Bob Shell: The Evolution of Photography

    Bob Shell: Letters From Prison #30 . Letters by Bob Shell, Copyright 2018 . THE EVOLUTION OF PHOTOGRAPHY . When and where was photography invented? The standard story you will find in books on photographic history is that a Frenchman named Daguerre first fixed an image on a silver plated metal surface. The … Read more

Ed Simmons: Venice Beach Trashed

.   . Photography and Text by Ed Simmons, Copyright 2018 . VENICE BEACH TRASHED . OK, like the way most things go in Venice, we should hope too that this is transitory. God only knows it ain’t normal this blight. Walk out onto the sand, step in someone’s shit, maybe get stuck by a syringe … Read more

Katie Kerl: Family, Till Death Do We Part?

.   . Text by Katie Kerl, Copyright 2018 . Slideshow: Kerl Family Archives, Copyright 2018 . FAMILY: TILL DEAT H DO WE PART? . A statement usually made at weddings. In this circumstance I am talking about when family members get sick, or pass away. Nothing breaks up a functional family like death, inheritance … Read more

Bob Shell: Family of Photographers

Bob Shell: Letters From Prison #29 . FAMILY OF PHOTOGRAPHERS . Maybe photography is in the genes. My father was an avid photographer, and my sister and I both got the bug. One of my great uncles, Hank Jewell, was pretty famous as a photographer in southwest Virginia in the late 1800s and early 20th … Read more