Close Ups: 1990’s

    Photography and Text by Tony Ward, Copyright 2020 . Close Up’s: 1990’s . During the early 1990’s, I purchased what would eventually become an indispensable piece of equipment for my portrait photography, the ring flash.  This unique flash lamp that creates shadowless light on a subjects face at close range intrigued me from … Read more

Katie Kerl: Dating Guide 2020

  Text by Katie Kerl, Copyright 2020 . Dating Guide . This is the first time I have really been totally single in a few years.  After much on and off with my last relationship I fully understand the saying, “I do not have to know you to know your energy.” Unfortunately, our lives led … Read more

Ed Simmons: Dancing Girls Harvard and Stone

  Photography and Text by Ed Simmons, Copyright 2020 . Dancing Girls Harvard and Stone . Chuck E Weiss. Yeah, I knew that guy. The dude from that Rickey Lee Jones tune, “Chuck E’s In Love”. I was hanging around with him back in the early 80’s at Hollywood’s Club Lingeri.  I read in the … Read more

Studio News: A Return to Teaching

  Text by Tony Ward, Copyright 2020 After a two year hiatus from teaching, I have accepted an invitation as visiting instructor of Fine Arts at Haverford College. On December 17th, 2019 my first meeting with photography students took place at the Jane Lutnick Fine Arts Center. My colleague Professor William Williams asked me to … Read more

Katie Kerl: Tis the Season for Giving

    Photography and Text by Katie Kerl, Copyright 2019 . Tis’ the Season for Giving . This year I took a different approach to the holidays. I packed an entire townhouse and moved two times in November (yes again). If you have followed my previous year in writing I felt like a nomad; finally … Read more