Corey Presha

Bookmaking with Noah Beil

- Noah Beil is a photographer from San Francico. Earlier this year he put out a wonderful little book called This Is Not My Sky, which quickly sold out. I was lucky to get a copy and it is one of my favorites of the year. It is beautifully hand made by Noah and is

Corey Presha

Pieter Hugo for The New York Times Magazine

- I was flipping through this weeks New York Times Magazine and came across this beautiful photo essay from Pieter Hugo called A Global Graveyard for Dead Computers in Ghana. I like this work a lot more than Hugo's most recent Nollywood series which had many beautiful images but for me lacked the emotional quality

Corey Presha

Questions Grow About Ansel Adams Discovery

© Earl Brooks NY Times article.

Corey Presha

New Work: Jacob Aue Sobol

Home is a place of memories. It is where I have my roots. It is a place I keep returning to. If I want to learn more about myself and the world I live in, this is where I look – in my own backyard. The place where my personality was shaped and dreams were

Corey Presha

Was It A Dream

© Ayala Gazit - For my first post for the blog I'd like to call attention to my friend Ayala Gazit's entry for this years Photography Book Now competition hosted by Blurb. The work takes on the story of Ayala's brother whom she never met because of his suicide in 1996. The images are striking,

Wayne Liu

Tied to the 90’s

came across a photo in my friend Morten Andersen's book <Jetlag and Alcohol> from 1990-1991 parking lot similar to what I recall of Houston and Chrystie when I first arrived in 1999 where now stands Whole Foods http://theindependentphotobook.blogspot.com/2010/03/morten-andersen-jetlag-and-alcohol.html

Wayne Liu

The Meandering Scar, E-mails from China

[gallery link="file"] My grandparents fled the People’s Republic of China and entered the Republic of China in 1949.  I was left with them after my birth in 1979 when my parents entered the US.  Memories from then are faint and perhaps uneventful, except a slight sense of desire for my mother.  I went to elementary

Wayne Liu

‘we don’t need no education’

Wayne Liu

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