ARTICLES
VCU vs Ken Cuccinelli
It has only been eight days since the last rally... this time it was a little more personal.
Dispatches from the field: Kyrgyzstan
Baylen Forcier, our foreign correspondent of sorts is currently in Kyrgyzstan doing documentary work. We're going to be posting images from his travels across Central Asia, all of which are via Sons of Hedin organization. Based out of Bishkek in northern Kyrgyzstan, Sons of Hedin is named after Swedish explorer and committed scholar Sven Hedin, and represents the joint work of Baylen and Dalton Bennett, with the aim of promoting awareness of Greater Central Asia.
title image:Traditional Kyrgyz fabric patterns. These blankets are made from dyed wool and many women learn how to make them at a young age.
Color pictures from Czarist Russia
I stumbled upon these images a few months back, but didn't really look into the gallery. Now that I'm seeing them again, it is a fascinating documentation of the last years of Czarist Russia. The image above is probably my favorite, showing classic Russian architecture alongside the beginnings of the industrial revolution, and the images I have selected to show here involve physical representations of such lines- the old and the new, the rich and the poor.
From Alex Gridenko:
Born in St. Petersburg and educated as a chemist, Prokudin-Gorskii devoted his career to the advancement of photography. In the early 1900s, he developed an ingenious technique of taking colour photographs. The same object was captured in black and white on glass plate negatives, using red, green and blue filters. He then presented these images in colour in slide lectures using a light-projection system involving the same three filters.
Red Bull is looking for photographers.
Thought I would pass on the fact that Red Bull Illume is happening again this year.
Everyone Is A Photographer
A roundtable with photographers Ken Howard, Ian Graham, Cameron Charles, and David Kenedy. First, I would like to thank the four very talented people that spent their afternoon talking honestly about photography with me. I had some ideas floating in my head, as to how this would go, but it's fun to be engaged within the conversation and go with it. Thank you for reading. -Anthony
Last Month, a photo experiment
In about week Last Month by Chanae Marie will be showing at new spot 101 Addison.
SNOMG RVA 09: PART 1
It's 44 degrees outside now, and the remnants of last week's blizzard will be gone within a week. We asked y'all to send us pictures of fun in the snow, and boy, did you ever deliver!
Cloud 365: a year of the sky.
Most of us see them every day, and I hope as many people as I do stop to revel in their beauty from time to time. The people at Clouds 365 certainly do.
A project from multimedia artist Kelly DeLay, the project started as many creative projects do- with the intent to do something creative, every day. His dedication to a series of ideals- Art, Learning, Determination, Process, Pattern & Obsession- are the bedrock of creativity. Here are some of his images and videos, make sure to visit his website to see many, many more (and become a fan on facebook).
RVA is a weird and wild place.
So many inspired people are doing amazing things in Richmond, VA and the rest of the world is taking notice. From major national media taking cues from our scene to bigger and badder ideas sprouting everyday, this city is becoming what everyone thought it could be years ago.
In looking back over all the images people have contributed in 2009 to RVA Magazine, you get a sense of how varied the wildlife is here and the scene is wide open for interpretation. From the sneaker freaks and fashionistas, metal heads to indie kids, everyday life on the river to mystic spells - they are making this place whatever they want it to be.
Ryan McGinley's Moonmilk
Moonmilk has the feeling of a mind-bending sixties flick like The Trip, except it is in a cave, not a party and there are no drugs involved but the colors dammit, the colors! At base level, the images are of naked friends diving, holding, crawling, swimming in a maze of tunnels with primary colors lighting the way. Delving deeper, a visual metaphor of mental and sexual exploration inside a giant melting brain? Mental inside the mental right? We are all about it.
Photographer Barry Underwood
With images that combine artificial and natural light in a most unconventional and innovative way, Barry Underwood has captivated me. It seems that he uses any light source that is not used by most photographers, or in some cases have not been used for quite some time, most prominently LEDs and pyrotechnics. Flash photography before bulbs, of course, used flash powder, which despite not being commonly used in photography is still used in fireworks. Digressing, his images are a healthy, fresh spin on landscape photography. Photographers are often reluctant to modify the spaces they are capturing, and I'm thrilled that Underwood has broken the mold. Via the constantly awesome A Photography Blog.
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