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Interviews
Nandita Raman: “Body Is A Situation”
https://www.youtube.com/embed/WmUGUCTOQIY Video interview with Nandita Raman for Baxter St.
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Qiana Mestrich
Five Visual Motifs In the Photographs of Ren Hang
On February 24th after suffering from a deep depression, Chinese photographer Ren Hang took his own life just weeks before his 30th birthday. Despite his young age, Hang leaves behind a large body of photographic work. Known for his “racy”, erotic images, Hang’s photographs visualized a provocative and constructed world that simultaneously referenced a uniquely Chinese
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Qiana Mestrich
Forthcoming Photo Books by African American & Black African Photographers
Every year as I browse newly published photography books, I can’t help but notice an immense shortage in the number of titles being published by or featuring the works of photographers of color. “Why?” I wonder and yet no reason I can imagine seems acceptable. Consider this Amazon list of 2017 photography books by individual
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Qiana Mestrich
New Image Library Specializes In Race and Cultural Diversity
Autograph Media is a recently launched photography licensing agency from the people who run Autograph ABP, the British-based photographic arts organization. Specializing in all aspects of race and cultural diversity throughout history, Autograph Media's image library is comprised of a multitude of collections from various media partners like Getty Images and Magnum Photos. [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="1200"] Indian suffragettes
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Qiana Mestrich
Photography and The Black Panther Party
Sadie Barnette’s Do Not Destroy solo show opened last week at Baxter St to a roaring reception. It’s not every day that you get to see a gallery show that features the classified FBI documents of an ex-Black Panther Party member. That Panther is Rodney Barnette, who founded the Compton, California, chapter of the Black
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Qiana Mestrich
In Memoriam: John Berger and Uses of Photography Quotes
Earlier this month, noted art critic John Berger passed away. His death immediately sparked ripples of mentions throughout photography and art communities online. Though his writings may have been eclipsed by the more-celebrated musings of Walter Benjamin and Susan Sontag, Berger’s observations on the propagation of the photographic medium are nonetheless as crucial and still
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Qiana Mestrich
The Black Female Self in Landscape
A recurring theme within contemporary art photography has been the imperative to address the biased or unavailable historical representation of the Black, female body. Since the 1990s’ artists like Carrie Mae Weems, Renee Cox, Xaviera Simmons and now Nona Faustine, have used photography to recognize Black womanhood in all its unattested complexities. In the photographs
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Groana Melendez
Interview with Andrea Wolf
Andrea Wolf is an interdisciplinary artist interested in how images accrue meaning culturally. Her project Weather Has Been Nice uses algorithms to decompose images taken from mailed postcards. Martha Naranjo Sandoval We’re going to talk about a couple things, but let’s begin with Weather Has Been Nice. How did you start this project? Andrea Wolf
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Groana Melendez
Interview with Elia Alba
Elia Alba is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice revolves around building community. I caught up with Elia at a rooftop in mid-town Manhattan for drinks on a chilly fall day. (Featured image: The Spiritualist, 2014. Maren Hassinger in Inwood HIll Park, NY.) Groana Melendez: Can you tell me a little bit about your background? Elia Alba:
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Groana Melendez
Interview with Alejandro Yoshii
Alejandro Yoshii is an interdisciplinary artist whose defining act is the touch. We caught up with Alejandro a few weeks after he presented in A Mexican Tertulia at Baxter Street in collaboration with Celebrate Mexico Now. Groana Melendez Can you tell us about your artistic background? Do you have formal training in art? Alejandro Yoshii I came to
