Left: 5.6 miles, 2020 Right: 3.4 miles, 2020
from Broken Radius series by Morgan Davis Foehl
Left:
keepers of family traditions
are also
keepers of family secrets
2020
Right:
What I can't see
in conversation with
What I can't unsee
2020
Megan Driving Hawk
Wildlife Refuge, 2019 by Eric Kaczmarczyk
Candy Floss Hair by Nava Derakhshani
Left: Oil Stain, 2016, Israel by Tal Ben Avi
Right: Red Winged Blackbird, Lake Shore State Park, Milwaukee, WI 2020
Cattail, Buelah, MI 2020 by Emily Porter
Red Tailed Hawk, 2019 by Tim Hodge
“Within the past year, the way that we would glancingly define connection has changed so much. Going from finding each other on the massive network that is social media, to attempting to keep our face-to-face alive with sub-par conference calls, and, furthermore, to really thinking about what it means to build a modern connection...how to keep it alive...and how to appreciate the connections we already have? These photos are quick glimpses into multiple projects that touch on topics of connecting with ourselves, appreciating who we have in our lives, and in reaching out to build connections with people who may not be too close.”
Matthew Dalton
Top: I wrote to you, 2020
Bottom: Did you write back?, 2020
Matthew Dalton
Paul Seaton
Other stories, 2020 by Maria Siorba
phantasm, 2017
Felicia Atanasio
Missed Family Dinners, 2020 by Diana Carbone
Neuromantic (5) by Ana Vellajo and Matthew Dalton
Contributors
Felicia Atanasio (she/they) b. 1994, is an experimental filmmaker, interdisciplinary artist, writer and solo-musician, alternatively going by the name of fleshiegirl. Their work is autobiographical, documenting trauma, the psyche and exploring their attempts at beginning the healing process. @hotspiderdonut
The photographic action tries to capture the image just before it disintegrates, just before it becomes a texture, a surface. The works express the emotional contours of deserted spaces and desolate landscapes, creating a geography of intimacy, loss, absence and sometimes an eruption within the space. Within this inner geography, the experience of wandering becomes a means of exploring feelings of belonging or non-belonging, a yearning for a place that never existed. The works are created in a photographic language that relies on straight photography. The photos are well detailed. Now in the immediate world, the flickering and the beaming images are moving and passing at the speed of light. Patience is eroding. The work describes objects and places that are not familiar or visually identified, which requires the viewer to stop and linger. The works deal with a constant oscillation between the flatness that intensifies the two-dimensional nature of photography and its effort to expand into three-dimensional values - values embedded within optical photography. The strange and the unknown are reflected in the photographs in full and in vast detail. This vastness contains traces of human contact and human presence in retrospect. These residues, which do not contain human beings, enable assimilation, submerging the subconscious, whether from the photographed place or from the viewer’s soul.” @talbnavi
Diana Carbone is a photographer based on the Northshore of Massachusetts. She is currently in her senior year of a BFA in Photography from Lesley Art and Design in Cambridge Massachusetts and her works often deal with concepts such as the human connection to nature and environment though she does photograph a range of subjects, landscapes, and still-lifes. @dianacaptures
Nava Derakhshani is a New York based multimedia artist born to Iranian parents in eSwatini, Africa. She studied architecture at the University of Cape Town and worked in South Africa and India on low-cost eco housing and urban design. Her Masters in Sustainable Development took her to rural Ethiopia researching the spiritual and historic ties to farming and conservation. Through creative workshops, she worked with NGOs such as Oxfam and PLAN International on gender issues. She also worked in grassroots organisations as a staff photographer and participatory action researcher using community-led approaches. She facilitated Photovoice and Collaborative Video methods to strengthen community voices. Her 2014 project on food and family was recognised by the UN FAO and exhibited at their headquarters in Rome. Her Daughters of Dust podcast about Iranian migrants to Africa was shortlisted for the 2019 NPR Google podcast award. Her photography featured at the Queer Feminist Film Festival in South Africa, and her ceramic works, represented by Eclectia Contemporary Gallery were shown at the 2019 Johannesburg International Art Fair. She is a graduate of the International Centre for Photography, where she used performance and collage to explore the nuances of her mixed identity. @navaderakhshani
