Cary Benbow: Why do you photograph? What compels you to make the images you create? J.M. Golding: For me, the answer lies in both the process of creating, and in the images that result from that process. In terms of process, making photographs invites me into what the psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi calls a flow state, which he describes as ‘‘an almost automatic, effortless, yet highly … Continue reading Interview with photographer J.M. Golding
Mandy Williams is a visual artist working primarily in photography and video. Her work covers range of subjects, but centers around the theme of the social dynamics arising from contemporary culture – particularly how personal identity is affected by environment and how our social and affective lives interconnect. This interest in the psychology of place has been a catalyst for both autobiographical and voyeuristic projects, … Continue reading The Landscapes of photographer Mandy Williams
Cary Benbow: Why do you photograph? What compels you to make the images you create? Will Ellis: It starts with a feeling of being intensely fascinated by a topic to the point where I have to externalize it. There’s an urge to capture it and show everyone else why it’s so amazing. I try to stay motivated with concrete goals, like completing a body of … Continue reading Interview with photographer Will Ellis
Otherness Recent project submission from UK photographer Nick Treviss – he describes ‘Otherness’ as “focusing on notions of identity, and this body of work explores the relationship between photographer and subject, and the affect and influence each has on a true representation of the individual.” Check out Nick Treviss’ website (http://www.nicktreviss.com/), Instagram @nick_treviss, or his Tumblr here. Continue reading Photographer Nick Treviss
Simply Living Photographer Amanda Knigga has embarked on a project titled ‘Simply Living‘. Knigga’s project statement covers the scope and basis for the project as such: With minimal experience, my family made the decision to start over by living a simpler life. They moved from a new house in a subdivision to a doublewide trailer on a plot of land in the rolling hills of … Continue reading Photographer Amanda Knigga
Suicide Machine – Living in the Town with No Hope? The work of Dan Wood is probably not what you might expect from the stereotypical assumption based on the title of his project. Don’t judge a book by its cover. The title stems from a regionally publicized statistic that Bridgend, Wales was experiencing a high rate of suicides in the early 2000s. Wood’s decision in 2013 to … Continue reading Suicide Machine – an interview with Dan Wood
Shared here from the blog Photography Prison, the so-named alter ego of Prison Photography by Pete Brook. They say you should always photograph cars and fashions if you want your images to gain some easy cool further down the line. That’s down to our inevitable nostalgia for design and style. Photographer of the 70s, Shalmon Bernstein tapped into some of that exhilaration in many of his series … Continue reading Shalmon Bernstein – Movie Ladies/Times Square
Washington, D.C. Government charwoman by Gordon Parks See the great piece written by John Edwin Mason that was posted on 20×200 – http://20×200.com/blogs/news/88418820-new-introducing-gordon-parks-with-john-edwin-mason More About John Edwin Mason John Edwin Mason teaches African history and the history of photography at the University of Virginia. He has published extensively on South African social history and the history of photography in Africa. His most recent book, One Love, Ghoema … Continue reading Gordon Parks with John Edwin Mason
Dona Schwartz describes her book as such: “In On the Nest, I use environmental portraiture to examine two moments of change that bookend parents’ lives—the transition to parenthood with a first child’s birth, and the transition to life without day-to-day responsibility for parenting when young adults leave their childhood homes.” The book is comprised of three parts. The ‘Expecting’ series at the beginning of … Continue reading Book Review: On the Nest by Dona Schwartz
Interview with Tytia Habing The bonds we make in life will always have a hold on us. No matter how insulated one might feel from others, we are all inextricably connected and interconnected in some manner or another. Such is the cycle of life. Tytia Habing has lived a somewhat cyclical life thus far — having been born in rural Illinois, living most of her adult … Continue reading Family, Flora and Photos: The Ties that Bind
Wobneb Magazine 
You must be logged in to post a comment.