Analog Forever Magazine - Edition 7 Artist Announcement!
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Analog Forever Magazine is proud to announce our seventh print publication (pre-order here) will be published and released in November 2022. 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 Meghann Riepenhoff, Jason Langer, Angel O’Brien, Landry Major, and Yoav Friedlander, accompanied by portfolio features of Minh-Hoang Nguyen, Cathy Cone, Barbara Hazen, and Rebecca Zeiss. Notably, this edition also includes a retrospective on the life and work of Penny Felts.
In addition, our staff has selected 16 stand-out images for our column Heart of the Issue, which allows us to publish single images from great artists we think you should know! Congratulations to: Vaune Trachtman, Francis Baker, Andy Mattern, Annie Claflin, Lukasz Likus, Antony CJ Hill, Liz Potter, Paul Estévez, Victoria Kosel, Vicky Gewirz, Isaas MK, Lula L., Frances Bukovsky, Jillian Browning, Raven Erebus, and Max Sidman!
We are thrilled to present to you this preview of the artists selected for Analog Forever Magazine’s seventh edition to satisfy your senses until you can hold this 150+ page publication in your hands. Please enjoy this sneak peek, explore the artists’ websites, follow them on social media, and get ready for the seventh part of our analog photography revolution!
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Analog Forever Magazine - Edition 7 Artist Selection
Feature: Rebecca Zeiss
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Rebecca Zeiss is a Michigan based photographer and educator who’s photographic work is often imbued with a sense of nostalgia, drawing upon emotion and memory to invoke narratives which examine the past. Her newest body of work, Seeking Solace, is firmly in this vein. In this series she invites her sitters to bring an object which holds special significance to them, artifacts she refers to as “containers for memories.” The use of the historic wet-plate collodion process and an antique Petzval lens transforms a straightforward setup into a scene of hazy unreality, emphasizing the notion that we are viewing the subject’s own memories which are embodied by their chosen object.
Interview: Meghann Riepenhoff
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Meghann Riepenhoff is a fine art photographer known for her large-scale, camera-less, dynamic cyanotypes that are created in collaboration with natural elements, such as waves, rain, wind, sediment, and photographic materials. For the viewer, Riepenhoff 's works provide a sensory experience, often immersive based on scale, these unique works are a unique exploration of the nature of our relationships to the landscape, the sublime, time, and impermanence.
In Riepenhoff 's current series, she continues her exploration into frozen landscapes. Images from this new series are celebrated in her second monograph ICE, published by Radius Books + Yossi Milo Gallery, which was recently published in August of 2022. Meghann Riepenhoff’s work has been exhibited in exhibitions across the world, and she is a Guggenheim Fellow.
Feature: Penny Felts
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Penny Felts (1960-2021) was an experimental analog photographer who always connected with her audience, encouraging other photographers to push out of their comfort zones and embrace the imperfect and unexpected. She had a gift for shooting portraits that made you feel as if you knew her subjects, too––a way of making the unfamiliar, familiar, and like home. She has left behind a legacy of mesmerizing Polaroid works that leaves viewers awestruck with her fearless approach to her craft: whether through encaustic, pinhole, or emulsion lifts. As the founder of the 12:12 Project, she inspired and encouraged other photographers to take their work beyond a static image and make each one into stand-alone art pieces. Read our retrospective on her life and work in this special feature.
Interview: Jason Langer
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Best known for his psychological and noirish visions of contemporary urban life and meditations on inhabiting a body, Jason Langer’s work has been featured in numerous international photographic exhibitions and museum collections. In this intriguing interview we focus in on his latest body of work and upcoming monograph, Berlin. Photographing the streets, people he met on the way, and acquaintances who grew to be friends, he tracked traces of the Holocaust, the Cold War, and imagined the freedom and creative expression of the roaring 20s. As is typical of Langer’s photographs, his vision is timeless, entirely personal, and mixes history and fantasy.
Feature: Cathy Cone
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Inspired by her grandmother's purple stained birthmark, Cathy Cone’s series Milking Butterflies presents surreal hand-painted found historical tintypes which establish a bridge between the physical realm and the domain of fables that echo the contrasting nature of science and magic. Her creations embody this duality by allowing the viewer to contemplate a duet in which two artistic mediums are unconventionally paired to combine the past and present. Created by scanning tintypes, which she has been collecting since the late ‘70s, she reanimates and revitalizes them with surrealist abstractions of spontaneous captivating brushstrokes that transform them into what the artist describes as “tarot cards from outer space.”
Interview: Angel O’Brien
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Interspersing poetry and images to create solid artworks, Angel O’Brien blurs the lines of literature and photography. She approaches her craft by carrying a camera wherever she goes, and once she has collected all the “ingredients” to make a final piece, she starts to imagine what sort of photos she will take and how they will work as photomontages: She says, “Though some of my photos and poems are stand-alone pieces, overwhelmingly I see them as diptychs of a poem and a photograph that play off of each other, combining to make one work of art. My intention is to create pieces that, through word and image, serve to transport the viewer to wherever the piece was made, so that the viewer can feel, see, hear, taste the perception of that moment.”
Feature: Minh-Hoang Nguyen
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Minh-Hoang Nguyen’s series, Title Wanted, is an intimate antithesis to the Western memory of the Vietnam War that reframes its history and repercussions through the lens of the artist’s metaphysical journey to understand and comprehend how both his family and country were generationally impacted by the conflict. His series of collages specifically explores the emotional remnants of personal trauma and anecdotes often not presented in traditional histories of the war that serve to disassociate the imagery of tanks, booby traps, and fighting from the collective consciousness and replace it with the equally important and emotionally challenging stories of individuals. The contrasting complexities that make up each piece allows for meditative examinations of historical images of violence and soldiers physically coexisting with scenes of tenderness that showcase the duality of the war’s ripple effects through time.
Feature: Barbara Hazen
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Barbara Hazen is a 3rd generation Californian. Her work explores the internal self and the intersection of memory and the family scrapbook, with an emphasis on cyanotype and platinum palladium processes. We are featuring three collections from Hazen that define this process. Genuine Beauty was born of the female gaze and seeks to reveal both Hazen's and the models' experience of womanhood. Memory Keepers examines loss, an awareness of growing old, and the potential for mental illness by recording images of saved items conjuring up past memories. Finally, Home contemplates the making of a house into a home by photographing vintage birdcages, collected flora, and illustrated birds.
Interview: Yoav Friedlander
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A self-described “Americanized Israel,” Yoav Friedländer’s perception of the world is chaotic. Born in Ma'ale Adumim, a small settlement northeast of Jerusalem, in 1985, the artist’s childhood years were dominated by mediated American culture, desert landscapes filled with military checkpoints and artillery, and civil unrest. His series, A Form of View, is a personal investigation into the correlation between photography, perception, and reality. Using his life as a case study to explore the two cultures he has embraced, he investigates the influence American culture has had on his Israeli origins by studying how photography as a medium interprets and influences our worldly understanding by creating juxtapositions between miniature models and created landscapes.
Interview: Landry Major
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American photographer Landry Major documents the lives and livelihoods of America’s ranchers, focusing on the small family-run businesses which have dotted the American West for the past 200 years. It’s a hard-scrabble job of long days, grueling work, and diminishing returns, but for both Landry and the ranchers she photographs it’s a way of life worthy of preservation. From cattle drives and rodeos to intimate family moments, she captures the beauty and the grit of the ranching lifestyle. This work goes beyond the cliche image of the stoic cowboy as she is also invested in highlighting the indigenous ranchers who perpetuate traditional practices as well as the growing numbers of women and young girls who are reclaiming this traditionally male space.
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