Photographer Matt Storm reveals the intentions for his project, Act of Looking, in his statement, “I’m transgender. I rarely see bodies like mine, represented in photography and art. Sometimes, I see images of transgender people, made by non-transgender artists, for non-transgender audiences, and they feel disappointingly flat.” I am a big believer that the most […]
David Freese: Mississippi River, Headlands and Heartlands from Delta to Gulf
Some time ago, I featured David Freese‘s book, East Coast: Arctic to Tropic that followed an earlier effort, West Coast: Bering to Baja, documenting the coasts of our continent. Comingin July, David has a new book published by George F. Thompson in Staunton, VA, Mississippi River: Headwaters and Heartland to Delta and Gulf which completes […]
Thomas Alleman: Social Studies
I never get tired of looking at Thomas Alleman’s remarkable photographs. His curiosity takes him into worlds personal, familiar, and unknown, and no matter the destination, he finds gold where ever he points his lens. His powerful project about his mother, The Unwinding garnered him a Top 50 nod in Critical Mass some years back. […]
Bill Westheimer: New Vistas: Photographers working with the Landscape
In 2015, the Getty Museum featured the seminal exhibition, Light, Paper, Process, a show that celebrated the spirit of invention and discovery at its point of departure, focusing on “investigations on the light sensitivity and chemical processing of photographic papers, challenging us to see the medium anew and provide a glimpse into the continued interrogation […]
Amanda Musick: New Vistas: Photographers working with the Landscape
Growing up in Los Angeles, much of my consideration of landscape came from the faux realities of stage sets and created worlds within Disneyland. The happiest place on earth imprinted the Matterhorn and the Grand Canyon on my psyche long before I ever experienced them in person. I met photographic artist Amanda Musick at CENTER’s […]
Christopher Russell: Cascades
Photography has experienced some seismic shifts since it’s inception and today the surface of a photograph has ruptured in ways exciting and unexpected. Artist Christopher Russell continues to use the photographic process as a foundation for his artwork, starting with out-of-focus color photographs that he creates by limiting the functionality of the lens. But his […]