§ One Photographer / One Week / All Year
One photographer, every week, for a full year. Each entry is a close reading — their practice, a key body of work, and why it matters. An exercise in sustained attention and the education of looking.
Week 01
When looking for photographic inspiration, I rarely used to turn to street photography. Not because I dislike or disliked the genre, as a viewer, but mostly because I’m not attracted…
Week 02
A few weeks ago, I mentioned the podcast On Taking Pictures in my post on Jeffery Saddoris. Bill Wadman, was the other host of that podcast, and is the subject…
Week 03
Ryan Parker’s Hinterland series explores the intermediate zones between the altered and natural landscape: distribution centers, storage complexes, real estate developments, gravel pits. These images bring to our attention and…
Week 04
This one is for the photo historians/family historians/found photograph enthusiasts. Rebecca Sexton Larson’s work has a foot in just about every aspect of the medium of photography, as well as…
Week 05
Several years ago I was searching for more photography podcasts that didn’t focus so heavily on gear or technique, but philosophy and the creative and even theoretical side of the…
Week 06
Scott B. Davis’s recent work pushes landscape photography and the platinum/palladium process in very intriguing ways. He carefully and meticulously creates panoramic diptychs in camera, making pairs of paper negatives…
Week 07
Welcome to the first post of 52 Photographers Vol. 3! This inaugural post features the work of Michael Sherwin, based in West Virginia. For nine years, Michael worked in the…
Week 08
Brad Moore has a minimalist compositional style I really quite like. Pay a visit to Brad’s website to see more of his work.
Week 09
In her body of work titled The World is 9, Aïda Muluneh creates wonderful portraits inspired traditional African body art. In this series, she explores “whether we can live in…
Week 10
These images are photographs! Not paintings from one of the Hudson River School of painters! And I really love the painterly style in Karen Klinedinst’s body of work, The Emotional…
Week 11
Al Brydon’s work has some really great mood and atmosphere. When I first saw his work, it was like a light lit up in my head. Viewing his work has…
Week 12
Love at fist sight is how I would describe my feeling when I first came across Teresa Meier’s work. I love the stories her work tells! Waiting recently won the Juror’s…
Week 13
I’ve been a long-time admirer of the husband and wife duo Robert and Shana ParkeHarrison. They’re work is conceptual, and centers around the “Every Man,” who interacts with the landscape…
Week 14
I came across Diana Bloomfield on Instagram earlier this year, and have been quite fond of her work ever since. For Diana, photographs and memories are inseparable. She often works…
Week 15
Susan Rankaitis has some beautiful work. She began as a painter, the sciences have been an influence on her work. See more of her work on her website.
Week 16
I came across Marion Belanger’s work some time ago, and I really like her aesthetic. View more of Marion’s fantastic work on her website.
Week 17
Chris McCaw has some really great work. His long exposures allow the sun to literally burn a trail into the paper loaded in the camera. Visit his website to view…
Week 18
Dornith Doherty was given access to several seed banks across the world and, using the on-site x-ray equipment gathers images and then arranges them into collages. She also was able…
Week 19
Mary Sloane has some interesting work of dilapidated billboards along highways in the American Southwest. There’s something I really love about Mary’s aesthetic and the bland, bleak landscapes in which…
Week 20
I would be remiss if I didn’t include a post about the late Jerry Burchfield here on 52 Photographers. I can only think of two or three other people who…
Week 21
Richard Long has been a strong influence on me as a photographer for about ten years now. His work appeals to me on several levels, among them, the hiker inside…
Week 22
“Time is the shape of an old oak as the winds caress and sculpt the bark, defining the hardship and beauty. Time is the trunk that splits apart in great…
Week 23
Miguel Arzabe has some really wonderful work made by weaving posters and flyers from various art shows that he attends. It is “informed by the textile tradition of [his] Andean…
Week 24
I just love the digital composites of Maggie Taylor. They’re all so playful and whimsical! Especially her two bodies of work that illustrate Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, and…
Week 25
I’ve long been an admirer of and influenced by the work of collaborative duo James Hajicek and Carol Panaro-Smith. I discovered their photogenic drawing work around 2004-2005 when I was…
Week 26
I’ve been a fan of Brooks Salzwedel ever since I hear his interview on the Art for Your Ear podcast. He uses graphite, resin, and colored pencils to create scenes of…
Week 27
Whimsical is what comes to mind when I look at Charles Petillon’s photographs. He takes bunches of white balloons and arranges and places them in the landscape. These bunches of…
Week 28
Andrea Dale has some really lovely pieces that she titles Ash Paintings. She gathers ashes from recent wildfires and suspends them in resin, which results in an image that has the…
Week 29
If you like time lapse photography, night photography, and video, you’ll enjoy Jeff Frost’s work. He even crosses over into Earth Art a bit. I’ve been looking at Jeff’s work…
Week 30
I’ve been following Alexander Davis on Instagram for a while now, and I’ve really loved his work. I asked him a few questions about himself and his photography. You can…
Week 31
Ann Mason-Hoerter combines more than 50 individual photographs to create beautiful botanical portraits. Check our more of her work on her website.
