A Distinguished Dozen
Each episode is an unscripted conversation with contemporary photographers, critics and curators on concept development and the photobook-making process. Their experimentation, innovation, and perseverance, alongside your engagement and reflection as an audience create our visual culture conversation.
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Floridas - Anastasia Samalyove and David Campany
A visual dialog between images made by two distinctly observant and kindred photographers exploring the beguiling state(s) of Florida.
Another Online Pervert - Brea Souders
A diaristic conversation in image and text with a female chatbot prompted by the artists' teenage journal entries forming a bridge between art and AI.
Juggling Is Easy - Peggy Levison Nolan
Ferociousness, love and humor guide Floridian Peggy Nolan’s unsentimental documentation of single-handedly raising her seven kids.
The Eye Mama Project - Karni Arieli
Women and non-binary mamas share the light and dark moments of parenthood in Eye Mama: Poetic Truths of Home and Motherhood.
The Drawer - Vince Aletti
The revered art critic and curator Vince Aletti constructs a compilation of unique collages from the raw content of his magazine tears, exhibition announcements, newsprint articles and ephemera providing a ringside seat of the vibrant gay art scene of NYC.
Boy Crazy - Elizabeth Clark Libert
Boy Crazy captures in image and text the tender and terrifying emotional awakening and breaking of generational trauma.
Look at me like you love me - Jess Dugan
Look at me like you love me is a lyrical exploration of relationship to self and others in image and text.
Odesa - Yelena Yemchuk
ODESA is this Ukrainian photographer's hauntingly beautiful love story of a people and the spirit of place.
Remember Me - Preston Gannaway
Remember Me is a concentric ring of love stories capturing the twenty-year evolution of a family through the eyes of its youngest member.
Kings Road - Mona Kuhn
Mona Kuhn crafts a poetic narrative inspired by the work and life of mid-century modern architect R. M. Schindler.
Cousins - Kristen Joy Emack
A monograph of deeply personal portraits of girlhood capturing the visual presence of vulnerability and the transformative experience of love.
Golden Apple of the Sun - Teju Cole
Teju Cole’s composition of still life images and prose essay is an invitation to illuminate the shadows of a dark time.
