It is with great pleasure that we announce the 2020 Lenscratch Student Prize Honorable Mention Winner, Leah Schretenthaler. She was selected for her outstanding project, The Invasive Species of the Built Environment. She is working towards her MFA at University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. The jurors included Guanyu Xu – 2019 Student Prize Winner, Zora Murff- 2018 Student Prize Winner, Shawn Bush – 2017 Student Prize […]
Alternative Process
Yunqian Lin: Entropy
Projects featured this week were selected from our most recent call-for-submissions. I was able to interview each of these individuals to gain further insight into the bodies of work they shared. Today, we are looking at the series Entropy by Yunqian Lin. Yunqian Lin is a visual artist from China, living and working in New York City, […]
Leslie Jean-Bart: Echoes of Imagination
This past week, editor Rita Lombardi shared the work of artists who work from a studio or work from home. For photographer Leslie Jean-Bart, working from home has been a novelty because much of this practice is created at water’s edge. For the past 10 years, he has walked the shoreline of Coney Island, looking […]
Cathy Cone: Hand Painted Photographs
Cathy Cone is a photographer and painter based in East Topsham, Vermont. In her series Hand Painted Photographs she began the creative process by scanning tintype portraits dating back to 1869, which she has been collecting from flea markets and antique shops for decades. She digitally printed each piece, then applied gouache onto the surface […]
DM Witman: The Guide to Loss and Grieving in the Anthropocene
It’s always great to see DM Witman, whether it be in Maine, where she lives, or at a portfolio review event, like FotoFest, where I recently encountered her new work. Her projects sit in the arena of historical processes using methods of the darkroom to beautifully speak to the environment and the world in transition. […]
The CENTER Awards: Excellence in Multimedia Award 3rd Place Winner: Jodi Stuart
Congratulations to Jodi Stuart, for her Third Place win in CENTER’S Excellence in Multimedia Award for her project, Super Synthetic. The Excellence in Multimedia Award recognizes outstanding photo-media artists and storytellers working in a variety of media processes and subject matter. The award supports a project that utilizes photography, video, installation, or other elements that expand […]