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Calvin Scott
Matt Genovese
"Capo Dei Capi"
Matt Genovese
Growing up with the last name “Genovese”, during a time where the Italian mob was romanticized, formed my perception of what it is to be an Italian-American. This project looks at the family dynamic, specifically the hierarchy of power within the family structure. Growing up, I could see the assertion of masculinity ooze out of the family room where all the men of the family would congregate during family parties. The men were dressed in black suits, the women were in the kitchen cooking, and I was somewhere in between.
This in between allowed me to observe the polarizing roles and the performance of gender within my family. Masculinity is passed down from previous generations in my family, and I am also interested in the way pride in being Italian is inherited from the generations before me. Violence is embedded in Italian masculinity. With knowing the weight of my last name, and the history of the families like this in this region, has had an impact my everyday life. In making the work, I am focusing on creating a fictional narrative representing organized crime. “Capo Dei Capi” is an ongoing look at masculinity, violence, family dynamic, and inherited pride in Italian-American culture.
Suren Karapetyan
Traveler Kids
Suren Karapetyan
Brought together by the obsession of heavy metal, travel and free love, this document of the heavy metal parking lot located under Interstate-83 is a collection of portraits taken over the course of a few years during one sultry weekend in Baltimore. These are the faces of the traveler kids.
Christine L. Mace
Havana
Christine L. Mace
Photographing the streets of Havana and visually observing a culture that operates like it's in the 1950's made me feel like I had traveled back in time. The imagery reflects a culture that is unconsumed by the need for technology. A way of life filled with face-to-face interactions and connecting with one another on a very basic human level.
Wray Sinclair
Christine L. Mace
Plugged In
Christine L. Mace
For the past several years, I’ve photographed the streets of New York City capturing candid moments and unfiltered interactions in everyday life. However, the more time I spend photographing the city, the more I’ve come to realize just how little we are actually connecting on a basic human level. It has become common place to see people walking down the street with their head down buried in their cell phone nearly getting hit by a cab or walking into someone coming from the opposite direction, who is equally entranced by their cell phone. The images in this series demonstrates how little face-to-face interaction we, as a culture, are having. Kids sit as a group entranced by their phones instead of interacting with each other, people stop and rummage through books on the street with their earbuds in as they continue to listen to their music. It can often feel like you are alone in a sea of people.
Iryna Skarga
MaKenna Moses
The Christening
MaKenna Moses
The Groubert family introduces their youngest children into the Catholic faith through an emotion-filled christening in April of 2018. The event gave the Groubert's reason to come together, celebrate life, and welcome the growth of their family in a time-old tradition. This story focuses predominantly on the children and their effect on familial traditions, as well as how the modernization of these rituals carries on a family's legacy.
Harry Hawkes
Ryan Shanley
Everybody Poops
Ryan Shanley
Families living within the villages outside Battambang, Cambodia do not have latrines. They are forced to openly defecate in nearby fields and develop poor sanitation and hygiene habits.
NGO, Church World Service (CWS) has partnered with local development teams to provide construction materials for latrines to families who provide the labor and enclosure materials. Together, these communities have built multiple clean latrines, have learned safe sanitation and hygiene practices and have reduced skin disease due to sanitary sicknesses. They now have dignified places to relieve themselves and take pride in their homes.
manylaughs
Echoing artists
manylaughs
This is a series of photos intended to echo/reference the work of other artists. In this series there are references to Wayne Thiebaud, Agnes Martin, Robert Rauschenberg, Sean Scully, and Cecily Brown.
Only the lipstick image was "staged", intentionally referencing Thiebaud. All the others were serendipitous finds.
Kaitlin Maxwell
Untitled
Kaitlin Maxwell
Since I was a young girl, I’ve always felt like a voyeur of my own life. Revisiting my earliest memories has allowed me to see that my role as the spectator has been a constant theme throughout my development. The ability to capture intimacy as an onlooker rather than a participant has greatly informed my work and served as a means of coping. I believe this type of dissociative observing began with my father's death. It was then that I learned to separate myself, learning that I felt most comfortable observing from behind others.
