FRAMES Volume 24 brings together five remarkably different bodies of work, moving from mortality and memory to documentary observation, landscape, dreams, and the strange poetry of everyday life.
Matthew Rolston opens the issue with the haunting Vanitas: The Palermo Portraits, confronting death directly through intensely coloured portraits of mummified remains in Palermo’s Capuchin Catacombs. Mark Cohen follows with Venezuelans, photographs made in Caracas in 1968—raw, instinctive, close and full of the visual accidents that have defined his photographic language.
A Yin’s Home of the Buryats offers a deeply observed record of nomadic life in Inner Mongolia, while Ryan Herz revisits photographs made along California Interstate 5 between 1972 and 1975, finding isolation, movement and an unmistakably American sense of the road in fifty-year-old negatives.
Morteza Majidi’s When Sleep Awakens Me shifts the atmosphere once again, using imagery shaped by dreams, memory, childhood, painting and cinema to hover somewhere between reality and imagination.
The issue also goes beyond portfolios. Diana Nicholette Jeon talks with Chris Peregoy, an endlessly inventive photographer whose handmade cameras, alternative processes and unconventional materials reveal photography as something to be physically explored and rebuilt. W. Scott Olsen speaks with Emmy Award-winning director and photographer Daniel Sackheim about narrative, observation, point of view and the elusive state of photographic “flow.”
And in BEYOND, Jiawei Zhao’s fascinating Beijing’s Yellowstone physically brings two distant places together by allowing Beijing dust and willow and poplar catkins to settle directly onto his Yellowstone negatives before scanning them—turning the photographic object itself into a meeting point between memory and place.
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FRAMES is a quarterly, 112-page printed photography magazine. We strongly believe that excellent photography belongs on paper. As a modern photography magazine in a digital world, we aim to bring compelling photographs and the stories behind them into the hands of professionals and admirers alike. Four times a year, FRAMES gives photographers of all genres and mediums a place for their art to be seen and voices to be heard. We believe in providing a community that inspires people to pick up a camera and let their creativity run wild.
