Chad Ress has recently released a new monograph, America Recovered, published by Actar Publishers, Barcelona & New York. The book and project examine the point where “abstract political processes manifest themselves in the physical world, thus providing an alternate means of experiencing the contemporary American landscape. Collectively, the images and essays show what aspects of our everyday […]
Documentary
Susan Berger: Life and Soul: American Streets Honoring Martin Luther King
Today marks the birthday of iconic civil rights leader, Martin Luther King Jr. and on this MLK Day when we consider past and current heartbreaking histories, we are featuring a project that celebrates the streets that reflect his name, all across America. Susan Berger’s chronicle of place, Life and Soul: American Streets Honoring Martin Luther […]
Sara Bennett: LOOKING INSIDE: Portraits of Women Serving Life Sentences
Sara Bennett is doing the important work of humanizing those behind prison walls. She has a legacy of considering subjects who have no voice, who have suffered at the hands of others, and those who have had their life change in a flash of bad choices. Her projects chronicle women during and after incarceration and […]
Tony Chirinos: Experiencing Death
Experiencing Death by Tony Chirinos was selected from our most recent call-for-submissions. I was pleased to interview Tony to gain further insight into this body of work. Tony Chirinos received a Master of Fine Arts from Columbia University in New York. Trained as a Bio-medical photographer in 1985 at Miami Children’s Hospital, later in 1989 Mr. […]
Barbara Boissevain: Salt Pond Restoration 2010 – 2019
I had the great pleasure of meeting Barbara Boissevain and her work at CENTER’s Review Santa Fe this past October. Barbara has created a number of compelling projects about toxic territories in the San Francisco Bay Area, one the most polluted regions in the United States. This examination “highlights issues of toxicity relevant to the […]
Jesse Rieser: Christmas in America: Happy Birthday Jesus
Merry Christmas! I have to admit that I’m not a religious person, but I’m all in when it comes to Christmas. The lights, the decorations, the tree, the fantasy of Santa and the reindeer are wonderful distractions from politics and the end of the world as we know it. This is the third time I’ve […]