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Dana Smessaert: In the Blue Light, I Died
I met Dana Smessaert in the Gray Gallery a week before classes started at East Carolina University. We had lunch together, and honestly, we didn’t separate until two and a half years later, sharing a studio space, duplex, and breakfast on the weekends when we both graduated.
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Jesse Ly: try, take time – take time, try
Jesse Ly is an Asian-American photographic and image-based artist. They hold a BFA from the University of Cincinnati’s college of DAAP. They currently are the Graphic Design and Photography Media Facilities Coordinator at the University of Dayton.
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Chantal Lesley: As I Lay It All To Rest
I came across Chantal Lesley’s work over this past summer. She submitted to nice;04, the fourth annual contemporary art exhibition with Midwest Nice Art, an art collective I founded with my husband, Tim Rickett.
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Piper Smith: The Way of Flowers
I first met Piper Smith at Review Santa Fe last year. She showed me a number of works, from everyday objects in New York City to flower portraits, each one was slightly obscured. We had a wonderful conversation and I have kept up with her work since.
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Arron Levi Foster: Almost, Everything
I’ve been acquainted with Arron Levi Foster’s work for a few years now. I first came across it through the exhibition landscapes: peculiar interpretations, exhibited through Midwest Nice Art, an art collective I founded with my husband, Tim Rickett, and has since exhibited with…
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Jennifer Lauren Smith in conversation with Amanda Sauer
Jennifer Lauren Smith is an artist with a background in sculpture and the humanities, working primarily in analog photography, video, and performance. Her practice is informed by her experience as a deaf person — existing in a soundscape of fragments, residual hearing…
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Ryan Frigillana: Tears, Blood, Sweat
How do memory, images, and systems of belief shape lived experience and a sense of belonging? This question is at the heart of Tears, Blood, Sweat, in which Ryan Frigillana reconsiders the American Dream through intertwined histories of land, labor, and citizenship.
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Tree Week: Donna Bassin: Portraits of a Precarious Earth: Ancient Trees
There is something humbling about standing in front of a tree that has been alive for hundreds, sometimes thousands, of years. But there is also something humbling about standing in a forest in Japan and seeing Donna Bassin‘s portraits of trees printed set amoungst those trees…
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Tree Week: Venessa Monokian: As the Glow Grows
Venessa Monokian initially used photography as a tool for coping with the limitations of her learning disability. She used it as an alternative way of understanding the world, and began experimenting with different ways of presenting images.
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Tree Week: Jamie V. Robertson: In Search of Osman’s Ghost
I met Jamie V. Robertson at the FotoFest reviews in Houston, and was immediately struck by the quiet strength of her images of southern swamplands. The pictures are taken with Infrared film, which makes the tree foliage seem luminescent.
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Tree Week: Han Sungpil: Frozen Fire
The first time I saw Han Sungpil’s work, there was a small crowd leaning over the images in reverential silence. I looked at the photos from the back of the crowd, and saw a multitude of black lines on pristine white paper.
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Tree Week: Sarah Hood Salomon: Under the Overpass
We tend to notice trees when they are beautiful, enormous, or planted exactly where we expect them to be. The trees that grow in the cracks of a city, under freeways, beside construction sites, or in whatever scraps of dirt they can find are easier to overlook.
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Paul Mpagi Sepuya: Labyrinths & Ricochets
The orbit and arc of Paul Mpagi Sepuya’s aesthetic trajectory has steadily tracked across my social media feeds over the last few years. For instance, Sepuya is the juror for this year’s La Jolla Athenaeum 34th Annual Juried Exhibition, which is near the university where he…
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Neal Rantoul: A Life in Photographs
For six decades,Neal Rantoul’s photographs have navigated the shifting sands of photography, sharing his forays into analog and digital, with a perspective from the ground to the air.
