Articles

Katie Lyle

“What do you think? From the beginning people like this have never managed, whether on their own or with the help by others, to see anything besides the shadows that are [continually] projected on the wall opposite them by the glow of the fire.”
“The Infernal Grove”

Each speaker, in recounting their experience of addiction and drug taking, their experience of the illegal drug economy, of incarceration and sanction, eschews shame, apology, or regret.
Ben Woolfitt

Woolfitt draws every day, usually starting around 6:00 a.m. He sees this early hour as a time when “you’re as close to the sleep state as you can be, and you’re not really involved in a thought process.”
Still Life: Max Dean’s Forceful Imminence
Bad Luck Banging, Great Luck Filming
Writing, Being Here and There
William Kentridge

Beneath all the absurdity—a big disembodied nose strutting around the tower, riding on horseback, ascending a rickety stairway towards a podium only to fall off it and ascend again— what is really being expressed here are sorrow and dismay.
Way of Being: The Art of Lori Blondeau

“I think being born Indigenous means you are political…You’re born political because you have to fight for your rights. We’re still doing it today.”
Walking the Talk and Talking the Walk

“I was taking a walk and I saw a particular nearby parking lot,” she says. “I think I was hit by the muse.”
The Life of Bones

“When I’m photographing, I’m trying so much to be with the skull as a skull, as a carrier of feelings and structure, that I don’t relate to anybody else at the time.”
Sandra Brewster

Along a fulsome continuum of Black expressivity, Black time and Black survival transmuted to thriving, what is plumbed by the blurs is not the culture-making, world-defining and defying contributions of these icons but the way in which Brewster wrecks the photograph’s illusory idylls.
Light | Space | Camera | Language | The Work of James Nizam

Nizam explored these domiciles during nighttime dérives, occupying and photographing a seemingly unconscious zone of civic and psychic ruin.

Haven’t found what you're looking for? Explore our index for material not available online.