Kris Graves Projects is releasing LOST: II, a compilation of books showcasing twenty cities shot by twenty photographers. Photographer Andrea Modica’s contribution to the project is Lentini, which reflects thirty years of consideration of a small Italian town in the Province of Syracuse in South East Sicily. These quiet and poetic photographs give us a […]
Al Brydon: Solargraphs
British photographer Al Brydon has a new monograph, Solargraphs, published by JW Editions in the UK that allows us to consider the world in new ways. The elements of time, surprise, and light are at the heart of his project, with some images created over a period of months. The beauty of this work is […]
Renate Aller: Mountain Interval
Photographic artist Renate Aller has a long legacy of recontexualizing the natural world with her projects “Ocean and Desert”, “dicotyledon” and the long term project “Oceanscapes – One View – Ten Years”. All support the artist’s investigation into the “relationship between Romanticism, memory and landscape – in the context of our current socio-political awareness.” She […]
Nick Brandt: This Empty World
The damnation of animal life, the debasement of human life, the destructive conjugality between the two: it is not just the animals who are the victims of environmental devastation, but also the humans now inhabiting these landscapes. – Nick Brandt Nick Brandt’s most recent effort to call attention to the “escalating destruction of the natural […]
Paul Thulin: Pine Tree Ballads
Candela Books and Gallery has just released a new exhibition and book, Pine Tree Ballads by Paul Thulin. The exhibition runs through April 20, 2019 at the Candela Gallery in Richmond, Virginia and the book is available for order here. Pine Tree Ballads in a fantastical reimagining of place, in particular, an island off the […]
Rick Schatzberg: The Boys
Rick Schatzberg and I began e-mailing about today’s post back in July–he had recently graduated from the University of Hartford with an MFA and had a new project The Boys, about friendship, memory, loss, and the inner narrations we carry through the years. I had just seen the movie Three Identical Strangers and his project hit […]