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Kaitlyn Jo Smith’s interdisciplinary studio practice investigates the socioeconomic impact of emerging technologies on America’s working class. Through her work, Smith pays homage to laborers by revealing the ways technology renders invisible the labor that produces it. Informed by her upbringing in rural Ohio, Smith’s practice explores the intersections of work and worship, as well as the ways…
Richard Dachtera is a fourth-generation New Yorker who grew up two blocks from the ocean in Rockaway, Queens. His photographs concern dislocation and the way perception shifts under pressure. The moment when a familiar place tips a few degrees and becomes something else. He believes some images exist before they are taken, that arriving at a specific time and place is less an act of creation than…
Kelly Burgess is a project-based and editorial photographer based in rural Vermont. Emotional narratives and personal experiences form the thematic core of her photographic work. She specializes in portrait and road trip photography. Kelly is a regular editorial contributor to several publications worldwide, including Architectural Digest, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Wildsam…
Vann Thomas Powell (MFA, Duke University) is a documentary artist whose visual practice incorporates an array of photographic mediums in concert with historical and philosophical research to investigate how past, place, and memory construct identity with particular focus on American identities. He is increasingly interested in investigating subjects related to foundation narratives, myths, tall…
CONTENT WARNING: This episode contains conversations about miscarriage and death, listener discretion is advised. Katelynn M. Rogers was born and raised in Northeast Ohio. Her photographs explore the crossroads of maternal loss, mental illness, and environmental decay. Inspired by the women and trees of her life, Rogers’ haunting images formulate mythologies around oral storytelling. Roger’s work…
Micah McCoy is a photographer, curator, and poet based in Northwest Arkansas and currently teaches at The University of Arkansas. He received his MFA in Photography from Columbia College Chicago (2022) and has exhibited work in solo and group exhibitions both in the United States and abroad. His work explores issues of religiosity, anxiety, and social detachment. Micah’s editorial photography has…
It's been 84 years... Welcome back after a far-too-long hiatus from the show. Today's conversation was actually recorded in 2024, and was intended to be released after the conversation with Lindsay Godin (go give it a listen, it was a great chat!). Alas, better late than never! About Lewis: Lewis Ableidinger (b. 1983) is from the small town of Kensal (pop. 163), located in the east-central part of…
A very quick note to get the ball rolling again -- I'm looking for folks to submit their work to be potential guests on the show. This will serve both as a way to get a lineup of guests to interview, as well as introduce me to work I haven't necessarily seen yet! No genre limits, just has to be work related to photography. Use the form here to submit your work:…
Lindsay Godin is a graduate from the University of Iowa MA/MFA Dual Degree Program in 2018 with a primary concentration in Photography, with a minor concentration in Graphic Design. Lindsay is currently an Assistant Professor of Photography and Design and Photography Area Coordinator at Valdosta State University in Georgia. Lindsay researches photography curriculum and creates photo documentaries…
Ben Ward (b. 1994) is a Colorado-based American photographer and cinematographer. Ben’s photography focuses on a documentary approach to the human experience and the changing social and environmental landscape of the American West. In 2021, he published his book I Dream of Dust with Temper Books and in 2018 he published Clay during the production of the short film ‘Clay’ by Holocene Studios. He…
