Featured Photographer
Harvey Stein
“Photography takes me beyond myself yet paradoxically plunges me deeply into myself. It instructs me about the world and about myself. It gives me direction and purpose. It is my shrink, my anti-depressant, and my salvation. It scratches my creative and expressive urges. I truly believe it saved my life. After college, I floundered, with three jobs in eight years, having changed professions several times and spending two of those years in graduate school. I didn’t know which side was up; I was directionless, clueless, may I say lost and bewildered? But once I picked up the camera, I knew there were possibilities and hope.”
Previously Featured
Sergio Purtell is a photographer, author of the beautiful Stanley / Barker photo book Love’s Labour, and a master printer whose Brooklyn-based photography printing business Black and White on White has printed work for museums, galleries, and a significant number of notable photographers of our time - people like Robert Adams, Larry Clark, LaToya Ruby Frazier, Jim Goldberg, Mark Steinmetz, and scores more.
Ryan Frigillana’s work reveals a rich sensitivity to nature and intimate and incisive explorations of family, migration, and identity.
Christian Michael Filardo is a Filipino American visual artist, composer, musician, poet, and sculptor currently living and working in Brooklyn, NY.
Jesse Warner is a New York City-based photographer who makes fun and funny and sexy portraits of people and food that are absolutely delightful.
Tracy Dong is a Vancouver-born, Brooklyn-based photographer and visual artist whose work aims to represent the under-represented, describe the relationship between individuals and their surroundings, and reveal the extraordinary opera underlying seemingly ordinary life. In a complex and chaotic world, she finds her pictures in moments of simple emotional and intimate connection with her subjects.
Sofie Vasquez (b. 1998) is an Ecuadorian documentary photographer born and raised in The Bronx, New York. Her artwork explores the mediums of photography and filmmaking to create long-term projects focusing on narratives about identity, community, and culture.
Raphaël Gaultier is a self-taught freelance portrait and documentary photographer from Seattle, WA currently based in Brooklyn, NY working across a variety of genres to capture the intimacies of daily life. His work is concerned with the concept of home, whether that’s found in spaces, people or objects that speak to who we are.
Cat Byrnes is an artist whose photographs reflect a graceful, gentle, and generous stance towards the world she inhabits and explores.
Samantha Box is a Jamaican-born, Bronx-based photographer whose work is an articulation of the ways in which identity – and by extension, community, networks of care and survival, ideas of home and belonging – are formed within spaces of sociopolitical and physical liminality such as Blackness, queerness, and diaspora.
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Editor’s Note
I just returned from a trip to Colorado and Utah - my first plane trip since the Pandemic upended all of our lives. While it was an absolutely fantastic trip in every way possible, as a photographer I often found myself questioning the images I was finding and making. The landscape and history in these parts of America are so stunningly beautiful, visually rich, and complicated that it challenges visual artists to find new ways to see and describe it.
In this editor's note, I reflect on some of the challenges I faced and images I made exploring some of America's most beautiful places, and the choices we generally face in defining and describing place.
Can you visit a place only once and make a true and honest photo of it?
“Maybe I'm guilty of playing too much with these image editing apps and techniques, but lately, I've felt like all these endlessly proliferating images have become an unstable and disorienting hall of mirrors. There's no 'this is the one version of any picture because any picture can be endlessly modified. I've lost my way.“
How a love for some of the most banal photography subjects (sunsets, flowers, birds) ignited a lifelong passion for photography that has far transcended its origins.
A deep critical dive into NFTs and photography exploring how they work, possible benefits, and the many pitfalls of this new technology.
This week's editor's note is a reflection on time zones - the systemic ones we're embedded in like daylight saving time, the personal ones, like my bathroom's time zone which is 11 minutes ahead of whatever time it actually is, and photographic time zones, like the 1/400th of a second shutter speed that many street photographers work within.
The Weekly Roundup
A regular roundup of interesting photography news, great photography links, photography videos, and much more.
A regular roundup of interesting photography news, great photography links, photography videos, and much more.
A regular roundup of interesting photography news, great photography links, photography videos, and much more.
A regular roundup of interesting photography news, great photography links, photography videos, and much more.
A look at some of the best photography stories of the week along with photography opportunities, and more.
A look at some of the best photography stories of the week along with photography opportunities, and more.
A look at some of the best photography stories of the week along with photography opportunities, and more.
A look at some of the best photography stories of the week along with photography opportunities, and more.
A look at some of the best photography stories of the week along with a great video about photography, photography opportunities, and more.
A look at some of the best photography stories of the week along with a great video about photography.
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