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 On Adornment, by Mehves Lelic. On Adornment This series explores the relationship between adornment and selfhood and its […]
Conceptual
Tommy Keith: Success Strategies
I had the pleasure of jurying the Filter Photo Member’s Exhibition and I was asked to select 5 portfolios to help showcase the Filter community. Not as easy task as there were so many excellent projects. One that I selected was Tommy Keith’s Success Strategies. His project examines family through a series of staged tableaux, […]
Ervin A. Johnson: #InHonor: Monoliths
The Arnika Dawkins Gallery in Atlanta, GA, opened a new exhibition this past weekend of Ervin A. Johnson’s powerful project #InHonor: Monoliths that will run through February 7th, 2020 with an Open House on Oct 26th 11:00AM – 4:00PM. The exhibition is also part of the Atlanta Celebrates Photography programming. Monoliths is the third iteration […]
The 2019 Lange-Taylor Prize: Chinen Aimi: Finding Ryukyu
The Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University recently awarded its twenty-seventh Dorothea Lange–Paul Taylor Prize to Japanese American artist and documentarian Chinen Aimi. Her winning proposal, Finding Ryukyu, combines text and drawings with 35mm black-and-white photographs to investigate her various histories as a child born on the island of Okinawa, Japan (part of the […]
Sunny Strader: 5th Grade Dreams
I’m sure we all have imagined an opportunity to go back in time and connect with people from our past, in particular school mates that shared in our growing up. Facebook and class reunions have afforded a bit of that investigation, but photographer Sunny Strader has made a concerted effort to find, photograph, and interview […]
Marcia Resnick: Re-Visions
I’ve been thinking a lot about work from the late 70’s and 80’s as I am seeing artists revisit the concepts and methodologies that emerged in those decades, so I thought it was interesting that a body of work from that era is being re-published to introduce the work to a new generation. In 1978, […]