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 […]
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William Camargo: The 2020 Lenscratch Student Prize Third Place Winner
It is with so much pleasure that we announce the 2020 Lenscratch Student Prize 3rd Place Winner, William Camargo. He was selected for his outstanding project, Origins & Displacements: Making Sense of Place, Histories & Possibilities. William has recently received his MFA from Claremont Graduate University. His awards include a feature on Lenscratch, a mini […]
The CENTER Awards: The Curator’s Choice Award 2nd Place Winner: Rafael Soldi
Congratulations to Rafael Soldi for his Second Place win in CENTER’S Curator’s Choice Award for his project, Imagined Futures. 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 […]
B. Proud: Transcending Love: Portraits of Transgender and Gender Non-conforming Couples
Prior to the FotoFest Reviews, the Society of Photographic Education had a conference in Houston with four days of networking, lectures, seminars, and portfolio reviews. One of the guest speakers was Zackary Drucker, an American trans woman multimedia artist, LGBT activist, actress, and television producer. She was introduced by Jess Dugan and B.Proud. The next […]
Spain Week: Alejandra Carles-Tolra: Where We Belong
When Alejandra Carles-Tolra was studying Sociology at the University of Barcelona, she realized that the way of approaching communities and groups was too rigid for her, she needed something else, a closer approach. As she already loved photography, she decided to bring a camera into the classroom. Since them she has been practicing visual sociology. […]
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 […]