LANDSCAPE STORIES Blog #30

Project MINE_IRA is being featured on Landscape Stories. This is an independent Italian publication created in 2010 that has since established itself as a relevant channel to the presentation of fine art contemporary photography.

The proposal of their current issue #30 is on Archives. The librarian in me is delighted to be part of it.

“The archive fulfills the fundamental function of conservation, selection and accessibility. All of us then, voluntarily or not, always glean from the personal archive, buried and at rest in the immaterial rooms of our memory. Taking for granted the value of collective expression of a community's cultural memory, art in its best cases is capable of causing short circuits or inspiring reflections. When did we start to get interested in archives? Why does contemporary photographic research frequently make use of reinterpretation of archival materials? Which roles, meanings and forms has the archive issue assumed in contemporary practice? The results are changeable: from the vernacular to private family albums, from the object trouvé to mixed media.”

Jan 7th, 2020

INTERVIEW AT SHADES COLLECTIVE

Baltimore, MA

I was featured on the series “Take Our Seat”, where Shades Collective highlights those pursuing creative and academic goals, while paving the way to further the representation of marginalized individuals within the arts and humanities. SHADES COLLECTIVE (est. 2019) is a multidisciplinary online publication dedicated to fostering mindful, equitable, and intersectional exchange and scholarship. It was dedicated to furthering the representation and education of BIPOC in personal or professional pursuits of creativity. After the closing of their website, excerpts of this interview are available here.

URBANAUTICA | Journal of Visual Anthropology

MINE_IRA is now part of the archives of @urbanautica journal - an independent publisher in Italy working on photography, visual anthropology and cultural landscapes created by Steve Bisson. Thank you for the special mention on such a relevant subject : EXTINCTION. OR THE WORLD WITHOUT US?

“Works regarding a pressing problem of crucial importance. Human destruction of the living world is causing a “frightening” number of plant and animal extinctions, according to a growing number of scientists, studies, publications, and reports. In the last century, the awareness that human activities are harmful to the environment, to life in general, including that of humans has increased. Wars, climate change, diseases, pollution, technological escalation, deforestation are just some of the threats that challenge the survival of the species.
A great deal of literature and cinema have also contributed to this dystopian vision of the future. Even to imagine a "world without us". For these reasons, we are eager to discover and spread photographic and/or visual projects that nourish, document, develop, interpret, tell and question the theme of extinction.”

Der Greif | Guest Room

Berlin, Germany

Honored to have project MINE_IRA featured at Der Greif. Thanks to curators John Fleetwodd and Eric Gyamfi.

Guest Room is a monthly online exhibition with open submissions curated in real-time by personalities from the international photography scene. Guest Room aims to spark collaborations. That’s why John Fleetwood is teaming up with Eric Gyamfi, a photographer based in Ghana in chosing the theme for this installment. Eric Gyamfi has provided the following quote as the theme/subject:

“Perhaps I was looking for something that refuses to be photographed. I was only chasing shadows, perhaps”

~ From the monograph ‘Chasing Shadows’ by Santu Mofokeng.