In 2002, Beat and counterculture photographer Larry Keenan asked me to build a website to document forty years of his Beat Generation and counterculture photography. Working with him and learning … [Read more...]
Calcutta: Photographs by Buku Sarkar
After seventeen years away, I've done something most Indians of my generation don't do---return back home. When people ask me where I'm from, I always stumble. I say, I was born in Calcutta but I grew … [Read more...]
Divine Decay by Kon Markogiannis
Divine Decay is a series of photographic/mixed media constructions informed and inspired by holy texts, illuminated manuscripts, death memorials, sacred geometry, religious icons, and Renaissance … [Read more...]
Shelter me! A photo essay by Braxton Younts
Since June 2017, I have been living in homeless shelters in Manhattan. For better or worse, these are the images I have captured. … [Read more...]
Land O’ Lakes: Highway 7 photographs
Land O' Lakes project is based on photographs taken in 2007 and 2009 of an abandoned motel on Highway 7 between Ottawa and Toronto, Ontario. Land O' Lakes motel was a popular spot for vacationers to … [Read more...]
Mary’s: Photographs
For a while now I’ve been collecting found footage, discarded images that once belonged to family archives, and repurpose them giving them a new meaning and a place in my own work. I received an … [Read more...]
Urban Geologies
What kind of temporal-spatio-rhetoric does a polaroid afford? How does the slow afterlife of exposure agitate against the so-called instantaneousness of the film? Although digital photography … [Read more...]
Shelter from the Storm: Photographs by James Williams Jr.
'Twas in another lifetime one of toil and blood When blackness was a virtue, the road was full of mud... —Bob Dylan, "Shelter from the Storm" "Shelter from the Storm" is a series that … [Read more...]
Let’s Dance: Photographs by Russell Lee, McIntosh County, Okla. ca. 1939
Photographer Russell Lee (1903-1986) traveled the United States taking photos of rural life for the Farm Security Administration from 1936-1943. One night in 1939 or '40 he photographed a dance in … [Read more...]
Field Hands
On long walks, I've often come across colored gloves of field workers. The pineapple field workers are migrants from Burma, Cambodia and Laos. Many of the workers are indentured or trafficked, working … [Read more...]
The Yellow Line
San Francisco in the 21st Century: 75 color photographs and poem by Tisa Walden
San Francisco in the 21st Century, Tisa Walden's volume of photographs documents and explores the nuances of the present-day City by the Bay. Designed by John Gossage and published by Washington DC's … [Read more...]
Void: Photography of Displacement
Artist's statement: As a member of the Armenian minority in Turkey, the notions of displacement and invisibility become key elements in my work. In my thesis project “Void”, I am exploring my … [Read more...]
Some Kind of Dharma: Photographs
“to just start at the beginning and let the truth seep out” Grant Street, San Francisco, 2009 You can quite intentionally make a Beat pilgrimage in San Francisco, soaking in the aura, the … [Read more...]
Dietrich’s Mirror: Portraits In The Mirrors Of Marlene Dietrich
Artist's statement: Dietrich’s Mirror is a series of self-portraits taken in mirrors belonging to the late Marlene Dietrich. The first images in this series were taken in a mirror which shattered in … [Read more...]
Out of Tracks
Scraps by Fabio Sassi
Saint Celluloid: self-portraits by Kalliope Amorphous
Artist's Statement: Saint Celluloid is a series of self-portraits exploring both the vulnerability and immortality of the film star as well as the potentially oppressive and regressive culture of … [Read more...]
Diorama: Photographs by Ido Abramsohn
Artist's Statement Models of Israeli soldiers and Palestinian insurgents and civilians were photographed and enlarged to human size. The new scale of the models casts the original meaning of the … [Read more...]
Book Review: Hijos de la Selva: Sons of the Forest
In the early part of the 20th century photographer Edward Curtis was funded by American businessman J. P. Morgan to undertake the extensive task of making a photographic record of Native Americans … [Read more...]
