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The opening scene in Which Way to the Frontline?, the documentary about Tim Hetherington’s life as a photographer, is a tight shot of Hetherington in an…
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A First Image
Last fall I attended a photo book workshop with Christian Patterson with the goal of completing a book project that I’d been working on. That project…
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Hayahisa Tomiyasu's TTP
On a Sunday in August a man went for a walk—a common beginning. On this walk, he spotted a fox, he watched it: It sniffed the air, the ground. It “did…
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Lina Scheynius's Touching
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Mikiko Hara's Small Myths
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Hayahisa Tomiyasu's TTP
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Yana Wernicke’s Companions
A white sheet hangs slantwise from branches and string. Parts of the fabric are muddy, with what appear to be footprints, and the sheet bunches at the…
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Matthew Genitempo's Mother of Dogs
Some time in the mid-aughts, years before our social lives would come to be contained in devices we’d hold in the palm of our hand, a network of…
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Mikiko Hara's Small Myths
For Mikiko Hara, the line between life and art can be paper thin. The Japanese photographer carries her camera with her almost everywhere she goes, and…
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Feng Li's Good Night
There is a photo about a quarter of the way through Feng Li’s Good Night that stops me in my tracks each time I see it. Like all the photographs in the…
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Lina Scheynius's Touching
I decided, somewhat by accident, to take a little time off. Not from work, not from life, but from being here, on the internet, writing. The world felt…
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Notes on Digging Chapbook
Hi friends, A quick note on a Friday morning to share a new publication I’m excited about. Glass House Press has published a few inaugural chapbooks…
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Ring
Earlier this month, my friend Christina Battle officially launched her research publication, “Imagining New Systems of Exchange.” Christina invited me…
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Plain Sight
Plain Sight
Looking, care, maintenance, attention. Photography and photo books.
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