All posts by Kyra Schmidt

Marisol Mendez

Marisol Mendez was born in Cochabamba, Bolivia. Her interest in photography developed from a love for the art of film and close observation – often dealing with the dynamics between…

Alys Tomlinson

Alys Tomlinson was born 1975 in Brighton, UK, and currently lives and works in London, UK. Alys studied English Literature and Communications at the University of Leeds and photography at…

Pascal Amoyel

Pascal Amoyel holds an MFA from the ENSP-Arles (France) and a MA degree in Contemporary History, Université Paris 1 Sorbonne. His projects focus on specific facets of cities, regions or…

Climate Change and the Photographic Narrative: Kaleigh Rusgrove on “now was too late”

Kaleigh Rusgrove was born in Connecticut and spent her formative years photographing her younger sister against a leaf-patterned bed sheet with a Kodak disposable camera. Moving on to a point-and-shoot…

Brooks Nelson Geenen

Brooks Nelson Geenen (b. 1986, Minneapolis, MN) is a photographer currently living and working in Minneapolis, MN. He is presently pursuing a Bachelor of Fine Arts in photography from the…

Adrien Blondel

Adrien Blondel grew up in France, where he studied history and aesthetics of cinema, and cinematography. Directing a documentary on the social movement of the Freedom riders brought him to…

Dustin Shores

Dustin Shores was born in 1983 and grew up in the rolling foothills of North Carolina. He received his BFA in Fine Arts Photography from Winthrop University, located in Rock…

jonathan levitt

Jonathan Levitt (b. 1978) is a writer and visual artist working with documentary photography. His background is in literary journalism and and the anthropology and history of food. He is…

Shelli Weiler

Shelli Weiler is an artist from Scarsdale, New York. She will be receiving a BA in Studio Art from Wesleyan University, where she concentrated in photography. Shelli loves anything she…

In Conversation: Jen Ervin on her book “The Arc (of Summer)”

Jen Ervin (b.1971) is an American artist currently working in the medium of photography. She currently resides in Charleston, South Carolina with her husband, Francis and their three daughters. Jen’s…

Leah Edelman-Brier

Leah Edelman-Brier is a visual artist using the medium of photography. She holds an MFA in Art Photography from Syracuse University. She was a 2016 recipient of the McKnight Fellowship…

Brett Henrikson

Brett Henrikson is a visual artist who lives and works in Manhattan. He is currently pursuing his MFA (2019) from the School of Visual Arts and holds a BFA from…

Tata Gorian

Tata Gorian is a photographer and visual artist based in St.Petersburg, Russia. She graduated from Wordshop Communication Academy at British Higher School of Art & Design in Moscow. Tata also…

David Schalliol

David Schalliol an assistant professor of sociology at St. Olaf College and principal with Scrappers Film Group – an organization interested in the relationship between community and place. His photographs…

Daniel Jackson

Daniel Jackson is a Boston-based photographer. His book “Portraits of Resilience” was published in December 2017 by MIT Press, and received coverage from the national press, including the Boston Globe,…

Raisa Galofre

Raisa Galofre (b.1986 in Barranquilla) is a Colombian-Caribbean artist, photographer and researcher based in Berlin, Germany. She holds a degree in Communication Sciences and Journalism from Universidad del Norte in…

Leonardo Magrelli

Born in Rome in 1989, Magrelli holds a BA in Design and Architecture from “La Sapienza” University in Rome. In 2010 he starting working with the photographer Marco Delogu, director…

Macarena Costan

Macarena Costan is an artist based in Bristol, England. She received a first-class BA (Hons) in Photographic Art from the University of South Wales in 2016, and is currently pursuing…

Emily White

Emily White is an artist and educator based in Richmond, Virginia. She works with large format film, in addition to tintypes and glass negatives using the wet plate collodion process.…

In Conversation: Jennifer Bacon

Jennifer Bacon was born in Bellevue, Washington in 1987. She received a BFA in Photography from Seattle University in 2017 after transferring from Bellevue College. She currently lives and works…

Nadiya I. Nacorda

Nadiya Imani Loyisa Ntlabati Nacorda is a Blasian artist, photographer and Taurus currently living and working in Syracuse, NY. She was born in Detroit, MI to a Filipinx immigrant father…

Madeleine Morlet

Madeleine Morlet is a photographer from London. She studied Classics and English at Kings College London and for almost a decade has worked across both video and stills with companies…

In Conversation: Shoshannah White on Photographic Experience and Environmental Impact

Shoshannah White is an interdisciplinary artist based in Portland, Maine, though currently spending the year in Roswell, New Mexico. Shoshannah’s practice includes photography, painting, sculpture and public art installation. Her…

Shawn Bush

Artist Shawn Bush grew up in Detroit, Michigan – a city whose civic history and geographic location has profoundly influenced the way he thinks about space within the American sociopolitical…