From 1970 to 1976 Nancy Rexroth completed Iowa, a series of images that evoke her memories and dreams of childhood in the Midwest. Working with a Diana camera, she embraced its defects — irregular exposures, bent perspective and blurred focus. As Nancy explains, "The Diana's made for feelings. Diana images are often something you might see faintly in the background of a photograph..." Continue → Ken Johnson of The New York Times suggests that Wijnanda Deroo's photographs have a "curious, searching quality... as though she were a detective." She travels extensively, exploring unfamiliar places and documenting, with detachment, what she finds: hotels, cafes, mobile homes, courtyards, and factories are among her subjects. Deroo uses her camera as a tool to gather clues to a mystery: what shared humanity is imprinted upon the environments where we live and work, and what can these places tell us about ourselves? Continue → The ocean provides artists with one of the purest forms of light which is a challenge to capture due to its state of constant flux, reflecting and refracting light as it moves. Chip Hooper speaks about the ocean — and his photographs — in terms of emotion. His work is about more than the physical landscape, it is about the emotive possibilites of the landscape, capturing transient moments when light and water coalesce in transcendent beauty. Continue → Hierarchies of Intimacy is Luis González Palma's newest body of work; it focuses on the complexity of communication found in all intimate relationships — these pieces are less explicitly rooted in the troubled history of his native Guatemala than his earlier work. Many of the images suggest a larger drama that has been interrupted: connections lost, broken, or rediscovered. Continue → Jem Southam is one of the most significant figures in British photography of the last twenty years. Emerging as an artist during the 1980s, Southam's images fused the formal composition of traditional landscape representation with the social conscience of modern documentary projects. His meditative photographs are about the ways in which man and nature constantly restructure the earth. Continue →