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Hugo Passarello Luna: Nostalgia for Mud by Aline SmithsonDecember 8th, 2018

©Hugo Passarello Luna

“No one – apart from a certain adventurer dreamt by Wells – has discovered the art of living in the future or the past.

Matt Henry: Lone Stars by Aline SmithsonApril 13th, 2017

©Matt Henry, Campfire Breakfast (2016)

Matt Henry is a photographic storyteller, using staged tableaux to create visual novelas that speak to history, race, archetypes, and place.

L. Kasimu Harris: War on the Benighted by Aline SmithsonJune 20th, 2016

©L. Kasimu Harris, from War on the Benighted

New Orleans-based writer and photographer L. Kasimu Harris has a three-part exhibition, L.

Canbra Hodsdon: Epic Personas by Aline SmithsonApril 1st, 2015

Photographer Canbra Hodsdon has created a series on family, Epic Personas, using staged tableaux, each celebrating a different family member, elevating them through pose and humor.

Justin Bettman: #SetintheStreet by Aline SmithsonDecember 22nd, 2014

When I first saw Justin Bettman’s project, #SetintheStreet, it reminded me of my Fashion Editor days, where if you turned the model around, you’d see a dress pulled tight with c

Laura Stevens: Another November by Aline SmithsonSeptember 15th, 2014

Photographer Laura Stevens has created a body of work, Another November, that reflects that pain and loneliness of ending a relationship.

Julia Fullerton-Batten: Tokyo by Aline SmithsonOctober 23rd, 2013

Shimo Supermarket, 2013 from Tokyo

Julia Fullerton-Batten is a fine art and editorial photographer who began her career by creating staged portraits of adolescent females captured througho

Rachelle Mozman: Casa de Mujeres and La Negra y su Pequeña by Pauline GolaAugust 21st, 2013

En el cuarto de la niña, c print, 23×26 inches, 2010

New York photographer, Rachelle Mozman creates photographs and videos that “intersect document, narrative and performance

Natalie Krick: Natural Deceptions by Aline SmithsonAugust 3rd, 2013

Mom laying in the front yard 2012
Natalie Krick recently opened an exhibition, Natural Deceptions, at the Coat Check Gallery, part of the David Weinberg Gallery in Chicago that will run th