Features
FORBIDDEN BEAUTY
Golnaz Shahmirzadi
I was born in Iran during a very difficult time. It was the time of the Islamic revolution in Iran. I witnessed the influx of refugees from Afghanistan in Iran due to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan...more
THE SAMI WAY
Elisa Ferrari
In Sweden, reindeer herders have some rights to the land for reindeer husbandry, but the government maintains the power to take over the land - if it is in the national interest. .... more
GRAVITY
Michael Haussman
Each of the five subjects is filmed in slow motion, floating upward then descending down to the earth, where they bottom out in gravity's clutch. Yet each person is magically stationary.... more
INVISIBLE PEOPLE: POOR AND WHITE IN THE NEW SOTH AFRICA
Documentary by Ian Martin
Getty Images
When I first heard the term "white poverty" in South Africa, I thought it was an oxymoron. The only whites I had seen were affluent; they had nice cars, homes, and a lifestyle enhanced by labor made cheap by their country's huge black poverty. In contrast, shanty towns ringed every city I visited. I didn't see any white people living there... more
A ROMANCE IN PICTURES
Calvin Lee
"A Romance in Pictures" presents a body of photographs that responds to both technical and conceptual questions surrounding the digital form of photography, through the lens of our culture's consumption of magazine advertisements... more
MYTHOLOGIES
Heimo Schmidt
The history of the Iceland series began with a commercial job where the client wanted to go to remote locations that were cinematic in feel. They asked me where I wanted to shoot and how I would go about it... more
OUR LAND
Noah Wilson
The photographs in this series developed out of landscape imagery appropriated from an archive of early 20th century negatives that I acquired while working as artist in residence at the San Francisco dump. Many of the pictures depict scenes from our National Parks, as well as numerous other locations throughout the American West ... more
NEW DEVELOPMENTS
Todd Sanchioni
In the late summer of 2010, I returned to Laos to follow up on a project I was working on in 2007 recording and photographing musicians. I was startled at the change that occurred since my prior visit... more
News
SPECIAL EDITION: SELECTED WORKS BY MOHOLY GROUND PHOTOGRAPHERS AT RAMP
GALLERY
Works by Ian Martin, Margo Moritz, and Kanoa Zimmerman on view at
SomArts Ramp Gallery from May 27 to June 24. Show
details.
Reviews
LOS ANGELES
Roula Seikaly: War/Photography at Annenberg Space for Photography
It started with the acquisition of an iconic and prize winning photograph: Joe Rosenthal’s Old Glory Goes Up on Mount Suribachi, Iwo Jima (1945), in which Marines are seen raising the stars and stripes after a key and very costly World War II victory. ...moreSAN FRANCISCO
Roula Seikaly: Rising Dragon at the San Jose Museum of Art
Th 36 artists exhibited in Rising Dragon: Contemporary Chinese Photography are associated with attributions including dynamism and opportunity.... moreInterviews
MICHAEL HAUSSMAN on GRAVITY
Artist and filmmaker Michael Haussman offers insight into his latest video installation, Gravity, in this exclusive interview... more
SONJA OCH: Oh how I miss you so
In 2011, Sonia Och documented Nisha, an inmate at a Clinton, Missouri county jail. Nisha regrets her crime and longs for her daughter... more
MARGO MORITZ: Dance for Camera
In this exclusive interview with Moholy Ground, photographer Margo Moritz describes the evolution of her distinctive synthesis of dance and photography... more
KANOA ZIMMERMAN: Freedive
From the breathtaking black and white images of solitary, bold spear fishers and turbulent breaking waves that are common to Kanoa Zimmerman's photography... more
