The Touchstones project began as a visual conversation between artists Sal Taylor Kydd and Dawn Surratt. This project has morphed into a deeper understanding of connection, adaptability and creativity as the world has been challenged with a life threatening pandemic. Through a series of photographic diptychs and poems, the work has evolved as a call […]
Photographers on Photographers
Photographers on Photographers: Lorenzo Triburgo in conversation with Jasmine Murrell
Jasmine Murrell and I were both 2019 CCNY/Baxter St Workspace Residents and I was immediately fascinated by her practice. Jasmine makes sculptures, video art, photographs, sound art, performances – and she does all of these things well and then combines them in the most thoughtfully provoking ways. I have seen Jasmine make wild sculptures, turn them […]
Photographers on Photographers: Derrick Woods-Morrow and Concerned Black Image Makers
Over the last month I’ve spent time on multiple devices, using multiple strategies to catch up with the now scattered members of Concerned Black Image makers (CBIM). And as a national pandemic overwhelms the USA this interview connects the dots of Black voices who are creating new images for seeing ourselves doing blackity-black things, despite the […]
Photographers on Photographers: Paccarik Orue in conversation with Kevin Kunishi
Back in 2011 I was close to finishing my series There Is Nothing Beautiful Around Here, and I was hosting other photographers friends in my old apartment in the Mission District in San Francisco to share our projects to get some feedback. Someone asked me if he could invite Kevin Kunishi to our gathering, that […]
Photographers on Photographers: Eddy Leonel Aldana in conversation with Veronica Melendez
I can’t quite remember when I got to meet Veronica Melendez in person for the first time. During my sophomore or junior year, one of my professors had suggested that I look at her work for inspiration because she had been making work about her family and had graduated from the same school I was attending […]
Photographers on Photographers: Andre Ramos-Woodard in conversation with Clifford Prince King
I don’t remember the exact day I saw an image by Clifford Prince King for the first time, but I do remember the response I had pretty vividly. The nostalgic aesthetic his work brilliantly hones—the muted warm tones accenting varying complexions of Black skin—was far too familial for me to ignore. It took me back […]