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 […]
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Kent Krugh: The States Project: Ohio
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 […]
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 […]
Garie Waltzer: The States Project: Ohio
Garie Waltzer’s personal evolution as a photographer in some ways mirrors the wildly radical transformation of the medium itself during the past 50 years. After working as a painter as an undergraduate student, she embraced analog photography; later, she described her relationship to the medium as being “infused with a love of process and materials” […]
James Friedman: States Project: Ohio
It is with great pleasure that we kick off the Ohio States Project week with two projects by the Ohio States Project Editor, James Friedman. James could be considered a national treasure of photography–he has been a photographic educator for 45 years, inspiring countless students with his enthusiasm and unique way of seeing the world. His […]