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Photo for Non-Majors (Part 1)
About the Artists

Blake Andrews
Bio: Blake Andrews is a photographer based in Eugene, Oregon. He shoots mostly film-based pictures using hand-held cameras. He's been active most days since beginning photography in 1993.  

Statement: During the pandemic I made a series of homemade books, pasting darkroom prints into blank notebooks. For the last edition of these, created in Spring 2021, I added colorful effects to the prints using colored sharpies. These are a small sampling of the pages. All are one of a kind images, and all have since departed my household for various far-flung corners of the globe. A bit of rainbow dispersal during an otherwise dark year. 

Debe Arlook
Bio: Debe Arlook is a fine art photographer based in Los Angeles with degrees in filmmaking and psychology. Her projects are visual studies of perceived reality in constant reinterpretation drawing from a dedicated meditation practice and study of personal growth. She is a Photolucida Critical Mass Finalist 2021, 2020 and exhibits worldwide. Her work will be the focus of study at Universitè Touluse, France 2022/2023. She’s a contributing editor for PhotoBook Journal and advisor/curator/host with Pasadena Photography Arts.

Statement: Foreseeable Cache is a visualization of mediation that involves self-introspection and transition. The landscape of the American West plays an essential role in my spiritual journey, as the perfect stage for peace, contemplation, and mystic revelations. Translucent veils symbolize the chattering mind, external noises and shifting into and out of mindfulness. Surreal and artificially colored, altered photography establishes a realm that further blurs the line between reality and imagination.⁠ ⁠⁠

Daniel Aros-Aguilar
Bio: Daniel Aros-Aguilar is a queer artist born in Colombia, now based in Harlem. Daniel grew up in Florida, where his family emigrated seeking refuge. After graduating high school, Daniel transferred to BMCC in Manhattan. He became assistant to photographer Mike Ruiz. He then produced work for Brianna Capozzi, Talia Chetrit, and Daniel Gordon. He is currently a resident artist at The Bronx River Arts Center. 

Statement: In the Isthmus of Tehuantepec there are indigenous communities that have maintained a cultural space for queer folk. The word Muxe, derived from Zapotec, carries a misleading translation of being a "third gender." The word itself was said to be a derogatory term for homosexuals. These pictures are some conceptualized portraits that highlight the complexity of queer representation in Oaxaca, Mexico.

Jess Benjamin
Bio: Jess Benjamin is a photographer, filmmaker, and meditation teacher based in Philadelphia. Their work focuses on the intersection of spirituality, social justice, and creative processes as a way of exploring both the ordinariness and transcendence of everyday life. Jess is a self-taught photographer who began to pursue their craft more seriously in 2015. Their favorite activity is wandering around somewhere new with their camera. 

Statement: This series explores the natural world as it interacts with various human-made contexts. It asks: how do plants collaborate with architecture, technology, and domesticity, and how is that collaboration experienced through the contemporary human lens?

Brenda Biondo
Bio: Brenda Biondo is a self-taught artist whose early exposure to art and photography came from her father, a NYC artist/photographer/art director. Her work is influenced by the “background noise” of her childhood in the 1960s and 1970s: graphic arts, illustration, painting and photography. Although she has been making photographs since she was 15, she only started pursuing photography as a career when she turned 40. With a degree in journalism, she was previously a writer. 

Statement: Images in the “Modalities” series explore the creative process behind a photographer's practice through re-contextualizing existing images. Each finished piece is a montage composed of out-takes from the hundreds of images shot during the creation of previous series. “Modalities” draws inspiration from the work of Ray Metzker, Harry Callahan and other photographers who used collage, repetition and/or unusual patterns to present images, colors and shapes in unexpected compositions.

Daniel Brandauer
Bio: Daniel Brandauer grew up in Colombia and Ecuador in a mixed household, with roots in Peru, Austria, Germany and Spain. His family always had an affinity for arts. In 2010 after having moved to Berlin to study, he bought his first secondhand camera. He started developing an interest for the odd after diving into the clubbing scene in Berlin. His style evolved by trial and error and experimentation with light and shadows. 

