Some years ago, I was visiting the Foam Museum in Amsterdam and came across a wonderful exhibition by Taco Anema, where he was commissioned by the city of Amsterdam to create portraits of families in the Dutch Master style. Photographer Daniel Peebles echoes this approach to photographing family, but in an off-kilter, multi layered, very […]
Archives for November 2019
Catherine Panebianco: No Memory Is Ever Alone
This week we celebrate the genre of Family in preparation for the 2019 Lenscratch Family Exhibition that runs on Thanksgiving. We start with a wonderful series about family legacy and memory by Catherine Panebianco. Catherine’s series, No Memory Is Ever Alone, recently garnered Critical Mass’ Top 50, plus a boatload of other awards. For her […]
Bill O’Donnell: Solid and Space
Bill O’Donnell states about his work,”The Solid and Space pictures celebrate this play between intellectual and perceptual knowledge, the flickering between memory and observation, the blend of mystery and delight when truth and truth disagree.” I discovered Bill’s work through jurying the Filter Photo Member’s Exhibition and could not stop thinking about his play on […]
Diane Meyer: Berlin
[The Wall’s] ghost, carefully stitched into place, haunts the modern scenes as a kind of floating metaphor for the existence of sharp cultural barriers that were once culturally delineated. – Curators Mia Diaglish and Lisa Woodward Artist Diane Meyer has a legacy of considering place, from examining the American West to how we navigate a […]
Robert Conrad: Memories of the Wall
The fall of the Berlin Wall took place 30 years ago this month and when we step back to November 9th, 1989, the world witnessed “a pivotal event in history which marked the falling of the Iron Curtain. The fall of the inner German border took place shortly afterwards. An end to the Cold War […]
Russell Joslin: Alone Forever Sometimes
Russell Joslin has spent much of his career masterfully showcasing other photographers with a 17-year long run as Editor/Owner of SHOTS Magazine and Founder/Editor of Skeleton Key Press–providing significant exposure in print for thousands of photographers. But all along, he was quietly creating his own evocative work, with the camera turned to face his own […]