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 Sacred by Fritz Liedtke. Fritz Liedtke began photographing as a teen, carrying his Kodak 110 Instamatic around on a […]
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Santiago Vanegas: UN TE ST ES O AM R CA
The work of Santiago Vanegas addresses mankind’s most challenging issues. Following a visit to Antarctica he created a major body of work concerning climate change. So it is no surprise that his latest project, UN TEST ES O AM R CA reflects the damage being done to traditional American values in today’s polarizing political climate. […]
The Path of Darryl Curran: from the 1960s – the present (and the Origins of Conceptual Photography)
About a month ago, a remarkable exhibition opened at the dnj Gallery in Santa Monica, The Path of Darryl Curran: from the 1960s – the present (and the Origins of Conceptual Photography). The exhibition showcases three rooms of photographs representing 55 years of considering the photographic image. The earliest photograph in the exhibition is from […]
Bill Westheimer: New Vistas: Photographers working with the Landscape
In 2015, the Getty Museum featured the seminal exhibition, Light, Paper, Process, a show that celebrated the spirit of invention and discovery at its point of departure, focusing on “investigations on the light sensitivity and chemical processing of photographic papers, challenging us to see the medium anew and provide a glimpse into the continued interrogation […]
Amanda Musick: New Vistas: Photographers working with the Landscape
Growing up in Los Angeles, much of my consideration of landscape came from the faux realities of stage sets and created worlds within Disneyland. The happiest place on earth imprinted the Matterhorn and the Grand Canyon on my psyche long before I ever experienced them in person. I met photographic artist Amanda Musick at CENTER’s […]
Christopher Russell: Cascades
Photography has experienced some seismic shifts since it’s inception and today the surface of a photograph has ruptured in ways exciting and unexpected. Artist Christopher Russell continues to use the photographic process as a foundation for his artwork, starting with out-of-focus color photographs that he creates by limiting the functionality of the lens. But his […]