Statement: The series ‘Masks’ is based on the specific character of each artist he worked with. The focus is on the Mask they made for themselves. We live in a society where having good looks, a perfect body or a charismatic appearance sets the tone. Even the most talented are still confronted with the way they look. The series tries to explore the expression of an individual artist as his biggest and most important attribute.

Brandon Thomas Brown
Bio: Brandon Thomas Brown is an artist currently based in New York. His depictions of black and brown people challenge hegemonic narratives by having his subjects posed in ways that invoke the past as the product of lived memory. 

Statement: This series focuses on finding space in between reality and existence. Moving beyond light and speed. She threads the line of her own reality.

Barrie Lynn Bryant
Bio: Barrie Lynn Bryant began learning fine art photography in 1989 by taking Photo 1 at UALR under Gary Cawood. Barrie instantly fell in love with it and began producing a self-assigned body of work, The Arkansas Diaries. In 1990, Barrie’s portfolio landed him first pro job as assistant in the studio and darkroom and on location with renowned architectural photographer, Tim Hursley, where Barrie was exposed to the international marketplace. Barrie went solo in 1992. 

Statement: At the onset of the pandemic (March 2020), Arkansas Life magazine published undiscovered images from my landmark body of work, The Arkansas Diaries 1989-1994, in a 12-page cover story spread. The images I submit herewith are five from that body of work that I had not previously published or exhibited. Images 1 and 5 were included in the feature, with 1 being the front cover, and I’ve been also selling and exhibiting the other three.

Karen Bullock
Bio: Karen Bullock is known for her documentary-style images of the American South. Her practice uses vivid color and light to explore the unheard voice, via gesture, sense of place, and mood. Karen’s project, Presence Obscured, was selected for Currents 2020 at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, APG’s Portfolio 2020 and PhotoLucida’s Critical Mass Top 200, 2019, and also featured in Lenscratch. Her series, See Me, was included the 2018 Rfotofolio Selections. 

Statement: The Fugitives: I’ve been exploring lumen prints, drawn to their fugitive nature, shifts in color, and unpredictability. I began to cherish the ephemerality of flowers themselves. So, I paired botanicals with found vintage photos of women, photos beginning to shift and fade. Who were these women? Unknown, yet inspiring. Did they too try to hide from a virus? Life, so fleeting and full of wonder.

Daura Campos
Bio: Daura Campos is a Latinx, self-taught, lens-based artist and curator based in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. Her photographic practice challenges traditional image-making processes, revealing itself as more than a meta-commentary prompting broader conversations on the implications of existing in a dissident body. Her What the Luck series was awarded by Adolescent and exhibited in Experimental Photo Festival, Visual Space, Make Room, and has been displayed on billboards in New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, and Toronto. 

Statement: Daura's work existence depends on how much damage the negative sustains, as do the people photographed. By deliberately disturbing the film's chemistry, the artist makes it impossible to recover the images as they were shot, producing unpredictable outcomes. This series aims to highlight this relationship through the connection between the medium of film soup, in which the negatives are cooked, and portrait photography, which for many decades has been used to document the human experience.

Iole Carollo
Bio: Iole Carollo studied archaeology in the faculty of Conservation of Cultural Assets and then specializing in Mycenaean Archaeology. She started her career working for fashion firms, and then specialized in photography of archaeological artifacts and works of art. She contributed to the creation of marketing campaigns for public and private institutions, realizing photographs for catalogues of national and international contemporary artists. Her current researches mainly include the landscape and its connection with the humans. 

Statement: Portraits is a project that elaborates statues, starting from the Salinas Museum in Palermo, interweaving the historical meaning with a new narrative level, codified by post-production. The latter alters the field of reality, the subject is no longer an ancient statue, its historical dimension is transcended. In this non-time, non-place, the museum dimension is no longer explored as a place of memory, but as a reflection and instrument of post-production of the present and of reality.

Annie Dang
Bio: Annie Dang is a Saigon-based Vietnamese American creative who has been taking photos since she was first inspired by cherished family albums. Her work examines the facets of identity that flourish within spaces of intimacy, discomfort, and isolation. She is particularly interested in rituals of the everyday that allow us to extract pleasure and meaning from process, chasing the confrontations that make sacred our search for human connection. She enjoys late nights and summer fruits. 

