It is with great pleasure that we announce the 2020 Lenscratch Student Prize Honorable Mention Winner, Lindley Warren Mickunas. She was selected for her outstanding project, Maternal Sheet. Warren Mickunas is a current MFA candidate at Colombia College Chicago going into the second and final year of her education this Fall. She is deeply involved in the world of […]
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Adam Jahiel: The States Project: Wyoming
Adam Jahiel is an internationally recognized photographer who lives and works in the American West. Mostly known for his photography of the American Cowboy, his photography has taken him all over the world. His poetic and dynamic images have been exhibited and published across the globe. In 1996, he became the first living photographer to […]
Brittney Denham: The States Project: Wyoming
Brittney Denham was born in California and raised in Wyoming. She graduated from The Ohio State University in 2012 with an MFA. Currently she is Printmaking and Photography Faculty, as well as the Gallery Director at Sheridan College in Sheridan Wyoming. Her work has been exhibited nationally, including most recent North by Northwest, at The […]
Shawn Bush: The States Project: Wyoming
It gives us tremendous pleasure to present a week of Wyoming photographers, all selected by Wyoming States Project Editor Shawn Bush. I first became aware of Shawn’s work in 2017; he was receiving accolades for his book and project, Golden State and his images appeared in a host of outlets. Later that year, Shawn was […]
Photographers on Photographers: Shawn Bush on Drew Nikonowicz
Drew Nikonowicz’s stunning body of work and recent book by Yoffy Press & FW:Books This World and Others Like It plays off the ideation of exploration within the 21st century landscape. As an artist that has lived their entire life with access to worlds outside of his own via the internet and subsequent media, Nikonowicz carefully navigates the relationship between 19th century survey photographs created by photographers like […]
On Collaboration: Skylark Editions
Under the banner of Skylark Editions, a nonprofit publishing project based in Chicago and Atlanta, two accomplished photographers team up to develop visually rich and compelling photobooks. Drawing from their individual practices, co-editors and photographers, Kelli Connell and Paul D’Amato (with editor-at-large Gregory Harris), bring their visual sensitivities and concise storytelling skills together to produce […]