Dotan Saguy was born in a small kibbutz five miles south of Israel’s Lebanese border. Dotan grew-up in a diverse working class Parisian suburb, lived in Lower Manhattan during 9/11 and moved to Los Angeles in 2003. In 2015 Dotan decided to focus on his lifelong passion for photography after a successful career as a high-tech entrepreneur. Since then […]
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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 […]
Kwasi Boyd-Bouldin: History Based Landscapes
A couple of years ago, I heard Kwasi Boyd-Bouldin speak at PhotoLA. I was drawn to his way of seeing and his perspective on Los Angeles. Our lives paralleled similar terrains of the city and I recognized my growing up in his work. I started following him on Twitter and appreciated his talent for detail […]
The Intention to be Unintentional: A Conversation with Daniel Arnold
Daniel Arnold takes photos that defy definition. While his practice of walking the streets for endless hours and shooting candid moments would place him squarely in the “street photography” camp, somehow he doesn’t fit in. There’s an eccentricity which overlays his pictures’ earnestness, resulting in a halting power that threatens to be poetic but just […]
Remembering Robert Herman 1955-2020
I have shared the work of Brooklyn born photographer Robert Herman several times over the years, so I was distraught to learn that this wonderful artist recently took his own life. I remember him sharing that as a young man, Robert began working as an usher at a movie theater owned by his parents. The […]
Charalampos Kydonakis: Warn’d in Vain
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 Warn’d in Vain by Charalampos Kydonakis. Charalampos Kydonakis, aka “dirtyharrry,” is an architect & amateur photographer based in Crete. His inspiration comes […]