Author Archives: Skye Parrott

Robert Bergman

Robert Bergman is a photographer. He never had a gallery and sold his first work two years ago, at the age of 65. He recently had his first solo shows at The National Portrait Gallery in Wahsington, D.C, and at P.S. 1 in Queens.

Maryanne Casasanta

Maryanne Casasanta is an artist based in Toronto. Her work contemplates the exchange between art and the commonplace. These images are from her project As You Were.

Ed van der Elsken

The above photograph by Dutch photographer Ed van der Elsken is one of my absolute favorite photographs. It’s perfect. The below photograph of Vali Meyers is taken from his seminal book Love on the Left Bank – also basically a perfect work – and then there are some reportage images, nudes – the list of what [...]

Francois du Chatenet

Francois du Chatenet is a photographer based in Paris. These images were taken at a horse show in El Jadida, Morocco.

My Parents Were Awesome

Before the fanny packs and Andrea Bocelli concerts, your parents (and grandparents) were once free-wheeling, fashion-forward, and awesome. These images come from the My Parents Were Awesome blog, except the last image, which is of my grandparents, who were also awesome.

Virginia Rolston Parrott

Virginia Rolston Parrott is a photographer based in Hoboken, NJ. Aside from old cars, some of her other ongoing projects include shadows, Central Park, and the New York City waterfront.

Angela Jimenez

Angela Jimenez is a photographer based in Brooklyn. These images, taken at the Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival, are from her new book, Welcome Home: Building the Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival. They are being exhibited at the LGBT Center in New York through April 16.

Ragnar Axelsson

Ragnar Axelsson is an Icelandic photojournalist. These images of Inuit hunters in Greenland recently appeared in The New York Times.

Ostkreuz

The Ostkreuz Agency was created in Berlin in the Nineties by seven photographers who were among the most prominent in what had been East Germany. A show of their work, showing daily life in the doomed Republic, was recently staged at the House of World Cultures in Berlin. The show included work by Ostkreuz founders Sibylle [...]

Aurel Schmidt

Aurel Schmidt is a Canadian artist based in New York.