Double Dozen

Double Dozen show opening September 5 at Seattle's Lisa Harris Gallery. Twelve guest artists chosen by 12 gallery artists, who are also showing new work. My guest is Kathryn Abarbanel, a Seattle artist who photographed hundreds of personal belongings left behind in a house she and her partner, Maria Gamboa, bought and rehabilitated. Seattle… Read more…

Kathryn Abarbanel’s Rathaus

Among photobooks I find myself returning to are those that convey a deep intimacy between photographer and subject. While the sequencing of photographs, form of the books, typography and other design choices all work with images to produce this effect, design aspects seem to dissolve away when I browse these books, leaving only the… Read more…

Three Gestures

Three gloves, picked up from the street, seem to retain the gestures of the people who lost them. Read more…

The Brown Sisters

In 1975, after photographing his wife with her three sisters, Boston photographer Nicholas Nixon decided to take an annual portrait of them. Although Nixon changed the location and the frame of the portraits from year to year, he posed the sisters in the same postion--his wife, Bebe, the second from the right and Heather, Mimi, and Laurie… Read more…

Tucson Photo in LENSCRATCH’s Cell Phone Photo Exhibition

One of the cell phone photos from my ongoing Plants::People project is included in LENSCRATCH's Cell Phone Exhibition. LENSCRATCH, a blogzine founded and edited by Aline Smithson, periodically offers uncurated exhibits to give photographers a wider audience for their work. This exhibit, which launched today, includes some amazing work. Read more…