“Glory to the hawks and their awing ways, moderate, and high.” These are the last words uttered in Kovi Konowiecki’s poem named for his series of photos, The Hawks Come Up Before the Sun. The images that follow feel like isolated chapters bound by the geography of the California desert and a tangled web human […]
Storytellers
Kaitlin Maxwell: Storytellers
Through a series of portraits depicting her grandmother, mother, and self, New York based photographer Kaitlin Maxwell (@wutangkait) abstracts identity and transcends traditional notions of the individual. Through the use of mirrors and projections she initiates a complex conversation between surveyor and subject calling into question the gaze of the viewer and exploring the nature […]
Al J. Thompson: Storytellers
To be contemporary is to exist atop the ashes of what came before. Transience within human culture, architecture, and civilization is commonplace and yet the commonplace process of gentrification is not a natural shift but the swift and systematic erasure of a community. Photographer Al J. Thompson explores this phenomenon specifically in Spring Valley, NY […]
Maja Daniels: Storytellers
Through a photographic collection of light leaked landscapes, obscured figures, and archival imagery from the early 1900’s Swedish photographer Maja Daniels explores an enigmatic rural community and the mysterious preservation of the ElfDalian language by creating a visual language all her own. The work defies linear ideas of time that contain a past and present […]
Snezhana von Büdingen: Storytellers
The photography project is a process of endless unfolding. Engaging in a cohesive body of images inevitably unearths ideas far beyond the original spark and allows for the possibility of new nodes to form and take on a life of their own. It was in this way that Cologne, Germany, based photographer Snezhana von Büdingen […]
Granville Carroll: Storytellers
The average adult human is approximately 60% water. The idea that we are fluid beings both physically and spiritually is undeniable and yet historical context, the stories that shape our worldviews, and oppression both past and present, often remove this from the reality we consciously experience. Through a process that Rochester, NY based artist Granville […]