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Suzanne Elise

Suzanne Elise originates from Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina. She is currently enrolled at The University of South Carolina and earning a BFA in Studio Art with a concentration in Photography. Her interest in fine art photography extends into contemporary and documentary photography. Suzanne aspires to aid others and the environment through her image making.Image may be NSFW.
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Maw Maw's Bedroom Subsisters Following the death of my paternal grandmother, I was struck with the realization that all I had left were memories and stories passed down from my father and his sisters. Feeling a lack of tangible, personal memories with my aging relatives, I began to devote more time to making deeper connections with my maternal grandmother and five great aunts. All six women are between the ages of 82 and 94, are widowed, and live in relative isolation due to their personal losses and progressive health issues. Image may be NSFW.
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Great Aunt Lucy's Kitchen While photographing and spending time with these women over the past several months, I learned about the importance of independence and handling loss. Over the past few years, mourning has been a stage of their lives but it has not affected their demeanor. Facing challenges such as the Great Depression and WWII produced strong, independent spirits. An unshakeable, steadfast faith is at the core of their being and serves them well in this challenging time in their lives. Image may be NSFW.
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Brett Schenning

Brett Schenning was born and raised in rural Wisconsin. Upon graduation from the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh, he to the Southwest where he learned to work with large format cameras and the revered Platinum-Palladium contact printing method. Brett is currently an MFA candidate at the Savannah College of Art & Design. His thesis work has focused on farming in the Southeastern United States, a study that has brought him back to the essence of his childhood home.Image may be NSFW.
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Inheritance When this project initially began I thought that the push behind it was based in a Socialist wish of equality for everyone. I had just left a job working for a corporation selling natural foods and witnessed for years first hand the division of the have’s and have not’s. It always made me feel strange that had I not worked in that business I would never be able to afford to shop there, denied access to a commodity that clearly enhanced my quality of life. This discrepancy was on display every day as bored housewives drifted through the aisles filling up shopping carts while truly hungry looking people shuffled to the cash register with a solitary apple in hand. Image may be NSFW.
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I started out wanting to say something with my photographs about how unfair that disparity seemed, but over the past year the series began revealing something deeper to me. My parents brought me into the world and raised me in rural Wisconsin, a hamlet in the middle of fertile farmland. The town was the kind of place that reminds you of those fairy tale locations described in television programs such as the bucolic Mayberry from The Andy Griffith Show. Without a doubt that sort of childhood environment influenced me as a person, the kind of place that has the potential to instill a modesty and humility in a person. I grew up working hard in my parents gardens all those humid Midwest summers, understanding that the bounty from which would provide us food for most of the year until next planting season. It was a way of life, and everyone around me just did it without a second thought. Image may be NSFW.
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When I left my small home town for college I rejected that past, most people I met grew up in the big city and were exposed to far more sophisticated culture. I was deluded into believing there was shame in my humble upbringing, for some reason it was not deemed cool to have farming roots. As I grew older and began developing into my own person I drifted back to gardening as a form of meditation and a way to supplement my food deficiencies. Then all of a sudden I began to notice farmers markets springing up all over the place, and unexpectedly gardening was in vogue and generally a “hip” thing to do. What had changed? I believe the realities of nutrition and an awareness in environmental concerns opened people’s eyes. To me this is fantastic; we should be so lucky as a society to bring more attention to food sources and sustainability. Image may be NSFW.
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As I started out saying this photographic series has seeds in my desire to see everyone eat well, nutrition is a key to a satisfactory life. But it has also evolved into a reminiscence about home, and how as we grow and adjust those methods of existence change. New generations are always finding more efficient ways of operating, and it is important to let go of that desire to hold on to nostalgia and embrace the now and all of its potential. Image may be NSFW.
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Nick Shephard

