Congratulations to Dylan Hausthor & Paul Guilmoth for being selected for The Project launch Grant Honorable Mention recognizing their project, Sleep Creek. The Project Launch Award is granted to an outstanding photographer working on a fine art series or documentary project. The grant includes a cash award to help complete or disseminate the works, as […]
Narrative
Alfonso Almendros: To Name a Mountain
Spanish photographer Alfonso Almendros has created an elegant, layered narrative with his project and book, To Name a Mountain. Inspired by a story about landscape-painter Albert Bierstadt and the possibility that he named a mountain for a woman he loved secretly, the work is moody, dark, and poetic. It speaks to inner turmoil and desire […]
Ken Rosenthal: Days on the Mountain
Most of us are lucky enough to have a special place to escape to–a walking trail, a beach, and in Ken Rosenthal’s world, it’s a family cabin in the woods that has provided a place of wonder, respite, and inspiration. For the past 15 years he has made work around his world of family and […]
Jordan Gale: It Is What It Is
In 2017, we featured the work of Jordan Gale as one of the Honorable Mention nods for the Lenscratch Student Award. I was moved by his work and it has stayed with me over the past two years. Jordan has an innate ability to tell stories, in particular his own–of family, poverty, and drug abuse. […]
Clay Maxwell Jordan: Nothing’s Coming Soon
Clay Maxwell Jordan, photographer and musician, has a new monograph, Nothing’s Coming Soon, published by Fall Line Press. The photographs of the American South were inspired by the Buddhist belief that “life is suffering” and a place where grace and beauty is juxtaposed with loss and decay. The book is “a poetic, existential meditation on […]
Andrea Modica: Lentini
Kris Graves Projects is releasing LOST: II, a compilation of books showcasing twenty cities shot by twenty photographers. Photographer Andrea Modica’s contribution to the project is Lentini, which reflects thirty years of consideration of a small Italian town in the Province of Syracuse in South East Sicily. These quiet and poetic photographs give us a […]