Richard Misrach & Kate Orff: Petrochemical America

Petrochemical America features Richard Misrach's haunting photographic record of Louisiana's Chemical Corridor, accompanied by landscape architect Kate Orff's Ecological Atlas--a series of "speculative drawings" developed through research and mapping of data from the region. Their joint effort depicts and unpacks the complex cultural, physical and economic ecologies along 150 miles...

PhotoBiography: Joey L.

Joseph Anthony Lawrence, best known as Joey L., is a Canadian-born photographer and director based in Brooklyn, New York. Having borrowed his father’s digital point-and-shoot camera at the age of 10, Joey turned to photography as a means of expressing his creativity, which ultimately transformed into a lifelong passion. Largely...

Nastasia Faivre: Frenesie/Frenzy

My work is a reflection on contemporary cities and more specifically about the proliferation of modern urban space. To show the frenzy from the activity and the density of urban areas, I use long exposures and the juxtaposition. It allows me to condense moments in a single image which represents the movement found...

Interview with Portrait photographer Vinit Gupta

How did you get into photography? The first motivation to getting in photography was travelling, but later, while volunteering with Not to Profit Organisation, I realized how we can use photography as a tool for social and documentary research. In 2011 left my corporate job and start working with development...

Louviere + Vanessa: Resonantia

This September, Louviere + Vanessa will transform Candela Books + Gallery into an immersive, multi-sensory environment, incorporating animated vinyl record, film, and abstract photographs. While preparing for this exhibition we have been trying to wrap our minds around the labor-intensive process of New Orleans based artists Louviere + Vanessa’s new...

Eric Meola: Storm Chaser

Traveling across more than seven Midwestern states with a professional storm-chasing group called Tempest Tours, Eric Meola documented everything from hair-raising tornadoes to serene sunsets. While interested in the interplay between light and color in the sky, he also sought to portray signs of life in the old towns they...

Shinichi Maruyama: Nude Dancers

Shinichi Maruyama is Japan born photographer who moved to New York in 2003. In Nude series Shinichi tried to capture the beauty of both the human body’s figure and its motion. The figure in the image, which is formed into something similar to a sculpture, is created by combining 10,000...

Shen Chao-Liang: Stage

Shen Chao-Liang made over 100 photographs between 2006 and 2011. In his introduction to his book, Stage, the artist explains his fascination with these stage trucks, their history, how they are made, and the life that surrounds the performers and business owners. The artist followed many stage trucks to remote...

Interview with Documentary photographer Maxim Dondyuk

- How did you get into photography? I started doing photography after my third try. When I was a child, when my mother and I were sitting in a red room. She was an amateur photographer and constantly took pictures of our whole family on camera ZENIT. I remember I...