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2nd Place Art + Science Competition: James Asava
2nd Place Art + Science Competition: James Asava Cyanotype on Naan, © 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. Change may be gradual or abrupt, visible or difficult to perceive, ranging from emotional shifts to environmental conditions.
1st Place Art + Science Competition: Hillerbrand and Magsamen
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. Change may be gradual or abrupt, visible or difficult to perceive, ranging from emotional shifts to environmental conditions.
Laurie Lambrecht: tēxēre
Laurie Lambrecht: tēxēre © 2026 Radius Books, © 2026 Laurie Lambrecht There is a quiet magic in Laurie Lambrecht’s tēxēre (Radius Books, 2026). Photography, thread, cloth, and the landscape itself invite the viewer into a world rooted in the wild, where attentive looking and creating come together. There is a tactile, playful quality to this work as Lambrecht enters into conversation with the land through weaving, sewing, gathering, and arranging.
Ryan McIntosh and Yogan Muller: Tracy Hills
Ryan McIntosh and Yogan Muller: Tracy Hills © Yogan Muller © 2025 Radius Books © Ryan McIntosh, © 2025 Radius Books Tracy Hills by Ryan McIntosh and Yogan Muller © 2025 Radius Books, documents the construction of a master-planned community in California’s Central Valley near San Francisco from 2021-2024. Both photographers approach the subject through shared concerns about ecological threat: the loss of farmland and habitat, drought, wildfire, elevated heat, and unchecked development.
Remembering The Future by Mark Klett and William L. Fox
Remembering The Future by Mark Klett and William L. Fox Cover, Remembering The Future, Mark Klett and William L. Fox, Radius Books © 2026 Remembering the Future: Nuclear Testing, Rising Seas, and The Marshall Islands (Radius Books, © 2026) documents two research trips to the Marshall Islands in 2023 and 2024 by photographer Mark Klett and writer William L. Fox.
Aaron Rothman: The Sierra
Aaron Rothman: The Sierra “The Sierra” by Aaron Rothman, The Eriskay Connection, 2025 In The Sierra (Eriskay Collection, 2025), Aaron Rothman transforms his decades-long relationship with the Sierras into a meditation on beauty, loss, and environmental change. The book explores the American wilderness not only as a place of awe and refuge but also as a landscape increasingly shaped by ecological distress. Rothman visited the Sierra Nevada since childhood and returned each year with his family.
Linda Foard Roberts: Lament
In Lament (Radius Books, 2025), Linda Foard Roberts reflects on the history and memory of the American South, where she was born and raised. Her photographs draw the viewer into both the past and present, revealing a landscape that has borne witness to a deeply troubled history. We see remnants of that past, structures that have fallen and others that still stand, plantations that once relied on enslaved labor.
Leah Ollman: Ensnaring the Moment
Leah Ollman’s Ensnaring the Moment: On the Intersection of Poetry and Photography (Saint Lucy Books, 2025) is a unique book about photography, presented through a collection of poems written by more than 100 artists spanning from the late 19th century to the present. Within this edited anthology, Ollman challenges how we see photographs by offering an experience shaped through language—one that is deeply bound to photography itself.
Tristan Duke: Glacial Optics
In Glacial Optics by Tristan Duke (Radius, 2025), ice becomes both subject and optical instrument, used in three distinct ways to reflect on Earth’s climate crisis. Duke traveled to Svalbard, Norway, where he constructed a custom mobile tent camera and used a large-format system to capture long exposures of slowly melting polar ice—photographed through a lens made from crystal clear glacier ice.
The 2025 Lenscratch 3rd Place Student Prize Winner: Hannah Schneider
The 2025 Lenscratch 3rd Place Student Prize Winner: Hannah Schneider It is with pleasure that the jurors announce the 2025 Lenscratch Student Prize 3rd Place Winner, Hannah Schneider. Schneider was selected for her project, When will I go Blind?, and is currently pursuing a MFA from Duke University’s Experimental and Documentary Arts Program. The 3rd Place Winner receives a $500 Cash Award, a feature on Lenscratch, a mini exhibition on the Curated Fridge, and a Lenscratch T-shirt and Tote.
