Andrea
Jan/100
Andrea, Buenos Aires, 2009, from a personal project photographed by Los Angeles based fashion photographer Eleonora Ghioldi.
Urban Jungle
Jan/100
Elephant, from Michael Patrick O’Leary’s ongoing Urban Jungle project, dealing with kids love for animals and their endless imaginations.
The Calumet Region (8 Photos)
Jan/100
All photographs © Gary Cialdella. Two Houses, Steiber Street Whiting, IN 1999.
Once a major crossroads for American industry, the Calumet Region sits on the south shore of Lake Michigan, just east of Chicago, straddling the border between Illinois and northern Indiana. Like so many American post-industrial regions, the Calumet is a mixture of rail yards, refineries, abandoned or underused plants, once-prosperous Main Streets, modest homes, changing neighborhoods and signs of urban renewal.
Photographer Gary Cialdella grew up on the Eastern edge of the Calumet in Blue Island, Illinois. When he left for college, he had no thoughts of returning, but as an adult he moved to nearby Michigan. More than 20 years ago, he reacquainted himself with the area and began photographing it. He recently released his book of black-and-white landscapes, The Calumet Region: An American Place (University of Illinois Press, Urbana and Chicago/Brauer Museum of Art, Valparaiso University). The work is also on display at the Brauer Museum of Art through March 21, 2010.
For more on Gary Cialdella’s project The Calumet Region, see our article, “Ain’t That America” (Exposures, January 2010).
Backyard Reese Street Hammond, IN 1999
Railroad Bridge, Calumet River Chicago 2002
Billboard East Chicago, IN 2003
Billboard, Indianapolis Blvd. Hammond, IN 2002
Chicago Skyway, View From 99th Street, Chicago 2001
Dormant Blast Furnace, Indiana Harbor Canal East Chicago 2002
Wihala County Park Beach, Lake County Indiana 1999
For more on Gary Cialdella’s project The Calumet Region, see our article, “Ain’t That America” (Exposures, January 2010).
Tanner Vaughn of the Brownwood Lions
Jan/100
© Eric McNatt
Portrait from the “Character Project”, published in March 09′ by Chronicle Books, supported by the Aperture Foundation. Eric says, “In August 08, I returned to Brownwood, TX to capture the character of small town America – a town in central TX where my family tree goes back five generations.” Tanner Vaughn plays for the Brownwood Lions, the High School Football Team. To see more of Eric’s photography click here.
Out From Behind The Camera (5 Photos)
Dec/090
All photos © Brian Ach
Brian Ach created “The Photographer Project” to raise money for fellow celebrity and entertainment photographer Paul Hawthorne, who fell ill in Fall 2008 with amyloidosis, a rare disease. The idea was to pull New York City-based celebrity photographers who regularly work the red carpet rope lines, event photographers and paparazzi into his Brooklyn studio for full length portraits, which Ach would turn into a book to benefit his friend. Sadly, Hawthorne passed away from complications of his disease on December 20, 2008. But Ach went on with the project anyway, and has just self-published the book. Proceeds from the sale will go to Hawthorne’s family. For more of the project check out Ach’s Web site, here.
