Ariel Rubin Work from the series Decomposition and Box of Fools (statements and work in their respective order). Statement for Decomposition: “We have a tendency to think of ourselves as separate from nature. We assumethat anything found in the natural world is unrefined, pure and uncontrolled. We make similar assumptions about photographs as a portrayalof […]

Jolie Dobson Work from the series Untitled Land. “In the series, Untitled Land, I am focusing on the struggle between nature and civilization and the foreseeable defeat of both. Humanity’s exploitation of the natural world questions the ecological sustainability of the future. The constructed photographs represent the catastrophic event of an environmental apocalypse and critically […]

Nikki S. Lee Work from the series Parts. As promised, more work that deals with the medium of photography and photographic seeing. Statement courtesy of the Numark Gallerey, where you can see more of Lee’s works. “In Parts, the artist departs from the snapshot depictions of cultural identity for which she has become internationally known […]

Brad Farwell Work from the series Lottery. I also reccommend An African Mask Looks at Sites of American Blackness and Fourth, the Tourists. Farwell’s Lottery work reminds me of Nikki S. Lee, who I guess I will have to post tomorrow, because it is awesome. “Large, vision-filling photographs, minutely detailed, with rectangles of metallic silver […]

Erin Tyner Work from the series Half Awake. I cam across Tyner’s work on the Hey Hot Shot contenders blog, and once again (as with Lori Nix) I am very very glad I quit working with scale-models before I saw this work, because it is far more sucessful than I ever was with models (hence […]

Elise Rasmussen Work from the series, Within These Walls and Stendhal Syndrome. I wanted to continue the tradition of finding any out-of-focus work I can and posting it.  While I can’t determine whether she has ever lived or worked in Germany (to strengthen my theory about blurry photography and Germany), she did have a residency […]

Lindsay Page Works from the series Spawn (still in progress). Titles (in order), Werewolf 1, Werewolf 2, and Unitled. I also recommend the Basement Performances Series. “This body of work examines motherhood as an event steeped simultaneously in the intensity of anxiety and exhilaration, momentous gain and the spectre of loss. It is both a […]

Precise Equilibrium, 2008. Fire, 2008. A balloon in a room, 2008. My breath in a car #1, 2008. Adam Ekberg “Using large and medium format cameras as well as video to document performances, constructions, and lens-based phenomena; my images function as traces of a presence. The photographed interventions range from very simple gestures to elaborate […]

Benjamin Stern Work from the series Topologies. “Spring begins in Wisconsin when the snow starts to melt off the fields, and the streams flood their banks. During these times, I remember running up and down the hill by my house as the cars occasionally drove by. Spring was the time I tried to control the […]

Esteban Pastorino Diaz Diaz’s work with a kite and shift plane focus was some of the first work that I saw turning reality into a scale model diorama of life. What still blows my mind a little bit is that these are real, not scale models.