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California Love: A Visual Mixtape by Aline SmithsonJanuary 2nd, 2021

California Love, Cover

“This amazing compendium of photographs celebrating the Golden State is truly a love letter to California.

Kovi Konowiecki: Storytellers by Macaulay LermanJune 28th, 2020

©Kovi Konowiecki, from The Hawks Come Up Before the Sun

“Glory to the hawks and their awing ways, moderate, and high.

Ken Gonzales-Day: History Based Landscapes by Matthew MooreJune 3rd, 2020

©Ken Gonzales-Day, Second Garrote

Searching for California’s Hang Trees, grew out of the research artist Ken Gonzales-Day was doing for his book Lynching in the West: 1850-1935, publish

Shawn Bush: A Golden State by Aline SmithsonNovember 16th, 2018

©Shawn Bush, from A Golden State

I recently received Shawn Bush’s new monograph, A Golden State, in the mail–ironically right when the California wildfires unfortunately have

Clay Lipsky: Due West by Aline SmithsonAugust 19th, 2016

©Clay Lipsky, from Siren Song

Lenscratch Art Director and fine art photographer, Clay Lipsky, has created an “ongoing visual exploration of the iconography, promise, and realities o

Steve Engelmann: Ancient Wood by Dan ShepherdJuly 12th, 2015

Hermann Hesse wrote one of the most beautiful odes to trees nearly one hundred years ago.

Guillaume Grasset: California Dreamin’ by Aline SmithsonNovember 3rd, 2012

Imagine arriving in Los Angeles at the age of 20, fresh off the plane from a childhood in Paris and looking to break into the photo world, packing a suitcase full of visual references that c