Statement: This series, taken on my grandparents’ land in the Mekong Delta, explores the themes in Eileen Myles’s poem ‘Peanut Butter.’ The short lines capture a meandering playfulness that ultimately builds to a quietly eruptive celebration of discovery and the little moments that reveal us to ourselves. There’s something exhilarating about revisiting familiar territory with renewed curiosity each time, stitching together layers of experiential landscapes to anchor oneself to the continuously expanding desires of the present.

Anastasia Davis
Bio: Anastasia Davis was born in Ukraine in 1987 but grew up in Israel and the United States. Her work is concerned with sensory and emotional experience before it is translated into meaning and what lies between perception and interpretation. She lives and works in New Haven, CT 

Statement: These images are part of a series of photographs of constructions made with fragments of photographs from my archive and images found online. I cut and arrange the photographic pieces, in some cases adding other elements such as drawing and cut paper, to create new arrangements, then rephotograph the result. I am interested in the connections that emerge from combining different fragments and ideas together and intermingling their sources, and in the creative act itself.

Anna Emy
Bio: Anna is from Brooklyn, NY and grew up helping her dad in his makeshift darkroom. Ever since, she has been taking photos in some capacity. She is pursuing an MSed and MSW during the week and takes photos on the weekends. 

Statement: An attempt to collect the magnificent things in life. There are no recipes, rules, or methods. Just the ability to witness them when they are found.

Gabriela Fernandez
Bio: Gabriela Fernandez is an artist that is exploring the process of dis-identification, and manifested identifications in relation to time, ephemeral space and the disorientated body. The use of photography comes from the base idea of looking at the historical index and archive of image making. How photo has played with the ideas of memory and how narrative shifts.Photo in my practice is placed in the idea of reflection in how images are distorted realities. 

Statement: An exploration in cyanotypes and the idea of how we express house and body with each other. The choice of cyanotypes falls in a personified nature of how the warmth of the sun can create an image that parallels the warmth of a mother to a child. All conducted on fabric to play with distortion; what can be hidden between stitches and folds. Juxtaposing ideas of what we construe as home and ritual.

Giuseppe Francavilla
Bio: Giuseppe Francavilla is an artist born in Palermo in 1974 who has been having a natural flair for the shot since he was 10, using a Polaroid borrowed from his elder brother. The real revolution begins owning a Kodak's bridge camera with a 24x zoom which trained his eye to look for the details of things, as in an imaginary game in which there is always something hidden from reality that may tickle the wonder of surprise. 

Statement: A pop immersion in the conventional portrait. From keeping my mother alive, imagined in a frame of stars, to street vendors on Italian beaches and still life.

Iolet Francis
Bio: Both a photographer and echocardiographer living in New York, Iolet Francis has been working to create a life based in image-making. During a former career in bookkeeping she returned to photography to connect with the world at large, formerly doing so through the School at the International Center of Photography’s continuing education courses. Their art-making process consists of using film--which they believe to be impressionistic while representing a balance of inner and outer forces. 

Statement: Sometimes we get lucky, and a family member lets us into their lives. My sister, Lilandra, allowed me into hers. Toward the end of her high school experience she transferred to a school where she didn’t have to hide who she was. Lilandra then became involved with the Kiki Ballroom scene where LGBTQIA youth form community. Function is a series documenting a family member living on their own terms in different aspects of their life.

Edra Galzeran
Bio: Being curious by nature, Edra left home at a very young age to settle in places that share a common heartbeat, in cities symbolize the embrace between two ways of seeing the world: Berlin, Venice, Moscow, Kiev. In this melting pot of cultures, two of her great passions arose: photography and painting. However, her build up as a photographer would be a long process that would only unfold in the inevitable and sad calm of 2020. 

Statement: The word “Immram” is the old Irish word for "journey". It’s also the name of a kind of stories in Irish literature about a hero’s sea voyage to the Otherworld. This project is a journey to my own Otherworld. It’s a journey between past and present, between truth and fantasy, between paganism and Christianity. It is my winter journey to an ancient, hostile island in the west of Ireland, where all sorts of beliefs are permeable.

