There’s something of the fever dream in Gerald Slota’s videos. They hit you with their strange dream logic, a barrage of images, movement, songs. But like most dreams, they linger in your memory. We were grateful for a chance to ask Gerald Slota a few questions about his videos.
An interview with remarkable photographer Faraz Ravi.
“I deciphered the occasional splash of graffiti: alongside youthful declarations of love and football were vague revolutionary slogans: “Freedom is a Right”, “Liberty”, and “Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in.”
“Ellen Wallenstein found solace and strength in her art, continuing to create cyanotypes—ethereal blue shadow-grams on cloth—each sunny day,”
A collection of all the articles we’ve published over the past month, for those who like to savor their Magpies’ tidings as an issue.
“Imaginary one-to-one conversations with these ghosts, so to speak, allow me to invest in the possibility that within this divided nation, we might, one day, understand and respect each other.” Beautiful photographs from Leah Frances
The story of the remarkable Changing New York project in the context of Berenice Abbott’s career, by Bonnie Yochelson
“We use our creative tools as extensions of ourselves; they help us understand and define our place in the world. For me, having a camera in my hand at all times helped me remember. You only get to do this once. We have to take time and see it, as clearly as we can.”
“How do visual representations of the past, or lack thereof, affect our perception of history? To what extent is our experience and understanding of the present shaped by a more intimate knowledge of past events?”
Commuter Motions is a photographic series that attempts to frame the intangible spirit of our urban environment through the capture of a commute.
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