As an American consumer, as well as an American photographic artist, I realized I had a distinct responsibility to reflect on my own habits of consumption, to acknowledge how I was personally contributing to the overall equation and to share my observations in a way that encouraged viewers to recognize their own lives within my […]
Constructed Realities
The Center Awards: EXCELLENCE IN MULTIMEDIA AWARD 2nd Place Winner: Annette Fournet
Congratulations to Annette Fournet for being selected for The Excellence in Multimedia Award recognizing her project, The Goddess Series. The Excellence in Multimedia Award recognizes outstanding photo-media artists and storytellers working in a variety of media processes and subject matter. Supports a project that utilizes photography, video, installation, or other elements that expand on traditional methods […]
DEVELOPER x Xu Guanyu
徐冠 宇 Guanyu X (b.1993 Beijing) is an artist currently based in Chicago. He was the recipient of the Fred Endsley Memorial Fellowship and the James Weinstein Memorial Fellowship. His works have been exhibited internationally including the Aperture Foundation, New York; ICP Museum, New York; Format Photo Festival, UK; The Union League Club of Chicago, Chicago; Mint Museum, […]
Joel Whitaker: The States Project: Ohio
Joel Whitaker has written, refreshingly, about his photographic process: “Purity of the photographic medium, or any other, does not interest me. I rarely travel any great distance to photograph and I prefer to work economically with minimum fuss…and do not hold any preconceived notions as to what a photograph should look like, nor how it […]
Lori Kella: The States Project: Ohio
Lori Kella has said that in childhood she was a “maker of stuff” such as dioramas and dollhouses; she was fascinated by the dioramas she saw at natural history museums, especially those with cutaways to show the earth simultaneously both above and below ground. As she got older, Kella became interested in how these “little […]
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 […]