Deborah Hamon

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It takes a second to realize that Deborah Hamon has combined painting and photography to produce the series, Girls. The project explores the identity of girls by creating universal portraits that play between fiction and reality. "I want to capture that moment when confidence and insecurity, whimsy and seriousness, innocence and knowledge can all exist."

Deborah lives in Marin County and received her MFA from the University of California, Davis. Gallery 291, in San Francisco, will exhibit Deborah Hamon, Girls: Fact and Fiction from July 9th- August 29th.

Katrina M. D'Autremont

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Katrina D'Autremont straddles several worlds. Born to an American father and Argentine mother, Katrina spends time in both cultures. "American eyes saw Argentina; Argentine eyes saw America". Her work explores identity, family, relationships, the past and present.

Two bodies of work are featured below. The first, When I Turn Off the Lights, allows Katrina to interact with family photographs, using images from her own childhood, and her mother's childhood, to document two moments that co-exist where the past and present become a new reality.

Images from When I Turn Off the Lights







"Si Dios Quiere... (If God Wants) This body of work, "Si dios quiere…", explores issues of intimacy and distance within my mother’s family in Argentina. The house where she grew up and the people who are part of that life serve as characters. The environment becomes a set for the photographic staging of the images. It reveals how a place can influence and form us. The word “Family” connects us, but the extent of our connection depends on several factors. Families can be separated by physical distance, but often it is more complicated and the relationships themselves form walls and separations. "Si Dios Quiere…",which means "If God Wants," attests to the fact that relationships are inherently difficult. Closer proximity to the people we love can be just as complex as distance. Within the family structure, specific roles are developed over time. We idealize these roles and the people who fill them, as well as the places that hold us."

Images from Si Dios Quiere

Could use some help!

A couple of things....

1. I am looking for imagery taken by fathers of their sons or fathers (already have Shawn Records, Timothy Archibald, B. Blake Andrews, Shawn Gust, Philip Toledano, Doug Du Bois, Todd Deutsch, Byron Wolf). If you are familiar with a photographer that is working in this way, I would love to know about them.

Image by Todd Deutsch


2. If you applied to Review Santa and did NOT get in, I'd still love to feature your work--please send me the body of work you submitted, a bio and statement..and if I can fit you in, I will! This idea came from Aaron Cohen and it should prove interesting!

Janet Pritchard

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Each summer, when I spend some time at the ancestral waters of a lake in Massachusetts, I take a walk through the woods and think about all the generations before me that have walked the same paths, gone swimming in the same lake, and enjoyed the sounds of wind whipping through the trees. Janet Pritchard's photographs remind me of those walks. Her images feel as if they were taken a hundred years ago, before strip malls and the Internet and life as we know it today. The good news is that they were taken today, and these quiet moments of natural beauty are part of our contemporary world.

"Janet Pritchard is an active artist working in photography. She works predominantly in the genre of landscape and uses analog and digital tools to create her images. Before coming to the University of Connecticut, Professor Pritchard taught at Tyler School of Art at Temple University and the University of Colorado. She completed her MA and MFA degrees at the University of New Mexico."

Lucia Ganieva

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Photographer Lucia Ganieva likes to photograph women. And with the three series featured below, working women. Born in Russia, Lucia now lives in the Netherlands and explores women in all walks of life. She still does much of her photographic work in Russia, and the images below reflect Russian factory workers, aging stars, and museum guards.

"A series of photographs made in a textile factory in the town of Ivanovo, some 275 km north-east of Moscow. The town was called the “town of brides” because the population counted almost only women, working in the textile branch. During the regime of the czars, this town was the center of textile industry in Russia. There were approximately 30 different plants where all kinds of fabrics were manufactured, mostly based on cotton and linen. In the course of time, due to the competition of low labor-cost countries, such as China, almost all of the plants had to close down. At the present time, only a handful are active, but it is to be expected that they will not last long. The factory where I made my series, the ‘Kombinat,’ named after F.N.Samoilova, was a very big plant, where a complete range of fabrics were produced, but now it has restricted its activities. Now, only the bleaching and printing of the fabrics continues.

My intention was to make a portrait of the factory, by combining its interior, the fabrics they work up, and the women doing the work. The fabrics portrayed come from different collections over the years - old and new - as with the interior images, showcasing older and newer equipment, and the same applies for the workers, who are women of different ages."

Images from Factory





Images from The Sunset of Fame






Attendants were asked to stand in front of their favorite paintings...

Images from Attendants of the Hermitage

Blake Odgen

Second Husband by Blake Ogden


I received my SHOTS magazine in the mail the other day, and after flipping through a few of the pages, came across an image by Blake Ogden. It struck a chord and made me want to see more.

Blake D. Ogden received a BA from Bennington College and majored in Painting and Printmaking. While enrolled in the graduate program at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, he began serious work in photography.

In My Grandmother's House is about capturing family history and explores the passage of time. "The idea for this ambitious project began nine years ago when Ogden had a common humanistic impulse to document his grandmother, Jacqueline Vaughan. Soon after the start of his photographic journey, Ogden was struck by the pressing fact that his grandmother was aging, giving him the motivation to capture all that he could on camera."