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AMERICAN ROAD: Six Photographs by Silvia Gheorghita
| Silvia Gheorghita comes from Eastern Europe; for the past two years she's been studying in the United States. She will soon receive her B.A. degree in Communication and Photography from Wesleyan, a small women’s college in Macon, Georgia. Her days bear the obsession of images, while her nights show a love of words—some of Silvia's stories have appeared in Paradigm Journal and The Visionary, while her photography appears in PANK and Prick of the Spindle. She recycles the rest of her thoughts at http://thegrumpysmurf.blogspot.com . |
LONE STAR CONDO BEER: Five Photographs by Brandon Lingle
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Brandon Lingle's photography and writing has appeared or is forthcoming in The North American Review, Narrative, Mississippi Review, War, Literature & the Arts, CutBank, Redivider, Juked, Drunken Boat, Crash, Platte Valley Review, and Airman Magazine, among others. A series of his photographs recently won the 2009 CutBank online contest. He teaches in Colorado, and is currently the Art Director of War, Literature & the Arts. You can see more of his work at: www.blingle.info . Photographer's Statement: In June 2006, I trespassed to photograph the abandoned Lone Star Brewery in San Antonio, Texas, a 1930s post-prohibition temple once called the “World’s Most Beautiful Brewery.” Deserted for ten years after a succession of owners—Olympia, Heileman, Stroh's and Pabst—the brew house’s smokestacks still dominated the San Antonio River’s skyline. The Texas-sized red-and-white buildings—former nest of the “National Beer of Texas”—struck me as a decaying treasure of Americana, gutted and sublime. But not long after my visit, condo developers purged desolation from the Lone Star site. Now, in 2010, a more genteel crowd roams the gated grounds—new owners of upscale lofts and condos. These nouveau residents enjoy a spring-fed Olympic pool, a beer garden, coffee house, gym, spa, and six acres of green-space with mature oak and pecan trees. The developer’s website brags: “The new Lone Star Brewery will have no equivalent. Super hip. Super hot. An incredible place to Live. Play. Dream.” The factory’s cisterns, however, though now converted to capture rainwater, still hint at the past. The warehouses now boast sophisticated arrays of photovoltaic cells, producing solar power. And the developer sometimes hosts indie band-concerts sponsored by... Lone Star Beer. |
EMPTY RESTAURANT, MALL HOCKEY and SUN ON RYE by Ruth Hill
| Ruth Hill was raised in upstate New York , and has traveled North America extensively. She is now a Certified Design Engineer in northern British Columbia. Her works have been chosen for publication by The Litchfield Review, Level 4 Press, Ocean Magazine, Hastings International Poetry, Utmost Christian Writers, Lucidity, G. P. S. Langston Hughes Award, Tom Howard, Word Catalyst, MODOC Forum, Sr. Poets Laureate, Northern Writers Ink, Dancing Poetry, Arc Poetry, About.com, League of Minnesota Poets, Detroit Writers Guild, and Ascent Aspirations. One of her poems even appeared in the British Bryological Society. Ruth craves e-mail from other writers at ruthhill@joiedevivregardens.ca . |
COWBOY; SWAN LAKE by DEBI BLANKENSHIP
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Debi Blankenship lives in the Chattanooga, Tennessee area. She believes an artist should bring people an awareness of unique insights out of the most ordinary of views and objects—the simple becomes complex, and the mundane, exciting. As an artist, her journey takes her through the spectrum of tools, ideas, and experiences which she shares with others in the hope of awakening their creative natures. She received her Fine Arts training in Houston, Texas at Dominican College. She also received a Bachelor of Science degree in Education at Oklahoma State University in Stillwater, where she taught pastel instruction at the city's MultiArts Center, and showed and sold many pieces at their gallery. She helped increase an awareness of the arts in that city by holding several positions, such as president of the Stillwater Arts Council, (increasing its membership by 50%) and program director, (bringing in a larger range of artists and styles) for the area's art groups. She has been in numerous shows and festivals in that vicinity, including "Run for the Arts", showing her work in acrylics, pen and ink, and pastels. She also had her own studio working with custom airbrushing, and has painted several murals for a local business. Her interests now lie in photography and digital art. |
ARMADILLO, BUDDY'S and PEGASUS
by NANCY RYAN KEELING
| Nancy Ryan Keeling is a multi-media and collage artist. "As a teen living in Itazuke, Japan, I developed a love of photography. I think it's a language thing—the audience doesn't have to speak the same language to appreciate the universal message being conveyed in the photo." Her photography has appeared in Calyx; she's the author of Estrogen Power (a poetry collection) and has won best new Houston playwright for her 3- act play Rooster/Rooster. |
JAMES FREY'S DOGS: SIX VIEWS
PHOTOGRAPHS by RICK ROFIHE
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James Frey's new novel, Bright Shiny Morning, was published in 2008 by HarperCollins. (Agent: Eric Simonoff. Editor: Jonathan Burnham.) Rick Rofihe's story collection, Father Must, was published in 1991 by Farrar, Straus & Giroux. (Agent: Gail Hochman. Editor: Jonathan Galassi.) Photographer's Statement: "The dogs were clean and friendly, and so was James." |
KRISTEN SPICKARD: HELLO AND GOODBYE
