries […]
Ken Rosenthal: Days on the Mountain
Most of us are lucky enough to have a special place to escape to–a walking trail, a beach, and in Ken Rosenthal’s world, it’s a family cabin in the woods that has provided a place of wonder, respite, and inspiration. For the past 15 years he has made work around his world of family and […]