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Blue Earth Alliance: Richard Street: Knife Fight City and the Kingdom of Dust by Aline SmithsonApril 29th, 2019

©Richard Street, Just before EMS personnel arrive and minister to a field hand who has overdosed on black tar heroin outside the El Rancho bar on a Saturday night.

ART+SCIENCE: Gerco de Ruijter by Linda AlterwitzSeptember 21st, 2017

©Gerco De Ruijter, Cropped #01 (2015) / Ultrachrome print on dibond 12″x12″ edition of 5

Dutch photographer Gerco de Ruijter is a visual artist with a focus on aerial landsca

Meg Birnbaum: Losing the Farm by Aline SmithsonAugust 12th, 2017

©Meg Birnbaum

I first became aware of Meg Birnbaum‘s photographs in the toy camera world.

Alissa Hessler: The States Project: Maine by Ashley Elizabeth CraigMay 27th, 2017

©Alissa Hessler

Alissa Hessler and I met at Maine Media one summer day under the tent.

Ken Abbott: Useful Work: Photographs of Hickory Nut Gap Farm by Aline SmithsonMarch 10th, 2016

Ken Abbott’s photography and Hickory Nut Gap Farm is a marriage made in heaven, or about as close as we get to heaven here in the Blue Ridge Mountains in western North Carolina.

Kendall McMinimy: Cropping to Circles by Aline SmithsonFebruary 20th, 2015

Kendall McMinimy creates pristine and complex work that could easily be mistaken for drawings or paintings and it is this abstract quality of unknowing that makes the work so interesting.

Francesco Mastalia: Organic by Aline SmithsonNovember 14th, 2014

Looking at recently released photography books this week…
Francesco Mastalia has a new monograph, Organic: Farmers & Chefs of the Hudson Valley published by powerHouse Books, fe

Kathleen Robbins: In Cotton by Aline SmithsonFebruary 25th, 2013

I met Kathleen Robbins at PhotoNOLA this past December where she was being celebrated for her project, Into the Flatland, with an exhibition at the New Orleans Photo Alliance.

Sandi Haber Fifield by Aline SmithsonSeptember 30th, 2011

I had the great pleasure of meeting Sandi Haber Fifield when she was visiting Los Angeles a few months ago.

Matt Black by Aline SmithsonJune 1st, 2011

For a number of years, a good friend who is a nurse in an agricultural area in California, has shared with me her efforts to help a community of farm workers from an region in the mountains