'Eyes Without a Face' Recent Works by Noel Rodo-Vankeulen 

"The title, which references the mechanized and often detached character of the image, reflects Rodo-Vankeulen's interest in the nature of pictures as a realm for visual, poetic and conceptual possibility."

Photography is a medium like no other. With a simple tool called the camera, a person is able to freeze a fraction of a moment in time, record it, and cherish that moment forever. However, despite this engaging motif, many photographs that we see in our daily lives today, have become mundane and normal, no longer representing the capture of the fleeting moment. By opening up new ways of seeing and new contextual spaces, Noel Rodo-Vankeulen reveals the sophisticated visual dynamic that is embedded in all images.

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Jaime Lowe Interviews Theron Humphrey  

Theron Humphrey

 

Have you ever heard a song, or read a book, or watched a movie that you wish you created? Well, to be honest, I wish I had come up with the premise behind Theron Humphrey’s This Wild Idea.  In 2011, Humphrey set out on his goal: to meet and photograph one person a day for a year.  He traversed 66,565 miles, and visited all 50 states.  Not only did he photograph his subjects and the details of their lives, he gave each person an opportunity to tell his/her story through a recorded interview which he features alongside their portraits on thiswildidea.com.  Humphrey’s earnest and classic storytelling approach, and compassionate, intimate photographs that span the entire country and its citizens have garnered international recognition and an impressive audience.

 

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An Interview with Darek Fortas 

 

Photographer Darek Fortas’ most recent project, Coal Story, is a personal response to the history and aftermath of the Solidarity movement in Poland. The movement — led by human-rights activist Lech Wałęsa — was paramount for Poland’s labor parties and trade unions and their rise to independence throughout the 1980s. In approaching the subject photographically, Mr. Fortas — who is now based in Ireland, but originally from Poland — culled images from photographic archives dating back to the 1960s. Using these historic images of Polish coal miners in addition to his own large-format photographs of the present day, Fortas’ Coal Story takes place before, during, and after the uprising of Solidarity. Read a recent interview about the project between Fortas and Daylight below.

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Interview by Trent Davis Bailey
Photographs by Darek Fortas

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Finding her better Half 

Julia Kozerski - Half

If self-portraiture is often an exercise in vanity, Julia Kozerski's series, Half, is rather like a surrender to humility. When she started documenting her weight loss in 2009, the goal wasn't parading her new shape, but accepting it. Superficially, losing half of your body mass when you're morbidly obese is an incredible accomplishment; the reality of it, portrayed by Kozerski, is also a story of mourning your former self, and struggling to recognize the new one. 

 

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Orion Magazine Presents Landscape and Loss 

Copyright Matt Black

How is the hallowed tradition of landscape photography changing? Where can its most exciting new practitioners be found? How does it intersect with documentary photography?

This Thursday, October 23rd, Join Orion Magazine for Landscape and Loss, a special live web event featuring photographer Matt Black, to discuss photographic projects which depict landscape to tell a story. 

Matt Black's most recent body of work, After the Fall, chronicles the story of Santiago Mitlatongo, a town that sits on a landmass that is moving about a yard per day. 

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Alphabet of Light, #15, by Kirsten Rian (Aaron Vincent Elkaim) 

Photograph by Aaron Vincent Elkaim

Photograph by Aaron Vincent Elkaim

 

Traplines

Sometimes it’s called “Aboriginal possession,” or “Indian title,” the historic right for Natives to use and occupy the land of their ancestors--and this includes trapping without interference. Traplines are areas where this right to trap fur-bearing animals is upheld. And if industry uses traditional lands, the person holding the trapping rights is often compensated. 

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10th Annual Lucie Awards 2012 

The 10th Annual Lucie Awards is upon us! Every year, the Lucie Awards strives to honor master photographers as well as emerging photographers, both of which have contributed greatly to the passion of photography. Through nominations and the Lucie Advisory Board, the chosen honoree's will be celebrated at an annual gala event in  their respective categories. The Lucie Awards are the photographic equivalent to the Oscar's for cinema, so get your tickets!

Also, check out the seminars that will be back to back today at Pier 59 Studios West in Santa Monica, California! You can check out the seminars here: http://www.facebook.com/luciefoundation/events

Tickets and information for the Lucie Awards:

http://lucieawards.com/index.html

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To Retrieve and Protect: Stacy Lynn Waddell Interviews William Cordova 

Artist william cordova’s varied practice includes drawing, sculpture, video, film and photography. Photography has been a critical practice for Cordova since the mid 1970’s. Since that time, he has maintained an archive of images that reflects his engagement with resistance and preservation. On a recent afternoon, I had an opportunity to speak with the artist about his relationship to pictures and the camera.

 

Stacy Lynn Waddell: You and I both maintain archives of 20th century photographs that appear in our work. I retrieve private images, domestic scenes and portraiture of Black life that are often found at antique shops, estate sales and other commercial venues. Where do you find your images?

 

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In Conversation with Lisa Mahar 

Copyright Lisa Mahar

Lisa Mahar first started photographing her sons out of necessity.  She took her first photograph in this series, a self portrait, when her sons reduced their bunk bed into a heap of splintered wood. It had been ten years since she had picked up her camera, but in that moment, she realized that photography might be the thing that would allow her to survive these trying events with her sons. 

Over the past few months, I have corresponded with Mahar. I asked her to write a bit about her photographs for Daylight when I encountered her work at a Mary Ellen Mark workshop in which we were both participants. Although the workshop fell short in terms of intensive critique, Mary Ellen was really engaging in speaking about her own work. The same thing initially drew me to Mahar's photographs--the anecdotes that they both shared when discussing their images were so generative.  

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Alphabet of Light (#14), by Kirsten Rian (Magdalena Sole) 

Photograph by Magdalena Sole

Photograph by Magdalena Sole

 

Measurement

There are instruments for measuring or examining anything. Selenoscopes view the moon. Serimeters test the quality of silk. Topophones determine the direction and distance of a fog horn. Xanthometers measure the color of sea or lake water. A chromatoptometer measure’s the eyes’ sensitivity to color and I have learned to lean into grey most of the time. With a megameter I could determine longitude by observing stars. 

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