Two years ago I saw Esther Nooner’s work online, and was instantly a fan, knowing that we were kindred artists in our desire to disrupt the traditional and romanticized. This past fall I had the privilege of getting to know Esther and seeing her work in person at Anderson Ranch Arts Center. Esther’s work is […]
Landscape
Anderson Wrangle: New Vistas: Photographers working with the Landscape
The Outer Banks in North Carolina is considered to be a popular holiday destination, but it is also a place deeply threatened by rising sea levels. Photographer, Anderson Wrangle’s Outer Banks project reveals the fragility and sublime beauty of the place. It is evident that there is great importance in his practice to contemplate nature […]
Amanda Musick: New Vistas: Photographers working with the Landscape
Growing up in Los Angeles, much of my consideration of landscape came from the faux realities of stage sets and created worlds within Disneyland. The happiest place on earth imprinted the Matterhorn and the Grand Canyon on my psyche long before I ever experienced them in person. I met photographic artist Amanda Musick at CENTER’s […]
Chad Ress: America Recovered
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 […]
Charlotta Hauksdottir: A Sense of Place: Imprints of Iceland
There are many considerations around the phenomenology of place and memory, of home and the landscapes from our childhood–experiences fundamental to a sense of self. Photographer Charlotta María Hauksdóttir has created a masterful body of photographs that breaks open her memories of Iceland, presenting work in a variety of layered and intriguing presentations. She examines […]
Janet Pritchard: More than a River: the Connecticut River Watershed
More than a River: the Connecticut River Watershed by Janet Pritchard was selected from our most recent call-for-submissions. I was pleased to interview Janet to gain further insight into this body of work. Before pursuing a career in photography, Janet L. Pritchard worked as an outdoor education instructor and spent her youth traveling between the Northeast and Rocky Mountain […]