As an artist, I am interested in the unique power of portraiture to elicit this performative nature of identity – Siri Kaur Los Angeles artist, Siri Kaur has always been drawn to those who seek slightly out-of-the-norm lifestyles, perhaps that curiosity and understanding comes from her childhood perspective of growing up in an American Sikh […]
Portrait
Stephen DiRado: With Dad
Photographer Stephen DiRado has been chronicling his life through large format photography for many decades and that slowed down nature of looking through the lens has made him consider his world with reverence and deep thinking. One of his long time projects has been documenting his father over the years, and eventually photographing what is […]
Jamil Hellu: Hues
Artist Jamil Hellu has a current survey exhibition Jamil Hellu: Together at SF Camera Works in San Francisco that closes on March 14th, 2020. The exhibition is a compilation of several projects, but today we focus on Hues, a performative portraiture series about cultural lineages and queerness. As a an immigrant from Brazil with a Syrian […]
Fritz Liedtke: Sacred
Projects featured this week 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 Sacred by Fritz Liedtke. Fritz Liedtke began photographing as a teen, carrying his Kodak 110 Instamatic around on a […]
J.T. Blatty: Frontline–Peace Life: Ukraine’s Revolutionaries of the Forgotten War
“I am still good towards the Russians, they are people like us, normal people. Even the military. A Russian soldier is given an order, it’s his job, he is given an order, he obeys it and leaves to execute it. If he denies to obey an order, he will go to jail. These soldiers have […]
Anna Grevenitis: Regard
As a juror I have had the opportunity to be exposed to a wide range of work. Many times the images I juror are untethered from their statements, so the photograph needs to have a stand alone power all it’s own. Every time I have come across images by Anna Grevenitis, the work draws me […]