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Author Archive: Cary Benbow

Book Review: Remembrance Garden: A Portrait of Green-Wood Cemetery by Eugene Richards
Powerful and meaningful work can come from many places. Memories, dreams, fears, love, loss are all strings to pluck in the creative process. When an artist strikes the right chord, the interplay of multiple emotions can create a powerful, resonant third emotion. Melancholy comes to mind as a good example, but that term feels too
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Book Review: Bury Me in the Back Forty by Kyler Zeleny
In his most recent book, Bury Me in the Back Forty, Kyler Zeleny is reconstructing the history of Mundare, his 915-person rural Canadian hometown, a place deeply rooted in Ukrainian culture. He’s using a variety of media and previously untold stories to weave a new narrative of the town’s 1980 history book. This approach results
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Book Review: Limousine by Kathy Shorr
Between Destinations: Liminal Portraits from Kathy Shorr’s Limousine Graduating from the School of Visual Arts in 1988 and completing her long-term ballroom dancer portrait project, Kathy Shorr transitioned into a new phase of her artistic journey, seeking a fresh way to capture the diverse faces of New York City, especially in her native Brooklyn. This
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Location: Online Type: Black and White, Book Review, Portraits

AUTOFOTO: Celebration of 100 Years of the Photo Booth
Cosmic currents must have converged in exactly the right way this month. Photobooths have been on my mind. I recently read about the new photo book Auto-Photo: A Life in Pictures which explores the life and vocation of Alan Adler. Adler owned and operated a number of photobooths in Melbourne, Australia for about 50 years.
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Interview with featured photographer Daniel Mirer
F-Stop Magazine’s Landscape issue this month includes a wide range of work from photographers around the world. When editing the exhibition for this issue, we felt it was especially important to include work which plays with the idea or concept of what a landscape is, or is not, and hopefully reveal something about what the
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Book Review: Lost Time by Jonathan Becker
Jonathan Becker’s Lost Time is beautifully crafted 328-page book, featuring 225 color illustrations. It is a testament to Becker’s talent and enduring influence in the world of photography. The luxurious cloth-bound edition is complete with tipped-on photographs on both the front and back covers. It’s a lavish coffee-table book pretending to be an art book, pretending to
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Location: Online Type: Book Review, Portraits

Interview with featured photographer Judith Rayl
In ‘The Verity Project,’ Judith Rayl embarks on a captivating exploration of the ephemeral and the present moment. Through a unique process of using a hand-built lens and meticulously crafted miniature landscapes, she transforms ordinary objects into extraordinary, abstract environments. This innovative approach not only challenges our perception of reality but also invites us to
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Interview with featured photographer Natasha Lozinskaya
Natasha Lozinskaya sees photography as a way to express the poetry of her homeland. Her featured portfolio “Treasure Trove” in Issue 128 explores the idea of how her youth formed her relationship to the rural Vyatsky Krai area of Russia, both physically and psychologically. She explains that photography is a medium that allows her to
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Interview with featured photographer Nika Pailodze
Photographer Nika Pailodze is based in the country of Georgia. Nestled in the Caucasus region, Georgia boasts a stunning natural landscape and a rich cultural tapestry. Pailodze’s featured photographic series delves into the enchanting, rural, and mountainous Adjara region – particularly its highland villages nestled amidst the alpine zones. This harmonious coexistence of Muslims and
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Interview with featured photographer Bruno Pereira Ribeiro
The work shown in Bruno Pereira Ribeiro’s project ‘The Grass Needs to Be Cut’ is centered on the tradition and culture of bullfighting (which is not man vs. bull – rather bull vs. bull in a showdown of dominance) in certain regions of Portugal. The animals are not being used predominantly for agriculture now, so
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