February 2012
7 posts
Got Caught Up Out There: Photography by Homeless...
We wanted to work with our neighbor in Santa Monica, OPCC, and with women from their extraordinary program, Daybreak. We couldn’t imagine a better chance to bring the power of storytelling, through photography and film, to women living through such a challenging time in their lives. We also saw it as an opportunity to help lift up the voices of people living at the margins of our society and,...
Ignacio Torres
This project began from the theory that humans are made of cosmic matter as a result of a stars death. I created imagery that showcased this cosmic birth through the use of dust and reflective confetti to create galaxies. The models organic bodily expressions as they are frozen in time between the particles suggest their celestial creation. In addition, space and time is heightened by the use...
Yuki Shingai
Massive earthquake and tsunami hit the northern part of Japan on March 11th, 2011. It was one of the worst earthquakes ever in history, and as of June 28th, 15,506 people were killed, 7,297 people still missing, and approximately 90,000 people living in shelters. Most of the casualties were swallowed by the tsunami.
This natural disaster also revealed other social and technological problems,...
The Las Fotos Project Nature: Double Exposed
Over the summer of 2011, Las Fotos Project conducted a series of workshops with youth in Girl Scout Troop 3111 focused on reconnecting with nature and exploring their imaginations and creativity through the medium of photography. Each student received an analog camera and one roll of 35mm film, as well as instruction and guidance on how to create photographs using a technique known as double...
Jessica Yatrofsky
Work by Jessica Yatrofsky. See more here. Be sure to check out her blog iheartboy and her new film A Naked Heart.
January 2012
19 posts
Chang Kyun Kim
This project describes suburban warehouse stores as temples. By capturing the mystic mood of the architectural details in the midnight through long exposure, I wanted the appearances to invoke ironic holiness and unconscious domination of the commercial brand in people’s lives.
I think the strip malls in suburban AMerica can be seen as another kind of religious figure in a sense that...
The Las Fotos Project Nature: Double Exposed
Over the summer of 2011, Las Fotos Project conducted a series of workshops with youth in Girl Scout Troop 3111 focused on reconnecting with nature and exploring their imaginations and creativity through the medium of photography. Each student received an analog camera and one roll of 35mm film, as well as instruction and guidance on how to create photographs using a technique known as double...
Rachel Stollar
Over the past year, I have been manipulating materials in order to generate temporary constructions that lead to sexually suggestive images. The series that has evolved from this process, entitled Second Skin, are abstract photographs that suggest the texture of flesh and the shape of the body. Often erotic, the forms express my manipulation of a surface that is a substitute for skin. Using...
Melissa Mercier
I photograph images that deal with our uncontrollable behavior. These involuntary characteristics can be as simple as blinking or inhaling, but more specifically are those that manifest themselves as obsessive. Through my work I allow breathing room, as if to remedy the suffering while calling attention to the cause. My mission is a call to arms for all of the visually compelled and obsessed....
Haley Jane Samuelson
I am both the casualty and consequence of many dichotomies. I remain whole, and yet I am simultaneously divided, torn between the very things that bind me: Between the reality of adulthood and the image of it; between my need to grow roots and the want to travel; the desire for independence and the longing for another; the diverse and suasive avenues of the heart; the meaning of...
Ho Chang
My work is based on a passage from the Bible, “The Tower of Babel.” In which humans built a tower to challenge and be like the Divine. These were the only actions of human kind to challenge the Divine without the science and technologies we have today. The attempt by the humans to build the highest rising tower towards God resulted catastrophe where people were separated by different...
Hernease Davis
I have been working with images of black plastic bags. I first started collecting these bags off of the street when I moved to Harlem. This being my 10th home in 5 years, I felt dislocated, lonely, and tired of transition. I took to these objects as a type of landmark of my new neighborhood. They were everywhere, and I could not help but pick them up. I fell in love with these bags as...
Li-Han Lin
Our Dreaming Space is Open is a part of my ongoing Taiwan series. Partly inspired by films of Taiwanese new wave filmmakers Edward Yang, Tsai Ming-liang, and Hou Hsiao Hsien. The photo series is part of an upcoming book project.
Work by Li-Han Lin. See more here.
Bahar Yurukoglu
The title Neoscape refers to a new landscape. My work deals with the contradictions and tension that arise in a society of passive consumption and how this manifests in the landscape. Working in the studio I construct temporary still lifes using colored translucent plastic and I make photographs. The straight edges and intense colorcast insert ambiguity into the process of perception...
