Artists’ Statements

John Custodio – On The Road – Structures
Thirteen black and white photographs of lone objects, towers, monuments, statues, remains of dwellings, isolated within the landscape. Photographed on several long road trips across the country.

Robert Kalman – In Tompkins Square: A Fleeting Intimacy
Stopping and photographing a stranger in New York City fulfills an essential need for both of us: the need to experience intimacy. It is a kind of intimate relationship that holds us together for a brief moment and then vanishes, only to be held forever in an artifact of pure silver. When I made these portraits in Tompkins Square Park, I used the timeless, 19th century wetplate collodion method. It required a full encounter of nearly twenty minutes. When completed, as our intimacy closed, I hope that each of us parted feeling seen, and both of us left feeling important.

BT Kim – The Face
My series tries to manifest souls and spirits beyond faces; invisible may be more valuable than visuals surrounded by discrimination and bias.

Anne Burlock Lawver – Unadorned
Project began exploring the way we physically prepare ourselves to face the world using make-up and clothes to create desired illusion. As year progressed, stripping away that façade became the subject – acceptance of the body unadorned and exposed, explored in shadow and light – revealing the body of an aging woman,

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