Nick Shepard grew up in New York, and after graduating with a degree in Studio Art and Art History from Carleton College in 2007, he earned his MFA in 2011 from the School of Visual Arts in New York. His work was included in the Wallpaper* Magazine 2011 Graduate Directory. He lives and works in Portland, Oregon.Image may be NSFW.
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Still Life with Real, Fake, and Dyed Flowers The Known World De bekende wereld (The Known World) is an exploration of contemporary life in America and our complex relationship with the people, spaces, and objects that constitute it. Echoing the aesthetic of Dutch master painting, these images ask viewers to ‘look again’ at the overlooked, and to reconsider their impressions of the modern world. The great Dutch master painters used visual beauty, emotional directness, light effects, and naturalism to elevate the ‘everyday’. By using their genres and styles as a lens to take a fresh look at the details of our ‘everyday’, we are able to both appreciate and question our contemporary culture. The visual language of classic paintings also adds a sense of timelessness that incorporates our 21st century context into a larger continuum. Image may be NSFW.
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Ray Ewing

Ray Ewing is a photographer and artist from the island of Martha's Vineyard. Ray received a BFA in photography from Maine College of Art in Portland in 2012. He is currently completing an MFA in studio art at The University of New Mexico in Albuquerque. Ray has worked as a photojournalist, commercial photographer, educator and an exhibiting artist. Image may be NSFW.
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I find joy in looking at the absurd spaces and structures of the tourism and entertainment industries. A feeling of comfort and sentimentality for the kitsch value of these spaces is mixed in with a certain sense of nausea created by their inaccuracy and excess. The emotional connection they hold for me lies in the fact that their tone, or feeling, reminds me of my resort-island home. I am on a constant search for these spaces like a collector of specimens, but the camera is often just an excuse to spend time there. My selection of spaces to document has been guided by an aura of profitable ridiculousness and, although my selections have been made by this negative impulse, I photograph from a positive place once I am there. This conflict in my process has mirrored my personal relationship to my subjects. Image may be NSFW.
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As a photojournalist, Ray has received multiple awards for his work with the Martha's Vineyard Gazette, including the Publick Occurences Award in 2013. As an artist, Ray has been a part of multiple group exhibitions as well as a solo show entitled Visual Stimulus. To view more of Ray's work please visit his website.

Sheida Soleimani

Sheida Soleimani is an Iranian-American artist, currently residing in Detroit, Michigan, and is doing her graduate studies at the Cranbrook Academy of Art. The daughter of two parents that are political refugees, Soleimani references situations in relevance to her own and her parent’s past, while inserting her own critical perspectives on historical and contemporary socio-political occurrences in the Middle East. Image may be NSFW.
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Green Revolution National Anthem Recognizing the cultural dualities in my upbringing, my work explores identity formed by personal memories and stories my parents expressed to me as a child. In the 1979 Iranian Revolution, my father was a political activist against the Ayatollah’s totalitarian regime, and was suppressed for his pro-democratic beliefs. In return, my mother was imprisoned and tortured while the government tried to learn about my father’s whereabouts. Their revolutionary stories regarding a time of societal upheaval in Iran were initiatives for me to create narratives in regards to my own critical perspectives on past historical issues, as well as their relevance today. Through the changing of dictators within the past 35 years of Iranian political history, the national anthem of the country has been changed 3 times: each time suiting the more oppressive regime that has come into power. In my photographic scenarios, cultural symbols and signifiers are appropriated to create a narrative in regards to my position as an Iranian-American viewing the Middle East from an outside lens. The usage of specific colors and political figures form a symbolic lexicon that runs throughout the series, while party supplies hint at the doctrines of ‘political parties’. Each of the photographs addresses a specific time in Iranian history, while alluding to how both the East and West have responded to societal occurrences. Through incorporating multiple layers, the lexicon can be read and refashioned by the viewers’ ideologies, creating images that remain coeval, while acknowledging former origins. Image may be NSFW.
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Caleb Charland