The Las Fotos Project Nature: Double Exposed
Over the summer of 2011, Las Fotos Project conducted a series of workshops with youth in Girl Scout Troop 3111 focused on reconnecting with nature and exploring their imaginations and creativity through the medium of photography. Each student received an analog camera and one roll of 35mm film, as well as instruction and guidance on how to create photographs using a technique known as double...
Erin O'Keefe
As both an artist and an architect, I am interested in the terrain between two-dimensional representation and three-dimensional space. The tendency of photography to distort and flatten space makes it a fertile medium to explore these issues.
These images combine nature and architectural space in an evocative and open-ended way. I am interested in the chaotic mysterious space of nature, and in...
Nathan Bett
Not how it happened, but as I perceived it.
There is a strange dichotomy around the camera in America today. At a time when so many people are turning the camera on themselves in quest of fame, or attention, or who knows why, many people are equally adverse to the lens and are loath to have there image taken. This series describes my experience of learning to photograph on the...
Courtney Newvine
This series was ignited by the simple idea of an altered landscape. Normally, as anartist mainly exploring realism, this project was the first to lead me into an unrealistic conceptual realm. I wanted to illuminate, bring something completely to life in an environment that had little relevance to its subject. I craved to stimulate both speculation of the occurrences and captivation all at the...
The Las Fotos Project Nature: Double Exposed
Over the summer of 2011, Las Fotos Project conducted a series of workshops with youth in Girl Scout Troop 3111 focused on reconnecting with nature and exploring their imaginations and creativity through the medium of photography. Each student received an analog camera and one roll of 35mm film, as well as instruction and guidance on how to create photographs using a technique known as double...
Niv Rozenberg
The work “Automonuments” deals with high-rise buildings, and specifically skyscrapers as a phenomenon of modern life. I use photography to isolate city’s fragments in order to construct a new vision, a de-naturalized view of my surroundings. Duplicating and “stitching” one level of a building to another emphasize the uniformity within the architectural structure as well as with its...
Lou Noble
Erika
“There is a certain degree of trust I am usually afforded by my models. A social contract is formed, and most of the time they go out on a limb a bit further than I do. Sometimes they let me into their homes, and that’s a big thing, man. Letting a stranger inside your house. Sometimes they come to mine, and that’s a big thing, too. Walking into a foreign place, not knowing who...
December 2011
13 posts
Lisa Smith
In “Residue,” the physical space of my home is transformed into a psychological terrain that explores the dual states of pleasure and terror in response to the “domestic.” The abstracted images of marks and residue created as a by‐product of daily life are simultaneously real and abstract, seductive and repulsive. The images invite contemplation and negotiation the space where...
Goseong Choi
“Umma” Korean for “Mom” is a recent series of photographs witnessing a dramatic family event, my grandmother’s passing. When I was in Korea photographing in January, I was taking intimate domestic pictures of my family in their daily lives. Then I went to a small village where my father was from and was photographing the rural life there when i got word that my...
Nicole Sloan
Nicole Sloan is a Southern California based artist, who works in both photography and video. Through these mediums, she explores identity in relation to the power play of the parent-child dynamic. Her work also deals with the breakdown of the nuclear family, parental drug abuse, childhood trauma and the awkwardness of adolescences.
Work by Nicole Sloan. See more here.
Lindsey Schulz
A process that severs a connection to a person’s thoughts, memories, feelings, actions, or sense of identity.
A particular interest in psychological fragility and behavior, along with the compulsion to expose vulnerability.
An emphasis on emotional entanglement.
An exploration of the phenomenon of memory, imagination and time, and the imprint they have on materials.
Preoccupation with...
Catarina Gates
We are constantly over-saturated with imagery. It has become easy to feel dismissive towards the photograph. The singularity of the image seems to be slowly fading.
In my practice, I create image objects that use tactics and tactility in an attempt to breathe new vitality into the life of the photograph and settle my personal frustrations with the medium’s flatness. I do this through...
Elisa Schwalm
“Life/Death” examines the relationship of the notion of death in photography to the notion of death in the museum habitat diorama. Through the act of photographing, this space of immortal life is resurrected, flattening the divide between life and death. I am a person in awe of nature. Dioramas, an early tool of representation and education, were a way to see and understand nature, near and...
Magali Duzant
The photographic series Ardara and On feeds into an American stereotype; the West as a place of possibility and new beginning coupled with a feeling of disillusionment in that idea; a feeling of loss, all placed within a storied and cinematic setting.
