Analog Forever Magazine Edition 5 Artist Announcement!
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Analog Forever Magazine is proud to announce our fifth print publication (pre-order here) will be published and released in late November 2021. We are excited to present to you a unique journal featuring 10 analog and experimental photographers from around the globe, each exploring various methods for using the medium we love in individual, creative ways.
Inside you will find interviews with Jessica Auer, Elizabeth Opalenik, Vanessa Marsh, and Gökhan Tanrıöver. Featured alongside them are portfolio features of Adam Chin, Beau Patrick Coulon, Christian Klant, Megan Bent, Steven Williams, and Wes Bell. This edition is a tantalizing mix of alternative process masters, emerging photojournalists, and alternative process photographers that all bring the undying spirit of analog and film photography to our doorstep with outstanding dedication to their craft.
With approximately 150 pages of analog photography greatness, coming this Holiday season, we are thrilled to present to you this preview of the artists selected for Analog Forever Magazine’s fifth edition, to satisfy your senses, until you can hold our publication in your hands. Please enjoy this sneak peek, explore the websites, follow them on social media, and get ready for the fifth part of our analog journalism revolution!
Lastly, we couldn’t make our publication possible without the support of our sponsors. We want to thank the following companies for their support and generosity as we get ready to launch Edition 5. We are thrilled to be printing our publication with Edition One Books in Richmond, California! We are also thankful to Blue Moon Camera, CineStill Film, Freestyle Photographic Supplies, Bergen County Camera, and Photo Darkroom for being amazing supporters of Analog Forever Magazine. Thank you!
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Analog Forever Magazine - Edition 5 Artist Selection
Interview:
Jessica Auer - “Looking North”
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Jessica Auer’s tableau-style landscape documentary work examines our social, political, and aesthetic attitudes towards places, whether they may be historical sites, tourist destinations, or uncharted territories. Her latest series, Looking North, recently released in book form by independent publisher Another Place Press, is an anthropological photographic project that examines the ways in which the Icelandic landscape has been preserved, altered, or commodified for sightseeing through the years of 2016-2020.
Our interview discusses her series that reveal the geo-political realities surrounding travel and the paradox of attempting to preserve the same landscapes that the tourism industry often seeks to exploit. Through this we discover her motivations to not simply capture cultural sites in their current state, but visually explore the history and memories of people’s identities and experiences in relation to the landscapes they inherit from their ancestors.
Interview:
Elizabeth Opalenik - “Veiled Secrets”
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As a photographic artist, Elizabeth Opalenik believes that all good photographs are self-portraits that lie somewhere between imagination and dreams. A practitioner of many photographic processes, it is her mastery of the French mordançage technique that has brought her international recognition. Our interview with Opalenik covers everything from her background and beginnings in photography to her work as an educator and workshop instructor, finally taking a deep and introspective look at her stunning and ethereal mordançage photographs and the steps taken to conquer a mysterious and challenging process that yields unique photographs like no other.
Interview:
Vanessa Marsh - "The Sun Beneath the Sky"
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In her series, The Sun Beneath the Sky, artist Vanessa Marsh reflects upon the nature of light, atmosphere, geology, and time. Layers of pastel-toned mountains and valleys rise and fall under sunlit skies. Glowing light rakes through transparent mountaintops—reminiscent of how the landscape appears when seen through mist, smog, or the dense haze of wildfire smoke. The images evoke a sense of the sublime, recalling the beauty of the natural world while meditating on the scale of geologic structures within it.
Our interview examines Marsh’s long-term practice of using cut paper, multiple exposures, and dodging and burning techniques to create cameraless photographic landscapes. Each unique lumen print is made by selectively exposing silver gelatin paper to sunlight and then processing the paper in photo chemicals to affix the image. In this way, the artist uses sunlight as both subject matter and medium.
