Posted by Brienne Walsh on February 27, 2018 | Photographer Interviews
Edgerton, Harold
In the early 1930s, Harold Edgerton, who died in 1990, developed flash technology that allowed him to photography objects and events moving faster than the eye can perceive. Although he was uncomfortable being recognized as an artist, his images were extraordinary, capturing moments in time so perfectly frozen that they seem almost sculptural. In an... More ›
Posted by Brienne Walsh on February 22, 2018 | Student Photography
A lot of attention was given to SpaceX and its CEO Elon Musk when the company successfully launched a rocket containing a Tesla roadster into space on February 6. Much less fanfare is given to radiosondes, which are battery-powered devices attached to balloons that are launched above the earth daily, at heights of 65,000 feet,... More ›
Posted by Stacey Goldberg on February 20, 2018 | Student Photography
Photo © Sara Fahling
Indiana University MFA student Sara Fahling‘s thesis tackles a variety of subjects: death, family, grief, acceptance and experimentation, to name a few. The body of work titled Unmended is, she writes, “an exploration of familial legacy in the aftermath of loss.” The work merges photographs of her grandparent’s home with fabrics in an intimate and meaningful... More ›
Posted by Brienne Walsh on February 20, 2018 | Photographer Interviews
There is little or no movement in “Transit,” an exhibition of photographs by Israeli photographer Barak Zemer open through March 3 at Night Gallery in Los Angeles. Instead, the subjects in his photographs are trapped in different types of purgatories — in the seats of airplanes, in hospitals, in highway traffic. “Passage is not without... More ›
Posted by Brienne Walsh on February 13, 2018 | Media
The effects of climate change may be hard to see in daily life, but one only needs to look at the oceans to see how much of the world is impacted by rising temperatures. This is the argument made by The Ocean After Nature, an exhibition presented by Independent Curators International and the Sheila C.... More ›
Posted by Brienne Walsh on February 10, 2018 | Contests/Events
Dumbo is currently one of the most expensive neighborhoods to live and work in Brooklyn. It’s also a place teeming with art installations, galleries, and opportunities to network. Most artists couldn’t even dream of affording a studio in the neighborhood. The good news is that the Sharpe-Walentas studio program is willing to give 17 artists... More ›
Posted by Stacey Goldberg on February 9, 2018 | Student Photography
“You Have to Blow” is a series by French photographer Romain Baro that studies the impact of refugees crossing the Aegean Sea into the Greek island of Lesbos. Baro writes that, in 2016, more than 5,100 migrants—many who come from Central Africa or Afghanistan and have never seen an ocean before—were estimated to have died in... More ›
Posted by Brienne Walsh on February 7, 2018 | Student Photography
USA. Long Beach, California. 2017. On weekends, Adrianna Luna (17), Raeven Dickerson (17), and their friends walk around The Pike, near the Long Beach port, and swap news about their latest fixations — Icelandic rap artists, sneaker art, thrift shopping.
For “Hanging Out,” a series that appeared in the December 2017 issue of The California Sunday Magazine, Alessandra Sanguinetti traveled around California, photographing teen cliques being themselves. Sanguinetti approached her subjects with confidence, thinking that she already knew what adolescence was like, having experienced it herself. “I was bracing for silly, noisy and arrogant knots... More ›
Posted by Brienne Walsh on February 6, 2018 | Student Photography
The idea of home is complicated even in the best of circumstances. When a natural disaster occurs, homes are destroyed, and people are forced to rebuild a concept that is not easy to grasp in the first place. Capturing what constitutes a home interests Ryan Kukalis, who is currently receiving his BFA at Kendall College... More ›
Posted by Brienne Walsh on February 1, 2018 | Photographer Interviews
LaToya Ruby Frazier’s art practice is a form of activism. In a new body of work currently on view at Gavin Brown Enterprises in Harlem — her largest exhibition in New York to date — Frazier advocates for those otherwise without a voice using photography, video, and text. “When I encounter an individual or family... More ›
