Analog Forever Magazine Issue 2 Artist Selection Announcement!
Analog Forever Magazine’s Issue 2 Artist Selections
Analog Forever Magazine is proud to announce our second print publication (pre-order here) will be published and released on May 21st, 2020! We are excited to present to you a 125+ page journal featuring 10 analog and experimental photographers from around the globe - from Europe and Great Britain to the USA and Japan- each exploring various methods for using the medium we love in individual, creative ways.
Featured are four in-depth interviews:
Nika De Carlo dives deep into the emotional trenches of her and her partner’s war on addiction, recovery, trauma, and healing as she discusses her intimate and brutally honest documentary project and visual diary “See You In Heaven”. Although the subject matter presented is graphic, the tenderness held within makes you wonder how two people could be together and yet completely alone at the same time.
Sarah Christianson discusses her investigations into the effects of oil drilling and fracking operations in her home state of North Dakota. A deeply personal matter, Sarah’s own family is included in receiving the prosperity that comes with this latest oil boom, while simultaneously wrestling with the knowledge of damage caused by these operations. This examination of the landscape and the scars left behind begs the question, “what will be left for future generations?”
Jenny Sampson’s series “Skate Girls” discusses the rich culture of female skateboarders using the wet plate collodion process to display the endless camaraderie, openness, and creativity between the “Skate Like a Girl” movement that embraces and makes you wonder, is this truly “rebellion”?
Michael Kenna converses with us about his 46+ career as a photographer that started with humble beginnings as a young boy in the north of England that, driven by hard work and dedication, has led him to becoming a world-renowned master printmaker and photographer. His unique and meticulous style caught the attention of gallerists and collectors worldwide and his work has been shown in over four hundred and fifty one-person gallery and museum exhibitions and is now included in over a hundred permanent institutional collections.
In addition to our in-depth interviews, we are also highlighting six other photographic artists that deserve praise for their unique and ambitious work. Featured artists include:
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Diana Bloomfield’s stitched, folded and bound book masterpieces created from cyanotype and gum bichromate processes; Liz Albert’s series “Family Fictions” which redefine and reconcile our individual conflicts between expressing our desires and fulfilling social and familial norms with paired slides from the 60’s and 70’s; Yukimi Akiba’s multimedia instant film embroidery work that literally stitches her response to the societal and cultural pressures of beauty, sexuality, and femininity; Ashly Stohl’s series “Charth Vader”, a collection of black and white images that shows a young person’s journey through difficulties and a mom’s true love that will take you on a trip of imagination, emotions and memories that are sure to leave you with a smile; Luca Tombolini’s series “Vistas” that artistically explores the scientific idea of space, time, and relativity by asking viewers to consider the perception of their place in the universe via the combination of long and multiple exposure landscapes and cameraless microscapes; and Stig Marlon Weston, who by using various cameraless techniques, creates surreal prints and installations representing the ephemeral nature of the outside world.
In sum, Analog Forever Magazine, Issue 2 will embark readers on a photographic journey around the world through ten different artists’ eyes. Through this publication, you will be transported from artists’ private and commercial studios to the empty and hopeless surroundings of opioid infested New York while visiting the recent scars and perils of North Dakota’s latest oil boom. On your way, you will stop to gaze into the beautiful vast wilderness of the world and surreal otherworldly dreamscapes only found on other planets. You will have the opportunity to explore the minds and collections of abstract, experimental, documentary, and landscape photographers that are as unique as they are brilliant.
With over 125+ pages of analog photography greatness coming May 21st, we are thrilled to present to you this preview of the artists selected for Analog Forever Magazine’s second issue, to satisfy your senses until you can hold our second publication in your hands. Please enjoy the artists’ work, explore their websites, follow them on social media, and get ready for the second part of our analog journalism revolution!
Lastly, we couldn’t make our publication possible without the support of our sponsors and stockists. We want to thank the following companies for their support and generosity as we get ready to launch Issue 2! We are thrilled to be printing our publication with Edition One Books in Berkeley, California, having it carried by Film Never Die in Australia, Analogue Wonderland in the U.K., and Blue Moon Camera in Portland, Oregon (get the full list here). We are also thankful to Blue Moon Camera, Catlabs, Cinestill Film, DLG Electronics, and THEM! for being amazing supporters of Analog Forever Magazine, thank you!
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Analog Forever Magazine - Issue 2 Artist Selections
Interview:
Sarah Christianson - “When the Landscape is Quiet Again: North Dakota’s Oil Boom”
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Photographer, Sarah Christianson investigates the effects of oil drilling and fracking operations in her home state of North Dakota. Centered on the transformation of agricultural sites into industrial zones, Sarah’s own family farm is included in receiving the prosperity that comes with this latest oil boom, while simultaneously wrestling with the knowledge of damage caused by these operations. This examination of the landscape and the scars left behind begs the question, “what will be left for future generations?”
