Photography and Portraiture

The Photography and Portraiture showcase for www.thinkingaboutphotography.com is live and runs from January 1st through March 20th. This past year was so intense that I decided to start the new year with a showcase that grounds us back into how photography preserves our shared humanity and history.

In this showcase we have artists who take a broad approach to the idea of what a portrait can be.  Across their practices, it becomes a way of holding onto what is fleeting—identity shaped by place, time, and relationships; lives and communities marked by absence, change, and reinvention. Several projects use montage and acts of substitution to pay tribute to small communities, creating moments that feel iconic yet impermanent. There are also several that explore our private faces in public spaces. From PhotoBook Journal we include a series of book reviews that focus on connecting with forgotten or often misunderstood communities - as well as storytelling about unique individuals. Many thanks to Hans Hickerson, Lee Halvorsen, Gerhard Clausing, Douglas Stockdale and their amazing team of contributing editors.

Tales of Heroines by Tom Chambers
Dark Silver Threads by Renato Colangelo
Iriana by Mariceu Erthal
St George: Ebb & Flow by Susan Lapides
Crisis of Experience by JK Lavin
All the Dreamers by Nguan

The New Mexicans, 1981-83 by Kevin Bubriski, reviewed by Gerhard Clausing
The Wizard of Awe by Kevin Cooley, reviewed by Hans Hickerson
A Walk in the Park? by Amy Horowitz, reviewed by Lee Halvorsen
Call Me Lola by Loli Kantor reviewed by Steve Harp
Years Like Water by Nadia Sablin, reviewed by Hans Hickerson
We Will Not Be Removed: The People of King School Park by Alan Wieder, reviewed by Lee Halvorsen

Use this link for the Photography and Portraiture showcase - and many thanks for reading!