This week, we are excited to introduce five new Lenscratch Content Editors who will be providing expanded perspectives on a variety of topics. I begin today with Kat Davis, an engaging and committed artist who is particularly interested in intersectionality – the convergence of oppressions based on gender identity, sexual identity, race, class, age, culture, education, ability, and more. Her […]
Vernacular
Melissa Catanese: Voyagers
Melissa Catanese’s book Voyagers (published by The Ice Plant) has been a constant on my desk this spring. I often read Voyagers as a warm-up, either before reading long form non-fiction or before I begin sequencing my own photographs. Some days I just leave the book open on my desk to catch an occasional glimpse […]
The CENTER Awards: Project Launch Grant Winner: Catherine Panebianco
Congratulations to Catherine Panebianco for being selected for CENTER’s Project launch Grant recognizing her project, No Memory is Ever Alone . The Project Launch is granted to outstanding photographers working on a fine art series or documentary project. The grant includes a cash award to help complete or disseminate the works, as well as providing […]
Liz Albert: Family Fictions
I first became aware of Liz Albert’s project, Family Fictions, through Float Magazine’s The Road Exhibition. I loved the vintage diptych (see above) that perfectly described a family road trip that included a bored teenager with a cigarette. Needless to say, I was looking forward to seeing her work in Houston. The artistic use of […]
David Pace: Hawkeye
It was wonderful to see David Pace and the new work he brought to the FotoFest Reviews in Houston. To my great surprise and delight he brought a project from way back in his past, Hawkeye, that reveals the beginnings of his photo career, created as 8-year-old. There is a glorious authenticity to the photographs, moments that […]
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, […]