Cristian Geelen
Bio: Cristian Geelen is mainly an analog photographer from the Netherlands. Born on October 17th, 1982. Most of his work is from those kinds of journey around the world and is documentary based. But lately he is taking a more conceptual, contemporary, and philosophical approach for his personal work. 

Statement: These photographs are part of Cristian his upcoming series: "Memories of a man once there...." The project is about his father who died when he was three years old. His father was an adventurer like himself and his grandfathers, and this will be their last adventure together. To create the memories they have never had... Intertwining the autobiographical and fictional this project seeks to capture the great "what ifs" of life, and threading imaginary narratives about Cristian and his father adventuring through the world together. The series is fundamentally about loss and existential loneliness, as well as Cristian his own mortality.

JJ Geiger
Bio: JJ Geiger is a photographer based in Los Angeles with a main focus on portraiture. Being a part of the queer community, he often examines queer bodies in relation to spaces and the desire around community. After graduating with an acting degree from Juilliard, he quickly realized his preference was behind the camera and began photographing his friends. This eventually lead to a full time practice, including work for Calvin Klein, Vogue and Grindr. 

Statement: This set of photos is a part of an ongoing series documenting my grandparents as they transition into full time assisted living. I felt that we too often over look this difficulty and wanted to embrace the nostalgia and deep sorrow that comes with leaving home, getting closer to the end of life. These were shot over the course of five days that I recently spent with them in at their home in New Mexico.

KaVozia Glynn
Bio: KaVozia Glynn (age 20) is a visual artist currently prioritizing photography and directing. She seriously got into photography during high school and has been working ever since. With much interest in creative storytelling and fine art photography, she uses Kay’s Point of View as a form of creative expression, self actualization, and critical thinking. 

Statement: “Sista, Sista” is a photo project that portrays the power and beauty of black sisterhood. Each group of sisters that modeled for this series helped KaVozia express what she feels it means to be “my sister’s keeper” while also highlighting the uniqueness of black femininity.

Jonah Gonzales
Bio: Jonah Gonzales is a multi-disciplinary artist currently based in Houston, Texas. Influenced by graffiti, sports, and music, he tends to experiment with these inspirations in abstract visuals. Utilizing his knowledge of traditional photography methods, he combines them experimental techniques in the forms of painting, collage, and digital manipulation. Telling stories that unfold as you scan through layered imagery and abstracted compositions in his work. 

Statement: As a child we're told colorful lies about what our future can look like. Titled 'Colors Dripping Off', this set of images tell the sad story of those colorful lies wearing off. Using traditional photography, mixed with digital manipulation, the story unfolds as you gaze through the imagery.

Ed Gorwell
Bio: Ed Gorwell is a photographer from Naarm/Melbourne, Australia. His work focuses on people’s relationships with domestic, urban, built, and natural environments. He lives and works on the stolen lands of the Wurundjeri and Boonwurrung Peoples of the Kulin Nation. 

Statement: This work is part of an ongoing series considering the impressions and imprints people leave on the environment in day to day life. The series considers this in the context of domestic, urban, built and natural environments.

Keegan Grandbois
Bio: Keegan Grandbois took a couple intro level photography classes while attending school in a multi-media & performance centric bfa program. Having run out of available loans, he had to leave school before graduating and he moved to NYC where without access to space or equipment began to heavily focus on photography and has taken it up as the primary medium in which he uses ever since. 

Statement: ‘from below by illumination’ is inspired by a quote on the back of a Niagara Falls postcard "Power was taken from the falls themselves and turned back upon these falls in the form of light so that Niagara is forced to beautify itself". A floating ferris wheel, the wing of a Cicada found outside of a hotel, and other strange occurrences are scattered along a meandering solo trip to Niagara Falls and back.

Cheryl L. Guerrero
Bio: Cheryl L. Guerrero is a documentary and event photographer based in San Francisco. Locally, she contributes to online media chronicling life in the SF Bay Area. Her photography journey began when she was studying Cultural Anthropology and spent several months in the Guatemalan Highlands. Throughout the 2000s, she returned to Guatemala several times to document Maya weavers and their art. That background continues to affect her choices in photography and capturing moments of cultural expression. 