Morgan Davis Foehl is a Los Angeles-based writer and photographer. His screenwriting has been recognized by Variety’s “Writers to Watch” series, the Black List and the Playlist among others. Foehl wrote the film “Blackhat” (Universal Pictures, 2015) in collaboration with director Michael Mann. His photography practice began as a self-taught exercise following the birth of his daughter in 2016. His work has been featured by Subjectively Objective, Color Tag Magazine, Find Rangers Magazine, The Image Guide, Seen Magazine, Open Doors Gallery and Your Local Newsstand. Foehl is a graduate of Emerson College. @morgandavisfoehl
Megan (Chain) Driving Hawk grew up in the suburban and country areas outside of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree with a specialization in Photography and a minor in Women and Gender Studies from Arizona State University in 2010. In 2014, she earned a Master of Secondary Education and Teacher Certification in Art K-12 from Arizona State University. On a long-term residency from 2016-2018 she lived in Kirksville, Missouri where she taught art and attended a low-residency graduate program at the University of Hartford. In 2018, she earned a Master of Fine Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies. She is an Artist/Mother & Educator currently living in Phoenix, Arizona where she teaches high school traditional photography. She serves as the campus Indigenous Student and Youth Equity Stewardship Advisors. @MDrivingHawk00
Eric Kaczmarczyk (b. 1989, Port Jefferson, New York) is an artist, photographer and computer programmer based in Tarrytown, New York. He received his BFA in photography from the School of Visual Arts in 2011. His artwork focuses on the nuanced lack of connection between human beings. @ericmichaelmichael
Emily Porter is a traveling photographer who was born and raised in Milwaukee, WI. Her work has been printed in multiple publications including Harper’s Magazine, Esquire Russia, This Very Instant, Float Photo as well as exhibited in Australia, London, Cleveland, Washington DC, New York among others. She graduated from the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design and has a working studio with Scout Gallery in Milwaukee Things that fulfill her life: Travel. Cats. Coffee. Tea. Film. Books. RadioLab. National Geographic. Ologies. Patti Smith. Birds. Herbs. @emilyporterphotograph
Paul Seaton "I
am
an amateur photographer from Grimsby, Canada. Photography is my hobby,
my therapy, and the way I inspect and interpret my reality. However, it
does not make writing 'artist statements' any easier. " @ptseaton
Maria Siorba is a visual artist currently based in London where she works as a photographer and retoucher. Born in Larissa, Greece in 1986, she moved to Athens for her first bachelor in Communication and Culture. Continued study ing Graphic Design and then Fine Arts in the Athens School of Fine Arts. After a few years of painting and drawing, she experimented with staged photography and took steps in telling stories through her digital captures. Photography became her main medium to explore matters such as the subjectiveness of things in relation to the unstable human psychology. Her projects have been presented in group shows such as the World Biennial of Student Photography 2017 in Novi Sad, Serbia, participating as a shortlisted participant and in the Athens Photo Festival 2020, Young Greek Photographers exhibition. @mariasiorba
Ana Vellajo "I’m a conceptual documentary photographer from Colombia based in NY. Having a background in biology, I am fascinated with the brain, human consciousness and its ability to expand and transform. I am interested in marginal spaces, that which resides outside of the status quo and is often excluded and defined by a rigid stigma. Growing up with a schizophrenic father, in an anxious family system and in a country that has normalized violence, I am drawn to how trauma affects our emotions and relationships. I am fascinated by the potential that art and social bonding have to heal traumas. My projects are research based and experimental. They invite chance, error, and collaboration to delve into human perception, memory and emotions. My work is driven by color and I like to create tension between artificial and natural elements to question the limits between subjective experiences and reality. In June 2020 I graduated from the New Media Narratives program at the International Center of Photography in NYC as a recipient of the Mary Ellen Mark Memorial Scholarship and a Director’s Fellowship. I am the content strategist of Fotodemic (www.fotodemic.org), X-photographer for Fujifilm Colombia and part of Native Photograph and Authority Collective. My work has been exhibited in Colombia, NY, LA, Germany, India, Italy, and Malaysia. I have been published in media outlets such as Vice, Architectural Review, Lensculture and Ph Museum. In 2018, I was selected to attend the NY Times Portfolio Review and an emergent talent by Lensculture. In 2019, I was nominated for the World Press Photo’s Joop Swart Masterclass, and 6x6 global talent program in Latin America. In 2020, I was selected to be part of Addis FotoFest in Ethiopia." @anacvallejo