When Aline Smithson sent me Michael W. Hicks’ work, I was immediately intrigued. When I looked at his images they brought me into a world that felt just on the other side of what feels familiar. Somehow his images find a striking balance between surreal and hyper-realistic, carrying with them a gravity and strange intimacy.This […]
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Nick Brandt: This Empty World
The damnation of animal life, the debasement of human life, the destructive conjugality between the two: it is not just the animals who are the victims of environmental devastation, but also the humans now inhabiting these landscapes. – Nick Brandt Nick Brandt’s most recent effort to call attention to the “escalating destruction of the natural […]
Paul Thulin: Pine Tree Ballads
Candela Books and Gallery has just released a new exhibition and book, Pine Tree Ballads by Paul Thulin. The exhibition runs through April 20, 2019 at the Candela Gallery in Richmond, Virginia and the book is available for order here. Pine Tree Ballads in a fantastical reimagining of place, in particular, an island off the […]
Rick Schatzberg: The Boys
Rick Schatzberg and I began e-mailing about today’s post back in July–he had recently graduated from the University of Hartford with an MFA and had a new project The Boys, about friendship, memory, loss, and the inner narrations we carry through the years. I had just seen the movie Three Identical Strangers and his project hit […]
Hinda Schuman: Dear Shirley
Love is a funny thing…it takes us to our highest highs and lowest lows. Our love life marks our personal histories and shapes the course of our lives. Photographer Hinda Schuman has documented the people she has loved in “an intimate and highly personal account of what it is like to live through the unraveling […]
The Myths and Realities of Artistic Collaborations
The Society of Photographic Educators is about to hold their 56th Annual SPE Conference in Cleveland, Ohio from March 7 – 10th, 2019. The annual conference brings together photographic educators, students, and photographers from around the globe for four days of listening, learning, and sharing. Needless to say, this a significant platform for considering photography […]