Growing up in rural Maine, Caleb Charland spent much of his childhood helping his father remodel their family home. These experiences instilled an awareness of the potential for the creative use of materials, and the ability to fabricate his visions. Charland earned a BFA in photography with departmental honors from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design in 2004, an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago as a Trustees Fellow in 2010, and was a participant at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 2009. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally and is in several major collections including the Philadelphia Museum of Art, The Progressive Collection, and the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Charland currently lives and works in Maine.Image may be NSFW.
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Back to Light The English scientist Michael Faraday, whose experiments with electricity and magnetism allowed for the practical use of theses forces in the modern world, once said “All this is a dream. Still examine it by a few experiments. Nothing is too wonderful to be true, if it be consistent with the laws of nature; and in such things as these experiment is the best test of such consistency.” To understand the world and to profit from it one must interact with it, one must experiment. My practice as an artist combines a scientific curiosity with a constructive approach to making pictures. I utilize everyday objects and fundamental forces to illustrate experiences of wonder. For me, wonder is a state of mind somewhere between knowledge and uncertainty. An energy vibrates in that space between our perceptions of the world and the potential the mind senses for our interventions within the world. Image may be NSFW.
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My current body of work, Back to Light, expands upon a classic grade school science project, the potato battery. By inserting a galvanized nail into one side of a potato and a copper wire in the other side a small electrical current is generated. The utter simplicity of this electrical phenomenon is endlessly fascinating for me. Many people have had the experience of drawing power from fruit in the classroom, and it never ceases to bring a smile to the face or a thought to the mind. This work speaks to a common curiosity we all have for how the world works as well as a global concern for the future of earth’s energy sources. Image may be NSFW.
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Since all this is a dream my hope is that these photographs function as micro utopias by suggesting and illustrating the endless possibilities of alternative and sustainable energy production. The cycle that begins with the light of our closest star implanting organic materials with nutrients and energy, is re-routed in these images, Back to Light, illuminating earth once again. Image may be NSFW.
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To view more of Caleb's work, purchase your copy of Aint-Bad Magazine Issue No.7 : Beyond Here, available in our shop and visit Caleb's website.

James Rajotte

James Rajotte is a native of Central Pennsylvania and has been photographing the change in the area for the past six years. He attended Penn State University where he studied Geographic Information Science before moving to Rochester, New York to pursue photography. In Rochester, James worked closely with the photographer Nathan Lyons. James now lives in Madrid, Spain with his partner, Maria, where he is an editorial photographer contributing regularly to El País and the New York Times while continuing working on long-term personal projects and expanding his view of documentary photography. Today we take a look at his series titled, The Story of Frenchville (2007-2012). Image may be NSFW.
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Susquehanna River The Story of Frenchville (2007-2012) The following are quotations of Nestor Billotte who is pictured in the first image in the series. Nestor was a lifelong resident of Frenchville, Pennsylvania and he died in 2009. Original in French. Translated to English A parler le français du grand père puis et père et mère. Ca fait qu’on parlait la même chose. Si le grand père puis mère puis père prononçaient pas comme il faut, on ne prononçait pas comme il faut non plus.. Quand il vivait on parlait un petit plus qu’on ne parle a présent. Apres mon frère il est comme moi, il ne parle pas comme on devrait. Ca fait qu’on ne peut pas… we can’t get any better. Oh oui, ca c’est sur qu’on a oublié, des coups je pense comment que je voudrais dire ces mots ci . Puis je pense, je pense, je pense, des coups ca vient, des coup ca vient pas. Comme des mots que je parlais avec vous il faudrait que j’arrête puis que je pense puis ca serait le soir d’ici à ce que je pense ce que je voulais dire. C’est pas comme si on parle tout le temps tout le temps tout le temps. C’est pas souvent du tout. Our grandfather and mother and father spoke French. We spoke as they did. If they didn’t pronounce it the way it should be, we didn’t pronounce it the way it should be either. My Cousin, he spoke French much better than I did. When he was alive we spoke French a little bit more than now. My brother is like me, he doesn’t speak as we should. It makes that …..we can’t do any better. Oh yes, this is for sure that we forgot. Sometimes I am figuring out how I would like to say some words. I am thinking, thinking, thinking, sometimes it comes, sometimes it doesn’t. As I am speaking to you, I would need to stop then think and it would be nighttime until I figure out everything I want to say. It is not as if we speak all the time. It doesn’t happen very often at all. Image may be NSFW.
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Fabrizio Albertini

