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Author Archive: Cary Benbow

About Cary Benbow

Photographer, Writer, Publisher of Wobneb Magazine

Interview with photographer Mary Crnkovic Pilas

While reviewing submissions for Issue 118’s theme, Street Photography, the work of Mary Crnkovic Pilas stood out from the mass of submissions – but not for the criteria I initially expected. The broad topic of street photography has many tropes and themes within, and singular images of people behind rainy, misty, or fogged up windows
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Book Review: Black Archives: A Photographic Celebration of Black Life by Renata Cherlise

  “This book is a refuge as it shows how photographs have been consumed and shared by family members, churches, libraries, archives, and photographers. In viewing this book, we see interwoven stories about self-fashioning, representation, beauty, politics, and community memorialized through the camera. The photographs presented here create some of the most compelling visual responses to racialized images that
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Book Review: Café Lehmitz by Anders Petersen

Without knowing it, I’d been exposed to Petersen’s work in the late 1980s when one of his images was chosen for the cover of Tom Wait’s album, Rain Dogs. The album has been described as being about “the urban dispossessed” of New York City, so this perfectly sets the stage for the type of scenes
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Book Review: Dessert First! by Hanna Quevedo

  Dessert First! has been the example I’ve been comparing against other photography books and zines for the past year. This project was a reminder of how fun it can be to make something with photographs, found art, text, ephemera, and a stretchy band or two to keep all that goodness inside. Like a live
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Book Review: Golden Apple of the Sun by Teju Cole

Golden Apple of the Sun by Teju Cole is a visual exploration of the artist’s personal and cultural identity, as well as a reflection on the relationship between photography and memory. Along with his photographs is an essay, which addresses hunger, fasting, mourning, slavery, intimacy, painting, poetry and the history of photography. I admit that
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Interview with photographer Ekaterina Pavlova

Work from Ekaterina Pavlova’s project ‘Mother’s Diary’ is featured in Issue 117 – Black and White. The diaristic, visual exploration of her hopes and fears pertaining to her personal experience of motherhood are cathartic, reflective, and painfully honest. Pavlova’s brave work lays bare her reality in stark contrast to what she previously considered as the
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Book Review: Invited to Life by B.A. Van Sise

“No matter how it might seem, this is not a book about the Holocaust. This is a story of overcoming.”   Invited to Life contains 90 portraits, each with accompanying text by and/or about the person featured on the page, each of whom are Holocaust survivors. Three essays are included from contributors Dr. Mayim Bialik,
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Book Review: Little Cities by Rich-Joseph Facun

In his second monograph, Little Cities, Rich-Joseph Facun guides viewers on a meandering meditation through Southeastern Ohio by depicting the vernacular post-industrial landscape. In their quiet formality, the images call to mind past dreams, and prompt us to look beyond what can be seen on the surface. Facun’s work explores some of the remaining signs
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Book Review: The Sniper Paused So He Could Wipe His Brow by Sean Lotman

Sean Lotman’s book, The Sniper Paused So He Could Wipe His Brow is a fantastic journey of images, with brief, whisper-like lines of poetry paced throughout a noticeably non-standard binding format (a tall thin book on the shelf). When the book is opened, it forms a square shape – much like Lotman’s images on the
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Book Review: EDGE by David Ricci

David Ricci is fascinated by the role that randomness and chance plays in our lives. There is an underlying rhythmic pulse in the universe which, at particular places and times, is manifested visually in spaces where order and chaos reach a taut balance. He looks for those scenes where a complex image, teetering at the
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