It is with so much pleasure and excitement that we announce the 2020 Lenscratch Student Prize 2nd Place Winner, Nadiya Nacorda. She was selected for her outstanding project, A special kind of double. Nadiya will receive an MFA in Art Photography at Syracuse University’s School of Visual and Performing Arts in 2021. Her awards include […]
Deborah Jack : History Based Landscapes
Spirits of nature exist in nearly every religious and cultural lore we know – traversing the terrain, there to remind us of the regenerative and also destructive power the land holds. The landscape is a portal through which we can access our histories, our collective joy and also our pain. As we continue to reevaluate and in some cases unlearn the stories […]
Jay Simple: Exodus Home and Photographer’s Green Book
At a time when we are all especially focused on what it means to be at home in a place, Jay Simple‘s ongoing series, Exodus Home, has particular resonance. In his work, Simple questions the ways in which black people are both profoundly connected to and reflexively excluded from the physical and cultural terrain of American life. Migration as a means of survival […]
Estrella Pezo: El infinito del cosmos
El infinito del cosmos (The Immensity of the Cosmos) by Estrella Pezo, published by Pequeno Pato Salvaje Editorial, tells the story of a daughter and her father. A story on how their special bond creates a cosmology that defines her essence and her life. Through a collection of images and shared texts, Pezo introduces us […]
Lynne Buchanan: Florida’s Changing Waters
Lynne Buchanan began diligently photographing her native Florida’s waterways with the hope to create a record of her personal relationship with those environments. With time, she began noticing the damage unchecked human activity was causing to those landscapes she explored. Agricultural and industrial pollution, urban sprawl, and population growth have destabilized the delicate balance of […]
2019 Lenscratch Student Prize: Honorable Mention: Nick Drain
It is with great excitement that we honor Nick Drain, Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design, BFA – 2020, with an Honorable Mention in the 2019 Lenscratch Student Awards. Thank you to our jurors Aline Smithson, Brennan Booker, Daniel George, Julia Bennett, Drew Nikonowicz, Sarah Stankey and Shawn Bush. Nick has dedicated his photographic practice to investigating […]