Rachael Banks is a photographer from Louisville, Kentucky, and is an Assistant Professor of Photography at Northern Kentucky University. In Issue 94, we feature her work in the thematic context of animals while acknowledging her work focuses primarily on family dynamics, relationships, and nostalgia. She is also especially interested in social subcultures and identity informed
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F-Stop Magazine: The current issue of F-Stop Magazine features your project “Hidden Mothers” – Please tell us more about this project, and what led you to creating this work. Megan Jacobs: A few years ago, I came across the book The Hidden Mother which is comprised of a collection of historic “hidden mother” images that
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  F-Stop Magazine: Tell us a bit about your background as a Photographer. Sounak Das: The inspiration of assembling pictures comes from my father who was a theatre artist. His plays were always captured which he narrated to me through photographs. I can recall my first play when I was 5 months old by looking
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F-Stop Magazine: Tell us a bit about your background as a photographer. Jim Ferguson: I started using the camera at age 7 documenting my family history and taking some photos my 5 year old sister thought were weird. After getting my BFA from San Francisco Art Institute, I focused primarily on landscape photography in the
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F-Stop Magazine: Tell us a bit about your background as a photographer. Frank Biringer: I have been photographing since I was a teenager and inherited a Minolta SRT-101 from my father. Later I documented my early adulthood intensively through snapshots with a point and shoot camera. But it is first during the last 10 years
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F-Stop Magazine: Tell us a bit about your background as a photographer Leanne Wiggers: I started getting interested in Photography around the age of fourteen. I would always be the person on vacations or days off to have a camera with me and to photograph things around me. Since I had gotten an interest in
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Emmanuel Monzon is a french photographer and visual artist based in Seattle, WA. He graduated from the Academy of Beaux-Arts in Paris, France with honors. His work has been featured throughout the US, Europe and Asia. His work is represented by galleries in Europe and Asia, and his work is exhibited widely. I know Monzon’s
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F-Stop Magazine: Tell us a bit about your background as a photographer Tatiana Bondareva: In 2014, my niece Alina turned 2. I realized that we didn’t have any photos of her, and I decided to pick up a camera. I didn’t expect that watching a little girl grow up through the lens of a photo
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F-Stop Magazine: Tell us a bit about your background as a photographer Marina Font: I studied art, design and photography at the Escuela de Artes Visuales Martin Malharro, Mar del Plata, Argentina, where I joined a local photo-club. Later, I studied photography at the Speos Ecole de la Photographie, in Paris, and in 2009 received
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