Statement: Throughout the Bay Area, lowrider cruises are an expression of pride, aesthetics and Chicano culture. In many ways, cruises are not just about the car, but also about community. Although not all lowriders are Chicano, the vibrant style and cultural expression are strongly linked to the community. This is especially relevant in the Mission District of San Francisco, where gentrification has contributed to the erosion of the historically Latino neighborhood and displacement of the community.

Hanne H. Dale
Bio: Hanne H. Dale is born and based on the Norwegian west coast. Her creative practice has long revolved around photography and drawing, and lately she has started to combine the two. She is interested in the stories we tell ourselves and others, and the interactions between nature and culture. She has studied photography independently and through courses at Neue Schüle für Fotografie, Berlin, and Atelier Smedsby with JH Engström and Margot Wallard. 

Statement: One of my biggest fears is that I’m sleepwalking: that we’re sleepwalking. As we witness the convergence of many global issues, our personalized and digitized worlds more than ever make it easy to shut ourselves off, or drift along in endless streams of distractions. Is this just a coping mechanism for problems that seem too gigantic to grapple with? Inside Out is a photo series about nature and the imagination that includes drawn elements.

Jamie Holland Jr.
Bio: Jamie is a photographer born and raised in New Jersey. He came to photography in an attempt to inspire himself to write more poetry. Jamie enjoyed the process of exploring that photographing brought on, and its uses in self reflection. 

Statement: This series is an attempt to understand the ways in which familial trauma, and personal trauma, couple with recovery and love to form our identities. These experiences are only complicated by layers of race and class, that ultimately lend themselves to clearer understandings of our lot, similar to the way breaking things is the prerequisite for repair.

Dom Jackson
Bio: Dom Jackson is a self-taught photographer residing in Brooklyn, NY. His work focuses primarily on the small moving parts of daily life and the people responsible for them. 

Statement: This series - as of yet untitled - is a running collection of images made over the last 4 months, documenting people I've met or reunited with after a year of solitude. A memoir of the return of social joy.

Emile Kees
Bio: Emile Kees is a London-based self-taught photographer, collagist and diarist, producing work from a darkroom he built out of reclaimed materials and equipment. A background in production design for film is one of the reasons for his holistic approach in photography - working with an image from initial composition to final presentation. Be it through composed sequences or candid moments, Emile collects and cultivates scenes like notes in a diary. 

Statement: This is an ongoing series about my relationships with unfamiliar places and how they are inhabited. It is about remembering, and how spaces and experiences are subconsciously altered when recollected. It is a photographic diary - a record of the mise-en-scène of memory. A staircase, the sky, a simple gesture; the quiet elements of a scene that might be better remembered than a conversation or a sequence of events.

John Kirkley
Bio: At an early age John received a camera from his parents and used it to collect memories of places they would visit during various summer trips. Later in life he found work at a photo lab and was taught how to process film on the E-6 line. Through this experience he became more serious with his own photography. While he still considers himself a “collector” of images, the pursuit has become much more intentional. 

Statement: These images are part of an ongoing project documenting this current epoch of our natural world. The subtle and dramatic changes of these places are felt and observed in the seconds and minutes, the years and eons, as the spectacle ceaselessly unfolds throughout the seasons. Details are slowly revealed, bringing me further and further into these wild spaces while at the same time reaffirming their complete disregard for my presence within them.

Issam Larkat
Bio: Born in 1996, Issam Larkat is self-taught Algerian photographer, and sociology licensed student from the University of his Hometown Relizane. He is interested in documentary section of photography, he aims to portray with his photographs the details of the relations between places, humans and their beliefs, characteristics, social status and causes and age factors. He developed his visual language throughout his love for cinema, capturing a mix of his background information with what he sees and lives on daily basis inside different cities of his country. He did become a member of the African photojournalism database in 2020 which is a program led by “world press photo”. 

