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 […]
American Truth: Complex Views of the American Experience
American Truth is a new exhibition that explores the subjectivity of truth, specifically in photographic work–indeed a timely and important subject in today’s current waters. The exhibition is curated by Jasmine Wahi, founder and co-director of Project for Empty Space, a nonprofit arts organization in Newark, New Jersey and will be on display at the SVA […]
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 […]
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 […]