Embodiment: Salvaging A Self is Stone’s ongoing response to being diagnosed with a mysterious autoimmune condition that threatens her mobility. Rather than making literal, documentary photographs of her experience, she pairs self-portraits with sculptural objects – both found and fabricated in her studio – as metaphors for her feeling of disorientation from her body. Pins, glue, tape, and other materials hold her sculptures together while muted self-portraits depict her 5'10" subtly slouching frame. These simple pairings capture the emotional weight of trying to hold herself up.

I spoke with Stone to learn more about her process, ideas, and how she’s doing.

Jon Feinstein conversation with Sue Palmer Stone

PostedFebruary 25, 2019

AuthorJon Feinstein

CategoriesArtists, Portfolio

TagsSue Palmer Stone, Sculptural Photography, Self Portraiture, New Photography, PhotoNola

Found photo courtesy of Ben Alper’s The Archival Impulse

Loss is a universal experience that transcends class, culture, age, and history. We all deal with it at some point in life, whether it's the death of a loved one, a breakup, or an indescribable feeling of lack or emptiness. It can also go beyond straightforward representation and into the degradation of images as a metaphor for personal loss or something more abstract.

For Humble's next online exhibition, as a followup to our 2018 show "On Death," we're partnering with photographer, writer, and founder of the Too Tired Project Tara Wray to curate an exhibition about these many forms of loss. Think wide, wild, metaphoric and introspective.

As an added "bonus" at least one submission will be considered for Tara Wray's Too Tired Project book, to be published by Yoffy Press in 2020.

Deadline: March 20th, 2019

PostedFebruary 21, 2019

AuthorEditors

CategoriesOpen Call, Exhibitions

TagsPhotographing Loss, loss, new photography, open call, no fee open call, photography open call, Photo opportunities, Tara Wray, Jon Feinstein

Photo: © Tanya Habouqa. From the series Tomorrow There Will be Apricots — Photo: © Tanya Habouqa. From the series *Tomorrow There Will be Apricots*

SF Camerawork’s diverse group show uses photography, film, and performance to examine the in-limbo experience of immigrants straddling cultures.

Exhibition review by Roula Seikaly

PostedFebruary 15, 2019

AuthorRoula Seikaly

CategoriesExhibitions, Artists, Galleries

TagsSF Camerawork, Susan Sontag, George Awde, Daniel Castro Garcia, Gohar Dashti, Tanya Habjouqa, Stefanie Zofia Schulz

A multidisciplinary exhibition at Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts challenges the social and economic barriers of the art world.

I know I’m in for a treat when a Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts show is in the Richard C. von Hess Foundation Works on Paper Gallery. It’s an intimate three-room space with low ceilings and warm, gentle light, making it perfect for taking in prints, drawings, or, as in the case of Zanele Muholi and The Women's Mobile Museum, photography.

PostedFebruary 5, 2019

AuthorDeborah Krieger

CategoriesExhibitions, Galleries, Artists

TagsZanele Muholi, Women's Mobile Museum, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, PAFA, Deborah Krieger, afaq, Shasta Brady, Davelle Barnes, Danielle Morris, Andrea Walls

Photographer Naima Green and Photo Director Toby Kaufmann just launched a Kickstarter to support this timely project.

In 1995, photographer Catherine Opie created the now legendary "Dyke Deck,” a 52 card (plus jokers) deck of playing cards illustrated with photographic studio portraits of Opie’s friends, each representing different members of the lesbian community.

Today, more than two decades later, photographer Naima Green and award-winning, former Refinery 29 Photo Director Toby Kaufmann have joined forces to launch reinterpret the deck with a broader, intersectional understanding of contemporary queer identity. The new, more inclusive deck, called Pur·suit, also acknowledges issues impacting the transgender community in the United States, and is complemented by a continuously updating website with more than 100 portraits, video and audio files that tell the stories of each participant.

Inspiring as it is, Pur·suit coming to fruition will depend on the success of its Kickstarter campaign. It’s a project we believe in so we spent some time with creators Naima Green and Toby Kauffman to learn more.

Jon Feinstein in conversation with Naima Green and Toby Kaufmann

PostedJanuary 29, 2019

AuthorJon Feinstein

TagsNaima Green, Toby Kauffman, Dyke Deck, Catherine Opie, new photography, JD Samson, kickstarter photography projects, Kickstarter Photography Campaigns

Sue Palmer Stone Uses Sculpture and Self Portraiture to Process A Mysterious Diagnosis

Open Call: Group Show 61 – Loss

A New Exhibition Looks At The Experience of Immigrants Living Between Home and Hope

Zanele Muholi and The Women's Mobile Museum Exhibition Ask: Who is Art For?

A New Project Remakes Catherine Opie's Classic Dyke Deck With Photos of Contemporary Queerness