Forests have long been entwined with myth and folklore. They have enticed and inspired us since ancient times, creating stories that have been shared across cultures and centuries in oral and written language. In such stories, the forest has many…
Drawing on a series of photographs made between 2019 and 2020 in the Jackson Heights–Roosevelt Avenue/74th Street train station in Queens, New York, Roosevelt Station proves at once mundane and almost ethereal in its tenor. Here, New York photographer David…
“I’m from a small town in Northern Finland surrounded by a vast, sparsely populated wilderness. Most pass through the town on their way someplace else without ever knowing it was a hotspot for UFO sightings in the 1960s. Unaware of…
Are you aware of any conspiracy theories? I’m proud to say that I’ve started some of them. Have you recently been living by any life philosophy? Fear interviews. What is the worst thing about city life? Everything. Come move to the woods…
How to Look Natural in Photos is a book about a totalitarian system which uses photography for its purposes. It includes reflections on the mechanism and relationships connected with looking and photographing, observing and being observed, describing and being described….
Have you recently been living by any life philosophy? “Where you spend your attention is where you spend your life.” What is it that interests you about photography? That I can pretty much make photos anywhere, any time. I’m into…
Who knew the world could change so much, Disturbed routines, submerged in houses. Mask on with freedoms gone, Emotions creep up, but I hold on. Proms canceled, nurses abandoned, Forced to walk in uncertainty. But I learn, grow and remember…
Have you recently been living by any life philosophy? I’d rather meditate than philosophize but I do none of them. What will baffle future generations about our day and age? I have a 7-year-old son who hates phones and computers, he’s giving me…
This project examines my experience, where sadness, shame, anxiety, excitement, nostalgia, over the years have created in me a sense of constant loss, without a precise meaning. I immersed myself in the depths of these sensations, staying there for a long…
Q. What is it that interests you about photography? It allows me to think about color, physical space, and the significance of objects. A. Through photography I can use these elements to visualize lived experiences of Black womanhood in an…
A foreboding meditation in the vein of Southern Gothic literature, Drake’s most recent body of work emerged through her collaboration with an enigmatic group of women loosely calling themselves “Knit Club.” The nature of the club is ambiguous. It is…
Submissions are now open for The 2021 MACK First Book Award. If you have a project intended for print submit all considerations to firstbookaward.com before the 25th of January 2021. The MACK First Book Award is a publishing prize open…
Primal Sight, a collection of works by 146 artists, and essays by David Campany and Gregory Eddi Jones, surveys the state of contemporary black-and-white photography. The project, curated by Efrem Zelony-Mindell, includes the works of intergenerational, interdisciplinary, and intersectional artists,…
Have you recently been living by any life philosophy? I’ve been reading a lot more on absolute idealism and the idea of reality/history creating identity, not that I live by it per se but the readings have been captivating and…
We, humans, have a special connection to clouds. We seem to recognize everything from faces to rearing horses reflected in these formations in the sky. But certain clouds signify something different than a mere approaching rainstorm or a vivid imagination….
The day you were born, I wasn’t born yet. This is what I have to do now with my life. When this pandemic began in 2020, I lost control like people around the world. I talked with my parents more than…
Alice, Hannah, Sarah, Bianca, and Kate lived in the hundred-year-old house on Montgomery Street, near the art school and the women’s college. They mixed teas and tinctures, dyed fabrics in the backyard, designed costumes for children’s plays, gave each other…
Have you recently been living by any life philosophy? Respect, comfort and listen to one another. I put these positive vibes out into the world hoping that it will come back to me. It’s important to maintain a healthy philosophy especially…
“Of the forms of photography, or photo-projects that are around today, very few go all the way back to the beginnings of the medium. The portrait survey is one of them. It appeals to that deep desire to gather…
“I am like a waiter who was given a special identity. At this time, I may be a stranger, perhaps a maker of taste and emotion, maybe a peeper next door, maybe just a recorder using a camera to invade…