Within my work, I aim to explore complex and layered relationships in a way that captures this sense of voyeurism. In order to better understand this and the dynamic that is created between individuals in relationships, of any kind, I began photographing the ones who were closest to me. As I began dissecting my own relationship with my mother and grandmother, a catalyst began to occur and I found myself questioning if, I too, was capable of possessing the qualities I have always admired of the women who preceded me. In making these images, I have begun to focus on examining matriarchal figures in my life, which has left me realizing that there is so much more to my identity and sexuality than I am aware of. I have found myself immersed in an ongoing journey of self-exploration.
Mark Kelly
Mark Kelly
Anneliese Henjak
Pollination
Anneliese Henjak
These images form part of a larger documentary book project which followed Melbourne City Rooftop Honey founders Mat and Vanessa through the Summer and Autumn beekeeping cycle in order to reveal the unique challenges and rewards of urban beekeeping and uncover the secret world of an insect so vital for human survival, yet currently under threat by predators and environmental degradation.
Heleen Peeters
Horse
Heleen Peeters
In 1948 my grandfather began a business in what many now consider to be a taboo: horsemeat. Over the years the horse has transformed from being a working animal, helping farmers in the field or soldiers during battle, to a domestic pet with a morel status. With business becoming too controversial my father decided it was time to let go. Before the company was sold I documented the end of our era: the closure of the family business but also the horsemeat industry in general. By now the majority of horse slaughterhouses are finished. Many specialized restaurants and horse butchers have disappeared.
The series is made in four continents exploring different (horse)cultures; Belgium, France, Italy, Poland, Kyrgyzstan, Argentina, Uruguay, Canada and the United States.
The final result is a layered documentary that investigates the topic from multiple perspectives. The photographs are combined with newspaper clippings, archival imagery and illustrations from pop culture. In doing so the story goes beyond a family history and horsemeat. It aims to be seen at large: questioning where we came from, where we are today and how it might be in the future. There must be a change in animal welfare and food production, but there are big differences as to which route to take. How sustainable do we deal with the earth? What is the role of the consumer? And how do we relate to animals?
Angie Shehane
Grant Moxley
onBART
Grant Moxley
Images pulled from a project I recently finished called onBART (Bay Area Rapid Transit).
onBART is a reflection of my first-time relationship with public transit.
Everything about the daily experience of public transit was unfamiliar territory for me. So many people, new conversations and happenings every day.
Although always entertained, I never felt completely at ease, confined with so many strangers.
I started documenting, hopping from cart to cart of the moving train. It was like a daily scavenger hunt. Each cart, each day was a new scene playing out, the characters constantly swapping in and out. I spent hours every day on the train, photographing these scenes during my commute.
The BART transported me into a whole new perspective on how people interact with each other. I found myself relating to the strangers I photographed.
The theme of the images I captured became waiting. Everyone was waiting in their own way. Reading, phone scrolling, sleeping, talking, laughing. In a way, we were all in it together; we were all just passing the time.
In a way, the BART became a world of its own. A separate, moving world.
Tim Campbell
The Shape of Water
Tim Campbell
The image collection is a metaphor for finding organisation amongst chaos; No matter what the situation, or what the environment, give yourself in to the storm and you might just find what you seek.
I would never have created these images had I not adopted such faith in my ability and become one with the ocean.
Ava Williams
The Twins
Ava Williams
TThe Twins is a life long project about my life as an identical twin. It started to answer the age-old question what’s it like to be a twin? This project dives into identity struggle, memory, duality, and a relationship that cannot be described in words. It tackles what it feels like to know growing up that you will never be one in a million and how that affects you at the stages in adolescence and adulthood where you want to be your own being. The Twins is the performance of my life. It is a part of me. I am opening up a portion of my life that is usually closed shut and letting people stand in our shoes and feel what we feel for a little while. The Twins, in the end, attempts to show the effects of twinhood on our lives as we live them.
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