Fabrizio Albertini, born in 1984, lives on Lake Maggiore, Italy. He graduated in Film direction and Production at the Conservatorio Internazionale Scienze Audiovisive in Lugano, Switzerland. During his years of study, several of his short movies were selected for the International Locarno Film Festival and Solothurner Filmtage. Today we share his series, Genius Loci Vol.1, about the idea of an equilibrium; of an intelligent order of things and of the space.Image may be NSFW.
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Genius Loci Vol.1 It is a daily journey that was born as much from the will of maturing as a photographer as from the necessity of facing a long convalescence. Each snapshot is the destination of a travel at your fingertips, a trip that was almost always an Italian one, in which, with selective and precise criteria, I was looking for the presence of color, composition and light. Realized between the summers of 2012 and 2013, Genius Loci Vol.1 walks the spectator through a few recurring paths: Milan, the water, the vegetation, the animals, the non-place, the Virgin Mary. They are all pacific environments, reassuring in a certain way, and in which I’ve always searched for order of things. The location choice was rather accidental. Often I just happened to find a space that I liked and I waited and waited, until something, just about anything, would appear and complete it. Image may be NSFW.
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Daniel Kukla

Daniel Kukla, a native of Indianapolis, Indiana, currently resides in Brooklyn, New York where he works as a photo-based artist. He is a graduate of The International Center of Photography program in Documentary Photography and Photojournalism. Prior to his photographic education, he attended The University of Toronto and received his B.Sc. in Evolutionary Ecology, Biology, and Evolutionary Human Anatomy. He works at the juncture of these disciplines, focusing in on capturing images that have the power to articulate our ever-changing relationship with the natural world. His work has been exhibited in the United States, Burma, Canada, China, Lithuania, Malaysia, Singapore, Spain, South Africa and the UK.Image may be NSFW.
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Captive Landscapes We, as humans, go to great lengths to satisfy our desire for a connection with the natural world, especially in our interactions with wild and exotic animals. Zoos are the primary site for this relationship, but they often obscure the conflicts inherent in maintaining and displaying captive wild animals. In this series, I photographed the interiors of animal enclosures at 12 different zoos across the U.S and Europe. These images invite the viewer to question the role of these constructed habitats, and explore the motivations behind collecting, preserving, and controlling the natural world. Image may be NSFW.
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Frances F. Denny

Frances F. Denny is an MFA candidate in Photography at the Rhode Island School of Design. Her work has been exhibited in New York, Rhode Island, Maine, Missouri, Colorado, Indiana, Vermont, and Seoul, South Korea. Past editorial clients include Art Review, The Boston Globe, Architectural Digest, IntoTheGloss, and Wilder Quarterly,and her work has been featured in A Public Space, Tonelit, and on Flak Photo. Frances is also a Founding Editor of Scrapped, an annual art journal showcasing the work of emerging artists working in all media. Frances currently splits her time between Providence, RI and New York City.Image may be NSFW.
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Let Virtue Be Your Guide Let Virtue Be Your Guide documents the female members of my New England family. The photographs examine a kind of metaphorical inheritance: the values, traditions, and virtues that are passed down from one generation of women to the next. In the images, resemblances and divergences emerge between the generations; a tension between surface and internality, legacy and embodiment. In the pictures, we sense the passage of time, as well as my own struggle with an inherited definition of femininity. Image may be NSFW.
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Christian Wilbur

