Photographer composes music to accompany prints

By Amanda Arnold
June 2018 issue News

© Ralph GibsonSOUNDS LIKE A GREAT PHOTOGRAPHIf a photograph had a melody, what would it be?Renowned art photographer Ralph Gibson wrestled with the answer to that question for his project recently exhibited at Galerie Thierry Bigaignon in Paris. Gibson, who characterizes himself as a career photographer and “passionately devoted amateur” musician, composed 15 pieces of music to accompany 15 of his silver gelatin prints. To listen to each piece, visitors simply held up their mobile...Continue Reading >

World Photographic Cup 2018: Illustration Top 10

5.7.2018 Galleries

Individual winners and the winning team of the 2018 World Photographic Cup were announced on May 6 in Sydney, Australia.Here are the top 10 finalists in the Illustration/Digital Art category.Continue Reading >

Alan Ross: A little bit of talent, a little bit of chutzpah, and a little bit of luck

By Jeff Kent
April 2018 issue Profiles

An unpretentious icon shares the greatest lessons of his careerAlan Ross describes his career progression as “a little bit of talent, a little bit of chutzpah, and a little bit of luck.” It’s a humble characterization of a career that has included an impressive array of experiences, from working with Ansel Adams to creating commercial images for some of America’s biggest brands. Yes, Ross has had an uncanny ability to be in the right place at the right time. However, what he did with...Continue Reading >

A project with legs: Levon Biss’ larger-than-life bug portraits

By Amanda Arnold
April 2018 issue Profiles

It was a ground beetle. Levon Biss’ son Sebastian brought the ordinary bug in from the garden on a spring day, and Biss placed it under Sebastian’s microscope. “There was nothing special about this insect,” explained Biss in his 2017 TED Talk. “It’s a common species.” And yet, under the microscope, its glowing green back looked gorgeously speckled as if with stars. “When I first saw it, it reminded me of a galaxy,” Biss says. “And all the time, this had just been outside our...Continue Reading >

Alan Ross gallery: Carrying a legacy through his lens

Images by Alan Ross
April 2018 issue Galleries

During his early career, a trio of mentors helped shape Alan Ross' thinking about photography. Today, looking back at lessons learned from mentors such as Ansel Adams and William Garnett, Ross can lay claim to a stellar body of work that bears his unique style while paying homage to the great artists before him.RELATED: Alan Ross: A little bit of talent, a little bit of chutzpah, and a little bit of luckContinue Reading >

Photo gallery: Patty Carroll’s “Anonymous Women” series

Images by Patty Carroll
February 2018 issue Galleries

Patty Carroll is perhaps best known for her most recent project, “Anonymous Women,” a three-part series of staged photographs created over the past two decades recently published as a 112-page book. These strikingly colorful and lushly staged compositions feature female figures draped in, hiding behind, or camouflaged by lavish fabrics in elaborate settings of Carroll’s own design. As her publisher has noted, Carroll’s images “symbolize the psychological states of women around the...Continue Reading >

Patty Carroll talks about her “Anonymous Women” photo series

By Rober Kiener
February 2018 issue Profiles

Famous in her anonymitySomeone once asked Patty Carroll to describe herself in one sentence. She answered, “I am someone who loves to dance with images.” Sitting in her compact, white-walled, oak-floored Chicago studio, a half-completed “unportrait” installation on an 8x8-foot stage set in front of her, she smiles when reminded of her response.“I love dancing, and I love images,” she explains, brushing back her blonde hair. “Images are everything to me—I’m very visually...Continue Reading >

Photo gallery: Thomas Dodd’s fine art photography

Images by Thomas Dodd
December 2017 issue Galleries

© Thomas DoddThomas Dodd's fine art photography concepts are often drawn from centuries-old myths and legends, "a well that never runs dry," he says. "It's like having a blueprint for creativity that you can then put your own spin on." After developing a concept, selecting models and a wardrobe, making the portraits, and painting them in Photoshop, Dodd takes his art a step further by painting each print using acrylics and venetian plaster. This final step individualizes each work, making...Continue Reading >

Thomas Dodd: Making a career out of fine art photography

By Amanda Arnold
December 2017 issue Profiles

It wasn’t anything he’d had in mind for the session. But suddenly it was perfect. “The makeup artist brought the model in to show me the makeup, and the model had hot rollers in her hair,” photographer Thomas Dodd explains. “I was like, ‘Oh, oh, come here, come here, come here!’”The model wasn’t amused, he admits. “She’s like, ‘I can’t believe he’s taking my picture.’” But the profile portrait he made served as the foundation for what he deems his first iconic...Continue Reading >

Alex Timmermans’ journey into wet plate collodion photography

By Amanda Arnold
October 2017 issue Profiles

It happens all the time. We read a book, imagining the characters a certain way—the color of their hair, their height and mannerisms, the register of their voice—and then the book is made into a movie and none of the actors align with our vision. “I found the book more interesting than the film,” we say. It’s the same with photographs, explains Alex Timmermans.Timmermans abandoned digital photography in 2009 for the slower and more challenging wet plate collodion process that was...Continue Reading >
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