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Photography Educator: Lupita Murillo Tinnen
Photography Educator is a monthly series on Lenscratch that highlights outstanding photography teachers who inspire students of all ages. Each month, the series celebrates an educator’s insights, strategies, and excellence in fostering creativity and resilience.
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Bego Antón: All of Them Witches
Bego Antón has just released a new monograph, All of Them Witches, published by Overlapse. In the past few years, we have become somewhat anesthetized to the hollow rantings of outraged politicians claiming they are innocent victims of “witch hunts” when we suspect they have no…
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Alexa Frangos: (Re)arranging
“She is still young, but has a crystal clear grasp of what is wrong with the world,” Frangos writes. “I often imagine her hands picking up the pieces of this shattered world and remaking it, leaving nothing undone in her efforts to right all the wrongs.” I’ve had the pleasure of…
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Stephanie Dupre Routh: The Atlas of Things
In Stephanie Dupre Routh‘s new monograph, Atlas of Invisible Things, published by Kehrer Verlag, photography becomes a space where certainty begins to dissolve.
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John Baer: The Extraordinary Ordinary: A Memoir in Photographs, 1945–1954
John Baer: The Extraordinary Ordinary, A Memoir in Photographs, 1945–1954, edited by Andrew Baer and Megan Moynihan, and published by the John Baer Archive and Paper Cinema Editions, is the definition of a labor of love, from start to finish.
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The Female Gaze: Kimberly Schneider – Uncovering the Ineffable
Kimberly Schneider has been dedicated to the art of the handmade print for more than 15 years, specializing in true infrared film, spiritual landscapes, experimental photograms/lumens, and more.
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Moonsung Lee: Lyrical Attentiveness
I discovered the work of Moonsung Lee shortly after quarantine lifted during the COVID pandemic—when a sense of temporal space and spatial aspects of time seemed to overlap and intertwine.
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Guggenheim 2026: Samantha Appleton
Over the next few months, we are featuring the work of many of the 2026 Guggenheim Fellows as a way to celebrate their achievements and understand legacies and projects that have brought them this tremendous recognition.
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GUGGENHEIM 2026: Lara Shipley
Over the next month or two, we are featuring the work of many of the 2026 Guggenheim Fellows as a way to celebrate their achievements and understand legacies and projects that have brought them this tremendous recognition.
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Guggenheim 2026: Chris Aluka Berry
Over the next few months, we are featuring the work of many of the 2026 Guggenheim Fellows as a way to celebrate their achievements and understand legacies and projects that have brought them this tremendous recognition.
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Nata Drachinskaya: BINOM
I felt a kindred spirit in Nata Drachinskaya as I paged through her two-volume exploration of family memories as well as the mystery surrounding her father’s work as a cryptographer for the KGB for 25 years during the final days of the Soviet Union and beyond.
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Connor Archambault in Conversation with Douglas Breault
Photographs can translate complex contradictions that words are insufficient to describe. Connor Archambault’s photographic series, The Loudest Conversation We’ve Ever Had, is a striking collection of portraits of himself and his father, at once sensitive and sharp.
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Winky Lewis: Shadow Kids
Welcoming the next generation has changed the way I think about the future. When you have a new generation in your life, the world suddenly feels both more hopeful and more fragile.
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Book Talk: Text as Structure in the Photobook
We have evolved into a society that can decode the complex images that are a fluid part of our lives. Photobooks have responded to this by moving beyond being containers of recorded information to become immersive experiences of the artist’s narrative and concept.
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Botanical Photography: The Basics and Moving Beyond the Basics: Natalie Colette Wood
Natalie Collette Wood’s recent work Nesting is a multi-faceted commentary on how humans interact with the natural botanical environment that exists on the fringes of urban life.
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Botanical Photography: The Basics and Moving Beyond the Basics: Jennifer Latour
Jennifer Latour’s Bound Species project is an arresting series of otherworldly minimalist floral assemblages. Each floral stem contains multiple species of floral blooms, each a different shape and color.
