This week, we are excited to introduce five new Lenscratch Content Editors who will be providing expanded perspectives on a variety of topics. I begin today with Kat Davis, an engaging and committed artist who is particularly interested in intersectionality – the convergence of oppressions based on gender identity, sexual identity, race, class, age, culture, education, ability, and more. Her […]
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Photographers on Photographers: Lorenzo Triburgo in conversation with Jasmine Murrell
Jasmine Murrell and I were both 2019 CCNY/Baxter St Workspace Residents and I was immediately fascinated by her practice. Jasmine makes sculptures, video art, photographs, sound art, performances – and she does all of these things well and then combines them in the most thoughtfully provoking ways. I have seen Jasmine make wild sculptures, turn them […]
Photographers on Photographers: Paccarik Orue in conversation with Kevin Kunishi
Back in 2011 I was close to finishing my series There Is Nothing Beautiful Around Here, and I was hosting other photographers friends in my old apartment in the Mission District in San Francisco to share our projects to get some feedback. Someone asked me if he could invite Kevin Kunishi to our gathering, that […]
Photographers on Photographers: Andre Ramos-Woodard in conversation with Clifford Prince King
I don’t remember the exact day I saw an image by Clifford Prince King for the first time, but I do remember the response I had pretty vividly. The nostalgic aesthetic his work brilliantly hones—the muted warm tones accenting varying complexions of Black skin—was far too familial for me to ignore. It took me back […]
Photographers on Photographers: Joe Harjo in Conversation with Mari Hernandez
I first came across Mari Hernandez’s work when she was collaborating with Mas Rudas, a collective of Chicana artists based in San Antonio, TX. What struck me about her work, then, and has stayed with me as she’s evolved into a solo artist, is her unflinching braveness and willingness to take on multiple mediums without […]
Photographers on Photographers: Gioncarlo Valentine in Conversation With Andre D. Wagner
The idea of the artistic canon is and will always be one of great controversy and debate. Whiteness has been the defining voice in appointing art and artists as important enough to be considered for entry, while Black artists and scholars have been the dissenting voice in redefining and reifying these very considerations. I think a lot […]