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editorial, Photographer, Submission

Under His Eye by Chandra Bozelko

Editor’s Note: Wobneb Magazine is honored to welcome this contribution by writer and criminal justice reform advocate, Chandra Bozelko.  :: Readers might assume I write about prisons because I’m so passionate about conditions inside correctional facilities and injustices in the criminal legal system. I am passionate about changing these realities. I also do it because there are so few visuals available. Prison wardens often restrict … Continue reading Under His Eye by Chandra Bozelko

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Photographer

Arthur Fields – Seen and Heard: Evidence of a unique personal experience

Arthur Fields is a photographer from Texas, currently living in Vincennes, Indiana where he is an Assistant Professor of Art at Vincennes University.  He currently teaches courses in traditional analog photography as well as digital imaging.  He also serves as the director of VU’s Shircliff Gallery of Art. Fields’ latest artistic research is based on his love of landscape and self-representation. By compiling imagery from online … Continue reading Arthur Fields – Seen and Heard: Evidence of a unique personal experience

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Book Review

Peace in the Valley by Saleem Ahmed

Peace in the Valley is a wonderful image collection of vignettes of the Bolivian landscape by photographer Salem Ahmed. It is a visual love affair with people, places and scenes presented in soft, colorful tones, and thoughtful compositions that create a meaningful dialog between photographer and the city of Nuestra Señora de la Paz, or just La Paz for short.  Entropy and pragmatic utility stand … Continue reading Peace in the Valley by Saleem Ahmed

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Exhibition

Photo Exhibition Explores the Way Disruption Impacts Our Lives

Now through June 11th, the curated exhibition, Disruption is being held at The Factory in Long Island City, Queens, NY. Each distinguished artist was selected based on work developed independently, for an extended period of time. Each artist uses documentary directness, humor, pathos and poetry in their images. Separately, they address the connective topics of lives interrupted, lives cut short, lives spent separated from family, their own cultural … Continue reading Photo Exhibition Explores the Way Disruption Impacts Our Lives

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Interview, Photographer

GenderQueer – Intimate and Genuine: An interview with Chloe Aftel

GenderQueer — Intimate and Genuine Gender is a current topic of discussion and debate — politically, and socially. A political debate wages on in several states to decide who should use which restroom based on their assigned gender at birth, versus the gender with each person identifies themselves. Time Magazine’s cover story for March 27, 2017 is ‘Beyond He or She’; how a new generation is defining how they relate … Continue reading GenderQueer – Intimate and Genuine: An interview with Chloe Aftel

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Photographer

Small Town Inertia photo book project – J A Mortram

Surviving life and austerity on the margins Jim Mortram is a photographer from Dereham, Norfolk, UK. He has been photographing members of his community who are on the fringes of society.  For the last seven years, Jim has been photographing the lives of people in his community who, through physical and mental problems and a failing social security system, face isolation and loneliness in their … Continue reading Small Town Inertia photo book project – J A Mortram

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Interview, Photographer

Suicide Machine – an interview with Dan Wood

  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

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