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In Conversation: Lucas Blalock and Talia Chetrit

In Conversation: Lucas Blalock and Talia Chetrit

by Shane Lavalette,
March 2010

Images of electrical cords. Mirrors. Eggs. Glass. Objects from the “Amazing Savings” thrift store down the street. All driven by the question, “What can a photograph be?”

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    Photographs

    by Talia Chetrit, March 2010

    Guest edited by Shane Lavalette, these photographs are driven by the question, “What can a photograph be?”

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    Photographs

    by Lucas Blalock, March 2010

    Guest edited by Shane Lavalette, these photographs are driven by the question, “What can a photograph be?”

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    At the Lake

    by Amy Bennett, February 2010

    The paintings are glimpses of a scene or fragments of a narrative. Similar to a memory, they are fictional constructions of significant moments.

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    Paintings

    by Christine Gray, February 2010

    These paintings focus on the American myth of the seeker, traveling alone through untouched landscapes in search of a revelatory experience of the divine.

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    Less Than One

    by Alexander Gronsky, January 2010

    These portraits of Russia’s outermost regions were shot in areas with a population density of less than one person per square kilometer.

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    Hobo Clown & Forest

    by Allison Schulnik, January 2010

    The claymation videos “Hobo Clown” and “Forest” capture otherworld buffoonery and the sublime, with music by the rock band Grizzly Bear.

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    Sawdust Mountain

    by Eirik Johnson, January 2010

    These photographs are a melancholy love letter to the Northwest—a personal reflection of the region’s past, its hardscrabble identity, and the turbulent future it must navigate.

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    Forecast For Today

    by Dustin Aksland, December 2009

    These twelve photographs reveal a sublime kind of beauty in the oddities and incongruities of the American highway.

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    Waking Vrindavan

    by Shane Lavalette, December 2009

    This series of twenty photographs chronicles the Indian village of Vrindavan, which is believed by many Hindus to be the physical manifestation of heaven.

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    Caribou People

    by Nicolas Villaume and Laird Townsend, December 2009

    On the eve of the United Nations’ Climate Change Conference, this series of photographs documents the lives of the Gwich’in, whose millennia-old culture is threatened by climate change.

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    Publish or Perish

    by Kiel Johnson, November 2009

    Publish or Perish started simply enough as a series of drawings investigating an amazing piece of machinery that I have marveled over since I was little.

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    Ice Houses

    10 photographs by Scott Peterman, November 2009

    The ice fishing shacks in the lake region of Maine and New Hampshire illustrate a primal narrative, one whose elements are shelter, food, warmth, and an ongoing battle against the caprices of nature.

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    Stranded

    by Amy Stein, October 2009

    15 Photographs

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    Boxer

    by Nicolai Howalt, October 2009

    15 Photographs

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    Lima

    by Carlos Jiménez Cahua, October 2009

    15 Photographs

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    Paintings

    by June Glasson, September 2009

    15 Paintings

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    New Orleans After Katrina

    by Mario Tama, September 2009

    20 Photographs

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    Revacuation

    by Brad Benischek, September 2009

    10 Drawings

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    Paintings

    by Ben Grasso, August 2009

    12 Paintings

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    The Earth

    by Li Wei, July 2009

    12 Photographs

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    Paintings

    by Chris Ballantyne, July 2009

    10 Paintings

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    The Burden of Aid

    by Ruxandra Guidi; Photos by Roberto Guerra, July 2009

    Since becoming the world’s first black republic in 1804, Haiti's periods of stability have been few. Today, big donors like the U.S. and the U.N. have invested in this most corrupt country in the Western hemisphere. But have they helped?

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    Tel Aviv Paramedics

    by Amnon Gutman, June 2009

    12 Photographs

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    Wasteland

    by Bombay Flying Club, June 2009

    This stunning multimedia video by Bombay Flying Club brings you into the burning Jharia coal fields and chronicles the lives of those who struggle to make a living there.

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    Paintings

    by John Westmark, June 2009

    10 Paintings

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    Nomads

    by John Sevigny, May 2009

    29 Photographs

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    China, You Are a Luck Star

    by Wayne Liu, May 2009

    34 Photographs

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    Gaza Laid Bare

    by Jason Larkin; Text by Jack Shenker, May 2009

    10 Photographs

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    Picturing History in Rwanda

    by Ted Alcorn, April 2009

    15 Photographs

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    Paintings

    by Angelina Gualdoni, April 2009

    7 Paintings

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    One Million Nets

    by Jenn Warren, April 2009

    Multimedia Slideshow

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    Beaufort West

    by Mikhael Subotzky, April 2009

    11 Photographs

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    White Nights: Russia After the Gulag