Statement: The Algerian youth represent 70% of the Algerian population, and geographically speaking Algeria is the largest country in the continent of Africa and the richest in terms of natural resources. Within this huge land you will find most of the youth doing nothing but sitting in the streets and developing variety of philosophies about life and self centering mentalities. Most of the youngsters inside Algeria’s small cities and provinces seems to know each other whether in direct relation or throughout common friends yet everybody seems to feel strangers from each other’s feeling abandoned and excluded from the world main actions, leading and decisions and living their daily life of unemployment, pessimism and poverty and government repression and pushing them to a mentally dark corners human find it hard to endure… On the 22nd February 2019 these youngsters decided to no longer take it from 20 years of ruling by dictator called “Abdelaziz Bouteflika”. even though they were threaten by chaos and a civil war, they continued a Friday after another taking up the streets with major chants of change and protests such as “Civil country not military selected government” they chants also for freedom and independency they shout and demanded peace and the right to take their future by their hands, this project explores how the Algerian youngster behave on daily basis, their activities and struggles and deception, and fear sometimes. I never stopped believing in them and I’ll never stop fighting for them and trying to get their subliminal messages to the world throughout our medium of photography.

Chakrit Leelachupong
Bio: Chakrit Leelachupong also known as Camelcut, he graduated with a degree in business administration but fell in love with photography. Currently he is working as a professional photographer based in Bangkok and Melbourne. 

Statement: Here, on this empty road of silence, the feeling that I am being watched is so tense. Am I in a lucid dream ? or is there a parallel universe that I have overlooked all this time. Fairytale or not, I creep into a nightmare, It stares back at me.

Dane Manary
Bio: Dane Manary is a photographer, editor, and book maker based in New York City. Parallels, patterns, and sequences stitch these unspoken poems together in order to convey how empathy, compassion, and magic can be observable in everyday life if we take the time to notice. Dane has published two books, Liar's Paradox (2018) and Telepathy (2019). His most recent ongoing project explores "Apophenia," or the human tendency to recognize patterns and meaning in random information. 

Statement: The need for empathy and human connection became drastic as the country was nearly torn apart in 2020. The streets became a place for community organization and resistance. Reality is distorted with media and rhetoric, but empathy can be communicated in photographs.

Jennifer McClure
Bio: Jennifer McClure is a fine art photographer based in New York City. Her work is about solitude and a poignant, ambivalent yearning for connection. She was an English Theory and Literature major, with minors in Film Theory and Women’s Studies. She brings all of these to her narrative portraits based on personal experience. She has taken classes and workshops when she could afford them, all funded by a decades long career in restaurants. 

Statement: I got pregnant at forty-five. Several doctors said that children weren’t possible for me, and I had stopped contemplating the idea. A million things could go wrong. We had already made plans for ourselves. Time passed with no decision; that became our decision. While I fought my fears about losing my identity, my body forced me to sit still. There would be an end, there would be a beginning. This was my interlude.

Erin Monroe
Bio: Erin Monroe is a self-taught artist who immersed herself in photography in 2010. As a mother of 7, documenting the everyday became a life raft. Over the years, she has been honored to be invited into sacred spaces- capturing souls entering and leaving this world as well as the extraordinary breaths in between. Her work has been featured in magazines, included in gallery showings, and recognized with accolades such as Canon's From Light to Ink. 

Statement: This life. It's life. It's us, sheltering in our suburban yard, raising a mixed flock of chickens and turkeys, finding joy, and making memories despite disease raging across the globe. Anything that happens here, happens with our flock. Home haircuts? The turkeys will display and alert at the sound of the clippers. Want to sit outside? You'll do it with a chicken in your lap. Gardening? The birds will help you dig. Welcome, you're flocked!

Cree Moore
Bio: Cree is a visual artist that works primarily in medium format and 35 mm film photography. Her practice is based in exploring the landscape and interconnectivity of environment and humanity’s multidimensional depths. She is particularly inspired by the uniquely human struggle to be understood. Cree is entirely self taught and uses her individual lens to express what the future of creation can, and perhaps should, look like. She currently lives and works in Atlanta, Georgia. 

Statement: This ongoing portrait series is my exploration of finding strength within vulnerability and the natural world.

