There are certain artists with the passion and patience to make a particular subject their life’s work. Louise Russell has spent decades photographing 152 acres of land in San Diego’s backcountry, in a deeply personal place called the J9 Ranch. This parcel of high desert has been in her family for over 100 years, not long after the […]
Robert Treat: Dom and Joshua Stones
Some of us among the members of the San Diego photography community, especially those of us in Snowcreek*, have lovingly come to refer to Robert Treat‘s work as having the “Treat-ment” to describe the way in which it doesn’t matter the medium (Robert is also a gifted painter) or the subject matter, you know that a […]
Eleanor Owen Kerr: On the Batture
I first saw Baton Rouge-based Eleanor Owen Kerr‘s photographs in a workshop in Maine last summer. I was mesmerized, not only by the foreign landscape that she had captured, but by the deeply moving way she had captured it. These were intimate, meditative, soulful photographs of a mysterious and magical place known as the Mississippi […]