Jamie Campbell’s cat photographs are not intended to be an over-arching dive into the emotional capacities of his feline friends, nor are they easily dismissible as short-lived memes. Like many of the photographers included in Humble Arts Foundation's 2014 exhibition “New Cats in Art Photography,” they are intermediary muses that serve as thoughtful pauses between his commercial work and long-term personal projects.
It's no news that the brutal northeast winter has left New England buried beyond belief, not just in piles upon piles of snow, but in multiple terabytes of likely forgettable snow pics. So we reached out to some of our favorite New England photographers to share their snowy gems with varying levels of abstraction. Paraphrasing the words of Rhode Island-based Brian Ulrich, we've found a way to make visual use of this unfortunate winter mess.
Kittens included, Instagram continues to be a consistent source of challenging photography; whether it's for purely promotional use, as an in-between sketchpad, or for some artists, a medium of its own. And we swear, this isn't some kind of advertorial or "branded content integration." We simply, truly continue to be inspired. For the past 5 weeks we've hosted residencies not only from photographers but also collectors like Seattle-based Robert E. Jackson, who used his takeover to showcase selections from his strange and often unsettling archive of vernacular photographs. Go forth, follow and be inspired, but if you MUST #hatersgonnahatehatehatehatehate about it please give Taylor Swift a call and tell her Ansel sent ya. (PS. Happy Birthday Ansel Adams!)
Most importantly, please follow these folks if you like their work. You can click on each image to get to their handle.
Tristan Cai highlights the intersection of science and religion in an attempt to understand how people have intellectualized the supernatural throughout history. His recent series Tales of Moving Mountains: Why Won't God Go Away is an unsettling collection of multimedia works that focuses on the evolution of human-god relationships in Christianity, with a focus on developments in Asia.
Since 2011, Andrew McGibbon has been photographing various animals in studio settings, removed from their native context. His most recent project, “Slitherstition” is a series of photographs of more than 30 snakes photographed at close range in front of bright, colorful backgrounds. McGibbon’s pictures, which tread somewhere between commercial portraits and scientific typologies, dispel the snakes’ historically evil mythologies, disarming them into pure design elements and vibrant eye candy.