Christian Wilbur, born in 1991 in Huntington, NY is a photographer now based on Long Island. In 2013, he graduated from the School of Visual Arts with a B.F.A. in Photography. His imagery generally concentrates on the ways in which interior spaces appropriate the qualities and idiosyncrasies of their inhabitants over time. Today we share his series With and Without You, dealing with his brother's declining health due to his condition of cerebral palsy.Image may be NSFW.
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With and Without You Daniel Wilbur was born on September 21st, 1984, delivered several weeks prematurely and promptly diagnosed with cerebral palsy. Despite early uncertainty over his life expectancy, my brother enjoyed a healthy childhood and adolescence marred by just a few medical crises. However, the past four years have seen the rapid deterioration of his health, necessitating his transfer to a hospital center and later to a nursing home facility; when he left us, it felt as if a crucial thread had been pulled from the fabric of our home. “With and Without You” presents the viewer with a portrait of a family irreparably fractured by the loss of Daniel, who is currently bedridden in a nursing home and secluded from the outside world. Image may be NSFW.
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Robin Myers

Robin Myers was born and raised in Houston, Texas and holds a BFA from Massachusetts College of Art and Design. She is the recent recipient of the 2014 Houston Center for Photography Fellowship, resulting in a solo exhibition opening in May. Her work has recently been exhibited at the Humble Arts Foundation’s Small Prints exhibition at Flash Forward Festival in Boston, Danforth Art, and Houston Center for Photography. Upcoming 2014 exhibitions include Wild and Woolly and The Flash of an Instant, both at the New Art Center in Newton, MA. Robin currently lives and works in Boston, MA. Image may be NSFW.
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Marin Raica

Marin Raica is a Romanian photographer who investigates human settlements and landscape representation. Today we share her series, The Painted Wall, which explores the small monoindustrial towns in Romania and documents the effects of deindustrialization of these communities. Marin is currently collaborating with photographer Ioana Cirlig on a long-term project which also will document the effects of deindustrialisation in Western and Central Romania.Image may be NSFW.
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The Painted Wall After the switch to a market economy in 1990, Romania's industrialized areas have rapidly deteriorated. Most of the factories, mines, and the connected industries were closed, leaving whole communities jobless. Over the last twenty years, these communities haven't been offered an alternative. This led to serious social problems and to a collective form of depression. Image may be NSFW.
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Jessica Bishopp

Jessica Bishopp was born in South East England. She experiments with a wide range of media, including film, installation, photography and design, graduating this year from BA Design for Interaction and Moving Image, at the London College of Communication, University of the Arts London. Jessica’s work has universal themes embedded in daily lives and thoughts; studying basic human interactions and habits, exposing the magic in the mundane. Her short film ‘Speed’ was shown at the BFI, and her work has been exhibited in London at L.C.C., the Bussey Building and the Science Museum. She has lived and worked in New York and The Netherlands and currently resides in London, United Kingdom. Image may be NSFW.
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Photograph by Kaddy Bah See What I See See What I See is a collection of personal photographic insights into African life through the eyes of 18 Gambian students. The photographs are a result of several photography workshops that took place in The Gambia, which I organised and taught. In the first workshop over 60 large images by iconic photographers aided discussion of the techniques employed by photographers to capture the attention and the imagination of the audience; including visual techniques such as colour and composition. However it was the aspect of how to tell a story and show expression through a photograph that was the main focus. After the workshops all the students were given an open brief and a disposable film camera to use over 4 days and See What I See is the result! These photographs show an insight into the Gambian students' lives that an outsider could never capture. The photographs are intimate and candid, and each comes with a personal explanation of why they took the image and why it is important to them; bringing a new perspective to images of Africa from the inside and not the usual outside looking in. The photographs were exhibited in London in September 2013, the exhibition was funded by O2 Telefonica and the London College of Communication. The photographs are also published in a photobook entitled See What I See. Image may be NSFW.
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Duy Phuong Le Nguyen

