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 2010Guest 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 2010Guest 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 2010The 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 2010These 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 2010These 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 2010The 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 2010These 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 2009These 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 2009This 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 2009On 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 2009Publish 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 2009The 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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The Burden of Aid
by Ruxandra Guidi; Photos by Roberto Guerra, July 2009Since 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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Wasteland
by Bombay Flying Club, June 2009This 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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