David Nelson-Hospers
Bio: David Nelson-Hospers is a self taught photographer living and working in New York City. As an observer, David photographs daily life as it happens around him. 

Statement: Photographs made in and around New York City over the past year.

Alvin Ng
Bio: Alvin is a photographer based in Singapore and has been following the ebbs and flow of daily life. Fueled by an enduring passion for documenting humanity and spirituality, it has led him to interact with diverse individuals and communities such as the sacred Hindu Aghoris by the burning Pyres of Varanasi to the intimate stories of cosplayers in the heartlands of Singapore, his home country.

Statement: Saṃsāra is a visual reflection of my relationship with the balance of the world and its elements. Based on the teachings of the Buddhist doctrines Anitya (Impermanence), Samsara (Cycle of life), and the I Ching (ancient Chinese divination texts), the wisdom received guides me as I drift away with the 'Flow' (Tao) of life, finding tranquillity and mystery in its uncharted course as it effortlessly flows through time.

Ben Osborne
Bio: Ben Osborne is a photographer who lives and works in East Sussex, England. Ben graduated with a degree in Politics and Contemporary History in the early 2000s and has been taking photographs since his 20s. His recent work has focused on the area around his home, on the edge of the South Downs National Park. 

Statement: This series represents the strange mix of inertia and fear felt during the 2020 summer lockdown. All the photographs were taken either in our garden or during walks close to home.

Jenni Pogosjan
Bio: Jenni Pogosjan is a creative photographer, who discovered her love for photography 2 years ago, when she started traveling in India. She is still traveling around the world. 

Statement: This series is called "reality differs" and happened in Naples, Italy. It was shot analog and with a little mirror to depict my love to Napoli a bit different.

Danielle Quenell
Bio: Danielle Quenell has spent two decades exploring the boundless world of narrative photography. Her work aims to transcend the specific moment of its creation and reveal the inconsistencies in our experiences of time and space. Self-taught and perpetually curious, Danielle’s practice is one of continual experimentation. By embracing a breadth of antique and modern technologies, and often working in discontinued film and paper stock, her work is a celebration of deliberate slowness, decay and imperfection. 

Statement: In March 2020, as the world braced for an indeterminable period of isolation, I was separated from my partner and living alone for the first time in my life. Out of work and confined to my apartment, I was liberated to fully explore my immediate surroundings and lifelong interest in photography. I created a series of self portraits wherein I attempted to physically explore every inhabitable space, from closets and cupboards to the decommissioned icebox.

Jake Reinhart
Bio: Jake Reinhart (b. 1979) is a photographer from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Born and raised in South Western Pennsylvania; his work is informed by the region’s history and explores the importance of place in relation to the formation of perspective, identity and community. His book Laurel Mountain Laurel, published by Deadbeat Club, is scheduled to be released this fall. Last year, his photographs were featured internationally in a weekly column for ZEITmagazin titled Pittsburgh 2020. 

Statement: The river, the towns and the forests which comprise this watershed have served important roles in my life. One translation, that has survived, of the word Youghiogheny (Yawk-uh-GAIN-eee) is four streams. Yough meaning four, henné meaning stream. I’ve been along those streams. I’ve seen how they come together; losing their specificity yet retaining what is inherent - creating something larger and joining places and people that would otherwise appear disjointed and separate.

Horacio Rojas
Bio: Horacio Rojas is a Venezuelan photographer based in Queens, NY. Coming from a humble house in the slums of Caracas has influenced in him a connection with the beauty in the mundane. The appreciation of life at its most pure and simple way. With his photography He is looking to capture unique moments that are left unnoticed. He strongly believes in the power of this art to conserve life to eternity. 

Statement: This series is a representation of how life is perceived in the current times. The constant questions of do we have free will or are we just a victim of the circumstances?. Do we decide how to live our life or are we so caught up surviving we don’t have a real path. Through religion, believes and perception, where are we going exactly?

Ash Rozzi
Bio: Ash Rozzi is lifelong artist who first picked up a camera seriously in 2015 at age 15. Ash is self taught, always striving to improve in proficiency of technical and conceptual skill. 

