Untitled (Six Parked Cars), 2009
© Lanya Snyder

Lanya Snyder just updated her website with some new landscapes. Take a look at the installation shots from a show she was in last summer at White Columns to get a sense of how she creates relationships between her images.

Moto-taxi, 2009 [from "Zapallal/Yurinaki"]
© Andrés Marroquín Winkelmann

Andrés Marroquín Winkelmann (previously mentioned on the blog here) got in touch to direct me to his latest project titled Zapallal/Yurinaki, which includes photographs made in collaboration with two Peruvian communities.

Missy Barlow’s dryer lint landscape, Lower Hoh River, Washington [from "Sawdust Mountain"]
© Eirik Johnson

Eirik Johnson just updated his website with a selection of images from a new body of work (and soon to be released book) called Sawdust Mountain.

A culmination of four years of photographing throughout Oregon, Washington, and Northern California, Sawdust Mountain focuses on the tenuous relationship between industries reliant upon natural resources and the communities they support.

Timber and salmon are the bedrock of a regional Northwest identity, but the environmental impact of these declining industries has been increasingly at odds with the contemporary ideal of sustainability. In this, his second book, Johnson reveals a landscape imbued with an uncertain future—no longer the region of boomtowns built upon the riches of massive old-growth forests.

See the photographs here.

Lay Flat on display at Golden Age (Chicago, IL)

Lay Flat 01: Remain in Light is now available for purchase at the following locations:

United States

Museum Shop of The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, IL)
Golden Age (Chicago, IL)
Dashwood Books (New York, NY)
Spoonbill & Sugartown (Brooklyn, NY)
FAMILY (Los Angeles, CA)
Ooga Booga (Los Angeles, CA)
Vincent Borrelli, Bookseller (Albuquerque, NM)
Photo-eye Bookstore (Santa Fe, NM)

International

MOTTO Berlin (Berlin, Germany)
Panorama (Tokyo, Japan)
Claire de Rouen Books (London, U.K.)
Photobookstore.co.uk (Kent, U.K.)
Librería Kowasa (Barcelona, Spain)

And, as always, copies are available for purchase directly through the website at www.layflat.org. There are less than 100 copies left – get yours before they sell out!

P.S. Facebook users can now become a ‘fan’. Check out the official Lay Flat page.

Untitled [from "People's Park"]
© Kurt Tong

Kurt Tong writes about his project, People’s Park:

In 1958, at the beginning of The Great Leap Forward, when private ownership was banned, many existing parks were renovated and new parks were built all across China for the people, many were renamed People’s Parks. Over the years, they became main focal points of the cities, where families have their outings and couples meet. China is changing at a staggering pace, the economic miracle means that the Chinese are enjoying a much more affluent lifestyle. Shopping and Internet have replaced bumper cars and Ferris wheels. Many of these parks have fallen to disarray. Millions of older Chinese would have grown up with these parks and have memories of time spent in them. Just like the parks, their memories are slowly fading away with time.

See more from the series on his website.

L: Untitled R: Untitled
© Sam Falls

Sam Falls caught my attention recently with a few really surprising images from his portfolio.

Bill Sullivan wrote to inform me of the launch of his new website. The site includes some really amazing work from the last 5 years that is very much a departure from his previous projects, Stop Down, Turns and Time Port.

With the tentatively titled Works (1: “Heads , Bodies and Courts”, 2: “Landscapes & Self Portraits with Mirrors” and 3: “Courts & Things Change”), he attempts to create new kinds of texture with photographs of LCD screens. The photographs themselves are quite painterly (Bill, actually, does works with painting; see People I Know) yet also consider the fabric of digital images and the photographic object.

Untitled #35, 2008
© Bill Sullivan

installation view of Untitled #141, 2008 and Untitled #88, 2008
© Bill Sullivan

detail of Untitled #88, 2008
© Bill Sullivan

installation view of Untitled #14, 2007
© Bill Sullivan

detail of Untitled #14, 2007
© Bill Sullivan

installation view of Girl in Landscape, 2007
© Bill Sullivan

detail of Girl in Landscape, 2007
© Bill Sullivan

installation view of Self Portrait with Mirror #45, 2008
© Bill Sullivan

Flag #4, 2008
© Bill Sullivan

There are many more worth viewing here.

Color Blind Rainbow, 2008 [from "Photo Sculptures"]
© Alejandra Laviada

Though I’ve neglected to mention it here, I’ve been really enjoying Alejandra Laviada’s Photo Sculptures – both the images and the actual assemblages.

Betsy Schneider’s Scenes includes some lovely images of what I presume to be her children. Especially nice are these three:

Untitled [from "Scenes"]
© Betsy Schneider

Untitled [from "Scenes"]
© Betsy Schneider

Untitled [from "Scenes"]
© Betsy Schneider

See more of her work here.

Gathering, 2009 [from "Karst"]
© Noel Rodo-Vankeulen

Not long ago Noel Rodo-Vankeulen updated his website with some rather cryptic black and white images from a limited edition artist book he created called Karst.

Take a look.