BLACK PINE just released a new book which is not only lovingly hand made but is exceptionally beautiful in its simplicity. Great as a daily journal and small enough for traveling or taking photo-notes. Order yours here.
In the spirit of his oeuvre, Roe Ethridge‘s Farewell Horse is at first encounter both seductive and elusive. The book itself, bound in natural cloth with a tipped-in photograph on the cover, is structured in three distinct and seemingly unrelated parts – the central one being black and white photographs of wild horses. These horses, [...]
Suisse, 2007-2008 [from "Memento"] © Tonatiuh Ambrosetti Tonatiuh Ambrosetti (previously mentioned here) has been making some incredible landscape photographs in his home country of Switzerland. See, for example, Memento and Memento II.
Untitled, 2009 [from "Taming the Alpha Vessel"] © Rachel de Joode Photographer Rachel de Joode got in touch to share some of her fascinatingly absurd installation-based work with me. With her projects Taming the Alpha Vessel, Still Life and Alters, she uses modern symbolism to construct complex statements.
Camel Rider, Inner Mongolia, 2010 [from "The Earth"] © Li Wei Li Wei‘s series The Earth documents the people/landscape of Inner Mongolia, the largest grazing region in China. More from the project on Li’s website or his Flickr.
Casualty, Fort Polk, Louisiana, 2005 [from "Theater of War"] © Christopher Sims Big congratulations to Christopher Sims for receiving this year’s Baum Award For Emerging American Photographers. The award offers support in mounting a solo exhibition and a generous $10,000 grant. I was honored to be among the 50 artists who to be nominated by [...]
Aaron Gustafson recently completed a series of large-format landscape photographs that he shot while freefalling through the skies of New York and Washington State. He is supposedly the first person to take large-format photographs while skydiving. It was done using a custom designed helmet-camera, which holds a sheet of 4×5 film: L: 4×5 Helmet Camera [...]
[from "East Tennessee"] © Mike Smith About a year ago I had the pleasure of meeting Mike Smith and viewing a stack of prints from his East Tennessee series. I came across his website recently and realized I never mentioned his work here. The selection on his site is fairly limited in terms of the [...]
Estate, a set of two books encompassing works (including one of my own) curated by Triangle Triangle‘s Jake Dow-Smith. This edition was hand printed/sewn by Jake himself to help fund a larger run of these books. Edition of 10, SOLD OUT. Life Geos On (yes, that misspelling is on purpose) by Per Englund. Thanks Per! [...]
In her new body of work, Black is the Day, Black is the Night, Amy Elkins broadens her artistic practice in a very exciting way. The series utilizes portraits, text pieces, layered/manipulated photographs, aerial land images as well as found objects. 13/32 (Not the Man I Once Was), 2009 [from "Black is the Day, Black [...]
