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Featured photographer Marna Clarke
Portraits that explore aging and acceptance Time As We Know It, Marna Clarke’s 12-year long project visualizes aging bodies, intimacy, determination, and self-acceptance. Work from this project is being featured for Issue 115 – Partnership. Clarke’s insightful photographs share aspects of her life, and her 20 year partnership with Igor Sazevich. Her images of daily
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Location: Online Type: Essay, Featured Photographer, Portraits
Interview with photographer Rick van der Klooster
The featured photographer for ‘Issue 114 – The Portrait 2022’ is Netherlands-based artist Rick van der Klooster. For this issue, contributors were prompted by: What makes a portrait a portrait? How is it different from a snapshot, still life or a landscape? Do we learn who a person is from a portrait or do we
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Location: Online Type: Black and White, Featured Photographer, Interview, Landscapes, Portraits
Reaching for Dawn by Elliott Verdier
Liberia’s population generally does not speak of the bloody civil war which took place from 1989-2003. No proper memorial has been built, no day is dedicated to the commemoration of the brutal conflict. The country largely refuses to officially condemn its perpetrators, which hinders the collective healing process, and possibility of social recognition of the
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Location: Online Type: Book Review, Interview, Landscapes, Portraits
Book Review: Sleeping Beauty by Lydia Panas
The first line of the press release for Sleeping Beauty by Lydia Panas states: “Portraits of women and girls intertwined with the photographer’s gaze, in a rare subversion of photography’s power relations.” Panas is no stranger to subverting the power relationship (of photography’s male dominated history, we presume) as her work in The Mark of Abel,
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Location: Online Type: Book Review, Portraits
Book Review: Finding Home by Becky Field
Photographer Becky Field photographed and interviewed many of New Hampshire’s immigrants and refugees. She interviewed forty people, from different countries, with different stories. Some are men, some women, they differ in age and why they left their home countries, and how come they settled in New Hampshire. “The photographs were usually taken in a home
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Location: Online Type: Book Review, Portraits
6th Annual Creative Portrait Exhibition @ Los Angeles Center of Photography
6th Annual Creative Portrait Exhibition
October 24 – November 17, 2021
Location: California, Los Angeles Type: Exhibition, Portraits
Spandita Malik @ Baxter St
Spandita Malik – Vadhu: The Embroidered Bride October 13 – November 10, 2021 Opening Reception: Wednesday, October 13th | 5pm – 8pm “A New York-based artist from Chandigarh, India, Malik often addresses women’s rights and gendered violence through her lens-based interdisciplinary practice. The works in Vadhu: The Embroidered Bride use wedding portraits as a departure
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Location: New York, New York City Type: Exhibition, Portraits
BOOK REVIEW: What She Said by Deanna Templeton
When I first glanced through this book, I thought, well, I guess this is not for me. These youngsters live in a world that is surely totally foreign and very likely incomprehensible to me, a retired man living in Switzerland. Yet for reasons unbeknownst to me, I again and again turned to the pictures that
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Location: Online Type: Book Review, Portraits
Book review: Cruise Night by Kristin Bedford
At the time of this review, the weather in the midwest is turning to the cooler climate of Autumn. Fall festivals are right around the corner. Those festivals include crowds of people, delicious food, concerts at twilight, and parades. My hometown in Indiana holds a fall festival every year, and the parade always includes historic
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Location: Online Type: Book Review, Car culture, Portraits
Jess T. Dugan @ Saint Louis Art Museum
Currents 120: Jess T. Dugan
Sept. 17 through Feb. 20, 2022
Location: Missouri, St. Louis, St. Louis Type: Exhibition, Portraits
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