This week, I am excited to introduce five new Lenscratch Content Editors who will be providing expanded perspectives to our site. Houston photographer, Erica Cheung, brings a rich perspective as a visual artist, curator, and photographic administrator with an interest in promoting and elevating the Asian American voice and experience. Her series, Minor Matter, explores the Asian American experience from […]
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Photographers on Photographers: William Camargo in conversation with Irene Antonia Diane Reece
I can’t remember when I did find Irene Reece’s work, but I know as many new friendships nowadays, it started on Instagram. I may have seen it from a mutual friend of ours being shared on their stories or saw her name on an art exhibition flyer, and as I do with those is spend […]
Photographers on Photographers: Nicole Norman in conversation with Skyler Maggiore
I haven’t met Skyler Maggiore, but this Fall they will be one of my incoming peers at the University of Arkansas. During a studio visit with one of my mentors early this year I was told that Skyler and I would probably get along. I wasn’t convinced at that moment, but the time I’ve spent […]
Photographers on Photographers: Saleem Ahmed in Conversation With Baljit Singh
Baljit Singh and I are Internet friends. We haven’t met in real life, nor do we really message each other all that often. I only know her through the details that she shares — the visuals she posts and the words she writes. I think we sort of just admire each other’s work from afar. […]
Photographers on Photographers: Al J. Thompson in conversation with Rashod Taylor
I can intensely recall the Saturday afternoon when I saw what would become my first vehicle. The smell of newness mingled with precision as it trickled up my nostrils. It is a familiar bond, having for the first time, eyeing Rashod Taylor’s poetic photographs of his immediate family—mainly his son. It still feels new, as […]
Photographers on Photographers: Macaulay Lerman in conversation with Paul Guilmoth
At first glance the photograph is a medium of great limitation. The primary function of the camera is to describe the surface of an enclosed scene. Yet, for perhaps ineffable reasons, certain imagery surpasses it’s technical purpose, instead conjuring sensations that span the senses and inspiring curiosity as to what lies beyond the frame. The […]