It is with great pleasure that we announce the 2020 Lenscratch Student Prize Honorable Mention Winner, Leah Schretenthaler. She was selected for her outstanding project, The Invasive Species of the Built Environment. She is working towards her MFA at University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. The jurors included Guanyu Xu – 2019 Student Prize Winner, Zora Murff- 2018 Student Prize Winner, Shawn Bush – 2017 Student Prize […]
Environment
David Maisel: Proving Ground
David Maisel’s monograph Proving Ground (published by Radius Books and co-published with Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art) investigates Dugway Proving Ground, a U.S. Army facility established in 1943, located in the Utah desert, 85 miles from Salt Lake City. The term “Proving Ground” specifies an area of land designated for the military purposed to […]
DM Witman: The Guide to Loss and Grieving in the Anthropocene
It’s always great to see DM Witman, whether it be in Maine, where she lives, or at a portfolio review event, like FotoFest, where I recently encountered her new work. Her projects sit in the arena of historical processes using methods of the darkroom to beautifully speak to the environment and the world in transition. […]
Bremner Benedict: Hidden Waters
Bremner Benedict is a photographer based in West Concord, MA and Tucson, AZ. Her work addresses the shifting connections that humans have with landscape and the impact they are causing within the natural environment. In her most recent series Hidden Waters : The Uncertain Future of Desert Springs, (2014-ongoing) Benedict documents desert springs within the American […]
Argentina Week: Alejandro Kirchuk: The Invisible River
I discovered Alejandro Kirchuk‘s work a few years ago when I was reading an article on the New York Times and I thought to myself “what a wonderful use of light“. I became a fan. I recently ran into his Instagram feed, and I started following him, so when Aline gave me the opportunity to do […]
Evan Anderman: Phoenix Project: Rising from the Ashes
Every landscape holds memory, even if it’s simply the history of it’s trees and rocks. Unfortunately new histories are being created by the destruction of wildfires. Photographer Evan Anderman has been documenting the effects of wildfires in Colorado and its regions for close to two decades for his Phoenix Project: Rising from the Ashes. In […]