Interview: Sean Lotman, Photographer and Writer

There is something inherently enduring about Sean Lotman’s work. Lotman is that nowadays-rare photographer who despite the trend toward digital photography still shoots using an old-school analog camera. His choice affects the look and feel of his work and it affects the way he approaches his work’s creation. Lotman does not hold on to analog photography for sentiment – or even aesthetics – alone; rather, he sees an analog camera as integral to his method. For Lotman, art-making is “risky,” it is something that requires skill as well as luck and a willingness to be in the moment. Analog enables such immediacy, such intimacy between the creator and the creation. “Art is the greatest clue to the self,” Lotman tells us, “It draws from talent, experience, and the subconscious.”

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Editors' Note: The Studio Museum in Harlem, this Spring

The Studio Museum in Harlem has several exciting exhibitions this spring.

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Editors' Note: Spring 2012

Spring has arrived, along with our third journal. In our Spring 2012 journal, we present the work of artists, photographers and writers who explore themes that force us to stop and examine the uncertain world around us, something our busy lives often prevent (or maybe save) us from doing.

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On the Scene & Interview: Austin Irving's 'Portals'

With drinks in hand, a young crowd gathered around eleven photographs in the CURIO Studio & Collection by Anne Faith Nicholls in Venice Beach, California on March 3rd. Some framed and others beaming from light-boxes, the photographs are part of emerging photographer Austin Irving’s latest work and her first solo show “AUSTIN IRVING / PORTALS”–– a new series that presents an international landscape (Irving travels extensively to capture her images) of everyday spaces (walls, mirrors, stairways); Irving’s images ask viewers to examine the mundane in-between areas of architectural transit that we occupy daily but rarely notice.

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Daisy Rockwell and This World of Terror

Image belongs to Daisy Rockwell. www.daisyrockwell.comIt's funny what the media chooses to portray. Not to sound like the indefatigable rants of Sarah Palin, but it is true that the for-profit media often does have a bias -- and it is toward the sensational, toward what sells. In this little note, I am speaking of the recent CNN article that focuses nearly exclusively on the fact that Daisy Rockwell "paints terrorists." 

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Editors' Note: Santigold and the Creation of Her New Album Cover

"Eagerly" is probably the best way to describe the way in which we have been awaiting Santigold's next album. And "brilliantly" is probably the best way to describe the way in which she, Jason Schmidt (the photographer) and Kehinde Wiley (the visionary artist) have created the cover art for this album.

Watch this clip on the cover's creation.