Responding to increasing racial polarity in the United States, interdisciplinary artist Nirmal Raja and photographer Lois Bielefeld have launched two collaborative projects, reaching across race lines to explore identity, place, and belonging. Their initial project, Reaching Through 5 ½ yards, 8497 Miles, examines the role of cultural markers and our visual understanding of race. Raja […]
Collaborations
On Collaboration: Skylark Editions
Under the banner of Skylark Editions, a nonprofit publishing project based in Chicago and Atlanta, two accomplished photographers team up to develop visually rich and compelling photobooks. Drawing from their individual practices, co-editors and photographers, Kelli Connell and Paul D’Amato (with editor-at-large Gregory Harris), bring their visual sensitivities and concise storytelling skills together to produce […]
On Collaboration: PWMD (Marissa Dembkoski & Paal Williams)
On Collaboration: PWMD interview by Barbara Ciurej and Lindsay Lochman Marissa Dembkoski and Paal Williams are the collaborative artist team PWMD. Their sensibilities come together in work that has a delicate duality. They disassemble the vocabulary of rendering and perception while simultaneously honoring it. Their images expose the construction and limitations of representation. Histories collide […]
Developer x For Freedoms
It Is A Miracle We Are Standing Here. The title of the exhibition currently hanging at the International Center for Photography speaks to the crisis of modern day social fabrics, art making, and political climate. When For Freedoms and I began discussing the creation of this show, and how we could use it as a […]
The Myths and Realities of Artistic Collaborations
The Society of Photographic Educators is about to hold their 56th Annual SPE Conference in Cleveland, Ohio from March 7 – 10th, 2019. The annual conference brings together photographic educators, students, and photographers from around the globe for four days of listening, learning, and sharing. Needless to say, this a significant platform for considering photography […]
Art + Science: Art of Healing: J. Fredric May
J. Fredric May is a visual artist based in Los Angeles, CA. His life course changed in 2012 after he suffered a stroke. In addition to 46 percent loss of vision, he experienced lucid visual hallucinations, sometimes appearing in the form of lights, shapes, geometric figures or as the image of a recognizable object. Yet, […]