Richard Misrach: Cargo
Richard Misrach’s publication Cargo (Aperture, 2025) is a timely collection of photographs that explores the evolving presence and significance of cargo ships. Captured on the San Francisco Bay between 2021 and 2024, each photograph includes at least one cargo ship—sometimes clearly visible, other times partially or completely obscured by fog.
James Stanford: The Atomic Kid
James Stanford is an artist and educator based in Las Vegas Nevada. In his publication The Atomic Kid (Small Works Press, 2024), he shares a deep-rooted photographic journey of the nuclear landscape based on his personal experience. As a child, Stanford felt the frequent explosions of the Nevada Test Site’s above ground nuclear testing that took place only 60 miles north of his home.
Thirty-Six Views of the Moon: Ala Ebtekar
Ala Ebtekar (b. 1978 Berkeley, CA) is an artist who, for over two decades, has situated his practice as a relentless leveling and collapsing of time and space to bring steadying attention to the contemporary moment. His work frequently orchestrates various orbits and cadences of time, bringing forth sculptural and photographic possibilities of the universe, and time, gazing back at us.
Desert Forest: Life with Joshua Trees
Desert Forest: Life with Joshua Trees The Joshua tree holds a deep significance for countless living beings. For birds, insects, mammals, and reptiles, it provides habitat. For loggerhead shrikes, it provides a perch to kill its prey. For the yucca moths, it provides pollen for them to very effectively fertilize their flowers. For humans, the Joshua tree embodies raw beauty while symbolizing conservation efforts amid pressing environmental challenges.
Elijah Gowin: The Last Firefly
Elijah Gowin is a photographer and educator based in Kansas City, Missouri. In his newly published book The Last Firefly (Tin Roof Press, 2023) he offers the viewer a very human way to talk about science and ecology. Included in the book is a foreword by Johan Eklof, Phd, author of the The Darkness Manifesto, an inspirational book that helped Gowin put this project into perspective.
Richard Misrach: Dancing With Nature
“A lot of my work is heavy and political. This body of work was not. This is about that joy and beauty. You all embody that beauty and joy in a way that I have never seen before. I feel that your generation is so beautiful, so sweet, so brilliant and talented. You gave it your all. That’s our hope for the future.” Richard Misrach in conversation with company dancers Adji Cissoko and Madeline DeVries on April 4, 2023.
Christine Rogers: The Dream Pool
Christine Rogers is an artist and educator based in Nashville, Tennessee. Her series The Dream Pool is about climate change woven together with a very personal story about motherhood. In a non-linear narrative, she spans elements of her life, family, cultural history, and environmental challenges, exploring deep feelings of loss. In a poetic interpretation, Rogers explores dissolution.
From Here to the Horizon: Photographs in Honor of Barry Lopez
Barry Lopez (1945-2020) was an American author best known for his books and essays that focus on environmental concerns and the relationship between human cultures and nature. The descriptive nature of his words throughout his career have encouraged many to think and feel more deeply about connections between humans, non-humans, and the natural environment. His writings, spanning fifty years, have provided inspiration for many artists, and were particularly regarded by photographers.
Debbie Fleming Caffery: In Light of Everything
Debbie Fleming Caffery is an artist born and working in southwest Louisiana. Her book In Light of Everything (Radius Books, 2024) includes photographs from seven bodies of work taken over six decades of an expansive career. The release of this publication coincides with her first major career retrospective at the New Orleans Museum of Art, October 6th, 2023 – May 5th, 2024. The photographs move fluidly within the book, with themes of shared human experience.
Jamey Stillings: Atacama
Jamey Stillings continues his long-term project Changing Perspectives: Renewable Energy and the Shifting Human Landscape with a new publication ATACAMA: Renewable Energy and Mining in the High Desert of Chile (Steidl, 2023). From an airplane or helicopter, he photographs Chile’s copper and lithium mining operations and renewable energy systems, as well as the surrounding landscape of the Atacama Desert.
Tamara Reynolds: XX
Tamara Reynolds is a documentary photographer born and raised in Nashville, Tennessee who exhibits her work nationally and internationally. She will be returning as a visiting Lecturer to Vanderbilt University in Nashville for the spring semester of 2024. Reynolds began her career as a commercial photographer for 25 years. Although very successful, over time she felt an internal shift that led her to find additional ways to communicate using her camera.
