There are two genres in photography that are personal favorites: projects about time and projects created as typologies. Photographer Susan Lapides deftly combines these two ways of working into a layered and poignant series, Crustaceans. The series started in 2006 when she photographed her daughter Xia at the age of ten (see above) and then […]
Susan Rosenberg Jones: Widow/er
I always think that a photographer’s best work comes from worlds we already know and can bring deep thinking and perspective to. Photographer Susan Rosenberg Jones has a legacy of creating such projects as she considers the humanity that surrounds her. With her project, Building 1, she photographed her neighbors in the apartment building she […]
Gary Emrich: All Consumed
It was a pleasure to meet Gary Emich at the Month of Photography Denver portfolio reviews. His compelling prints of landscapes as seen through water bottle labels were at once humorous and thought provoking. His work makes us see things anew, with a perspective of cynicism and curiosity. “I have chosen to…invert the value of […]
The Brian Taylor Mixtape
I remember the first time the name Brian Taylor came on my radar. It was an e-mail from someone I didn’t know in 2016–that someone was the Director of the Center for Photographic Art in Carmel, CA, inviting me to teach during their PIE Workshops. It was unlike any e-mail I had received in a […]
Jason Lee: Oklahoma
Some months ago, I had the pleasure to be in conversation with photographer/actor Jason Lee at Arcana Books about his sold-out monograph, A Plain View. The book is a beautiful tribute to the genre of the Road Trip, his work reflects months on the road in Texas with his Graflex Speed Graphic view camera. The […]
Karen Navarro: El Pertenecer en Tiempos Modernos
It was a pleasure to meet Karen Navarro at the recent Photolucida portfolio reviews. Her work was a colorful explosion of reconsidered portraiture, using materiality and performance to create constructions that speak to the plethora of imagery we are exposed to on social media. Her conceptual approach to selecting subjects for the project came from […]