Contributor News: Announcing Dawn Whitmore’s solo show, “A house is like a mind that holds everything.”
Visual artist Dawn Whitmore, whose photo essay on Alaska’s northernmost town was featured in our “Hunt, Gather” issue, has a solo show opening in Arlington, Virginia, on October 13. “A house is like a mind that holds everything” will be at the Arlington Arts Center until December 15, 2018. Dawn has written of the show:...
Summer 2016: “Maps & Legends”
OVERTURE: Every map represents both truth and imagination. No matter how carefully a medieval ship’s captain described a shoreline or how sophisticated a modern engineer’s tools, there is always space left for interpretation: “Here there be dragons”; “Somewhere beyond this line lies the kingdom of Prester John.” These are the mapmakers’ truths, but no one...
“Corniche”: along sea and city, Beirut 2004. By Amira Pierce.
Sea and city: Beirut 2004. By Amira Pierce. In a city with few public parks, the Corniche Beirut is a perfect gathering place, a seaside promenade open to everyone. It’s where big luxury hotels meet everyday Lebanese, on broad walkways and dark rocks along the lapping Mediterranean. Today, as the sun sinks toward the water,...
On exhibit, November 2013: Chad Hunt’s wartime photo essay “Ghosting Home.”
On Friday, Nov. 1, renowned photojournalist Chad Hunt will take part in coffee and conversation as part of the opening of a two-week photo exhibit of his photographs of soldiers in and after Afghanistan. “Ghosting Home,” featuring images taken during Hunt’s time embedded in Korengai Province, Afghanistan, is a...
