When the Los Angeles-based photographer Lauren Ward headed down to the Austin, Texas music festival SXSW to bunk with Roy Harper, Jonathan Wilson and his band next door to Robert Plant‘s house, no less, we asked her to catalogue her adventure in images—from the endless live music to the eclectic attendees to the general weirdness [...]
Category Archives: Photography
I Must Confess I Still Believe
March 23, 2012 – 2:23 pm
Three girls, one Polaroid camera and stickers by the bucketload – that’s how these pictures came about. It’s 2012 and it’s all about being relevant in this Tumblr obsessed generation. Posting and reblogging are the order of the day. We eat LOLcats for breakfast. Yet, sometimes you just want to get your hands dirty. Enter [...]
In Conversation with Matt Ducklo and Matthew Monteith
March 15, 2012 – 12:28 pm
When Gertrude Stein declared, “A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears,” she was challenging artists to shift their perceptions. The upcoming exhibition at the Fondation d’Enterprise Hermès, opening March 16, takes the assignment a step further, tasking not only the artist but also the subject of the work [...]
Paris Creative Workshops
March 14, 2012 – 8:25 pm
Dossier contributor and longtime friend André Wolff is leading a series of fashion photography workshops in Paris, starting in July. The Swedish photographer has been based in Paris for a bit more than a decade, shoots for everyone, teaches at Parsons, and has now launched Paris Creative Workshops, whose inaugural course will be in the [...]
Issue #9 is Almost Here!
March 14, 2012 – 1:36 pm
This is a little teaser video provided by Andrew Kuykendall from the shoot he did in Palm Springs with the insanely beautiful Ashely Smith for the new issue of
Three is the Magic Number
February 27, 2012 – 1:15 pm
This weekend, The Total Look opened at LA MOCA’s satellite space in West Hollywoood. The show is a celebration of the collaboration between designer Rudi Gernreich, model Peggy Moffitt and photographer William Claxton. The late designer, an LA-based Austrian transplant, was well known for inventing the topless monokini (popular in Europe in the 1960′s) and [...]
In Conversation with Katja Rahlwes
January 24, 2012 – 1:32 pm
Photographer Katja Rahlwes describes her images as “Cool Women, or better: Femme Intense.” She re-phrases the perception of the female gaze, with her own unfaltering approach to shooting women who are in command of every shot. Her glamazonian subjects often subvert the idea of the classic pinup. Katja has contributed to independent publications such as [...]
Tara Israel Self-Interview
December 9, 2011 – 10:20 am
These are questions I feel like these people might ask me, but instead I ask myself, just in their voice, because it’s a good exercise in processing an experience you recently had. Here is my intro for myself: I take pictures of many things. Recently it has been notorious genre-busting musician Hank Williams III aka [...]
Still House Group
December 1, 2011 – 1:18 am
The Still House Group is an artist-run arts community based in New York. Founded in 2007 by Isaac Brest and Alex Perweiler, they have produced numerous exhibitions in New York and Los Angeles. This Friday, December 2, they will present Riffraff, a show curated by Cecelia Stucker, in Miami. The reception will be from 7-9 pm [...]
