Category: Portfolios & Galleries

  • European Street Photography Week: Kristen Van den Eede: A Limit to the Dark – LENSCRATCH

    European Street Photography Week: Kristen Van den Eede: A Limit to the Dark – LENSCRATCH

    European Street Photography Week: Kristen Van den Eede: A Limit to the Dark – LENSCRATCH While investigating the array of European photographers involved in diverse collectives focused on street photography, I came across Kristin Van den Eede‘s eerie and engaging world view. What intrigues me about her work as a street photographer is her preference…

  • Calm Before the Storm – The Leica camera Blog

    Link: https://leica-camera.blog/2023/10/23/calm-before-the-storm/ The photo book, ‘Calm before the Storm. How we lived at normalization. Photos from the 70s and 80s’, by Czech photographer Jaroslav Kučera, is an impressive testimony to the decades known as “normalization”.

  • Erinn Springer: Dormant Season – LENSCRATCH

    Erinn Springer: Dormant Season – LENSCRATCH

    Erinn Springer: Dormant Season – LENSCRATCH In her debut photobook, Dormant Season, from Charcoal Press, Erinn Springer returns to her roots in rural Wisconsin to photograph a familiar but evolving agrarian landscape. Set against the stark winter terrain, Springer leads us to witness the raw contrasting realities of modern Midwest life, a realm where past…

  • Edwin Averette III: The American Family Cemetery – LENSCRATCH

    Edwin Averette III: The American Family Cemetery – LENSCRATCH

    Edwin Averette III: The American Family Cemetery – LENSCRATCH This week, we will be exploring projects inspired by place. Today, we’ll be looking at Edwin Averette III’s series The American Family Cemetery. Edwin Averette III was an undergraduate photography student while I was at East Carolina University. He was one of the most hardworking and dedicated…

  • Tamara Reynolds: XX – LENSCRATCH

    Tamara Reynolds: XX – LENSCRATCH

    Tamara Reynolds: XX – LENSCRATCH Tamara Reynolds is a documentary photographer born and raised in Nashville, Tennessee who exhibits her work nationally and internationally. She will be returning as a visiting Lecturer to Vanderbilt University in Nashville for the spring semester of 2024. Reynolds began her career as a commercial photographer for 25 years. Although…

  • Landry Major: Keepers of the West – LENSCRATCH

    Landry Major: Keepers of the West – LENSCRATCH

    Landry Major: Keepers of the West – LENSCRATCH The Center for Photographic Art, in conjunction with PhotoLucida, is pleased to announce the 2023 Critical Mass Solo Exhibition Award. This year’s recipient is Landry Major. The artist will be exhibiting a large selection of gelatin silver prints from her long-term project, Keepers of the West and…

  • Anna Reich: This Land – LENSCRATCH

    Anna Reich: This Land – LENSCRATCH

    Anna Reich: This Land – LENSCRATCH This week, we will be exploring projects inspired by place. Today, we’ll be looking at Anna Reich’s series This Land: Landscape, Memory, and Identity on the Plains. Sioux Falls, South Dakota, has a small but spirited art community. Anna Reich is one of th via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2023/09/anna-reich-this-land/ My artistic…

  • The Playful and Provocative Images of “Christian Tourism” | The New Yorker

    The Playful and Provocative Images of “Christian Tourism” | The New Yorker

    The Playful and Provocative Images of “Christian Tourism” The jarring juxtapositions of Jamie Lee Taete’s collection showcase the sometimes fine line between gimmickry and genuine belief. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/the-playful-and-provocative-images-of-christian-tourism It was a billboard in Branson for “Noah” that caught the British photographer Jamie Lee Taete’s eye, with the patriarch’s name floating beside his…

  • Benjamin Briones Grandi: Memories – LENSCRATCH

    Benjamin Briones Grandi: Memories – LENSCRATCH

    Benjamin Briones Grandi: Memories – LENSCRATCH Benjamin Briones Grandi‘s sleek series of photomontages, Memories, transforms Chile’s awe-inspiring geography into surreal dream works that speak to the profound spiritual essence of the natural world. From lush forests to arid deserts, the Chilean photog via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2023/09/benjamin-briones-grandi-memories/ Benjamin Briones Grandi‘s sleek series of photomontages, Memories, transforms Chile’s…

  • Mark Kitsawaeng: Forgotten Space – LENSCRATCH

    Mark Kitsawaeng: Forgotten Space – LENSCRATCH

    Mark Kitsawaeng: Forgotten Space – LENSCRATCH This week we are looking at the work of artists who submitted projects during our most recent call-for-entries. Today, Mark Kitsawaeng and I discuss Forgotten Space. Phanuphan (Mark) Kitsawaeng is a photographer from Thailand, currently living in Los Ange via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2023/09/mark-kitsawaeng-forgotten-space/ Forgotten Space is a set of photographs of…

