This month, we feature our annual August project, Photographers on Photographers, where visual artists interview colleagues they admire. Thank you to all who have participated for their time, energies and for efforts. Today we are happy to share this interview with Emily Wiethorn‘s interview with Morganna Magee. – Aline Smithson and Brennan Booker Morganna Magee […]
Portrait
Photographers on Photographers: McNair Evans and Matt Mimiaga
You learn a lot about a person when you’re lugging hundreds of pounds of equipment up a mountainside, driving a gear truck together at 4 Am, or accidentally leave them on a remote beach in Puerto Rico with nothing but a flashlight and the boxer shorts they are wearing. More memorable than his work ethic, […]
Kari Wehrs: Shot
Projects featured over the next several days were selected from our most recent call-for-submissions. I was able to interview each of these individuals to gain further insight into the bodies of work they shared. Today, we are looking at the series Shot, by Kari Wehrs. Shot From scenes of gun violence that make the national news, to my […]
Leo Garcia: Now Pay
How do we consider place as an immigrant and keen observer? In the case of Guatemalan photographer Leo Garcia, he has photographed his life in Los Angeles–the streets, the people and the details, as a way to create a diary of discovery–of self and city. These ares ometimes quiet photographs, some reflect the easily overlooked, […]
John Sanderson: Carbon County
At first glance John Sanderson’s series of images, entitled Carbon County, has the familiar cadence of American Western documentary photography. Broad sweeping landscapes with horizons that seem worlds away, lonely snaking roads and rugged men on horseback. But very quickly these perceived pillars of American Western identity, the keystones in the story we tell ourselves […]
Susan Lapides: Crustaceans
There are two genres in photography that are personal favorites: projects about time and projects created as typologies. Photographer Susan Lapides deftly combines these two ways of working into a layered and poignant series, Crustaceans. The series started in 2006 when she photographed her daughter Xia at the age of ten (see above) and then […]