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.
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.
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.
Twenty Alternative Process Photographers You Need to Know!
Since its advent, the art of photography has been a process of artistic experimentation. Hundreds of processes have been invented since its inception, including gum bichromate, platinum/palladium, and wet plate collodion. These alternative processes don’t just still exist; they are thriving in the digital age. Discover 20 emerging and established photographers who use these and countless other processes to create unique and engaging photographic prints in a specially curated list by Christina Z. Anderson!
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.
Interview: Michelle Rogers Pritzl - “Not Waving But Drowning”
Michelle Rogers Pritzl’s work explores the tension between past and present in our psychological lives, as well as the photographic medium itself, often working in a digital/analogue hybrid and using historic alternative processes. We shine a light on her recent collection of work, “Not Waving But Drowning” in our exclusive interview.
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.
Interview: Aliki Braine - On Making vs. Taking
London based artist, Aliki Braine, makes images that highlight the materiality of analog photography. By cutting up, folding, stickering and punching holes in negatives, she asks her viewers to slow down and reconsider what a photograph is and reminds of photography’s roots as something to be held and revered as on object.
Featured Photographer: Liz Albert - "Family Fictions”
Liz Albert’s series, Family Fictions, take us on a journey back in time to explore family and social dynamics in the 50s and 60s through photographic slides that she has found, purchased, and combined into diptychs.
Featured Photographer: Nettie Edwards - "Grave Goods"
Nettie Edwards uses the ephemeral photographic processes of anthotype and chlorophyll printing to create personal meditations on the transitory nature of existence. By embracing processes destined to degrade she confronts the ideas of loss, grief, and mortality.
Featured Photographer: Ed Carr's 5000+ Cyanotype Print Music Video
Alternative process photographer, printmaker, and researcher Ed Carr has created the first-ever music video made from over 5000 hand-printed cyanotypes for Tycho Jones and Globe Town Records. Learn all about his unique creation now!
Interview: Ella Morton - "The Dissolving Landscape"
Recent recipient of CENTER’s Environmental Award, Ella Morton presents her ongoing body of work, “The Dissolving Landscape,” a series of experimental analog photographs that examine climate change in the Arctic and Subarctic landscapes of Canada and Nordic Europe.
Book Review: A Blue Idyll - Cyanotypes and Dreams by Brenton Hamilton
Brenton Hamilton's newest book, A Blue Idyll - Cyanotypes and Dreams, transports you to a dreamlike state to explore his surrealist world of unusual connections and possibilities influenced by chance motifs and interactions from art history.
Interview: Cary Norton - "Where You Come From is Gone"
Cary Norton and Jared Ragland’s collaborative series "Where You Come From is Gone" explores the history that occurred in the American South between Hernando DeSoto’s first exploitation of native peoples in the 16th century and Andrew Jackson’s Indian Removal Act 300 years later.
Meet the Staff: Lynn Bierbaum - Social Media and Community Manager
Lynn Bierbaum’s work explores her search for belonging, and for a place, she can call home, by creating three-dimensional sculptures from a hybrid process of wet plate collodion and blown glass.
Featured Photographer: Tara A. Cronin's Series “Winds”
Taking landscape photography to a new level, Tara A. Cronin’s new series “Winds” uses transparency film, archival inks, and her own blood to create work reminiscent of star maps or ancient genetic code.
World Cyanotype Day: A Celebration with A Smith Gallery
In celebration of World Cyanotype Day, A Smith Gallery in Johnson City, Texas is inviting you to create a 12x12 inch cyanotype flag on a white cloth so they can string them all together! Read how now!
Featured Photographer: Lori Pond - Learning to Walk in the Dark
Lori Pond's “Learning to Walk in the Dark” illustrates the written word with prints on vellum that are backed with silver leaf that creates objects of depth with tactile qualities and stunning beauty.