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Lens-based artist Sheila Pree Bright discusses her new series, Where We Gather, and is joined by photographers Julie Yarbrough, Ysa Lopez, and Nicole Craine to share the process behind Through Our Eyes, a collaborative project that captures the diverse communities of Atlanta for the FIFA World Cup. For access to exclusive episode notes, explore our membership options! If you are already a member,...

A live podcast recording with Photographer Lizzie Himmel, Author and Art Critic Vince Aletti and Curator Pauline Vermare discussing Lillian Bassman’s process, practice and indelible influence on magazine culture, art direction and fashion photography. For access to exclusive episode notes, explore our membership options! If you are already a member, please log in to jsybyllasmith.com and access th...

A panel discussion on photography, representation and rights through the creative process of 4 participating artists of A Yellow Rose Project honoring the centennial of the 19th Amendment giving women the right to vote in the U.S. For access to exclusive episode notes, explore our membership options! If you are already a member, please log in to jsybyllasmith.com and access the Concept Aware® Show...

Birds of A Feather is a sumptuous book of striking portraits of wild, exotic and domesticated birds blended with a compelling exploration of art, nature, science and ecology. For access to exclusive episode notes, explore our membership options! If you are already a member, please log in to jsybyllasmith.com and access the Concept Aware® Show Notes page through your account.

The Presence of Absence reveals the aftermath and human cost of conflict in image and text. For access to exclusive episode notes, explore our membership options! If you are already a member, please log in to jsybyllasmith.com and access the Concept Aware® Show Notes page through your account.

We Will Return To You reinterprets historical traditional oral storytelling and religious iconography into a choreographed contemporary form. For access to exclusive episode notes, explore our membership options! If you are already a member, please log in to jsybyllasmith.com and access the Concept Aware® Show Notes page through your account.

Here we host interviews with artists, curators, academics and writers to discuss concept development and the creative process. If you are a photographer, mixed media artist, a visual creator of any kind, you have come to the right place for shared inspiration and resources. Join our Concept Aware® community and be part of an engaging and educational global visual culture conversation.

Julian Sander presents a humanist portrait of society in 619 silver gelatin portraits of 20th-century Germans photographed by his legendary great-grandfather, August Sander. For access to exclusive episode notes, explore our membership options! If you are already a member, please log in to jsybyllasmith.com and access the Concept Aware® Show Notes page through your account.

Caroline Mauxion provides an immersive experience in her solo Paris Photo installation illuminating a Crip phenomenology through an autobiographical lens. For access to exclusive episode notes, explore our membership options! If you are already a member, please log in to jsybyllasmith.com and access the Concept Aware® Show Notes page through your account.

Éric Antoine is a skateboarding self taught French painter and photographer exhibiting La Forme, a solo exhibition of luminous ambrotypes reflecting a decade of evolution to pare his creative practice to its purest essence. For access to exclusive episode notes, explore our membership options! If you are already a member, please log in to jsybyllasmith.com and access the Concept Aware® Show Notes...

I was stopped in my tracks by the groundbreaking work of Evelyn Bencicova in collaboration with graphic sound innovator Samson G. Balfour Smith being exhibited at the Artemis Gallery in the Digital Sector of the fair. For access to exclusive episode notes, explore our membership options! If you are already a member, please log in to jsybyllasmith.com and access the Concept Aware® Show Notes page t...

A trailblazing book chronicling the fundamental and consequential contributions of Japanese women photographers. Mariko Takeuchi and Pauline Vermare discuss their collaborative project creating a restorative history of Japanese photography. Offering a critical and celebratory counterpoint to the invisibility of Japanese women photographers this expansive and rigorously researched book features 25...

Linda Troeller’s self-portraits are compiled into a luscious tour de force of womanhood, identity and aging. Troeller utilizes her relationship with the camera to understand herself and a woman’s place in the world across decades. Her history traverses that of a beauty contestant, potential lawyer, photojournalism student, model, muse, photo teacher, photographer, provocateur and activist. With co...

