Take a look at Liz Kuball’s website. You’ll be glad you did.

Also, check out her blog.

I came across Alan George’s photography this week. I enjoyed the “Domesticated” and “Immediate Vicinity” portfolios the most, though all of it, both the photography and his statements, is quite interesting.

From “Domesticated:”

With this series of images, I examine domesticated urban plants and people’s attempts to control and manipulate them in sometimes trivial and inconsequential ways. My hope is that these at times humorous and tragic examples echo conditions within the larger context of the relationship between humanity and nature.

The images from the “Immediate Vicinity” body of work are along George’s 12 minute walk to the subway and 10 minute ride. He began making these photographs along his commute after the birth of his daughter, and the resulting lack of time to go out and photograph. I’ve always liked the idea of photographing along the route of one’s commute, and there are some good photographs in George’s portfolio.

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I came across many good photographers this week, and it was really hard to decide who to feature this week. I finally decided on Ken Rosenthal. He’s the Chair for the South West Region of the Society for Photographic Education, and I’m pretty sure I’ve met him.

But that’s not the reason I’m featuring his work.

Rosenthals work explores memory, dreams, anxiety, fear.

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Curtis Mann finds photographs from flickr, eBay, estate sales, etc…which were originally made in places such as Israel, Pakistan, Libya, and Iraq. He then applies varnish, which acts as a resist, to areas of enlarged C-prints, then uses household clorox bleach to bleach areas out. Additionally, prints are crumpled, and other elements (think Pop Art) are applied.

A new, fictional and more abstract understanding is sought in these snapshots, travel photographs and casual documentations.

The photograph is physically and contextually altered to produce a reading that oscillates between image and object, photography and painting, real and imagined. This new interpretation attempts to disrupt how we normally perceive, understand and connect with the fragmented world in which these photographs attempt to represent.

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I came across German photographer Peter Wildangers work this week, and liked it quite a bit, though some of what I assume are artist statements don’t pertain very well to the work.

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For her series Re-unifications, Susan Silas couples images of the German Olympic Stadium, in what was West Berlin with images of the Jewish Cemetary at Weißensee, once in East Berlin.

The Helmbrechts Walk is a particularly profound set of photographs.

Helmbrechts walk, is a visual representation of the act of walking through a landscape marked by the historical specificity of the forced march of 580 Jewish women prisoners at the end of the Second World War. This book is a document of that endeavor - walking for 22 days and 225 miles in Germany and the Czech Republic on the fifty third anniversary of those events. A historically accurate reconstruction of the march route was possible with the help of the German trial transcript of Alois Dörr and historical maps housed in the New York Public Library.

Her ongoing projects Yard Bird and Bleeding Bird are also interesting.

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The photographs by Dutch photographer Popel Coumou are paper constructions in built in two dimensions then lit to give the illusion of three dimensions.

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Magnum photographer Mark Power caught my eye.

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This weeks post is going to be postponed. I’m in Island Park, Idaho and internet access is limited, as well as time, and far away, so I haven’t been able to spend much (read any) time looking at photographers to post. I do have a few in mind and as soon as I get time I will put up an official post.

Crawl is the beginning of my ongoing investigation into a part of our landscape we, as upright creatures, rarely take the time to think about. Infants know this world for a time. Picnickers and soldiers glimpse it. There is no more dynamic stage of life and death on earth than the first few inches above its surface. This is where prairies and forests are born. Here is where the bulk of our food comes from, and where all terrestrial creatures return when we die. Comforting, beautiful, frightening, strange–this is the terrestrial world. And it can only be discovered and known intimately on hands and knees.

I really like Sally Gall’s photographs of insects. They’re unlike the typical macro photograph of a bug that is seen so often. They feel as though they are biographical or “a day in the life of…”.

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Saul Gallery