March 2025 Featured Artist Interview in Black and White Photography Magazine UK

I am delighted to be adding a rather startling amount of color to the latest issue #399 of Black + White Photography Magazine UK with Simon Callow on the cover.

 

Thank you so much for having me, @bwphotomag

 

I was interviewed by the insightful @susanburnstine for the March issue about my work in the series "How The Light Gets In."

 

I am the issue's "American Connection" and in classic American fashion, I go on a bit overmuch about feelings and splash color around to an alarming degree in an otherwise monochrome publication.

 

All the pieces in this series began as black and white photographs upon which I layered collected paper ephemera into unfixed collages representing the fragility and brevity of life. I then painted on an abstract dot pattern, rephotographed the pieces and poked hundreds of tiny holes in the resulting prints, adding places for light to get in and love to shine out. It's a multi-faceted process that synthesizes my creative practices to alchemize the dark materials of grief into light.

 

I hope you get a chance to read the magazine. It's me once again honoring my commitment to being authentic and real in the face of so much that's artificial and fake in the world. Do I have a vulnerability hangover once again? Yes. Do I regret it? No.

 

Here’s the link to their subscription and order website:

 

www.gmcsubscriptions.com/product/blackwhite-photography/

 

Though a UK publication, the magazine is also available at international newsstands and Barnes & Noble in the US.

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