When Alejandra Carles-Tolra was studying Sociology at the University of Barcelona, she realized that the way of approaching communities and groups was too rigid for her, she needed something else, a closer approach. As she already loved photography, she decided to bring a camera into the classroom. Since them she has been practicing visual sociology. […]
Conceptual
Jo Sandman: The Restless Spirit
Jo Sandman: The Photographic Work on view until June 7, 2020 at the Fitchburg Art Museum explores Jo Sandman’s turn to photography in the 1990s. Over the course of the last three decades, Sandman has grounded her photographic images in the human figure, mortality, and the tensions between the material and the spiritual. Her photography is […]
Kaja Rata: kajnikaj
Polish photographer Kaja Rata whose work was recently celebrated as a Top 50 portfolio in Critical Mass, has a metaphorical project that considers home. Who we are is not always defined by where we live or grow-up , it is truly formed by the limits of our imaginations. Living in a community that feels in […]
Nadine Boughton: A Fractured Atlas
Over the next week/months, we are making room on Lenscratch to feature work that was slated for exhibition that is not making it to the walls. Nadine Bought0n was to open the exhibition, A Fractured Atlas, at the United Photo Industries Galleries in New York on April 2nd and run through May 1st. She also […]
Dawn Roe: Conditions for an Unfinished Work of Mourning: Wretched Yew
Projects featured this week were selected from our 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 Conditions for an Unfinished Work of Mourning: Wretched Yew by Dawn Roe. Dawn Roe works with still photographs and digital video in […]
Ashley Kauschinger: Cycles and Lensclass
Today, artist Allison Jarek interviews Ashley Kauschinger about two projects, one photographic: Cycles, and one educational: Lensclass. Ashley Kauschinger is an artist that explores identity, social structures, and women’s voices. She received her BFA from Savannah College of Art and Design and her MFA from Texas Woman’s University. Her photographs have been exhibited nationally and […]