Alison Taggart-Barone is a photographer in the San Francisco Bay Area. In her series Ova Mundi, she documents intricately hand painted eggs that have been left over time to decay and transform into objects of beauty and repulsion. The eggs themselves symbolize the passage of time, and how time affects us all. Through metaphor, these […]
Aging
Tara Bogart: Mid Century
There are certain age milestones or markers, usually the ones with a number and then a big zero following it, that make us step back and take stock. Turning 50 is a middle point, where looking backwards and forward has equal gravitas. Tara Bogart has created three responses to this life marker: Traces, Chocolatines, and […]
Isa Leshko: Allowed to Grow Old
Some years ago I wrote about Isa Leshko’s poignant and important work with elderly animals-my feature was just one of many as the project had tremendous resonance with people all over the world. I am happy to share that the project is now a book, Allowed to Grow: Portraits of Elderly Animals from Farm Sanctuaries […]
Robert Treat: Dom and Joshua Stones
Some of us among the members of the San Diego photography community, especially those of us in Snowcreek*, have lovingly come to refer to Robert Treat‘s work as having the “Treat-ment” to describe the way in which it doesn’t matter the medium (Robert is also a gifted painter) or the subject matter, you know that a […]