What’s not to love about Paris? The amazing food, the fantastic wine, the tree lined streets, some of the best flea markets in the world… but to us, photographers, Paris is very special in November, because we are gifted with the most brilliant photo fair, Paris Photo. This was my favorite edition of the fair […]
Archives for December 2019
Cristina Fontsaré: A Crack in the Mirror
One of the many gifts of being a photographer are the friendships that develop simply because we hold a camera. This summer, while attending Les Rencontres De La Photographie in Arles, I had the wonderful opportunity to spend time with Spanish photographer Cristina Fontsaré. Cristina has a legacy of using Polaroid instant photography to document […]
Gary Beeber: Passages
“I have become obsessed with the passage of time, what things were and what they are now. I often think about my own mortality.” Photographer Gary Beeber has knack for finding humor and pathos in the every day, especially in those places that have fallen into decline. He has an innate curiosity and the photographs […]
Joe Rudko: Tiny Mirrors
I recently curated an exhibition, Beyond the Surface, that will open at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo in January about artists who intervene with the surface of a photograph. In the process of considering work to include, gallerist Tarrah Von Lintel introduced me to amazing photomontages of Joe Rudko. Joe currently has an exhibition, Tiny […]
Bill Armstrong: Falling Through History
“My goal is to extract the figures from their historical moment and connect them in a continuous stream that transcends period, style and subject matter to reveal the psychology of falling as a universal aspect of human consciousness.“ Photographic artist Bill Armstrong has a new series, Falling Through History, that examines the notion of falling, […]
Norm Diamond: Doug’s Gym
“Doug’s Gym is a love story. It is an arrow to the heart.” – Cig Harvey, Photographer It’s always fascinating how photographers find their projects and where the internal motivation for their focus is culled from. Photographer Norm Diamond comes to photography after four decades considering mortality as a interventional radiologist. This remarkable perspective of […]