Featured Artist: Lydia Panas, “Falling from Grace…”
Falling From Grace… I am interested in the facades people present to hide things about themselves. I look at the smallest details to understand what might lie underneath. Together the portraits in this series present a feast: fruit,...
REBECCA FOLEY
Food Phobias I am interested in engaging with the history of photography through my work and in finding new ways of using antique and contemporary processes to explore aspects of my own personal and cultural history. Food Phobias looks to a...
JOAN KOCAK
Natalia’s Path © Joan Kocak Visit www.joankocakphotography.com to see more of Joan’s...
BONNIE JONES
He Took The Butter from the series Journal Portraits © Bonnie Jones While many have become enthralled with found photo albums, photographer Bonnie Jones turned her attention to found journals. Bonnie recreates imagined scenes using the...
GREG RUFFING
24-61a (Damaged Goods) © Greg Ruffing
Photographer Greg Ruffing’s series Damaged Goods considers the photograph as object, examining the immaterial value of an item implicated in the recording of our personal histories yet so easily (or accidentally) disposed of. When enlarged these images take on abstract qualities, as Ruffing points out like “pointillist paintings… or topographical map forms.”
Ruffing’s work has been published in The New York Times Magazine, Mother Jones and TIME Magazine just to list a few.
Visit www.gregruffing.com to see more of Greg’s work
Read MoreCHARLES ROZIER
Anna, dinner © Charles Rozier
Charles Rozier makes another appearance at the Center with an image from his unique 35+ year document of family and friends. These un-posed portraits express an intimacy seldom encountered by casual relations yet quietly identifiable.
You can see more of Charles’ work at www.charlesrozierphotographs.com
Read MoreNICK BRANDT – BIG LIFE AFRICA
Elephant Drinking, Amboseli, 2007. Killed by Poachers, 2009. © Nick Brandt
Nick Brandt will be juror for the ART IN NATURE exhibition. Whether or not you plan to submit, don’t miss out on finding out about the organization that he has founded, BIG LIFE AFRICA FOUNDATION.
Read MoreZOE PERRY-WOOD
Triplets, Carnival, Provincetown © Zoe Perry-Wood
Zoe Perry-Wood embraces a Cartier-Bresson style approach to image making – ever searching for that moment that demands a camera is put into action. Perry-Wood has focused on documentary style portraits of the people she encounters at home and abroad.
See more of Zoe’s work at http://zoeperrywoodphotography.com
Read MoreCHUCK KIMMERLE
Island © Chuck Kimmerle
Wyoming based photographer Chuck Kimmerle works exclusively in black and white, finding a minimalist beauty in empty skies, open fields and gravel roads. The resulting images resonate with Kimmerle’s intention to connect to the “pastoral simplicity of the land.”
More of Chuck’s work can be seen at www.chuckkimmerle.com
Read MoreMATT EICH
Going out © Matt Eich
Matt Eich’s Baptist Town project was recently featured with the launch of Emphas.is, a crowd funding source geared towards photo journalism. Eich has received numerous accolades as of late, awarded the HCP Juried Fellowship at the Houston Center For Photography, a 2nd place in POYi 67, named one of PDN’s 30 Emerging Photographers to Watch and received the F25 Award for Concerned Photography.
Eich writes:
In a place like Baptist Town, Mississippi there are two paths you can take in life but the people I have encountered there tread the line between the two, walking both in the light and in shadow. They are neither good nor evil, they are simply human. This is the beginning of a two-part examination of contemporary race and class disparities in the Mississippi Delta town of Greenwood. My goal is to remind people that while we may live in a time where civil rights are taught in history classes around the country, the real legacies of racism in the south continue to impact people economically and culturally, in persistent and often pernicious ways.
Visit www.matteichphoto.com to see more of Eich’s work and read about his Baptist Town project HERE
Read MoreYOICHI NAGATA
Star of the Stars Natsumi © Yoichi Nagata; Juror’s Honorable Mention
Tokyo born photographer Yoichi Nagata has been photographing creatively attired club goers at Japanese dress-code parties for the last three years. These portraits render Tokyo night life as a peculiar amalgam of East/West sub cultures. Nagata was a finalist in Photo Lucida’s Critical Mass 2010.
More of Yoichi’s work can be seen at http://yoichinagata.com
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