In honor of the International Day of Peace and Peace Week, Lenscratch has partnered with the National Center for Civil and Human Rights to feature photographic projects highlighting the lasting impacts of war, conflict, and displacement. Lauren Tate Baeza, Director of Exhibitions at the National Center for Civil and Human Rights, is our guest editor. […]
Death
Lana Z Caplan: History Based Landscapes
Trauma and horrific histories are held in landscapes in every corner of the globe. For the past twenty years photographer, filmmaker, and educator Lana Z Caplan has been documenting […]
Stephen DiRado: With Dad
Photographer Stephen DiRado has been chronicling his life through large format photography for many decades and that slowed down nature of looking through the lens has made him consider his world with reverence and deep thinking. One of his long time projects has been documenting his father over the years, and eventually photographing what is […]
Tony Chirinos: Experiencing Death
Experiencing Death by Tony Chirinos was selected from our most recent call-for-submissions. I was pleased to interview Tony to gain further insight into this body of work. Tony Chirinos received a Master of Fine Arts from Columbia University in New York. Trained as a Bio-medical photographer in 1985 at Miami Children’s Hospital, later in 1989 Mr. […]
The 2019 Lange-Taylor Prize: Chinen Aimi: Finding Ryukyu
The Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University recently awarded its twenty-seventh Dorothea Lange–Paul Taylor Prize to Japanese American artist and documentarian Chinen Aimi. Her winning proposal, Finding Ryukyu, combines text and drawings with 35mm black-and-white photographs to investigate her various histories as a child born on the island of Okinawa, Japan (part of the […]
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 […]