So imagine being a queer muslim. CA Conrad interviews Ashraf Osman about the recent Facebook fiasco. Meanwhile, the fabulous polygamous lesbian, Aunty Maiduguri, married four women and then had to flee the country’s harsh Sharia laws… P.S. Thanks for the facebook invitations all, but I’m not biting.

On the other hand, what happens when all of those lenses turn outward?

I came across Max Hirshfield’s One Shot project in the amazing Eyemazing magazine. He does one-shot street photography with willing participants who face the camera–I love this idea, the endless array of people, their shapes, sizes, patterns of clothes, contrasting with backgrounds. One gets a sense of the grand staginess of our daily world, the...

Still thinking about the landscapes of Elger Esser, contrasting them to Edward Burtynsky, which is probably not fair. But thinking of how photographers deal with space–and why a photograph may be the appropriate mode of capturing space in our uncontainable present, or perhaps (and here I’m thinking of Rachel Whiteread among others) more accurately, our...

“We do not lack communication. On the contrary we have too much of it. We lack creation We lack resistance to the present.” Deleuze/Guattari, What is Philosophy?Nothing is new in photography. Well, not the mirror image, and really, how can you beat yourself for a subject? You’re everywhere you go, you’re evasive, mysterious, yet endlessly...

The art of blurbing.

Well, above we have the clothed “good” girl images, I won’t include the “bad,” or wait, has that whole binary changed? No? Phew. Katlick School, at Stellan Holm, sets out to explore that most original and daring of territories–the Catholic schoolgirl. Shocking, no? There she is in her little plaid skirt, posing for you under...

Zoe Strauss has been making heads spin for several years now. In a recent piece in Art on Paper she talks about life in Philadelphia, a city with edges as rough as they are smooth. It isn’t life at Rittenhouse Square, or the mainline that Strauss focuses on however, but South Philly, a predominantly working...

Leonardo Drew at Sikkema Jenkins.

Usually I prefer to write about artists that have either moved, or inspired me, but that can’t happen all the time. Andreas Hofer’s recent show at Metro Pictures, for example, did not inspire. Munich born Hofer’s New York debut consisted of largely dark and as the press release describes it, “haunting and hallucinogenic.” The only...