Projects featured over the next several days 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 Habitat Lost: Negative Effects of Suburban Sprawl on Ecosystems, by Debra Small. Habitat Lost: Negative Effects […]
Conceptual
Martin Venezky: The New Machinery
Martin Venezky is playing with perception, moving between analog and digital darkrooms to create new ideas and as his title of his project suggests, New Machinery. “Breaking down the act of seeing into small units is the starting point for “The New Machinery.” I use scavenged metal, glass, and plastic to produce thousands of small […]
Gary Emrich: All Consumed
It was a pleasure to meet Gary Emich at the Month of Photography Denver portfolio reviews. His compelling prints of landscapes as seen through water bottle labels were at once humorous and thought provoking. His work makes us see things anew, with a perspective of cynicism and curiosity. “I have chosen to…invert the value of […]
Karen Navarro: El Pertenecer en Tiempos Modernos
It was a pleasure to meet Karen Navarro at the recent Photolucida portfolio reviews. Her work was a colorful explosion of reconsidered portraiture, using materiality and performance to create constructions that speak to the plethora of imagery we are exposed to on social media. Her conceptual approach to selecting subjects for the project came from […]
Scott B. Davis: on the probability of darkness
the expansiveness of this space has a lot to do with photography. when the sun goes down the world becomes reduced to a series of shapes and tones. looking east across a valley and into the shadow of the planet i see a few shades – earth, sky and subtle contrasts between trees, cactus and […]
Laura Skinner: The States Project: Kentucky
Laura Skinner and I have known each other for years but it wasn’t until we both were working together at a commercial photo studio, a few years ago, that I got to know her work better. I had always enjoyed her arresting portraits of family and friends, but it wasn’t until we started working together […]