By Elin Spring & Suzanne Révy We are sure it has escaped no one: the dark irony of singing Happy Birthday, twice, while vigorously lathering soap into every nook of our hands in an attempt to dislodge the invisible, ferocious contagion that threatens to annihilate birthdays across the globe. Happy...
By Suzanne Révy Two and a half weeks ago galleries, stores and museums were still open to the public. It feels like an eternity in this surreal moment of sheltering in place. Unfortunately, the anxiety of this pandemic cannot be assuaged by engaging directly with art, because museums have gone dark. ...
By Elin Spring At a time when shooting with film and printing in a wet darkroom have practically become “alternative methods”, Gallery Kayafas brings us the sumptuous silver gelatin prints of four contemporary photographers: The Way West by Peter Kayafas, You and I by Peter Chan, Late Nights by Logan...
By Suzanne Révy The Leica Women Foto Project was launched last year to promote “the expansion and diversity of inclusion in photography.” In their first year, they have chosen three women for a grant and the loan of a camera to further projects that address topical issues around identity and culture....
By Elin Spring & Suzanne Révy Whatever your politics, we hope you exercised your civic privilege and voted in the primaries or caucuses. The arrival of March brings a raft of exciting photographic exhibits and events, many of which address our political moment and the burning issues of the day....
By Suzanne Révy From the moment we are born, we begin to age. We barely control our movements as infants, then slowly, we roll over, crawl, stand and toddle. As we get steadier on our feet, we run, jump and stomp through childhood until puberty hits and then adulthood. We slow down in middle age, […]
“We are with the new tide. We stand at the crossroads We watch each new procession. The hot wires carry urgent appeals. Print compels us. Voices are speaking. Men are moving! And we shall be with them.” Richard Wright, 12 Million Black Voices, 1941 By Elin Spring How is creativity born?...
“All photographs—not only those that are so called ‘documentary’…can be fortified by words.” ~Dorothea Lange By Suzanne Révy Dorothea Lange (1895-1965) is one of a generation of photographers in the 1930’s whose work helped cement the documentary code of accuracy in photographic...
By Elin Spring How can a single artist reproach centuries of ingrained injustice? How can they simultaneously offer hope for an equitable future? South African “visual activist” Zanele Muholi has mounted a stunning, often agonizing, deeply layered, and altogether dazzling artistic plea for a fair...
“There is nothing more mysterious than a fact clearly described.” ~Garry Winogrand (probably quoting Francis Bacon) By Suzanne Révy Photography’s penchant for isolating a scene within a frame at 1/60th of a second often yields a surprising description of facts that can take on deeper meanings...
