As youth around the world are energetically stepping forward to organize policy changes to the status quo, taking on the challenge of reversing climate change and global warming and leadership roles in standing up for gun control, I see adults … Read More
March 2013 Naty Artist’s Statement To understand a culture or a country, I think you need to understand its people. Under that premise, I began my exploration of Cuba in the year 2002. Very gradually, I began to meet people … Read More
March 2013 Calle Teniente Rey-y Cuba, 2002 Artist’s Statement In June of 1953, I made my first trip to Cuba. I was seven years old. This trip was before the start of the Cuban Revolution. My aunt, Bede, and her … Read More
November 2012 Facing South by Jerry Siegel University of Alabama Press Hardcover, $29.95 For more than 15 years, Jerry Siegel has been photographing Southern artists. Following in the footsteps of his namesake uncle, Jerry Siegel who was one of … Read More
September 2012 Blue Fox Artist Statement The animal kingdom and mankind engage in an ongoing dance of co-existence which results in a predictable tension. This tension has escalated with man’s increasing disregard for the fragility of the environment and … Read More
September 2012 Max Window Artist Statement American Dreaming as a body of work is cinematic in nature, dealing with themes of isolation, emotional loss, and our lives through a dream. These images are born of dreams, stories and perhaps subconscious … Read More
September 2012 Ashton O’Dwyer Artist Statement It was the human factor initially that led Baton Rouge based photographer Thomas Neff into the maelstrom that became New Orleans after Katrina hit. As a volunteer in the city during the first … Read More
July 2012 Tall Timbers Plantation Project is a personal photographic and oral history project that emerged out of my curiosity about the few tenant farmer dwellings still standing on plantations in north Florida and southwest Georgia. When I discovered … Read More
July 2012 Compelling visual moments present themselves without notice or warning. Mobile photography enables me to capture these moments. My phone is not delicate, it is always available, it is discreet. I have the freedom to be creating … Read More