Feature:
Luca Tombolini - “Vistas”
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Luca Tombolini’s series Vistas artistically explores the scientific idea of Space, Time, and their relativity by asking viewers to consider the perception of their via place in the universe via the combination of long and multiple exposure landscapes and cameraless microscapes made of color drops in solvents. His other-worldly imagery points to the existence of a universal constant that pervades the universe. This constant could be just out of our grasp to our consciousness due to the limited spectrum of reality that our senses had evolved to perceive.
Feature:
Ashly Stohl - “Charth Vader”
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Ashly Stohl is a storyteller. As a book publisher, a true lover of photography and a mom, Ashly created a series of black and white, millisecond stories of her beautiful son, Charlie aka Charth Vader that are intimate, touching, insightful and beautiful. Showing just how brave she and Charlie are she chose to share these with the rest of the world, and we are richer for it. In this series, you will see a young person’s journey through difficulties and a mom’s true love shine in ways that will allow you to see a slice of life that perhaps you have never considered. This feature will take you on a trip of imagination, emotions, and memories that are sure to leave you with a smile.
Feature:
Diana Bloomfield - “Books as Sculpture”
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A master of the cyanotype and gum bichromate processes, photographic artist Diana Bloomfield transforms these historical process prints into folded and bound book masterpieces of exceptional detail and beauty. These books take on various sizes and intricate shapes, creating stunning works of sculptural art. We are pleased to present a host of these photographic objects, along with Diana’s expert knowledge of these processes, to our Analog Forever readership.
Interview:
Jenny Sampson - “Skate Girls”
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American photographer Jenny Sampson series “Skate Girls” discusses the rich culture of female skateboarders using the wet plate collodion process to display the endless camaraderie, openness, and creativity between the “Skate Like a Girl” movement that embraces and makes you wonder, is this truly “rebellion”?
Interview:
Nika De Carlo - “See You in Heaven”
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Nika De Carlo is a survivor of the opioid crisis. Her photographic diary See You in Heaven is a brutally honest and intimate look at the journey of two lovers stuck in cycles of addiction who have managed to escape their darkest moments of overdoses and trauma to lives of healing and recovery. Although the subject matter presented is graphic, the tenderness held within makes you wonder how two people could be together and yet completely alone at the same time. Ultimately her series is a tool we can use to examine how art can save us from ourselves and help us come to terms with how to live better lives.
Feature:
Liz Albert - “Family Fictions”
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Family photographs document reality…or do they? Revisiting these images years later, we often project what we want to remember, whether it really happened that way or not. In Liz Albert’s series Family Fictions we see unrelated 50s and 60s slides paired together that examine the ideas of “freedom” versus “expression”. Her series uses irony, humor, and juxtaposition in an attempt to redefine and reconcile our individual conflicts between expressing our desires and fulfilling social and familial norms while uncovering the psychological subtext within family dynamics.
Feature:
Stig Marlon Weston - “Subjective Realities”
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Using various cameraless techniques, Stig Marlon Weston creates surreal prints and installations representing the ephemeral nature of the outside world. We present two of Weston’s collections - Grove, a body of work built of nighttime exposures onto film hung through trees and then contact printed, and Empirical, a collection of unique prints from soil and vegetation from the Amazon rainforest floor. Both series show us the lengths we can go to in order to create photographic art without the use of any camera at all.
Feature:
Yukimi Akiba - “Self Destruction”
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Japanese artist Yukimi Akiba combines instant film and embroidery, reimagining her own image in a process she calls Creative 'Self' Destruction. In this work, her self-image is overlaid with threads that can both constrict and connect as she stitches her response to the societal and cultural pressures of beauty, sexuality, and femininity. Her polaroid avatar is pierced, embellished, and obscured as her inner emotions take precedence over her outward form.
Interview:
Michael Kenna - “The Best of Michael Kenna”
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Michael Kenna likely needs no introduction. With over seventy monographs and exhibition catalogs published on Kenna’s work, his photographic voice and trademark style is well recognized. During Kenna’s forty-six-year career, his photographs have been shown in over four hundred and fifty one-person gallery and museum exhibitions throughout the world and are included in over a hundred permanent institutional collections.
Kenna is particularly well-known for the intimate scale of his photography and his meticulous personal printing style. He works in the traditional, non-digital, silver photographic medium. His exquisitely hand crafted black and white prints, which he makes in his own darkroom, reflect a sense of refinement, respect for history, and thorough originality. With humble beginnings as a young boy in the north of England, to commercial photographer, to master printer, to world renowned fine art photographer, he continues to create these seemingly magical visions of nature.
ABOUT ANALOG FOREVER MAGAZINE
Analog Forever Magazine is an online and print publisher of contemporary analog photography. Our mission is simple: we want to provide a global audience to photographers who use analog processes and techniques for their photographic work by giving them a voice via a biannual print photography journal, online features and interviews, monthly online exhibitions, and a community calendar. Our goal is to highlight the best of the best from the analog industry including artists, projects, galleries, and curators.
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