Interview:
Gökhan Tanrıöver - “Confessionals”
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Working through the cultural and generational implications of being a first-generation British immigrant, Turkish-born Gökhan Tanrıöver explores the psychological aspects of his life with surgical precision. Whether he is reevaluating his childhood memories or delving into issues of sexual identity, he approaches the concepts with a forensic acumen. Constructing his spare, graphic still life images in the studio and printing them in a traditional darkroom he has created a therapeutic process by which he can confront and evaluate the emotional realities that have shaped his life.
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Beau Patrick Coulon - “Revel and Revolt”
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New Orleans-based photographer and filmmaker Beau Patrick Coulon documents the social conditions and events in which people are inspired to confront ugliness, ignorance, and hate in an attempt to bring about cultural change. His book Revel and Revolt by Burn Barrel Press is a straightforward yet personal visual documentation of energy-filled punk-rock mosh pits, passionate demonstrators demanding justice, and direct action against oppression. His photography is a low-fi yet high-octane time capsule of New Orleans from 2013 to 2020 that represents more than social documentary work, but a worldview and deep ethos that is informed by both his first-hand experience in dealing with class struggle and his participation in subculture movements as the natural progression of his life’s journey.
Feature:
Christian Klant - “Guardians”
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Berlin-based photographic artist, Christian Klant, specializes in handmade, analog photography. With his primary technique, the wet plate collodion process, he photographs art projects and commissioned works. As a result, Klant realizes elaborate productions and creates worlds that seem removed from time while simultaneously revealing a modern twist. Equipped with large-format cameras and a mobile darkroom, his images are developed on-site immediately after exposure. For this feature, we investigate not only the tintypes that make up his recent Guardians body of work, but we examine the life of the project, from conception to execution in the field, from Klant’s own thoughts and words.
Feature:
Adam Chin - “Front and Profile”
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San Fransisco-based photographer Adam Chin’s series Front and Profile is a unique series of selenium-toned gelatin silver prints that display archival mugshots and their Machine Learning generated counterparts. Created by utilizing Machine Learning neural networks and public photographic data sets, his series demonstrates the inherent bias and social implications of AI facial recognition technology. The resulting images are haunting surreal images of the historically arrested that seemed to be shaking their heads from the past at our future privacy eroding technology.
Feature:
Megan Bent - “I Don’t Want to Paint a Silver Lining Around It”
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Artist Megan Bent explores what it means to be immunocompromised during a worldwide pandemic in her series, I Don’t Want to Paint a Silver Lining Around It, a poignant visual diary using chlorophyll printing - a process using photosynthesis to make images on leaves - to navigate personal and political territory while balancing life in quarantine with the everyday.
Feature:
Steven Williams - "Theoretical Landscapes"
Steven Williams is a creator of fictitious landscapes through the employment of abstract form. Long inspired by exploiting photographic materials to their very extremes, his latest work is a series of cameraless images produced onto antique dry-plate negatives. By manipulating the light-sensitive emulsion with layers of chemical intervention, he creates formal compositions which utilize the tenets of landscape photography and graphic design to inspire the viewer to find their own visual meaning within the image.
Feature:
Wes Bell - “On The Line”
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Wes Bell grew up surrounded by the expansive plains that encompass the small Canadian prairie town where he was born, and when he traded the rural life of his home town for a career in fashion the discordant beauty and bleakness of the prairie remained a part of his aesthetic voice. In returning to fine-art photography, Wes found himself drawn to the exploration of man's insignificance in the face of nature. By examining places and objects within the landscape which are experiencing the destructive forces of time he is working through the universal issues of grief, loss, and depression.
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Analog Forever Magazine is an online and print publisher of contemporary analog photography. Our mission is simple: we want to provide a global audience to photographers who use analog processes and techniques for their photographic work by giving them a voice via a biannual print photography journal, online features and interviews, and monthly online exhibitions. Our goal is to highlight the best of the best from the analog industry including artists, projects, galleries, and curators.
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