The Background Noise work arose entirely out of chance and accident. I was scanning a negative, and somewhere along the way the file corrupted. The resulting image exhibited traces of its source, but was largely ruptured, an example of the kind of schism that permeates the digitization process. I was drawn to the mishap from an aesthetic standpoint, but even more so it underpinned an anxiety that I felt…
On March 21st, 2014, the collaborative duo Nate Larson and Marni Shindleman took to Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Snapchat to answer questions by In the In-Between writer Luke Shaw. This conversation began with the question: How can human intimacy can be attained through digitally mediated dialogue?
Humor, subversiveness, and satire are all words that come to mind when viewing the F series’ by Spanish artist José Camara. Within the found photographs, family pictures, and images…
With so much chatter lately about the use of surveillance technologies in photography today, and with one critic even referring to it as an emergent genre of image-making, Andrew Hammerand’s series The New Town both acknowledges…
The various series’ presented here by Christopher Meerdo largely reflect a counterpoint to the use of digital imaging technology to strive for the perfect and flawless picture. In his projects Anthologies and…
The images of architectural structures in Adam Ryder’s Selections from the Joint Photographic Survey function as relics from a rediscovered archive of a geological and cultural survey of the Holy Land. Ryder presents these pictures as selections from an ambitious FSA-like project between two factions who occupied lands that exist now as Israel, Palestine, and Jordan…
Through the arbitrary charting and graphing of visual data, Brooklyn-based artist Mark Dorf offers a poignant metaphor for the control we impose upon the physical world. His series Axiom & Simulation…
Through the use of science fiction and fantasy imagery, New York artist Mary Mattingly addresses real world problems of environmental sustainability. Throughout her various photographic series, which supplement her sculptural…
Although experimentation with the accurate depiction of reality is nothing new to the field of photography, Dutch artist Reinier Gerritsen and the seductively…
In his series, Atomic Overlook, L.A. artist Clay Lipski opens an engaging dialog about public fascination with the nuclear bomb. Appropriating imagery of both mushroom clouds and tourist figures, Lipsky combines them aptly to create an unsettling casual set of pictures in which the austerity and violence of the atomic explosion…
Through an intertwining of domestic imagery and the female form, Swedish-born artist Eva Stenram offers challenges to her viewers on multiple fronts. The literal veiling of her figures, borrowed from 60s era pin-up images, offers a direct comment on antiquated domestic gender roles, leaving to the imagination how…
The grandiose cyber-scapes of California artist Carolyn Janssen colorize a new approach to the sublime. Her mountains, vistas and gullies created from hundreds of images- obfuscated and re-mixed- are populated with hordes of female figures singing in harmony, piled atop one another, and engaging in alien cultural customs…