Statement: This series addresses the experience of mental illness. I used the visual motif of obscuring faces, something very closely tied to identity, to represent how mental illnesses can make the people experiencing them stop enjoying their passions, hobbies, and other things with which they identify. Mental illness often strips people of the energy to 'act like themselves' especially if untreated, and in doing so strips them of what makes them feel like who they are.

Irina Shkoda
Bio: Irina Shkoda is a visual lens-based artist born in Kiev (Ukraine). Graduated from the School of Modern Photography Docdocdoc, Saint-Petersburg, in 2019. The most important part of her work is dedicated to personal long-term projects that contemplate the notion of the sacred and the associated taboos. The impulse for research on this topic arose as a result of her adolescent experience, when she spent a significant part of her time in a convent. 

Statement: As a child, I was to read the psalm of David twice a day, according to the prayer rule. Now I am reviewing my memories from new perspectives. But no new self-definition (for example, atheist; feminist; spectator) takes me completely out of the Christian paradigm, where agency derives from pain and trauma. In this project, I recreate some significant events from my life through photography. Each frame corresponds to both a traumatic memory and a line from the psalm.

Andy Tew
Bio: Andy Tew is a social worker and film photographer living in New England. His only formal photography experience was as an intern at the Woodstock Center for Photography. After a long break from using film, he rediscovered it during the pandemic and has been shooting landscape and personal work on film primarily. 

Statement: River Valley is a series of images made in the Pioneer Valley in Western Massachusetts. It focuses on the geography, architecture, and dwellings of the Connecticut River valley, with a focus on pastoral settings.

Jelani Todd
Bio: Jelani Todd (b.1999) is a photographer currently living and working in Atlanta, GA. Raised by a single mother with three kids and no artistic endeavors in his family, Jelani taught himself Photography after being gifted a 35mm camera for his eighteenth birthday. Inspired by artist such as; Stephen Shore, RaMell Ross, and Eugene Smith, Jelani’s work focuses on finding overlooked and unnoticed pieces of time and space and presenting them in interesting ways. 

Statement: For many people (myself included) sitting in the passenger seat of life and watching things being thrown at you outside of your control is a recipe for anxiety. In my series ‘What are the Chances?’ I seek to express my deep interest in the chance encounter by collecting small banal moments around my hometown in hopes of creating a larger portrait of what spontaneity looks like.

Julia Vandenoever
Bio: Julia Vandenoever is an editorial, commercial and fine art photographer. Currently, she is an artist-in-residence at the Boulder Creative Collective and will be having a solo exhibition in April 2022. Julia has been honored to receive a couple of grants and served as a visiting artist at Guttman College in New York, New York. In 2021, Still Breathing, received a solo show at the Center for Photography at Woodstock. Her work explores themes of family, connection, and our relationship to nature. 

Statement: Losing all my family left me feeling alone and ungrounded. The year my mother died from cancer, I also lost my brother to a life of addiction. Our small family of three went to one marking the end of my family of origin. As I was swimming in grief, my own two children were growing up. Observing their childhood transported me back to my own preserving both theirs and mine putting my family back together. Still Breathing is a meditation on loss and remembering. Still Breathing is my promise to not forget.

Dushka Vujovic
Bio: Dushka Vujovic is a jeweler and photographer from vvb Toronto Canada. She has B.A. from Film University in Belgrade. Dushka is avid photographer and owned her first camera at age 16. She has no formal education in photography but takes photos everyday. 

Statement: My main interests are humans and human-altered landscapes. Human activity is changing the earth, and that matters to me.

Cornell Watson
Bio: Cornell Watson is a photographer based in Durham, NC. He initially picked up the camera to photograph his daughter. His work has appeared in publications such as The New York Times, The Washington Post, NPR, Mother Jones, Buzzfeed, and ProPublica. When he’s not creating photos, being the best spouse in the world, or saving his three-year-old daughter from drowning in the toilet, you can find him passed out from exhaustion on the living room couch. 

Statement: This photo series is in honor of my ancestors who smiled when they were not happy, laughed when nothing was funny, and cried when they were not sad so that I could be here today. This is for all the times we wore the mask.