Amy Stein – Halloween in Harlem

www.amysteinphoto.com, the artist’s blog and her previous feature on my website with Women and Guns. “In October of 2003, my husband and I moved to New York and found an apartment on 112th Street in East Harlem. That Halloween, I…

Barbara Ciurej & Lindsay Lochman - Consuming Passion

Barbara Ciurej & Lindsay Lochman – Consuming Passion

www.ciurejlochmanphoto.com “Ponder food as love – to nurture and to feast upon. In Consuming Passion, the body becomes serving plate, altar, banquet and booty. Still life transforms into emotional landscape as the line between serving and self blurs. After countless…

Andrea J. Smith

www.andreajsmith.com and her representative works on Forum Gallery. “Andrea J. Smith’s work is derived from a classical tradition, but translates into a contemporary context. Her influences are varied and range from the simple, ordered compositions of the Early Renaissance artists,…

Martin Usborne - MUTE

Martin Usborne – MUTE

www.martinusborne.com and his blog I was once left in a car at a young age. I don’t know when or where or for how long, possibly at the age of four, perhaps outside Tesco’s, probably for fifteen minutes only. The…

Christian Tagliavini - Cromofobia

Christian Tagliavini – Cromofobia

“They say that life is grey, but maybe they just can’t capture the nuances. Look at Mrs Maggie; a mother and wife of the fabulous fifties; a life of many colourless hues. Maggie is in her early thirties and has…

Michal Chelbin - Strangely Familiar

Michal Chelbin – Strangely Familiar

www.michalchelbin.com and currently exhibited in two solo shows at Andrea Meislin Gallery, New York, and M+B Gallery, Los Angeles; his Black Eye book was recently published on Twin Palms. “The images in this series are an attempt to capture human…