News — Jon Feinstein

For much of his decade-plus career, photographer Barney Kulok has taken various elements of New York City’s landscape and transformed them from a hackneyed tapestry of visual tourism to one thick with conceptual promise. His work, which ranges from quiet urban scenes, to videos and collaborations with other artists, to meditations on architecture, is characterized by a desire to view the world as an open studio with limitless possibilities. 'Landscape As Studio,' a digital feature with text by Jon Feinstein, traces the development of Kulok's distinctive way of seeing objects from the everyday world as fodder for thoroughly considered explorations of...

In this new Daylight Digital feature, Jon Feinstein discusses the development of photographer Timothy Briner from his sensitive depictions of the American cultural landscape to the liberatory experiments – in the darkroom and beyond – showcased in his body of work entitled 'Time, Labor, Loss.'

Lucas Blalock's photographs use intentionally evident editing processes to dissect the relationship(s) of the increasingly digital-leaning photographic medium to its analog incarnations – as well as to painting and sculpture – with occasionally unsettling, conceptually rich results. With text by Jon Feinstein.    

Eirik Johnson's emotionally charged photographs of adolescent carvings in tree trunks are shot entirely at night using sparklers, moonlight and prismatic light. The resulting pictures are luminous remnants of love, devotion and personal obsession. With text by Jon Feinstein. View the feature here!