Dreams connect the space between real and surreal. They derive from fragments of our stream of consciousness. Our life’s memories, our desires, and our fears reshuffle and play-back in visions that may appear obscured by double-vision, or be crystalized by a hyper-real clarity. Often, they exist with the support of an uncanny logic or disjointed symbolism. Whether hopeful or menacing, dreams pull on the strings of our most raw and primal emotions.
Read morePaul Turounet on 2016 Paris Photo | Aperture Foundation First PhotoBook Shortlist
Paris Photo / Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Awards have released the shortlist for the PhotoBooks of 2016; Paul Turounet's latest Artists Books Estamos Buscando A (We Are Looking For), made the list. This award for PhotoBooks was initiated in 2013 to celebrate the medium's contribution to the evolving history of the media.
Read morePicturing Justice with work by Matt Eich at Atlanta Legal Aid Society
Congratulations to Matt Eich who is included in Picturing Justice a photography exhibition presented by the Atlanta Legal Aid Society, Inc., curated by Mary Stanley & Louise Shaw held in conjunction with Atlanta Celebrates Photography.
Ian van Coller's The Last Glacier Acquired by the MET & More
Congratulations to represented Artist Ian van Coller, who's artist books continue to gain critical attention; the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art, the U.S. Library of Congress, and the New York Public Library have all recently acquired van Coller's The Last Glacier.
Read moreNow in Production at Sturm & Drang : Carry Me Ohio
Carry Me Ohio (monograph) | Publisher: Sturm & Drang | Run: 600 copies
The first volume of The Invisible Yoke, Carry Me Ohio, by Matt Eich hit the presses of the Swiss publisher, Sturm & Drang this September (2016). Carry Me Ohio is the first of three small-run volumes the notable publisher and emerging photographer have committed to producing together. In the words of Sturm & Drang :
Matt's eight year investigation into family, poverty and the ravaged beauty of the Ohio hinterlands will be published . . . just in time for an election that talks much about the people left behind without offering much in terms of a strategy how to help them. Eich's honest look gives those people a face and tells the story from their vantage point.
Copies of the book will be available at jdc Fine Art, from Sturm & Drang, and with select fine booksellers beginning this October.
Read moreOn Location: Ian van Coller at Mount Kilimanjaro
Kilimanjaro: The Last Glacier
Work in progress by Ian van Coller
Climate change has become a common buzz-word, but the layman understanding of it is both rudimentary and intangible. Ian van Coller intends to bridge the gap between art and science and transform this issue into a form we can grasp- literally. Van Coller has received funding from the Montana State University for an artist's book and photo-project on the subject- Kilimanjaro: the Last Glacier. This August (2016) van Coller will join a team of scientists and researchers funded by NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) and the National Geodetic Survey who are working to record as much significant data from the ice-sheets as possible. This project is both a reflection on climate change and the study of deep time.
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