Today we share the work of Vietnamese photographer Duy Phuong Le Nguyen from Tân An, Long An. While studying photography at the University of Theatre and Cinema in Ho Chi Minh City, he was selected to participate in an artist in residency program at ENSP Arles in France in 2008. Duy's works have been exhibited in the Museum of Quai Branly in Paris and L'Espace in Hanoi, Vietnam. He describes his work as combining a documentary approach with staging. Today, we share his series, Going With the Flow. Image may be NSFW.
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Going With the Flow I follow the life of people whose destiny is linked to the tides. I’m getting tied to their lives; daily and inner life made sublime by this penetrating space. The lake is like a scenery where, like in a reverie, the reality of the landscape mingles with postures and objects – dreamlike part of my work. I’m sinking into moving waters and, getting carried as they go back and forth, I discover the stories they unroll. People, nature and memories appear and disappear, little twinklings on the cycle of fate. Three years of comings and goings at the lake; I’m trying to understand the purpose of my work but it’s slipping from my grasp, like water inexorably escapes the hands which want to keep it. Fragility of the childhood, separation, loss and wait, however, the water leaves its mark in me like in Herman Hesse’s Siddhartha, the mark of the people’s lives it told me. Image may be NSFW.
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Clément Huylenbroeck

Clément Huylenbroeck of Belgium graduated from the School of Image Arts in 2010 and soon after began the Big Shit project, a collaboration with Pierre Liebaert, documenting highway rest areas. The Big Shit project was presented at the Antwerp FOMU, the Amsterdam’s Brakke Grond, the Nuits Photographiques of Paris and the Arles festival. In 2012, Clément began working on Communal Dream, which we share with you today. Communal Dream is a result of Clément's sister winning the Miss Soignies Haute-Senne title, exploring the sour vision of beauty pageants. Image may be NSFW.
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Communal Dream The Misses live the affordable dream. With their feverish performances and tartar-free smiles, they can almost grasp it. Facing a crowd of excited eyes, they bend their bodies at the behest of an improvised choreographer. They surrender their hair, their flesh, their nails and their naivety to a cheap champagne soaked audience poorly dressed up in its Sunday best. The attempt is beautiful; in the time of a pale performance inspired by the National Misses parade, they fantasize, imagine themselves the flagship of elegance. It is carried away by this vision that they curve themselves yet a bit more and make pants swell. At the end of the night, the communal dream turns into a heartbreak, a hurtful disenchantment; the bulging eyes turn away, the mouths hereafter drool for another. Image may be NSFW.
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Nick Strobelt

Nick Strobelt, born in Germany, currently studies at the University of Washington and is anticipating his BFA in June. His work is inspired by the physics of light, motion, spatial perception and cognitive dissonance. He seeks to explore these complex fascinations in-depth and experimentally.Image may be NSFW.
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My relationship with composition is something that is fluid, something inspired by fluke and by moments of perfect balance. Sometimes I interact with these compositions; sometimes I construct them. Through my act of photographing, collecting and re-contextualizing forms, I try to explain my relationship with these situations, imagined or literal. What remains is a point of view where scale, space, and structure are left to be interpreted. It is my intention to anchor these forms in the eyes of others. Image may be NSFW.
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Hans Gindlesberger