    by Donald Weber, March 2009

    20 Photographs

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    Pots & Pans

    by Lisa Lim, March 2009

    Graphic Comic

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    R&R&R

    by Susanne Slavick, March 2009

    10 Mixed Media Works

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    We’re All Gonna Die—100 Meters of Existence

    by Simon Hoegsberg, March 2009

    Multimedia Presentation

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    Strangely Familiar

    by Michal Chelbin, February 2009

    15 Photographs

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    Noches de Gloria

    by Ruxandra Guidi; photos by Roberto Guerra, February 2009

    Multimedia Slideshow

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    Portraits of Emptiness

    by Xu Weixin, January 2009

    15 Paintings

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    Paintings

    by Alex Kanevsky, January 2009

    13 Paintings

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    Health Part 5: Donkisjot

    by Wendy Marijnissen, November 2008

    8 Photographs

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    Paintings

    by Josh Keyes, November 2008

    11 Paintings

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    Complexo do Alemão

    by Ruxandra Guidi; photos by Roberto Guerra, November 2008

    Multimedia Slideshow

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    Hyperinflation and AIDS In Rural Zimbabwe

    by Matt Wright-Steel, October 2008

    18 Photographs

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    Western Views

    by Jesse Chehak, October 2008

    6 Photographs

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    Mooste Noored: Looking Forward

    by Jane Hamill, September 2008

    10 Paintings

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    Once Upon A Time

    by Aaron Schuman, September 2008

    19 Photographs

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    Better Days Ahead

    by Mike Shankman, July 2008

    8 Paintings

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    Between Two Lakes

    by Michael Itkoff, July 2008

    15 Photographs

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    All America City

    by Joseph Tripi, June 2008

    15 Photographs

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    Health Part 4: Black Tide

    by Mark Seager, June 2008

    11 Photographs

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    Health Part 3: H.I.V.

    by Miguel Ribeiro Fernandes, May 2008

    6 Photographs

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    Portraits

    by Y.Z. Kami, May 2008

    10 Paintings

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    Health Part 2: The Caged Dreams

    by Andrew Biraj, May 2008

    5 Photographs

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    Health Part 1: For a Lay Pain

    by Vittorio Zunino Celotto, April 2008

    12 Photographs

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    Health

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    5 Photographers

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    Taqwacore: Muslim Punk in America

    by Kim Badawi, March 2008

    16 Photographs

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    Home

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    5 Photographers

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    Home: Part 5

    5 Photographs by Daniel Rosenthal, January 2008

    5 Photographs

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    Home: Part 4

    8 Photographs by Markel Redondo, January 2008

    8 Photographs

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    Green Mountain Rangers

    by Lucas Thorpe, January 2008

    12 Photographs

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    Home: Part 3

    by Paolo Pellegrin, December 2007

    4 Photographs

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    Church of the SubGenius

    by Lucas Thorpe, November 2007

    13 Photographs

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    Home: Part 2

    by Julia Gillard, November 2007

    6 photographs

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    Home: Part 1

    by Filippo Mutani, October 2007

    7 photographs

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    Swamp Buggy Days

    by Malcolm Lightner, August 2007

    20 Photographs

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    Mapping

    by Elisabeth Lecourt, June 2006

    9 Images

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    Portraiture

    by Jonathan Yeo, June 2006

    10 paintings

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    Bulldozing Belgium

    by Kevin Saidler, April 2006

    14 Images

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    But for the Grace of God

    by Christine Blackburn, November 2005

    13 Photographs

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    Organic Farming

    by Taj Forer, November 2005

    12 Photographs

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    The Time of the Now

    by Sam Durant, September 2005

    12 Images

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    The Plan

    by Michael Schmelling, September 2005

    9 Photographs

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    Make Them Love You

    by Paolo Arao, August 2005

    13 Drawings

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    Squares

    by Felicia Garcia-Rivera, August 2005

    Prints Arranged in a Grid

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    The Bahai Refugee Camp

    by Michal Ronnen Safdie, June 2005

    20 Photographs

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    My Embarrassing, Beautiful Friends

    by Chuck Agro, June 2005

    7 paintings

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    Beukelsblauw

    by Florentijn Hofman, June 2005

    A layer of blue paint only 2 microns thick

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    A Startling Adjacency

    By Philip Heying, May 2005

    27 Photographs

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    Encounters

    by Will Lamson, May 2005

    5 Photographs

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    Lots Can Happen on Grey

    by David Barnes, May 2005

    7 Illustrations

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    Santa Cruz, CA

    by Kate Johnson, May 2005

    4 Photographs

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    Cruising

    by Alex Hoerner, May 2005

    8 Photographs

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    American Images

    by Jesse Chehak, May 2005

    7 Photographs

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    Political Caricature

    by Miguel Cárdenas, May 2005

    12 Images