Employing perhaps the most uncommon device in contemporary fine art photography – a flat-panel digital imaging x-ray detector – Kent Krugh allows viewers the rare opportunity to peer into the surprising interiors of cameras and the elegant internal structure of birds. Krugh writes that the photographs in “Speciation” “explore the microevolution of cameras” and are […]
Conceptual
Renate Aller: Mountain Interval
Photographic artist Renate Aller has a long legacy of recontexualizing the natural world with her projects “Ocean and Desert”, “dicotyledon” and the long term project “Oceanscapes – One View – Ten Years”. All support the artist’s investigation into the “relationship between Romanticism, memory and landscape – in the context of our current socio-political awareness.” She […]
Nick Brandt: This Empty World
The damnation of animal life, the debasement of human life, the destructive conjugality between the two: it is not just the animals who are the victims of environmental devastation, but also the humans now inhabiting these landscapes. – Nick Brandt Nick Brandt’s most recent effort to call attention to the “escalating destruction of the natural […]
Robert Schultz and Binh Danh: War Memoranda: Photography, Walt Whitman, and Memorials
Almost two years ago I sat down with poet and photographer Robert Schultz at the Medium Festival of Photography and experienced his stunning and delicate portraits of Civil War soldiers and their loved ones in the “flesh of leaves”, using the “chlorophyll print” process he learned from artist Binh Danh. The portraits are drawn from […]
Sue Palmer Stone: Embodiment: Salvaging A Self
Sue Palmer Stone is a photographer based in Connecticut. The photographs from her series EMBODIMENT: SALVAGING A SELF shed light on the artist’s current state of physical stability and instability stemming from an autoimmune condition. In these photographs, found objects are entangled, wrapped, bound and enveloped, creating a sense of tension that hovers between deterioration […]
Hinda Schuman: Dear Shirley
Love is a funny thing…it takes us to our highest highs and lowest lows. Our love life marks our personal histories and shapes the course of our lives. Photographer Hinda Schuman has documented the people she has loved in “an intimate and highly personal account of what it is like to live through the unraveling […]