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© Tatum Shaw. From the series New Songs

© Tatum Shaw. From the series New Songs

Sad, Funny, and Southern: A Conversation with Tatum Shaw

Portland, Oregon-based photographer Tatum Shaw's influences range from William Eggleston's 1970s color, to found vernacular snapshots and the American South. Generally off-the-cuff, his pictures are full of light moments that combine tension and humor, a deep understanding of how color can inform a narrative, and a smart, often poetic, way of seeing. While he's made several distinct series for more than a decade, his work could easily be broken down and remixed into an interchangeable archive of of photos-as-musical-notes. Here, his own snapshots, street photos, southern landscapes and found images could live and function as one. Whether his day job as an advertising copywriter bears some influence on this pulse remains a mystery. 

Interview by Jon Feinstein

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PostedJune 6, 2017
AuthorJon Feinstein
Photo: © Sara Palmieri

Photo: © Sara Palmieri

This Photographic Homage to Twin Peaks Might Be The Best Not-Yet-Published Photobook of 2017

Everyone's freaking out about the Twin Peaks redux. If you haven't yet seen Todd Hido's Twin Peaks Revisited, published recently in TIME, it's eerie and inspired. Additionally awe-inducing is Fuego Books' not yet published, A Place Both Wonderful And Strange. The book, if funded on Kickstarter, will feature 137 photographs from 12 photographers from The United States, The United Kingdom, Italy, Spain, Australia and Switzerland, divided into 12 individual interpretations. With just a couple weeks remaining on the fundraiser, I spoke with publisher Gustavo Alemán to learn more about his ideas and obsession with Twin Peaks. 

If you're as excited as we are, you have until June 20th to support this wonderful and strange project. Full details HERE. Be sure to watch the video at the end of this interview. 

Interview by Jon Feinstein

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PostedJune 2, 2017
AuthorJon Feinstein
CategoriesArtists, Publications
TagsTwin Peaks, A Place Both Wonderful and Strange, Photography Inspired by Twin Peaks, Fuego Books, New Photography, photobooks, photography kickstarter, 2017 photography books
Earth Healing Ritual © Klaus Pichler. Courtesy of Anzenberger Gallery

Earth Healing Ritual © Klaus Pichler. Courtesy of Anzenberger Gallery

Klaus Pichler's Photographs Find Human Emotion In Cultish Practice

Klaus Pichler’s exhibition This Will Change Your Life Forever, on view at Vienna's Anzenberger Gallery through June 17th, is ostensibly a record of the artist’s two-year undercover stint as a member of various “new esoteric” groups, wherein he learned about—and participated in—their pseudo scientific and spiritual rituals and beliefs. Yet upon closer examination, Pichler’s investigation reveals the very real human emotions behind the strange flash and dazzle of it all. On display are staged photographs and digital collages of Pichler reenacting some of these cultish practices—sitting in a homemade “orgon accumulator” meant to transfer positive energy into his body, using the cardboard cylinder from a paper towel roll to suck negative thoughts out of his own head—as well as some of the objects used in these practices, all quotidian items with supposed mystical properties all ordered online at ridiculously high markups.

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PostedMay 30, 2017
AuthorDeborah Krieger
CategoriesExhibitions, Artists, Galleries
TagsKlaus Pichler, Anzenberger Gallery Vienna, This Will Change Your Life Forever exhibition
Photo © Suzanne Fiore

Photo © Suzanne Fiore

"Longshot," Photographic Center Northwest's 24-hour Global Photothon is coming June 10!

For the past few years, Seattle's Photographic Center Northwest has been organizing an annual 24-hour global photo shoot and exhibition to help raise money for their exhibitions and educational programming. Kicking off June 10, photographers from around the world can shoot and submit photographs from wherever they are. Submit up to 5 photos by June 12, and a panel of jurors including Humble's Jon Feinstein will select one image from each photographer to be included in a slideshow and pop-up exhibition on June 17th. See the full details HERE. 

Below are some of our favorite images submitted to Long Shot 2016. 

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PostedMay 25, 2017
AuthorEditors
CategoriesOpen Call, Exhibitions
Tagsphotothon, photocenter northwest, photography hackathon, Seattle photography
© Katie Shapiro

© Katie Shapiro

New Exhibition Uses a Science Fiction Failure as a Lens to an Optimistic Future

A "transporter" is a common science fiction trope, a teleportation machine that can instantly send an individual or object from one place to another, popularized most commonly in Star Trek, or The Fly. One hypothetical concern was its potential "accidents," in which the device might incorrectly materialize its source. Like in Mel Brooks' classic Space Balls in which a "microconverter malfunction" accidentally places Brooks' head on backwards, giving him a better view of his behind.

Enter Transporter, a group exhibition curated by Katie Shapiro and Sean Higgins at Los Angeles' Paul Kopeikin Gallery, which includes photography, video, and sculpture that addresses these lapses and distortions in transportational movement. 
The exhibition is up though June 17th, 2017.

I contacted curator Katie Shaprio to learn more about her and Higgins' ideas behind the exhibition. 

Interview by Jon Feinstein

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PostedMay 23, 2017
AuthorJon Feinstein
CategoriesGalleries, Exhibitions, Artists
TagsKatie Shapiro, Art About Science Fiction, Sean Higgins, Paul Kopeikin
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