  • Christine Back: PV Revisited – LENSCRATCH

    Christine Back: PV Revisited – LENSCRATCH

    Christine Back: PV Revisited – LENSCRATCH This week we are looking at the work of artists who submitted projects during our most recent call-for-entries. Today, Christine Back and I discuss PV Revisited. Christine Back is a New Jersey-based photographer and educator who grew up at the Jersey Shor via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2023/09/christine-back-pv-revisited/ I also shared the growing…

  • Virginia Villacisla: Presencio & The Rural Kids – LENSCRATCH

    Virginia Villacisla: Presencio & The Rural Kids – LENSCRATCH

    Virginia Villacisla: Presencio & The Rural Kids – LENSCRATCH This week we are looking at the work of artists who submitted projects during our most recent call-for-entries. Today, Virginia Villacisla and I discuss Presencio & The Rural Kids. Virginia Villacisla was born in Burgos, a medium-sized town in northern Sp via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2023/09/virginia-villacisla-presencio-the-rural-kids/ Virginia’s personal experiences…

  • Devil’s Rib – Photographs by Mateusz Kowalik | Book review by Erik Vroons | LensCulture

    Devil’s Rib – Photographs by Mateusz Kowalik | Book review by Erik Vroons | LensCulture

    Devil’s Rib – Photographs by Mateusz Kowalik | Book review by Erik Vroons | LensCulture Turning his lens on people who have chosen to live in remote Poland, Mateusz Kowalik’s award-winning book explores the lure of the wild and the tensions that arise when one turns their back on the comforts of modernity via LensCulture:…

  • A Photographer’s Search for the Sweet Life in Southern Italy

    A Photographer’s Search for the Sweet Life in Southern Italy

    A Photographer’s Search for the Sweet Life in Southern Italy Drawing inspiration from Fellini and Pasolini, Sam Youkilis finds a seductive—sometimes humorous—vision of “la dolce vita.” via Aperture: https://aperture.org/editorial/la-dolce-vita-according-to-sam-youkilis/ Drawing inspiration from Fellini and Pasolini, the photographer finds a seductive—sometimes humorous—vision of Italy.

  • Liz Albert and Shane VanOosterhout: Instant Classic – LENSCRATCH

    Liz Albert and Shane VanOosterhout: Instant Classic – LENSCRATCH

    Liz Albert and Shane VanOosterhout: Instant Classic – LENSCRATCH I was thrilled to see Liz Albert’s name on my line-up for the New England Portfolio Reviews as we had previously shared her project, Family Fictions and I am a fan of her work. She shared a new collaborative project with me, Instant Classic, created with…

  • Evelyn Hofer’s Tender Gaze

    Evelyn Hofer’s Tender Gaze

    Evelyn Hofer’s Tender Gaze A retrospective in London showcases the brilliance and breadth of the photographer’s sensitive portraiture. via Aperture: https://aperture.org/editorial/evelyn-hofers-tender-gaze/ A retrospective in London showcases the brilliance and breadth of the photographer’s sensitive portraiture.

  • Unearthing the History of Anaheim | The New Yorker

    Unearthing the History of Anaheim | The New Yorker

    Unearthing the History of Anaheim William Camargo’s photographs confront the city’s racist past, provoking controversy in the present. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/unearthing-the-history-of-anaheim William Camargo’s photographs confront the city’s racist past, provoking controversy in the present.

  • An Artist Digs for Fossils in the West Texas Desert

    An Artist Digs for Fossils in the West Texas Desert

    In the Footsteps of Her Grandfather, An Artist Digs for Fossils Following in her grandfather’s footsteps, the photographer Sarah Wilson digs for fossils in the West Texas desert. via Feature Shoot: https://www.featureshoot.com/2023/08/in-the-footsteps-of-her-grandfather-an-artist-digs-for-fossils/ The photographer Sarah Wilson’s grandfather, Dr. John A. Wilson, was a paleontologist whose work took him to some of the most remote and…

  • A Photographer’s Frank, Tender Portrait of Her Parents’ Final Year | The New Yorker

    A Photographer’s Frank, Tender Portrait of Her Parents’ Final Year | The New Yorker

    A Photographer’s Frank, Tender Portrait of Her Parents’ Final Year When the pandemic came, Becky Wilkes moved her enfeebled mom and dad into her own home. Her series “Till Death Do Us Part” documents that time. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/a-photographers-frank-tender-portrait-of-her-parents-final-year When the pandemic came, Becky Wilkes moved her enfeebled mom and dad into her…

  • Beautiful Paradox – The Leica camera Blog

    Link: William Keo’s powerful images reveal how he perceives the outskirts of Paris: a place of contrasts.