In photography's early days, many believed it had the ability to capture a person's soul, spectres and supernatural presence. The Metropolitan Museum of Art's 2005 exhibition Photography and the Occult explored this phenomenon with a particular focus on early ghost photography dating back to the 1850s.
At Humble Arts Foundation, every day is Feline Friday. Or Caturday. Or Hissunday. It's getting to be a bit of a problem. In celebration of our undying love for cats, our late "hissSummer" show will exclusively feature cats, titled New Cats in Art Photography.
It is old news that Instagram has changed the nature of how amateur, professional photographers and the public make and share photography. For many, it is just one of a number of social handles for daily visual communication. For others, however, it has become an intentioned instrument for making serious, thoughtful bodies of work.
This body of work uses the sky as a subject in explorations of light, space and time. In the images, space is simplified and flattened at times, and emphasized and expanded at others. Much like the sky itself, the viewer's understanding of the work is constantly in flux.
