Hiroyuki Ito is a Japanese photographer based in New York. A frequentcontributor, covering performance-artsevents, his work can be regularly seen in the New York Times. Ito’s eyes are always wandering — capturing moments around him. A prolific artist, Hiro compiles his archive of strikingimages into books. Last year, Ito traveled across Japan, and Hokkaido was one of his stops in his journey. What brought…
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by Dilys Ng “We Used To Be” is Kirsten Hixson’s haunting beauty. With photographs of vastness and dead ends, Hixson uses desolate places as a passage to link her past and present to trigger her narratives. Growing up in the mountains of Tennessee and away from (seemingly) mainstream commercialism, Hixson borrows her surrounding landscape to…
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Born in Bosnia, Sanjin Hadzalic is a documentary photographer currently based in the Netherlands. Snapshots After the War is a series of re-photographed images found by Hadzalic and remains the only form of concrete memory he has of his home country.
Read MoreONCE UPON A TIME ON THE BOWERY: After finishing photo school in Boston, I came to New York City in 1976 looking for work. One winter night, I stumbled into CBGB’s to see the band Television. It wasn’t very crowded – in those days you could fit everyone who went to the place in one…
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Staraya Utka (in Russian it sounds like an «old duck») is a village in Sverdlovsk region of the Urals. It sprang to life and prospered after a factory was built in the firth of River Utka in 1729. But at some point the administration lost concern in the development of the factory, and the productivity…
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Adam Forrester was born in Alabama and has lived in Los Angeles, Mexico City, coastal Maine, and most recently, the sleepy southern oasis of Athens, Georgia. He completed his MFA in Photography at the Lamar Dodd School of Art in 2013. Adam makes work about bizarre myths, enduring folktales, and mumbled truths. He is currently,…
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Patricia Voulgaris is a photographer from Long Island, NY. “Throughout Fragments, I focus on how memories become abstracted and distorted over time. When one considers the past, their memory of a certain person or place is often fragmental. However, people can remember certain distinct qualities about an individual or a particular place. Time passes, recollections…
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Dan Wetmore is a photographer operating between Pittsburgh, PA and Syracuse, NY. He received his BFA from Syracuse University in 2013, and now works at a food cooperative to fund his photography practice. He has long brown hair and drives a Buick station wagon. Wetmore’s images are straightforward, but never easy. His images from his…
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Julia Forrest is a Brooklyn-based artist with a home-made darkroom in her apartment. Forrest creates arresting, black and white photographs of women from another world. They may be dressed like young, delicate, girls, but their gestures demonstrate great strength. Forrest’s vignettes touch upon themes of time, death, rebirth and destiny, as she constructs her scenes…
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Pauline Miko is a Belgian photographer currently based in New York. One of her ongoing series, “As Light Aligns” is serendipitous, gentle and delicate. Combining sensitive portraiture with carefully selected spiritual imagery, Miko creates a narrative that implies a sense of other-worldliness without being vulgar about its subject matter. Miko balances the stern, concrete stares…
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We posted a blog post about Hiroyuki Ito‘s solo show at the Gulf+Western Gallery at NYU Tisch a little bit ago. This time around we are highlighting the New York based Japanese photographer’s work. Ito is one of those photographers who just never stop taking pictures. In the age where people worry that too many…
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Francisco Navarrete Sitja is a photographer who is based in Chile. He has been exhibited widely in Europe. Sitja engages in a variety of mediums, but his recent work focuses on using photographic means to redefine the context of spaces. Sitja is particularly interested in transient places that seem to lack purpose or intention. Shot…
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Adam Leon is a young landscape photographer who is interested in the “displacements of modern naturalism” – his works practice a considerable amount of restraint when it comes to revealing much details, despite their personal contexts. Leon photographs contemporary places that retain a significance in his biography in a perspective that feels classical. His images…
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