Babette de Jong

Wanted to share an image that broke me up just a little yesterday. With all the current global bullshit, it's easy to neglect matters as simple as our relationships to the people close to us. Thanks Babette de Jong for the reminder.

artless.

artless., a gallery on Flickr.

I've seldom been partial to orienting photographs vertically, so I admire it when people use the format successfully. I've also just recently become attracted to works with little apparent regard for technique, and that seem somehow without guile. Maybe it's that I'm less impressed by snark these days, given the tactics deployed against "Occupy" and movements elsewhere which hope to topple a worldview that is hostile to most of us.

Could someone explain kids in animal masks to me, or the profusion of women in trees? Thanks, T.W.

Kate Fowler & Robert Scott, "Finland is Mysterious!"

An early project from a founding member of 'dinosaur,' Kate Fowler (and soon to be husband, Robert).

Lukasz Wierzbowski

I’ve written before that in a world full of Urban Outfitters aspirants, Lukasz Wierzbowski’s work is singular; his best images lack the affected melancholy and commodified hipsterism common to that sort of photography. Whether contorted or unambiguously direct, his figures at times remind me of Egon Schiele and other fin de siècle expressionists who similarly punctured bourgeois pretensions by asserting something slightly unseemly just beneath the superficially lovely. Lucas Wierzbowski on flickr

hymns from the domestic.

hymns from the domestic., a gallery on Flickr.

Recent images from "You are not a dinosaur."

Kate Fowler and Mark Strandquist, “With Signs and Following”

A founding member of this loosely affiliated "dinosaur" collective, Kate Fowler, has a new still/film project in the works. She describes the project, "With Signs and Following" as "a documentary film that follows one of the last known snake handling churches in West Virginia, and more specifically its charismatic pastor, Mack Wolford. This documentary examines this little-known religion and the humble people that practice it." Additional information, and trailer here

Igor Mukhin