Caravan Palace hit 9:30 Club in DC a weeks ago and blew the place open to a packed house. No speeches, no slow build — just lights up, beats heavy, and bodies moving. The French group has made a name twisting swing and electronic into something reckless and alive, and...
After the devastation of Hurricane Katrina, there was a need for any assistance to rebuild one of the major American cultural landmarks. It was a pleasant surprise to see the outpour of support following the aftermath of such natural ire. This was also a moment when the world started to take notice of Richmond native Rebecca Ward. Her experiences...
We arrive with the rain. The clouds are lowering themselves onto the mountains that crowd I-64 and shaking fat drops onto the quickly fogging windshield. By the time we park in downtown Charlottesville, words like monsoon, torrential and hurricane are being tossed around the car in agitated tones. The AC is broken, the windows are white, and...
The city of Richmond has a history all of it’s own. It grows in so many different directions. These directions can be musically, politically, socially or artistically. What really can make or break an image capturing any of these moments is the humanity of it all. If you witness a memory that invokes something in you but the picture doesn’t...
Scott rolls into Ellwood Thompson’s wearing jeans and a white shirt, tucked in, and smiles promptly. He stands around six foot, with short hair and a good stance, a hand on his hip as he extends the other, his grasp firm but not intimidating. As photographers for different local media, it could be easy to assume that there would be an intrinsic...
Sylvia Plachy seems to see the captured moment as record, as something to be reexamined and perceived within the context of every surrounding, as insight into the human condition and a lasting documentation of the world as it is variously perceived. It is an instant to be juxtaposed with everything to come before and after. She is not simply...
Long before the campaign rallies, the presidential debates, and the White House, Barack Obama was just another college freshman trying to figure out who he wanted to become. A newly released collection of photographs offers a rare glimpse into that version of Obama during his freshman year at Occidental College in Los Angeles. Taken in the early...
