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 The Talk by Michael Darough. Michael Darough graduated from the University of Memphis, earning an MFA in photography in […]
Self-Portrait
Lorena Molina: A Studio of One’s Own
In the days and weeks following the initial shutdown of nearly everything because of Covid-19 I saw a great deal of commentary on how things are different, how we as a nation would adjust, and how the smaller community of artists would change their practice. I thought of my own art practice, pictures of and […]
Jay Simple: Exodus Home and Photographer’s Green Book
At a time when we are all especially focused on what it means to be at home in a place, Jay Simple‘s ongoing series, Exodus Home, has particular resonance. In his work, Simple questions the ways in which black people are both profoundly connected to and reflexively excluded from the physical and cultural terrain of American life. Migration as a means of survival […]
The CENTER Awards: The Curator’s Choice Award 1st Place Winner: Brandy Trigueros
Congratulations to Brandy Trigueros for her First Place win in CENTER’S Curator’s Choice Award for her project, The Dadabyte Theater. The Choice Awards recognize outstanding photographers working in all processes and subject matter. Images can be singular or part of a series. Winners receive an opportunity to be part of the Winners Exhibition at El […]
Thesis Project: Hannah Altman
Hannah Altman’s work brings to mind collective identity and the intricate bonds we share within our chosen community. Her visual poetics bring to life photos that extend beyond what we might see in her images. Her sensitivity to light, gesture, and expression bring out the familial recollections she talks about in her artist statement and […]
Argentina Week: Laura Antonelli: Secrets
I got to know Laura Antonelli‘s work through a mutual friend. I really love how she tells stories. Her palette is rich and sumptuous and there is a darkness in her photographs that makes us wonder what the real story behind each image is. Both series I’m featuring are about being a woman and aging. Laura […]