Radius Books: Artist Weekend 2023
Radius Books: Artist Weekend 2023 Radius Books, a non-profit unique book publisher is known for their compelling books with extraordinary designs. Based in Santa Fe, New Mexico, they recently hosted their 7th annual Artist Weekend. Included in the festivities were people from around the country connected in some way to Radius Books – artists, writers, supporters, curators, and gallerists.
Binh Danh: The Enigma of Belonging
Binh Danh: The Enigma of Belonging by Linda AlterwitzJuly 3, 2023 Binh Danh is an American artist whose work focuses on themes of war, immigration, memory and belonging. His monograph The Enigma of Belonging (Radius Books) brings together multiple bodies of work along with essays by Andrew Lam, Isabelle Thuy Pelaud, Joshua Chuang, and Boreth Ly in a two-volume set. Danh is known for his use of alternative photographic processes with an innovative approach.
Ann Hamilton: Sense
Ann Hamilton: Sense by Linda AlterwitzApril 1, 2023 Ann Hamilton refers to herself as a “maker” rather than an artist. Sense (Radius Books) reflects her maker instincts by presenting a collection of assembled materials that beckons the viewer to consider the fundamental act of creating and making of art. Hamilton grew up in the midwestern United States and developed an early interest in textiles by spending time with her grandmother who engaged in knitting and needlepoint.
Mary West Quin: Divine Light: The Judge and Jury of the Heart
Mary West Quin is an artist and educator based in Alabama. The human heart is the subject of her series Divine Light: The Judge and Jury of the Heart. Using elements of science as a jumping off point, the heart is a metaphor offering the viewer to ponder much more than its physical and functional properties. Quin began this series by creating small-scale medical illustrations of the physical heart using graphite on paper.
David Paul Bayles and Frederick J. Swanson: Following Fire: A Resilient Forest, An Uncertain Future
In the series Following Fire: A Resilient Forest/ An Uncertain Future, (2020 – present) photographer David Paul Bayles and scientist Frederick J. Swanson collaborate to explore post-fire landscape. The photographs by Bayles and text by Swanson contribute to their investigations of forest resilience in the face of increasing challenges and environmental uncertainties. By sharing this series of photographs, they add to the education, appreciation, and future of the forests.
Art + Science: The Pandemic: Neil Kramer
Art + Science: The Pandemic: Neil Kramer by Linda AlterwitzDecember 16, 2022 During the COVID-19 pandemic, many of the artists who were able to avoid severe illness or hospitalization were given a unique gift of time to respond to our world in a state of upheaval. Many were inspired to create new projects that responded to the unique time in our world. Others had the opportunity to revisit archives and return to unfinished work.
Art + Science: The Pandemic: Aline Smithson and Lydia Panas
During the COVID-19 pandemic, many of the artists who were able to avoid severe illness or hospitalization were given a unique gift of time to respond to our world in a state of upheaval. Many were inspired to create new projects that respond to the unique time in our world. Others had the opportunity to revisit archives and return to unfinished work.
Art + Science: The Pandemic: Becky Wilkes
Art + Science: The Pandemic: Becky Wilkes by Linda AlterwitzDecember 14, 2022 During the COVID-19 pandemic, many of the artists who were able to avoid severe illness or hospitalization were given a unique gift of time to respond to our world in a state of upheaval. Many were inspired to create new projects that responded to the unique time in our world. Others had the opportunity to revisit archives and return to unfinished work.
Art + Science: The Pandemic: Renate Aller
During the COVID-19 pandemic, many of the artists who were able to avoid severe illness or hospitalization were given a unique gift of time to respond to our world in a state of upheaval. Many were inspired to create new projects that responded to the unique time in our world. Others had the opportunity to revisit archives and return to unfinished work.
Waves: Alex Webb and Rebecca Norris Webb
Waves (Radius Books 2022) by creative partners Alex Webb and Rebecca Norris Webb includes photographs and text that navigate the time of the COVID-19 pandemic. These photographs were captured by Alex and Rebecca in Cape Cod, Massachusetts from March 2020 through May 2021. Alex captured photographs of the expansive seascapes near his childhood town of Wellfleet, with emphasis on natural occurring rhythms dictated by time, seasons, and tides.