Two intrepid photographers and professors discuss the myriad educational strategies they activate and lead to enhance and strengthen women’s presence in photography.  Anna Fox and Karen Knorr share how they empower visual storytellers by engaging a global network of practitioners, academics and curators who exchange resources, challenges and strategies toward achieving gender parity in photog...

Camera Geologica: An Elemental History of Photography by Dr. Siobhan Angus is the lens through which we explore the multi-media artwork of Rosell Meseguer and Kosisochukwu Nnebe.  This deeply researched and resourced book contextualizes the dark side of photography, the mining and extraction of elements that make printing possible. Our conversation centers on the many intersections of image-m...

Unscripted conversations with Aldeide Delgado, co-founder and leader of Women Photographers International Archive, and recent WOPHA Research Fellow and scholar, Dr. Candice Jansen. Each woman shares their expansive practice, leading with curiosity and utilizing inquiry to activate potentiality. As scholars, archivists, writers, curators, and collaborators - their open-ended investigations resist a...

This seminal book, a compendium of image-based projects, illuminates the subtle evolution of ideas of photographic practice over time. This book offers a non-authoritarian systematic deconstruction of photo history to expand ways of making, seeing, and thinking about the multi-layers of relationships within photography. Five revered photographers, teachers and scholars innovated ways to visualize...

This is an introduction to the Leica team in Mexico, Central, and South America, which is actively highlighting and amplifying the visual voices across Latin America. Meet:  Aurora Bruzon - Latin America Marketing Manager Betsy May - Commercial Director Latin America Manolo Marquez - Gallery and Akademie Manager for Leica Mexico  Each one shares specifics on their mission to bring divers...

Danielle Ezzo is a new media artist pioneering the lossy space of photography through a process of sourcing from the vast digitized open-access archive of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. This beguiling book animates McLuhan's semiotic principle, the medium is the message, by activating the ability of photography to simultaneously communicate and mediate. Ezzo’s rephotographed art objects unleash a...

A decade of attending this fair has honed my ability to select from the staggering amount of concurrent offerings - astounding amounts of work, panel discussions, book signings and outside Prsi Photo happenings during a packed week in Paris.  In this conversation, Syb discusses, among other things: Vernissage New discoveries  Elles x Paris Photo platforms and anniversary book Robert Cumm...

David Campany pays tribute to the multidisciplinarian artist Robert Cumming, known for his rigorous dedication to the aesthetic tonality of the B & W image and his uncanny investigations into the philosophical nature of perception. Lusciously printed images from original 8 x 10 negatives are evidence of Cummings' masterful camera work marrying his fascination with photography’s ability to simu...

This recent Radius release offers an expansive framework of the principles of publishing including the layered roles and responsibilities inherent within the creation of a photobook. NOT a how-to guidebook, this beautiful object elegantly packages decades of research and provides contemporary resources to illustrate the endless possibilities of the photobbook. Swanson and Himes share the mission t...

Episode Notes  Photojournalist Preston Gannaway won a Pulitzer Prize for her poetic photography documenting a New Hampshire family coping with a young mother's illness and death. Remember Me is her breathtakingly graceful and intimate chronology of EJ over the intervening years since he lost his mother at 3 years of age. Gannaway masterfully transcends one family's journey to speak to the uni...

Photography is innovatively and collectively utilized to create a new narrative challenging the stigma and stereotypes of this indigenous community. This book is a multilingual textural object of beauty and wisdom — a non-linear collective celebration and document of home, belonging, hospitality, reciprocity and the longing to live in communion with the land. In this conversation, Rehab discusses,...

American Bedroom: Reflections on the Nature of Life is a messy, energetic, playful and heart-stoppingly poignant romp into the intimate spaces of ordinary Americans. Each portrait is accompanied by text by the subject. The result is an anthropological study of the physical, emotional, spiritual, political and psychological landscape of 21st century America. Peacock brings a wealth of experience an...