Yesterday I mentioned how concerned I was with the risk of looking at imagery and being like an overenthusiastic tourist that finds everything different or exotic while preparing for Greek week. But when I first browsed through the work of the APhF Young Greek Photographers from the last few years, I was surprised by the […]
Archives for November 2019
Greece Week: Giannis Manolis: The Hunter, The Woman and The Hut
In July I headed to the Athens Photo Festival (APhF) for the second year in a row. I was already thinking then about how to approach this “Greek week”. “Dutch week” last year had been a great ride (and the work and coordination required even grew my appreciation for Aline who does this every single […]
A Certain Uncertainty: Selections from the Cassilhaus Collection
A couple of years ago at the CLICK! Photo Festival, I had the great pleasure to visit Cassilhaus and meet the creators, Ellen Cassilly and Frank Konhaus. Ellen and Frank have a particular sensibility to their collecting, one that resonates deeply with my own. Many of their images are mysterious, or obscured in some way. Visual […]
Virgil DiBiase: My husband won’t tell me his first name
“When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not; but my faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened.” Mark Twain Virgil DiBiase’s project My husband won’t tell me his first name was another portfolio I selected for the […]
Lynne Buchanan: Florida’s Changing Waters
Lynne Buchanan began diligently photographing her native Florida’s waterways with the hope to create a record of her personal relationship with those environments. With time, she began noticing the damage unchecked human activity was causing to those landscapes she explored. Agricultural and industrial pollution, urban sprawl, and population growth have destabilized the delicate balance of […]
Awareness: Allan Gill, Janna Ireland, Laura Parker, Ni Rong, Bill Sosin and Robert von Sternberg
I’ve always felt that what connects us as photographic artists and seers is that we have a heightened sense of awareness to world and our surroundings. I’m sure my children tire of my endless narration of things that I notice, behaviors I observe, and not just visual, but sensory experiences that I encounter. The dnj […]