Blind Spot: Nancy Holt and Richard Misrach
Blind Spot is part of a non-profit organization (Photo-Based Art, Inc.) with a long history of publishing. They are celebrated for their unique photography magazines which were published between 1992-2014. Re-igniting the momentum from the past, Blind Spot is now featuring a new annual series presenting previously unseen photo-based work.
Barbara Bosworth: The Sea
Barbara Bosworth: The Sea by Linda AlterwitzJuly 20, 2022 The photographs in Barbara Bosworth’s monograph The Sea (Radius Books, 2022) speak to the viewer with a quiet and contemplative voice. In addition to her photographs of the sea and skies, Bosworth includes passages by contributing writers and scientists, both past and contemporary, whose works have been inspired by the sea.
Jennifer Garza-Cuen and Odette England: Past Paper//Present Marks: Responding to Rauschenberg
Jennifer Garza-Cuen and Odette England: Past Paper//Present Marks: Responding to Rauschenberg by Linda AlterwitzJune 12, 2022 Past Paper // Present Marks: Responding to Rauschenberg (Radius Books 2021) celebrates the photograms that resulted from the collaboration of Jennifer Garza-Cuen and Odette England during their 2018 Robert Rauschenberg Foundation Residency in Captiva, Florida. The photographs are immediate and gestural.
Richard Misrach: Notations
Richard Misrach’s monograph Notations (Radius Books, 2022), is a collection of photographs spanning from 2006-2021. The beginning of this time frame corresponds with his shift away from analog film to working exclusively with a digital camera. In this book, Misrach explores the potential of the negative image, offering an alternate visual reality.
scott b. davis: sonora
The photographs in scott b. davis‘s monograph sonora (2021, Radius Books) explore remote landscapes in the western United States. Using a variety of large-format cameras, he makes in-camera paper negatives and traditional film negatives that he prints in platinum/palladium. Presenting each side by side, he constantly challenges pre-conceived ideas about how the work is produced. His work focuses on observation and discovery (the title of scott b. davis in conversation with Virginia Heckert).
PhotoNOLA: Laurie Peek: In Lieu of Flowers
This week we are sharing some of our discoveries from the PhotoNOLA Reviews an annual celebration of photography in New Orleans. Laurie Peek is a fine art photographer based in New York. Her vast career in photography includes years working as a photojournalist as well as an arts promoter. In 2020 her son, Jackson, drowned in Mexico. There was no funeral due to restrictions of the COVID-19 pandemic. What physically remained was the shipped cremains of her son.
PHOTO NOLA: Cathy Cone: Rewinding Forward
This week we are sharing some of our discoveries from the PHOTO NOLA Reviews, an annual celebration of photography in New Orleans. “I make photographs as a way to listen to my heart’s song, and then I practice like hell to sing it.” Cathy Cone Cathy Cone is a photographer and painter based in East Topsham, Vermont. Her series Rewinding Forward is an ongoing life project, representing events and personal experiences in a continuum.
Rania Matar: SHE
@Rania Matar, SHE, Radius Books, 2021 Rania Matar’s monograph SHE (published by Radius Books, 2021) embraces the cultural connections and identity of young women living in the United States and in the Middle East. Being a Lebanese-born American woman, her work is informed by personal experience related to cultural belonging. SHE features portraits of women in their 20s, a time period in a young woman’s life that can be associated with transition into womanhood.
Rashed Haq: Art + Science Award - First Place
©Rashed_Haq 2021, Human Trials In the Lenscratch call Art + Science Award: The Heart of the Matter, we asked photographers to consider a shifting perspective of our current world, placing emphasis on the most pertinent themes that reside throughout the boundaries of art and science. Due to the superlative quality of the submissions, it was challenging to narrow down from 137 portfolios to seven final selections.
Art + Science: INSECTA: Mike & Doug Starn
“Light is power, knowledge, information, the triumph of science is discovery, rendering previous knowledge obsolete and antique. The sun pulls the planets around itself; the backporch light pulls the moth from the darkness.” M+DS Identical twins and collaborative artists Mike and Doug Starn were initially known for their conceptual use of photography in the 1980’s.
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