Week 32
Back in 2008 I wrote about Robert Smithson, and how influential he and his writings were becoming on my art then. Through all that reading I learned about Nancy Holt, who…
Week 33
I’ve been a fan of Joe Rudko for a while now, and I’m real excited to share his work here! Joe reenvisions other people’s memories using torn, or cut found…
Week 34
In the fall of 2016 I felt I needed to seek out other photographers and artists in my area, and either create or join a community of artists that had…
Week 35
Diane Meyer has some really great photographs mixed with embroidery. “By having the embroidery take the form of digital pixels, I am making a connection between forgetting and digital file…
Week 36
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Week 37
View more of Zacharie’s work here.
Week 38
I really love the work of Korean photographer Seung Hoon Park (or Park Seung Hoon). Park works with an 8×10 camera, and 8mm and 16mm film strips. He makes two…
Week 39
Jeff Rich has been photographing the Mississippi River Watershed for several years now. So many of his photographs give me a guilty pleasure: they’re beautiful photographs, but what’s depicted in…
Week 40
Back in college, I took a book arts class, where we learned to make our own books, and learned several ways of stitching signatures together. One of the assignments was…
Week 41
After last month’s post on Timothy O’Sullivan, I thought it might be fun to make that a pattern, and talk about some of my influences each month. Eadweard Muybridge didn’t immediately become…
Week 42
Simon Harsent has some really nice landscape photography. I love his color palettes. in addition to his landscape work, Simon also has some nice portrait photography as well. These two…
Week 43
Melinda Hurst Frye is a Seattle-based artist, who uses a scanner in her work to create fictional scenes of plants and their root systems, and the creepy crawly bugs that…
Week 44
This week, I thought I’d dig back into photography’s past and look at one of my all time favorite photographers. Ansel Adams was my first influence as a photographer, but…
Week 45
I don’t remember exactly when or how I discovered the work of Klea McKenna, but I’ve been following her Instagram feed for a while now. She makes photograms of rubbings…
Week 46
Linda Foard Roberts has some really breathtaking work. There is so much emotion and depth in her photographs. It’s been a while since I’ve been impacted so deeply and emotionally by…
Week 47
Kevin Hoth has some really interesting work. Some of it really plays with your eyes and brain. Kevin was kind enough to answer some questions I had about his work,…
Week 48
I am so fascinated by Alma Haser’s work! Her Within 15 Minutes body of work is really intriguing. This comes from her artist statement: “Alma photographed sets of identical twins…
Week 49
I first saw Laura Hendricks‘ work on The Jealous Curator Blog several months ago, and instantly connected with her work. Her collages have an otherworldly feel to them, and yet a familiar…
Week 50
This post originally appeared on my Departures Blog on May 13, 2017. A little while ago LensCulture announced their 2017 Exposure Awardwinners. Among the superb photographers represented were a pair who, for the last…
Week 51
This post originally appeared on my Departures Blog on May 27, 2017, and the interview in a subsequent post on June 2, 2017. Clear back in October, Lenscratch had an article in their Art…
Week 52
I began the 52 Photographers Blog circa 2007-2008 as a way to expand my photographic/artistic vocabulary and get to know many more photographers than I already knew and share the…
Week 53
Jim Stone is the juror for PhotoSpiva’s 2009 33rd Annual National Photographic Competition (submission deadline is Friday, are you ready?). I decided to check his website out to find a little bit more…
Week 54
Thanks to my friend Scott for the tip on John Chiara.
Week 55
I’ve missed two posts here at 52Photographers.com, but that doesn’t mean I haven’t been looking at other photographers. Quite the contrary. I’ve been looking at many photographers and artists working…
Week 56
Andy Goldsworthy is more of a sculptor than a photographer, though without the camera much of his art work wouldn’t be seen by many people or any at all. Much…