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Kristen Spickard: "I am currently a senior at the University of Central Arkansas, pursuing a Bachelor of Fine Arts with an emphasis in photography. I photograph in 35 mm film and digitally, and have been known to use a Polaroid once in a while. Besides photography, I have dabbled in graphic design, sewing, ceramics, fiber arts, and printmaking. I also believe in drawing a little every day. While photography is my number one love, I am drawn to many kinds of art and I believe that having a hand in many media is especially good for the creative mind. My work is affected most by everyday occurrences in life—we spend much of our time in the everyday, and I believe there is something beautiful to be found in that." About Hello and Goodbye: "In the series Hello and Goodbye, I was inspired by the American photographer Kenneth Josephson to create a series using images on instant film within each photograph. In the photograph Hello and Goodbye, titled after the entire series, a male and a female figure are shown, holding images of each other. The male and the female in the photograph hold on to each other in two ways — literally, with their arms holding onto one another, and figuratively, as they hold the images of each other in their hands. Though the literal embrace is temporary, the instant photographs remain with each other, even after the two figures have said goodbye. I chose to show no faces in this series because I wanted the photographs to be conceptual rather than literal. I intended for the figures in Hello and Goodbye not to be specific characters, but to be a sort of abstract representation of the idea of missing someone dear." |
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Rowland Miller is a Brooklyn-based photographer and writer. He currently works with Open City Magazine and has shown his photos in New York. He was born in 1982 and raised in Louisville, Kentucky. He enjoys photographing strangers on the street, as well as taking pictures of nature reclaiming industrial objects through urban decay.
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A PHOTOGRAPH by CHRISTOPHER WOODS
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Chrisopher Woods is the author of a prose collection, Under a Riverbed Sky, and a collection of stage monologues for actors, Heart Speak. His play, Moonbirds, received its NYC premiere by Personal Space Theatrics. Other photographs of his can be seen in a gallery he shares with his wife: http://www.texanareviewgallery.com/photos/chris_and_linda_woods/ He lives in Houston and in Chappell Hill, Texas. |
PHOTOGRAPHS by CARRIE CROW
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Carrie Crow's photographs have appeared in numerous international magazines. She lives and works in Paris. Personal Statement: I am interested in the notion of exoticism as a necessary escape from an existence far too often forced into confinement. The exotic could be a person, a destination or a state of mind—anything that edges one ever closer to the sublime. |
PHOTOGRAPHS by LISA SCHNELLINGER
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Lisa Schnellinger worked as a reporter and editor at newspapers in Ohio and Seattle before becoming an overseas journalism trainer. She worked with journalists in 18 countries, beginning with a year in China in 1991-92. She and her husband Tom Willard launched an independent news agency in Afghanistan, Pajhwok Afghan News [www.Pajhwok.com], and a nationwide training program for Afghan journalists, in 2002-05. Lisa’s work overseas also included projects in the Egypt, Southeast Asia, the South Pacific, Timor-Leste, and the Caucasus, as well as a freelance tour of Africa, and training in the Middle East while based in Dubai. She conducted workshops on elections, social issues, daily news coverage, ethics, photography and layout, and coached reporters and editors in their own offices as well as designing and managing special coverage and hands-on training projects. The work “was deeply rewarding, but took a toll on us over time,” Lisa says. She her husband returned to the US and settled in North Georgia in June 2007. Since then Lisa has turned full-time to photography, a life-long interest that till now was secondary to writing and editing. Her work is divided between fine-arts nature photography of the Appalachians and image memoirs of her life overseas such as “Afghanistan Blues.” Galleries of this work can be seen at her web site, www.BarakaPhotos.com. Some of her architectural photos are housed at the University of Washington’s Cities and Buildings Database: http://www.washington.edu/ark2/ . Lisa established the Baraka Foundation to distribute profits from her business, to further education and information services wherever there is need. Currently, Baraka is focused on supporting these causes in Afghanistan with donations to Pajhwok and to a girls school in rural Logar Province. She and her husband continue to work with Afghans long-distance and give public presentations about Afghanistan. About “Afghanistan Blues” I laughed more in Afghanistan than at most any other time in my life, and I felt that my gender mattered less there than any other place I’ve worked, including the US. The Afghans we worked with in developing an independent media were some of the most gifted and hardworking people I’ve ever known. They taught me so much about loyalty, identity, and honor – and they have a terrific sense of humor. I didn’t think much about any of the dangers there because it was worth the risk, and they were very protective of us. Afghanistan’s scenery and people make it one of the most visually stunning places on the planet. I only regret that I didn’t take more time to make photographs there. After leaving Afghanistan I was busy working in the Middle East, but I never stopped feeling homesick for it. “Afghanistan Blues” was a chance to look again at pieces of what I miss: the land, the faces, the strength that wells up from the depth and height and breadth of it. |
| Kelly Piersanti is a Masters Student in Environmental Science & Policy. She lives and works in New York City. |
LAST STOP
The Paintings of Fred Franco, July 4th, 2004
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