I’m off to France! Destination upon arrival: Pont-Aven. I’m not sure how much computer or internet access I’ll have in the countryside, so the blog will likely be quiet until I return in August. If anyone has any recommendations of parts of France to visit, restaurants to eat at or anything at all, please leave [...]
L to R: Pirelli Work, Here Comes Everybody and In Flagrante by Chris Killip I went to visit Chris Killip in his studio today and had a great chat with him about his life and photography – eventually to be a published interview, stay tuned for that! – and thought I’d take a brief moment [...]
Coley Brown: Jam Jelly Honey Wild Rice (Gottlund Verlag, 2008) 48 pages with 31 color images Each with a unique letterpress cover 10 x 13 in. Edition of 250 SOLD OUT Nicholas Gottlund: Wild Prayer (Gottlund Verlag, 2009) 16 pages Black & white offset on newsprint 15 x 22.5 in. Edition of 1,000 $8 Bertrand [...]
Stone Wall on Cappanawalla, 2008 [from "Slí na Boirne"] © Shane Lavalette Tomorrow night I’ll be at the Center for Photography at Woodstock celebrating the opening of Photography Now 2009, juried this year by Charlotte Cotton (Curator and Head of the Wallis Annenberg Photography Department, Los Angeles County Museum of Art). Along with my own [...]
Unbound photographs from Lay Flat 01: Remain in Light photographed by Panorama (Tokyo, Japan) The response to the launch of Lay Flat has been phenomenal. Shortly after the release of Lay Flat 01: Remain in Light, the book received critical acclaim both in print and across the internet and a slew of positive e-mails came [...]
Deer Slayer [from "Young Blood"] © Erika Larsen I’ve always thought highly of Erika Larsen‘s project Young Blood. Big congratulations to her for winning the first ever WIP-Lightside Individual Project Grant of $3,000 to support new work. Her online showcase will appear on Women in Photography on June 16th (or see her original feature here).
New Horizons, 2006 © Michael Vahrenwald Amani Olu of Humble Arts Foundation has put together what looks to be a nicely-curated group exhibition titled After Color. The exhibition includes black and white photographs by Michael Bühler-Rose, Talia Chetrit, Matthew Gamber, Stephen Gill, Adrien Missika, Pushpamala N, Arthur Ou, Noel Rodo-Vankeulen and Michael Vahrenwald. From the [...]
Ban Sissavath, Street 7, Vientiane, 2009 [from "Sunday in Vientiane"] © Marc Henrich Marc Henrich wrote to tell me about his latest project entitled Sunday in Vientiane, which he describes in these words: Taken mostly on Sundays, when the town is resting, these images of buildings in and around Vientiane, Laos present an unsentimental view [...]
