Text by Bob Shell, Copyright 2020 . The 60’s . In the summer of 1966 I moved to Washington, DC, to take a job I’d been offered at the Smithsonian Institution as a biological illustrator. I’d been making detailed paintings and pen and ink drawings of insects, birds, and animals since grade school. I … Read more
Text by Bob Shell, Copyright 2020 . Learning to See and Equipment Meditations . Many people, when they get into photography, become “equipment freaks,”. buying lens after lens in a quest for better photographs. I know, I was one myself. Those people keep the camera companies in business. I didn’t understand that … Read more
. LEIF SKOOGFORS INTERVIEW: . TW: When did you first realize your vocation would be to become a photojournalist? Who or what influences in your life early on led you down this path? LS: The weekly arrival of LIFE magazine, in those days a respected and worldly periodical showed me the world. I … Read more
Text by A.H. Scott, Copyright 2020 . Flags of Our (Mythical) Fathers . Observing the daily dumpster of disaster which is the Trump presidency, a constant refrain which swirls in my brain is this: WHAT THE FUCK, AMERICA?!! ‘God is gonna shake His mighty head He’ll either say I’m pleased where man has been Or … Read more
. . Photography and Text by Emily Williams, Copyright 2020 . HOME/SOLITUDE . I dedicate this series to my grandfather, Leon Williams. . Driven by my frustration with the passage of time without a singular place to call home, I started to think about the meaning of home—a feeling rather than a physical space. … Read more