No Picture Needed. An Open Letter to Unseen from Felicity Hammond
Open letter to Unseen. February 11, 2020 I am writing to retract my payment request for the artworks sold, expenses incurred and the commission realised as part of your art fair in 2019. You have no intention of paying me or the countless other artists, filmmakers and writers whose invoices are long overdue. I cannot […]
Sam Contis Dorothea Lange: Day Sleeper Then as Now and.
History generally presents itself to the future in visual terms that signify the distance between the two points of time from its creation and its re-purposing and its re-examination. The fallacy in photographic terms of historical representation and its distribution of intent are intertwined between reason and audience over the passing of linear […]
Chris Shaw: The Hunter and A Proximity To Prey
The hunter is not hunting a person, nor an animal. The species of its intent is not pulsating, but rather imagined-it is the photographic. When I blather hot steam, a forceful wind, a speech upon the youth-less cuspids in my mouth of what I portend to mean about the “photographic”, I realize that it […]
Massao Mascaro: Jardin, a Rumination of Plots
The garden is a space in which experiments and critical thought are born and carried out. It is a space in which growth is mediated within the flora of its inhabitants, but also in the contemplative mental space of its guardian. Work and toil produce challenge and transformation within the confines of the […]
Paula Bronstein: Ukraine’s War – Lives Frozen by Conflict
When violence broke out in Ukraine in 2014, many young people left, while the elderly stayed behind just barely surviving. After almost five years of conflict, large areas of the Donbas region, which includes a 500-km “contact line”, remain under the control of separatists amid a war that has displaced more than 1.5 million with […]
Thomas Sauvin: Great Leaps Forward
“…the word ‘image’ embodies a number of distinct phenomena. On an existential level, it articulates the impression we project onto others and ourselves—self image, body image, public image. But in a traditional art historical context, it alludes to the visual representation of someone or something in a work of art”. by Cat Lachowskyj […]
Cars and Guns and Tattooed Dudes: Gregory Halpern’s Omaha Sketchbook
“Omaha’s attitudes towards gender are somewhat unreconstructed – when it comes to masculinity, either you’re a man, or you’re not, and it would be easy enough to describe the place with a set of cartoon signifiers: cowboys and cars, guns and tattoos, high-school football and hard men in uniform.”
An Interview with Jill Freedman (2007)
Jill Freedman: An Interview (April 2007) When did you start taking photographs and what did you choose to photograph? JF: 1966. Woke up one day and wanted a camera. Borrowed a friend’s, went out into the street, shot two rolls, and knew I was a photographer. Were they photographers that have inspired you? And […]