“No matter what type of childhood you have, there’s a feeling that you’re sensing more than what you’re seeing in front of you. That’s one of the things I remember from being young. A lot of information comes to us, not in the form of words or pictures, it’s a feeling in the air . […]
Jungjin Lee’s photographs are an indelible experience. Mack is courageous in taking on the task of reproducing her large-scale, hand-made prints (from rice paper with applied emulsion). She is a seamless master in executing metaphorical imagery. Her work is not blasphemous, extroverted photographic pictorialism, but the work of a spirited, interior-working artist. Her books “Thing” […]
All day editing. A folder full of memory’s fragments. Chambourcin in our to-go cups on the Delaware in Frenchtown. Returning from my pacemaker check in Fort Dix, post house fire. My daughter’s hand in King’s Point, dressed in commercial hearts. Another night in Marriott. Another tungsten-lit night. Drunk-driver aftermath on 309 north. A forlorn warning […]
Happy to have been selected by AAMORA in their scout for young fathers to share some images of Childhood. It’s an honor to be teamed up with two photographers whose work I greatly admire, Llorenç Rosanes and Jeff James. Childhood Portfolio Aamora is a web-based collective of international artists, writers, filmmakers, designers and photographers. To […]
Looking at Eggleston’s “Chromes” produces an abstruse emotion in my gut. An impalpable flavor bellies up, almost landing on the tip of my tongue. I can’t put my finger on the taste. Saccharin doesn’t even come close. It evades any tangible description, leaving me stranded with a creative yearning of uncontrollable inspiration. I’ve witnessed Eggleston’s […]
I’ve spent a few inspiring sittings this week with Michael Ashkin’s just released “Long Branch”, published by A-Jump Books. Michael signed copies at the NY Art Book Fair on Saturday. The book is exactly the photographic dose I needed at the moment. The tonal quality of the images, consistent the whole length, is rendered perfectly […]
