This week, I’m honored to feature six artists who offer a glimpse into the vast complexity and nuance of Asian America. While diverse in their image-making, the artists share a common thread: an urge to be seen and recognized through personal narratives put forth on one’s own terms. As viewers, the intricacies of these narratives […]
Culture
Photographers on Photographers: Claudia Ruiz Gustafson in Conversation with Ana De Orbegoso
When Lenscratch contacted me to do an interview, I immediately thought of Ana De Orbegoso. Ana is also a Peruvian artist living in the USA. I have actually never met Ana in person. A few years ago when I was in Lima visiting my family and doing my usual gallery and museum tour, I stumbled […]
Photographers on Photographers: Mercedes Jelinek in Conversation with Kris Graves
Today we begin our Annual August effort, Photographers on Photographers, which features a stellar group of photographers in conversation with each other. Don’t miss a day of insightful interviews and we are excited to begin with Mercedes Jelinek in conversation with Kris Graves. I first met Kris Graves while I was an undergrad at SUNY […]
Seeing Science by Marvin Heiferman
“Science photography grounds us in the particulars of our earthly and extraterrestrial adventures, and astounds us when it reveals what lies beyond the parameters of sight, imagination and human control. -Marvin Heiferman Seeing Science: How Photography Reveals the Universe is a book by Marvin Heiferman (including a forward by former NASA astronaut Scott Kelly) published by Aperture. […]
Art + Science: Blood and Kin: Alison Taggart-Barone
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 […]
Elliot Ross: Plainsmen
In Elliot Ross’s series, Plainsmen, we are called to the interior American West—a place which, from an outsider’s perspective, is generally romanticized and oversimplified. The region is too often ignored unless it is politically convenient, and it is sometimes flippantly referred to as flyover country. As a person who grew up in rural Colorado, Ross […]