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 Tuck + Roll by J Houston. J Houston was born in Kalamazoo, Michigan and graduated from Carnegie Mellon University with […]
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Maja Daniels: Storytellers
Through a photographic collection of light leaked landscapes, obscured figures, and archival imagery from the early 1900’s Swedish photographer Maja Daniels explores an enigmatic rural community and the mysterious preservation of the ElfDalian language by creating a visual language all her own. The work defies linear ideas of time that contain a past and present […]
Maria Kapajeva: Dream is Wonderful, Yet Unclear
Maria Kapajeva describes her book, Dream is Wonderful, Yet Unclear, as a piece of fabric. While photobooks are often equated to modes of sequential art such as films, graphic novels, or comic books, Kapajeva pushes this logic one step further by including textile arts in this genre. It is beneficial to understand textile arts in […]
Spain Week: Alejandra Carles-Tolra: Where We Belong
When Alejandra Carles-Tolra was studying Sociology at the University of Barcelona, she realized that the way of approaching communities and groups was too rigid for her, she needed something else, a closer approach. As she already loved photography, she decided to bring a camera into the classroom. Since them she has been practicing visual sociology. […]
Sunny Strader: 5th Grade Dreams
I’m sure we all have imagined an opportunity to go back in time and connect with people from our past, in particular school mates that shared in our growing up. Facebook and class reunions have afforded a bit of that investigation, but photographer Sunny Strader has made a concerted effort to find, photograph, and interview […]
Photographers on Photographers: Lindley Warren Mickunas and Eli Durst
This month, we feature our annual August project, Photographers on Photographers, where visual artists interview colleagues they admire. Thank you to all who have participated for their time, energies and for efforts. Today we are happy to share this interview with Lindley Warren Mickunas‘ interview with Eli Durst. – Aline Smithson and Brennan Booker I […]