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Overshoot #15 – Ilanit Illouz
Untitled, from the series “Au bord du Volcan” (2025). © Ilanit Illouz. Last year, during Paris Photo, Ilanit Illouz’s work arrested me. In the flow of visitors and images, her work stood still. It drew me in.
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Honorable Mention Art + Science Competition: Ann Cutting
For the Art + Science Competition entitled States of Change, we asked to see photography that examines art and science through transition, transformation, and instability.
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Honorable Mention Art + Science Competition: Seth Cook
For the Art + Science Competition entitled States of Change, we asked to see photography that examines art and science through transition, transformation, and instability.
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3rd Place Art + Science Competition: Kari Varner
For the Art + Science Competition entitled States of Change, we asked to see photography that examines art and science through transition, transformation, and instability.
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2nd Place Art + Science Competition: James Asava
For the Art + Science Competition entitled States of Change, we asked to see photography that examines art and science through transition, transformation, and instability.
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1st Place Art + Science Competition: Hillerbrand and Magsamen
For the Art + Science Competition entitled States of Change, we asked to see photography that examines art and science through transition, transformation, and instability.
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The Female Gaze: Maureen Ruddy Burkhart–More Than Meets the Eye
Maureen Ruddy Burkhart is a photographer based in Longmont, CO. She received her BFA in Photography from the San Francisco Art Institute, where she studied under Pirkle Jones, Jack Fulton and Henry Wessel.
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The “Baby Holga” Project
Last summer, a random comment I made on an image in a Facebook Holga group led me to a new acquaintance, Alec Pain, who runs The Daily Holga feed on Instagram.
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Pamela Landau Connolly: Mirror, Mirror
The first time I encountered Pamela Landau Connolly‘s brilliant project, Mirror, Mirror, I knew that this work was something special. It was a look into a world we rarely see documented, but the approach was totally unique, producing portraits that were worthy of museum walls…
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Valerie Yong Ock Kim: Only the Bones
“I learned to stand my ground against the grief. I learned to not look away, instead to hold it, watch it, and to keep breathing. It shifts, it shares its other side.
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Photographers on Photographers: Lucy Helton in Conversation with Nika McKagen
Every year we ask the previous Top 25 Lenscratch Student Prize Winners to interview a hero or a mentor, offering an opportunity for conversation and connection. Today Lucy Helton and Nika McKagen are in dialogue. Thank you to both of the artists.
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I’m So Happy You Are Here: Japanese Women Photographers from the 1950s to Now at ICP
This fall, the International Center of Photography (ICP) in New York is presenting I’m So Happy You Are Here: Japanese Women Photographers from the 1950s to Now, a landmark exhibition bringing together the work of Japanese women photographers across generations.
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William Josephs Radford: Transparent
Photography has a powerful ability to shape the way we remember. Over time, photographs can become so intertwined with our personal histories that the image and the memory begin to merge.
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Marshall To: Blank Notes
Marshall To grew up hearing stories about the supernatural world, one that co-existed with the physical world. His family, Chinese immigrants in rural Canada, was Taoist. They believed that humans were surrounded by the spirits of loved ones.
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Deep Shadows: Online Halloween Exhibition
Happy Halloween! Thank you to all the talented photographers who submitted their work to Deep Shadows, an online exhibition celebrating the mysteries of Halloween.
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Dana Smessaert: In the Blue Light, I Died
I met Dana Smessaert in the Gray Gallery a week before classes started at East Carolina University. We had lunch together, and honestly, we didn’t separate until two and a half years later, sharing a studio space, duplex, and breakfast on the weekends when we both graduated.
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Jesse Ly: try, take time – take time, try
Jesse Ly is an Asian-American photographic and image-based artist. They hold a BFA from the University of Cincinnati’s college of DAAP. They currently are the Graphic Design and Photography Media Facilities Coordinator at the University of Dayton.
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Chantal Lesley: As I Lay It All To Rest
I came across Chantal Lesley’s work over this past summer. She submitted to nice;04, the fourth annual contemporary art exhibition with Midwest Nice Art, an art collective I founded with my husband, Tim Rickett.
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Piper Smith: The Way of Flowers
I first met Piper Smith at Review Santa Fe last year. She showed me a number of works, from everyday objects in New York City to flower portraits, each one was slightly obscured. We had a wonderful conversation and I have kept up with her work since.
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Arron Levi Foster: Almost, Everything
I’ve been acquainted with Arron Levi Foster’s work for a few years now. I first came across it through the exhibition landscapes: peculiar interpretations, exhibited through Midwest Nice Art, an art collective I founded with my husband, Tim Rickett, and has since exhibited with…
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Jennifer Lauren Smith in conversation with Amanda Sauer
Jennifer Lauren Smith is an artist with a background in sculpture and the humanities, working primarily in analog photography, video, and performance. Her practice is informed by her experience as a deaf person — existing in a soundscape of fragments, residual hearing…
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Ryan Frigillana: Tears, Blood, Sweat
How do memory, images, and systems of belief shape lived experience and a sense of belonging? This question is at the heart of Tears, Blood, Sweat, in which Ryan Frigillana reconsiders the American Dream through intertwined histories of land, labor, and citizenship.
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Tree Week: Donna Bassin: Portraits of a Precarious Earth: Ancient Trees
There is something humbling about standing in front of a tree that has been alive for hundreds, sometimes thousands, of years. But there is also something humbling about standing in a forest in Japan and seeing Donna Bassin‘s portraits of trees printed set amoungst those trees…
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Tree Week: Venessa Monokian: As the Glow Grows
Venessa Monokian initially used photography as a tool for coping with the limitations of her learning disability. She used it as an alternative way of understanding the world, and began experimenting with different ways of presenting images.
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Tree Week: Jamie V. Robertson: In Search of Osman’s Ghost
I met Jamie V. Robertson at the FotoFest reviews in Houston, and was immediately struck by the quiet strength of her images of southern swamplands. The pictures are taken with Infrared film, which makes the tree foliage seem luminescent.
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Tree Week: Han Sungpil: Frozen Fire
The first time I saw Han Sungpil’s work, there was a small crowd leaning over the images in reverential silence. I looked at the photos from the back of the crowd, and saw a multitude of black lines on pristine white paper.
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Tree Week: Sarah Hood Salomon: Under the Overpass
We tend to notice trees when they are beautiful, enormous, or planted exactly where we expect them to be. The trees that grow in the cracks of a city, under freeways, beside construction sites, or in whatever scraps of dirt they can find are easier to overlook.
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Paul Mpagi Sepuya: Labyrinths & Ricochets
The orbit and arc of Paul Mpagi Sepuya’s aesthetic trajectory has steadily tracked across my social media feeds over the last few years. For instance, Sepuya is the juror for this year’s La Jolla Athenaeum 34th Annual Juried Exhibition, which is near the university where he…
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Neal Rantoul: A Life in Photographs
For six decades,Neal Rantoul’s photographs have navigated the shifting sands of photography, sharing his forays into analog and digital, with a perspective from the ground to the air.
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Photography Educator: Lupita Murillo Tinnen
Photography Educator is a monthly series on Lenscratch that highlights outstanding photography teachers who inspire students of all ages. Each month, the series celebrates an educator’s insights, strategies, and excellence in fostering creativity and resilience.
