Interview
Lola Flash Has Got Some Stories to Tell
“For years, I didn’t want acceptance from the art world. I wanted the opposite, to be honest,” the photographer told Hyperallergic in an interview.
Photography
Art
Nona Faustine Unearths New York’s Buried History of Slavery
Faustine’s White Shoes photography series demands a reckoning with the histories and afterlives of slavery, settler colonialism, and genocidal violence.
Art
The New York Housing Law That Helped Sustain Artists
Any New Yorker who steps into Loft Law: Photographs by Joshua Charow will likely look with a lascivious gaze upon the few remaining protected artist lofts.
Books
Grief and Healing at Brooklyn’s Green-Wood Cemetery
Eugene Richards’s sensitive photographs in Remembrance Garden are rooted in over 100 visits he took to the grounds after enduring COVID in 2020.
News
Real Photographer Beats Out Robots in AI Art Competition
Miles Astray’s photo of a pink flamingo on a shore was disqualified after it was selected for an award meant for AI-generated images.
Art
Two Pioneering Photographers’ Versions of Femininity
A joint exhibition at London’s National Portrait Gallery makes clear the force of Francesca Woodman’s authorial voice and Julia Margaret Cameron’s radicality.
Art
Tamiko Nishimura Makes the Invisible Visible
In Nishimura’s devastating photographs of everyday life in Japan, the past is never past, and the people are rendered invisible.
Art
LaToya Ruby Frazier’s Monument to Empathy
Though Frazier's photography is often described as “documentary,” it betrays a thorough investment in and interchange with those she photographs.
Interview
Catherine Opie’s Unrelenting Fight for Visibility
From street snapshots to resplendent studio photographs, the artist draws us powerfully into her life-long project of bearing witness to her community.
Art
The Forgotten Islands Surrounding New York City
Photographer Phil Buehler’s fascination with the landforms started with a canoe trip to then-abandoned Ellis Island at the age of 17.
Art
Lothar Osterburg’s Inner Longings
The tension between optimism and yearning remains taut throughout the artist’s exhibition of photogravures and found-material sculptures.
Art
Ming Smith Moving Through Shadows
From Smith’s art, we glean a picture of an artist transformed by risk, by a willingness to wander toward obscurity.