Almost two years ago I sat down with poet and photographer Robert Schultz at the Medium Festival of Photography and experienced his stunning and delicate portraits of Civil War soldiers and their loved ones in the “flesh of leaves”, using the “chlorophyll print” process he learned from artist Binh Danh. The portraits are drawn from […]
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Hinda Schuman: Dear Shirley
Love is a funny thing…it takes us to our highest highs and lowest lows. Our love life marks our personal histories and shapes the course of our lives. Photographer Hinda Schuman has documented the people she has loved in “an intimate and highly personal account of what it is like to live through the unraveling […]
Barbara Levine: People Kissing: A Century of Photographs
Tomorrow we celebrate love, and as the Valentine’s Lenscratch Exhibition is titled The Kiss, the timing is perfect to feature Barbara Levine and Paige Ramey’s new book by Princeton Architectural Press, People Kissing: A Century of Photographs. Barbara and Paige are artists who collect vintage found photographs and are archivists who curate. Their extensive archive, […]
Sal Taylor Kydd: Janus Rising
“It is a curious emotion, this certain homesickness I have in mind… It is no simple longing for the home town or country of our birth. The emotion is Janus-faced: we are torn between a nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we are homesick most for the […]
Developer: Rana Young: The Rug’s Topography
I had the wonderful experience of sitting down with Rana Young to discuss the intricacies of publishing her very first monograph The Rug’s Topography. The book is a beautifully intimate look at the delicacy of a shifting relationship, and the space for intimacy that photographs can provide. It was published with Kris Graves Projects, it launched on […]
Bootsy Holler: Treasures
Five years ago photographer Bootsy Holler walked into her mother’s kitchen, opened the drawer and saw history – family history and objects that carried stories. The objects were absurd in some ways, poignant in others and Bootsy used these long held possessions to build a collection of her own curation, allowing her to turn back […]