My first official assignment as a writer sent me to Downtown, Los Angeles at the Santa Fe Artist Colony to interview Lisa Adams.  It was the winter of 2008, nearly five years exactly that I met Lisa for the first time.  She had just applied spray paint to a large work titled We Destroyed the […]

Alejandro Cartagena waited patiently along the highways that bisect the economic classes of Mexico.  The series Car Poolers encapsulates a moment in time but reflects an ongoing dialogue of  a culture chasing dreams of prosperity and progress in the back of pickup trucks.         Car Poolers was shot in one of the highways […]

Documenting the American landscape on her bicycle, Lisa Anne Auerbach photographs the exteriors of megachurches.  The architectural subjects inspire questions about religion and identity, and bear a striking resemblance to corporate institutions.  Printing on a large format printer, Auerbach produced her first issue of American Megazine,devoted the oversized issue to the megachurch. For many years […]

Agata Czeremuszkin-Chrut With a nod to Bacon, Agat Czeremuszkin-Chrut concerns herself with the life that paint can breathe into the human form. Vividly painted figures that twist and float, the forms are reminiscent of Clemente or Chagall. As the identities of her subjects fade beneath a primordial cocktail of colour and line, Agata reveals herself […]

As I walk through this world with my camera, I document glimpses of the artistic practice that would otherwise remain a mystery.  This is a personal look at some of my favorite moments visiting artists’ in their studios.  The places I find are special to me, labs of ideas and expression where the people are […]

18 Windows This abandoned train warehouse in London was an elegantly proportioned building.  Although it was in such a state of disrepair and it’s historical use had long since been forgotten, it still possessed a beauty and classic grandeur.  The shafts of light and colours from the layers of graffiti along with the windows’ reflections […]