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Articles by Meryl McMaster
A mal tiempo, buena cara
When Spanish dictator Francisco Franco passed away in 1975, the country was faced with the burden of a traumatic past. How to move from a dictatorship to a democracy? With the historic ‘Pacto del Olvido’, a choice to forget was made. Facts were altered, crimes were overlooked and new stories were written.
The Most Fantastic Rocks
In the face of impending ecological crisis, five artists trace our messy, multifaceted entanglement with the natural world through a mutual obsession with rocks. In the summer of 1936, the British artist Eileen Agar found herself on the coast of Brittany, France, staring up at a gathering of rocks in the tiny port village of Ploumanac’h. It was mid-July, warm, and she’d travelled there for a holiday.
Behind Glass - Photographs by Lisa Sorgini
A sensual document of these trying times, Lisa Sorgini’s series of portraits taken during the pandemic render the complex experience of motherhood in shifting shades of light and darkness. For many photography lovers, portraiture can be a polarizing genre. It’s often espoused as a way of honing in on a person’s inner world, gazing directly into a subject’s eyes, coaxing their demeanor forth to unfold for the camera.
How We Were - Photographs by Billy Hickey
How We Were Quarantined at home for weeks on end, Bill Hickey turned his lens onto his family, finding glimmers of beauty in the mundane to create a document of everyday life during the pandemic. The pandemic has wreaked havoc on people all over the world in myriad ways, from our shelter, to our livelihood, our security and, ultimately, our global mental and physical health.
Wonderland: A Fairy Tale of the Soviet Monolith
Wonderland: A Fairy Tale of the Soviet Monolith Photographer Jason Eskenazi traveled throughout Russia before and after the fall of the USSR and created a remarkable photobook that reverberates with the classic structure of dark fairy tales. Wonderland: A Fairy Tale of the Soviet Monolith, opens with the image of a woman looking out over Moscow from a window high in a hotel, her back naked to the camera. “She’s the protagonist in this story,” writes photographer Jason Eskenazi.
Utopia - Photographs by Sebastian Wells | Text by Magnus Pölcher | LensCulture
Utopia Embarking on a visual journey through the make-shift world of refugee camps, Sebastian Wells explores the tension between impermanence and permanence that exists in these environments. Between 2017 and 2018, Sebastian Wells, a member of international photography agency Ostkreuz, travelled to 24 refugee camps in 7 countries in Africa, the Middle East and Europe.
Revelation through Collaboration
Located in the Kypseli neighborhood of Athens, Zoetrope is far from your typical gallery. In many ways, it is quite the opposite. The idea was born from an urgency to create a malleable space that invites all kinds of creators to pitch and develop their ideas, rather than putting finished and framed prints on the wall.
Companion Pieces: New Photography 2020
The latest “New Photography” exhibition at MoMA has migrated online to offer up an immersive, digital experience of the work and process of eight artists asking the question: How do images speak to each other? Since its first iteration in 1985, New Photography has always been a banner exhibition for MoMA.
As Immense as the Sky
An enigmatic figure in a top hat that explodes into feathers and red ribbons looks back at us over her shoulder. She is striding toward the brink of a prairie cliff, her attire billowing with movement, the piece is entitled Edge of a Moment and it does feel like we have entered another dimension of time, where everything hangs in the balance.
Meryl McMaster Image Essay: Threads of Self
Meryl McMaster is a Canadian artist and a graduate of the Ontario College of Art and Design University (OCAD U). Through her distinct approach to photographic portraiture and self-portraiture, she explores questions of identity in relation to land, lineage, history and culture.
9 Must-See Spring Exhibits in Metro Phoenix — and Beyond
The exhibition lineup is looking particularly intriguing this spring. Several art spaces in and beyond metro Phoenix are presenting works that explore topics at the heart of contemporary life, from bullying to immigration. Here's a look at nine must-see exhibits featuring works by local, national, and international artists, along with details about where and when you can see them.
The Americans - Photographs by Robert Frank
The Americans This is the photo book that redefined what a photo book could be — personal, poetic, real. First published in 1959, Robert Frank’s masterpiece still holds up — the selection of photos, and their sequence and pacing is fresh, rich, generous, and stunning. Editor’s note: We re-publish this book review from 2008 in memory of Robert Frank, who just died at age 94 on September 9, 2019. This is the photo book that redefined what a photo book could be — personal, poetic, real.
Novogen - Photographs by Daniel Szalai
Meet the Novogen White, a special breed of commercial chicken whose eggs are used in the pharmaceutical industry for a wide range of medicines, including vaccine production. It’s a complicated story. The domestication of the chicken dates back to around 2000 B.C. Its history reflects ours—our human needs, the world events that shape them, and the technology we create to respond to them.
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