This week we celebrate the genre of Family in preparation for the 2019 Lenscratch Family Exhibition that runs on Thanksgiving. We start with a wonderful series about family legacy and memory by Catherine Panebianco. Catherine’s series, No Memory Is Ever Alone, recently garnered Critical Mass’ Top 50, plus a boatload of other awards. For her […]
Family
Tommy Keith: Success Strategies
I had the pleasure of jurying the Filter Photo Member’s Exhibition and I was asked to select 5 portfolios to help showcase the Filter community. Not as easy task as there were so many excellent projects. One that I selected was Tommy Keith’s Success Strategies. His project examines family through a series of staged tableaux, […]
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 […]
Hannah Kozak: He Threw the Last Punch Too Hard
What goes on behind closed doors can often impact a family for life. Domestic violence is pervasive and insidious and those traumas seep deeply into all aspects of the every day. Photographer Hannah Kozak has spent the last decade creating work about violence that permeated her family and her life, and after ten years of […]
Photographers on Photographers: Emily Hamilton Laux and Dale Niles
This month, we feature our annual August project, Photographers on Photographers, where visual artists interview colleagues they admire. Thank you to all who have participated for their time, energies and for efforts. Today we are happy to share this interview with Emily Hamilton Laux‘s interview with Dale Niles. – Aline Smithson and Brennan Booker I met […]
Photographers on Photographers: Nadiya Nacorda and Linda Moses
This month, we feature our annual August project, Photographers on Photographers, where visual artists interview colleagues they admire. Thank you to all who have participated for their time, energies and for efforts. Today we are happy to share this interview with Nadiya Nacorda‘s interview with Linda Moses. – Aline Smithson and Brennan Booker Linda Moses […]