Tom Chambers

I've been a fan and a friend of Tom Chambers for many years. His work has never failed to surprise and intrigue me, and I know I'm not alone in this reaction. Represented by seven galleries around the world, Tom has entered the International market with exhibitions in Spain and Bogata, Columbia in 2009, which makes perfect sense as his view of the world characterized by "an aura of mystery and spiritual narrative". Much of his work is draws heavily upon elements from Mexican Indian religious art and retablos, "creating a sense of peril, symbolizing life's vulnerability".

Tom's new work is from the Entropic Kingdom series.
Increasing tensions exist between the animal kingdom and human beings in the attempt to coexist. As man ignores the fragility of the environment, his disregard causes the animal kingdom to undergo subtle negative
changes. Animal population is affected as the regularity of climate patterns are destroyed. Mammals compete for smaller spaces and temperature changes limit fish, bird and insect migration. Using symbolism through the medium of photomontage, I illustrate a world that's been thrown out of kilter as a result of man's fulfillment of immediate, self-serving needs.

Javier Izquierdo

Javier Izquierdo, born in 1976 in Palma de Mallorca, Spain, lives in the Canary Islands. He is a self taught photographer, using his camera almost every day for the last dozen years. His inspiration and education has come from books and the world that surrounds him. Two series are featured below, the first being a powerful look at the end of a life.

"Death after Life" it´s my last project, i started on 2006 and i ended on sumer of 2008. The woman that i photograph it´s family of mine and she died at age of 92 years old by natural death. She has been the cooker of my family for all my life and when i start the project she was still working, i focussed on how´s is the end of life on an old woman and i photograhed her for about 2 years until she slowly started to disappear, i was there at all times so i could get averything i´ve seen. She was comfortable with me beacuse i was her company for many hours and she was happy with it.

Images from Francisca Femenias. Death after life







"Dear Diary" it´s collection of pictures that talks about what´s going on around me, i focus on that project betwen 2002-04 and i just have carried a camera all day and trying to take pictures about the people i work with, the friends i have, the places i go everyday and the girlfriend i had. I tryed to get all the beauty and misery that everybody lives ...
from Dear Diary

Sarah Hadley

Chicago photographer, Sarah Hadley, has packed her suitcases and moved to Los Angeles, and the left coast is lucky to have her. Sarah works both as a fine art and editorial photographer, and manages to have a piled-high plate of awards, grants, and exhibitions. Much of Sarah's fine art work has a reference to dreams, whether it be imagery of the space where we dream the most in Unconscious Terrain, or dreamy interpretations of places around the world.

I think every photographer talks about the magic of seeing that first image appear in a tray of developer and of being hooked for life. I believe a good photograph asks more questions than it answers, and my photography is a way for me to constantly challenge myself to really look at the world around me.

There is something intangible about the best photographs, something that reminds us of the moment between wake and sleep, and of the beauty that we see and feel but cannot describe, and of our own mortality. These are the kinds of images I try to make.

Images from Unconscious Terrain









Images from Venetian Dreams

Keith Johnson

I've been a longtime fan of Keith Johnson, his images and his person, and recently spent some enjoyable time on his site catching up with his world. Keith has several new bodies of work and several exhibitions on the horizon. A new exhibition at the Garner Center for Photographic Exhibitions at the New England School of Photography, opened August 24th and runs through October 2nd, featuring work from his Extended Landscapes series.

Keith received his MFA from RISD (studying with Harry Callahan and Aaron Siskind) and after ten years of teaching, he moved to the business side of photography completing an MBA in 1987. Besides creating photographs, Keith works as a consultant in the northeast and is on the summer faculty at CPW, Penland School of Crafts, VSW, Maine Media Workshop, and Jackson Hole Art Association. He has a long roster of solo shows and his work is held in significant collections. He also happens to have created one of my favorite photographs, Do Not Open, from his Ground/Cover series.



Here's what Keith has to say about his recent projects:
My new work (Grids, Typologies, Topologies, and the Extended Image) is about extending the photographic document beyond the single print using multiple images. I started doing work like this in the early 80s and it has periodically shown up over the years. Extended imagery is similar to what a poet might do when combining paragraphs, or a film maker does when splicing film into a montage. Recently though, I have devoted my energies to investigating both the grid and linear multiple presentations.

The camera documents better than any device the detail and surface of objects, places, and ideas, but sometimes the involvement with an idea goes on to look at multiple facets; consider what cubist painters accomplished early in the 20th century. Sometimes extended viewing of a visual idea would reveal not only the idea but additionally time, light, color, and comparison would change during the extended time spent looking. This is what has become compelling to me. Typology, topology and recording have become the reason that I might stop to make a picture.

Images from Extended Landscapes











Suite Niagra not only explores the magnificence of Niagra Falls, but also examines the idea of the power of multiples.

Images from Suite Niagra