NSWF | Featured Photographer: Chad Coombs - “Polaroid Portraits”
Chad Coombs’ "Portraits" series is an audacious foray into the unsettling terrain where identity, faith, and societal norms collide in his manipulated Polaroid collage series.
Featured Photographer: Beau Patrick Coulon - “Revel and Revolt”
From raucous punk mosh pits to passionate street protests, Coulon's photography lays bare the raw, kinetic energy of cultural defiance. His images are more than snapshots; they are a powerful documentation of the resilience and spirited opposition within communities fighting for justice in New Orleans.
Featured Photographer: Matthew Ragen - If They Have Eyes, Can They See?
Explore the mesmerizing blend of ancient landscapes and modern artistry with Matthew Ragen's captivating photography series, "If They Have Eyes, Can They See?,” in our latest feature article. Journey through the Cascade Mountains as Ragen's lens captures the silent symphony of nature's cyclical pattern, revealing the haunting beauty of ancient forests and forgotten epochs.
Featured Photographer: Jacqueline Walters Weaving Light and Language
Jacqueline Walters, a visionary photographer from Cambridge, England, blends her love for landscapes and language into a unique visual style. In her project "Learning Mandarin and the Language of Lumens," she uses biological materials to create captivating shapes, merging Mandarin script with imagery in a profound way.
Featured Photographer: Wendy Constantine – “Reverie”
Embark on an ethereal journey through Wendy Constantine's artistic practice with her body of work, “Reverie.” From childhood memories in a converted chicken coop to protesting art department cuts, Constantine's life unfolds like a visual poem. Delve into her unique fusion of analog and digital, intention and spontaneity, as she invites you into a dreamlike realm where trees stand as silent witnesses to a life shaped by nature.
Featured Photographer: Debbie Bentley – “Bentlandia”
Embark on a visual journey with Debbie Bentley, a creative force navigating the diverse landscapes of photography. Bentley's story is a testament to the limitless possibilities of creativity, proving that true art can emerge from a tapestry woven with hard knocks, research, and experimentation.
Interview: Renee Paiement – “Days of Heaven”
Minneapolis-based photographer Renee Paiement captures light dancing across an image, as if it were a character in the frame in her project, “Days of Heaven,” an homage to the Terrence Malick film of the same name.
Featured Photographer: Laetitia Heisler – “Forest is a Temple”
Using instant-film double exposures, Germany-based photographer Laetitia Heisler takes viewers on a healing journey through the woods, camera in tow, sharing how she sees life as “a continuous transformation” in her series, Forest is a Temple. “Everyone and everything are intertwined.”
Interview: Marcus DeSieno - “Geography of Disappearance”
Spend time with the photographs and words from this interview with photographic artist Marcus DeSieno. His ongoing project, "Geography of Disappearance," is a brutally honest examination of the crisis at the US/Mexico border from the perspective of landscape photography.
Featured Photographers: Lenny Gerard - "Day vs. Night Juxtaposition”
Enter the realm of Lenny Gerard, a visionary artist who juxtaposes day and night shots of architectural marvels in an arresting critique of capitalism. Gerard's work, as captivating as it is contemplative, challenges the viewer to consider the implications of a system that values work over life, and productivity over creativity.
Featured Photographers: Sileō - "System Error"
System Error, a thought-provoking photo series by Italian artists Silvia Pedrina and Leonardo Brentan, a.k.a Sileō, challenges perceptions of our growing relationship with technology. Combining traditional photography with digital techniques, the series offers a fascinating exploration of the intersection between the physical and digital realms.
NSFW | Featured Photographer: Rachel Portesi - “Hair Portraits"
Explore the nuanced transitions of female identity through the unique and captivating portraits created by photographic artist, Rachel Portesi. From Polaroids and tintypes, discover the amazing images that embody motherhood, aging, and self through this ongoing exploration of femininity and the physical world.
Feature: Maureen Mulhern-White: “The Continuum”
Maureen Mulhern-White, a British-American self-taught photographer, creates mystical landscapes that captivate audiences with their dream-like qualities. Her innovative photo series, The Continuum, features photograms printed on vellum paper and backed with silver or gold leaf. These enchanting images showcase a variety of creatures and natural elements, revealing our shared connection to the universe.
Feature: Vaune Trachtman - “Now Is Always"
Finding a way to remove harmful chemistry from her creative life, photographer and printmaker Vaune Trachtman makes the move into printmaking via the direct-to-plate photopolymer gravure process. Her combination of new imagery with the nearly 100-year-old images of her father, result in family connection over time, and through photographic means.
Feature: Jim Steg’s Inspired Journey
Jim Steg (1922-2001) was an inventive artist and esteemed educator who lived in New Orleans. A celebrated printmaker, he became interested in photography late in his career. Barbara Hitchcock, who served as Curator of The Polaroid Collection, writes about his explorations with the SX-70 and shares rarely seen instant photography explorations from the artist.
Featured Photographer: Liz Potter - "A Tornado of Sketches"
Texas-based Liz Potter’s photography is as much about the journey as it is about the destination. “My print sessions can last anywhere from four hours to eight and sometimes the only reason I stop is when my print washer is full, and I have to pause long enough to realize I’m tired. Printing, to me, is another layer of expressing an image.”
Featured Photographer: Josh Lee - "Altered Realities"
Brooklyn-based photographer Josh Lee uses his black and white negatives as a springboard for his manipulated images. By introducing bleach, food coloring, and paint directly to his negatives, he creates surreal images which illustrate the hidden psychological realities of ourselves and the world around us.
Featured Photographer: Felicita Russo - "Imaginary Landscape"
Italian photographer Felicita Russo’s instant film based creations of extraterrestrial worlds and breathtaking future landscapes bridge the gap between traditional painting, contemporary art, and science fiction. Through her work, she pushes the boundaries of contemporary light painting to new frontiers.
Featured Photographer: Victoria Kosel - “A Cut Above”
Victoria Kosel quite literally destroys her photographs, only to create them anew. Her sliced and diced prints are reborn into fragmented scenes that force the brain to fill in the gaps that challenge the ideas of traditional landscape photography.
Featured Photographer: Ian Hill - The Fisher King and Other Stories
British photographer Ian Hill explores the rugged Cumbrian countryside investigating the psychological connection we find in and with the landscape. Intertwining words and images, in zines or on the web, he creates modern mythologies which explore the perpetual relationship between man and nature.