Congratulations to Stephanie Taiber, for her Third Place win in CENTER’S Curator’s Choice Award for her project, Natural Order. The Choice Awards recognize outstanding photographers working in all processes and subject matter. Images can be singular or part of a series. Winners receive admission to Review Santa Fe portfolio reviews, participation in a winner’s exhibition […]
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Cathy Spence: Crooked Eye
Cathy Spence came to Houston an the FotoFest Reviews with a poignant and personal project, Crooked Eye, that captures the normal life of a boy with oculocutaneous albinism while focusing on the struggles of both albinism and adolescence. The work is painterly, quiet, and sensitive, as a mother’s gaze finds beauty and mystery in the […]
David Pace: Hawkeye
It was wonderful to see David Pace and the new work he brought to the FotoFest Reviews in Houston. To my great surprise and delight he brought a project from way back in his past, Hawkeye, that reveals the beginnings of his photo career, created as 8-year-old. There is a glorious authenticity to the photographs, moments that […]
Forest Kelley: Michael
“Photographs don’t cure amnesia, they attempt to fill in the gaps. It is the process of reenactment, an action of tracing history, that is most vicarious: wearing a sequined dress at the Ruby Red Ball, listening to opera with Greg, developing film in a lab at Castro and 18th, feeling where testicles are situated under […]
Gloria Baker Feinstein and Abbie Brandao: The Next Generation
Photographer Gloria Baker Feinstein considers the impact of her life-long photographic focus on her daughter, Abbie Brandao, who is now, also a photographer. In today’s post, Gloria and Abbie interview each other and the images presented are of Abbie’s children, Gloria’s grandchildren. It should come as no surprise that they are favorite subjects for both […]
Argentina Week: Valeria Bellusci: The Polaroids
Valeria Bellusci is one of those photographers who lets life surprise her. She does not shoot with a goal in mind, or to create a series – she just photographs what she sees in the every day life that surrounds her. Every frame is a line full of feeling and poetry. These Polariods are a […]