Collage is a powerful artform that allows the artist to create new worlds and realities. Artist Paula Gillen imagine a feminist utopia in outer space. agram: https://www.instagram.com/paulagillenart/ Website: paulagillen.net My show Head Trip is at Ten Nineteen New Orleans through October 17th but I am sure the work would be kept online: https://ten-nineteen.org/exhibitions/ Interview with […]
Magical Realism
Yazmeen P. Loaiza: DEFECTO DE UNA MEMORIA: BELONGING TO THE REALM OF LIVED EXPERIENCE
This week, I am excited to introduce five new Lenscratch Content Editors who will be providing expanded perspectives on a variety of topics. Today we feature Ecuadorian photographer, Yazmeen P. Loaiza. Her interest as an editor is to focus on Latin American photography, presenting the work of underrepresented or misrepresented peoples and an amalgam of 33 […]
The CENTER Awards: Project Development Grant Winner: Justin Maxon
Caption by Tim: [My aspiration is] being in business as an electrician. [My dream looks] powerful, sparkly, [with] stars and comets. Congratulations to Justin Maxon for being selected for CENTER’s Project Development Grant recognizing his project, Livin’ the Dream. The Project Development Grant offers financial support to a fine art, documentary, or photojournalist’s WORK-IN-PROGRESS. The grant […]
Fran Forman: The Rest Between Two Notes
“I communicate with the world by creating visual narratives of composited photographs, often illuminating that in-between moment in time. It is how I explore dreams deferred, connections to prior generations, the natural world and our place within it. Making art is my psychological release, my obsession and my salvation. – Fran Forman” Fran Forman has […]
Paolo Ventura: An Invented World
“I use photography because what people see in photographs they believe is real – even if they know it is a model. When you go to a film, you know it’s a setup, but you cry, you get excited, you are deeply touched. People want to believe what they see on film. I photograph what […]
France Week: Alastair Magnaldo
I had the distinct pleasure of meeting Alastair Magnaldo at a dinner party in Nice some years ago and was pleasantly surprised to learn that in addition to being a scientific researcher, he also found the time to develop a fascinating practice in photographic surrealism and fantasy. Over the past few years, I have followed […]