There has been a buzz in the Los Angeles photography community about the new exhibition at the Kopeikin Gallery in Culver City. The show titled Presence: Unique Silver Gelatin Prints and it runs through March 9th, 2019. It is Alejandro Cartagena‘s fourth exhibition with the gallery. I was very familiar with Alejandro’s projects that examine […]
Sal Taylor Kydd: Janus Rising
“It is a curious emotion, this certain homesickness I have in mind… It is no simple longing for the home town or country of our birth. The emotion is Janus-faced: we are torn between a nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we are homesick most for the […]
Bootsy Holler: Treasures
Five years ago photographer Bootsy Holler walked into her mother’s kitchen, opened the drawer and saw history – family history and objects that carried stories. The objects were absurd in some ways, poignant in others and Bootsy used these long held possessions to build a collection of her own curation, allowing her to turn back […]
Gesche Würfel: What Remains of the Day – Memories of World War II
Continuing our recognition of the International Holocaust Remembrance Day on January 27 we are featuring Gesche Würfel’s What Remains of the Day – Memories of World War II. The project explores the aftermath of World War II and the Holocaust on contemporary life by grappling with time and memory through images of places and people. Born […]
Nancy Baron: Into the Light
This Sunday, January 27, 2019, is International Holocaust Remembrance Day, an international memorial day for the victims of the Holocaust and a time to remember the genocide that resulted in the annihilation of six million European Jews as well as millions of others by the Nazi regime. January 27 is the date, in 1945, when […]
Wayne Swanson: From the Workshop
Photographer Wayne Swanson has created a visual love letter of sorts to his father and his father’s craft of furniture design and making, with his project, From the Workshop. In fact, the approach to Wayne’s photographs and the stories they tell are as unique as the furniture they celebrate. This series sits in the realm of […]