At first glance the photograph is a medium of great limitation. The primary function of the camera is to describe the surface of an enclosed scene. Yet, for perhaps ineffable reasons, certain imagery surpasses it’s technical purpose, instead conjuring sensations that span the senses and inspiring curiosity as to what lies beyond the frame. The […]
William Camargo: The 2020 Lenscratch Student Prize Third Place Winner
It is with so much pleasure that we announce the 2020 Lenscratch Student Prize 3rd Place Winner, William Camargo. He was selected for his outstanding project, Origins & Displacements: Making Sense of Place, Histories & Possibilities. William has recently received his MFA from Claremont Graduate University. His awards include a feature on Lenscratch, a mini […]
Kovi Konowiecki: Storytellers
“Glory to the hawks and their awing ways, moderate, and high.” These are the last words uttered in Kovi Konowiecki’s poem named for his series of photos, The Hawks Come Up Before the Sun. The images that follow feel like isolated chapters bound by the geography of the California desert and a tangled web human […]
Kaitlin Maxwell: Storytellers
Through a series of portraits depicting her grandmother, mother, and self, New York based photographer Kaitlin Maxwell (@wutangkait) abstracts identity and transcends traditional notions of the individual. Through the use of mirrors and projections she initiates a complex conversation between surveyor and subject calling into question the gaze of the viewer and exploring the nature […]
Al J. Thompson: Storytellers
To be contemporary is to exist atop the ashes of what came before. Transience within human culture, architecture, and civilization is commonplace and yet the commonplace process of gentrification is not a natural shift but the swift and systematic erasure of a community. Photographer Al J. Thompson explores this phenomenon specifically in Spring Valley, NY […]
Maja Daniels: Storytellers
Through a photographic collection of light leaked landscapes, obscured figures, and archival imagery from the early 1900’s Swedish photographer Maja Daniels explores an enigmatic rural community and the mysterious preservation of the ElfDalian language by creating a visual language all her own. The work defies linear ideas of time that contain a past and present […]