These images illustrate the ways in which a new place is seen and felt on ones’ own - viewed through the prism of combined personal...
Franck Lesbros
I try to give to my visual research the capacity to rebound, to ensure that the picture has generated not one, but several degrees of reading. I wish to extend the time for contemplation by the questioning. The distance between the subject, and how to treat it, adds to this desire for a vibration between what we see, what we accept and what remains. The photo can be a means of translation, but...
Collin Avery
My photographs are about a particular process of observation which I acquired during adolescence. As a child I was afraid of confrontation, so as a way to escape difficult mental and physical situations I had designated hiding zones located throughout the house and yard where I could disappear to. During these times of self introspection, I became fixated on certain physical details of the...
Francis Holstrom
Reflection and distortion are embraced in the work to draw attention to our distance from the events depicted, our distance from nature, our distance from the ‘real’. Since much of our lives are lived online, I have begun to look for subject matter here, and rely on the poignancy of the floating subject / adultered image to create a new story. Fascinated by natural disasters and...
Aubrey Hays
Between Dog and Wolf
In negotiating my own surroundings, a process—or performance—of endurance is defined. Short-lived acts toward or within the landscape are my fight and my surrender to the untamed environment. By grappling with the uncomfortable, the disquiet, the unknown, I lay gesture to an overwhelming need to challenge isolation within these spaces, to dominate it, but also subsume...
Giacomo Fortunato
Turning twenty-one years old is a milestone in American culture. At this age one is labeled as a responsible, mature and independent member of society.
Twenty-one did not bring anything new to me… I had been drinking for years, I had been living in the same city almost my entire life, and I was still hanging out with the same group of childhood friends. I realized that instead of...
Bobby Davidson
Title: “US Letter”
Year: 2011
“…papers massed in the air, contracts, resumes blowing by, intact snatches of business.”
In Don DeLillo’s “Falling Man” he describes a scene of both disarray and chaos at ground zero on the day the towers disappeared from the New York skyline. Is it possible that something as simple as an 8.5 x 11 piece of paper falling from a sky of ash have...
November 2011
15 posts
Jesse Cesario
With these images I was looking for a way to remove awkwardness from the traditional portrait setting. Because we were so overwhelmed by the waves and water, there was very little space for self consciousness. In an attempt to capture unselfconscious emotions, i moved us to a situation where we were both out of a comfortable control.
There is an emotional connection between myself and the...
Jessica Dean
This series explores the emotional and physical transition process of adolescent boys growing up in the in the South Bronx. They are expected to exceed their parents’ achievements while withstanding the negative influences surrounding them. Creating the family they weren’t lucky enough to be born into allows them to stay alive with possibility. It is a portrait of a generation of young men so...
Valerie Green
This project focuses on the holiday shopping frenzy and the Oniomania (the uncontrollable urge to by things) that ensues. Unsuspecting shoppers were photographed in five distinct retail districts in Los Angeles. (The Third Street Promenade, Century City, Beverly Hills, The Grove and Santee Alley) Beginning on Black Friday and continuing through Christmas.
The day after Thanksgiving marks the...
Dario Cestaro
Work by Dario Cestaro. See more here.
Mark Fernandes
My work deals with memory through a conceptual photographic process. Drawn from my interest in non-linear perception, my artistic approach is based on the deconstruction/reconstruction of space. Composed of different moments in time, I compress my archived photographic information into a single image.
Each of these portraits is a constructed image consisting of numerous photographic...
Julia Forrest
A woman presents herself within the landscape. She turns a mirror towards the viewer, breaking up the solid environment. She interacts with the landscape she wanders in, blending into the background, changing with scale, or holding a part of the landscape itself. The whole image becomes a pictorial illusion and as the photographer, I am in complete control of the composition. In...
Shawn Nee
Work by Shawn Nee. See more here.
Olga Migliaressi-Phoca
Olga’s work is mainly focused on portraiture. Her visuals form a culture study that references a specific place and time, exploring issues of gender, identity and social typography. Capturing the surface of an appearance, her portraits challenge the viewer to look through stereotypes, bringing them closer to the true nature of the subject.
Work by Olga Migliaressi-Phoca. See more...
Ghada Khunji
‘To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never power. Above all, to watch. To try and understand. To never look away....
Derek Zimmerman
My graphic designs force you to ponder the workings of big brother, the inevitable revolt of nature against humanity, and the hype you’ve bought since Public Enemy asked you not to believe it.
Work by Derek Zimmerman. See more here.
Cameron Johnson
Work by Cameron Johnson. See more here.