Hans Gindlesberger is a contemporary artist currently based in Virginia. His work examines how contemporary society constructs and represents concepts of place, where the photographic image plays a central role. Gindlesberger’s projects engage a range of photographic traditions and thinking in exploring our psychological relationship to simulated and actual places. Today we share Weighing the Rain, a photographic series that looks at the evolving landscape and social structure of Korea through the lens of the monsoon season. Image may be NSFW.
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Weighing the Rain Photographed during Korea’s monsoon season, evokes the weather phenomenon as a signifier of the tempestuous social landscape of the country and the pressures exerted on the individual in its collective society. The travelogue establishes a sense of place by looking at the urban environment, natural landscape, and social exchanges. The photographs turn their attention to the confluence of past and present, the scale and density of the urban environment, people moving with the flow of the city, and poetic moments of everyday life that quietly suggest sentiments of desire, struggle, and tranquility. The project contemplates the complexity of Korea’s social landscape and searches for contradictions; in the impact of Korea’s rapid ascent as an economic force, the rigidity of social hierarchies and the intensity of their obligations, the relentless development of the urban environment, a need to preserve tradition, the immersion in materialistic culture, and the unique ideology of a collective society. The photographs in Weighing the Rain seek to use the visual language of photography to describe a physical and psychological relationship to place. Image may be NSFW.
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Since earning his MFA in Photography from the State University of New York at Buffalo in 2006, his projects in photo, video, and installation have been exhibited widely, including Galleri Image (Aarhus, Denmark), Gallery 44 (Toronto), Jen Bekman Projects (New York), Voies Off Photography Festival (Arles, France), and the International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA) (Albuquerque), among others. In 2009, the New York Foundation for the Arts awarded him a fellowship in photography and in 2011, he received a Mary L. Nohl Fellowship from the Greater Milwaukee Foundation. Currently, Gindlesberger is Assistant Professor of Digital Imaging in the School of Visual Arts at Virginia Tech, a leading program in the intersection of arts and technology. To view more Han's work please visit his website.

Benji Liang

Benji Liang was born in 1992 in Yueyang, China. He is currently pursuing a BFA in Photomedia at the University of Washington in Seattle. Liang works with photography, video, and installation. His works are derived from the culture that he grew up in and the relationship he has with his surroundings. Today we take a look at his series, A Funeral Before Another Funeral.Image may be NSFW.
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A Funeral Before Another Funeral Funerals in this town take three days. Two days are dedicated to ceremonies and rituals, and the last day is the burial. Two funerals were happening on this day. We woke up at six in the morning to get to the road. I saw her for the first time in two years, the last time too. Her skin was orange and wax-like. I didn’t know how to perceive this because it was so surreal. When my emotions finally kicked in, all I wanted was to hug her but I couldn’t because she was too fragile. Image may be NSFW.
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Yurian Quintanas Nobel

Yurian Quintanas Nobel was born in Amsterdam in 1983. After graduating as a senior technician in image and study, a specialization course in photojournalism at IDEP in Barcelona, he had the opportunity to assist National Geographic photographers such as Tino Soriano and Annie Griffiths Belt. He has since focused on personal projects such as Happy Nothing, documenting the California desert and its inhabitants. Yurian currently lives in Catalonia, Spain, working on additional photographic projects which document people and their environment.Image may be NSFW.
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Happy Nothing The desert represents decay and death. There is scarcity of water and shade, extreme temperatures and a lack of resources for humans to survive. But at the same time there is a long tradition of the desert as a place of healing, both physically and spiritually. With the Californian desert as background, “Happy Nothing” delves into the lives of its inhabitants and its secrets. Here is where ex-convicts, war veterans, retirees and people that, for some reason, have decided to stay outside of the society live. In these towns there is no running water, the houses are in ruins, the streets unpaved, without street lighting, there are no supermarkets or entertainment infrastructures. But despite living in these conditions, they call it the Paradise. Image may be NSFW.
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Yurian has won several awards and fellowships including the 1st prize of the Vanguardia Magazine, (2007), “XIII International Meetings Gijon Photojournalism” scholarship (2009), an honorable mention in the “Travel Photographer of the Year” (2011), a selection for Photoespaña Discoveries (2011) and was a finalist of the Fotopres Grant (2013). He has been published in Burn Magazine, Foto a Foto, Descobrir Catalunya, F-Stop Magazine, Piel de Foto, Disparo and Positive Magazine. To view more of Yurian's work please visit his website.
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