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Artist Sarah Graham on raising awareness for bipolar disorder and how art saved her life

Creative Boom

As for the photorealism aspect of her work, this can be traced back to Sarah's fascination with her father's love of photography. Working from a photography room in her studio, Sarah snaps her subjects and then works from the resulting images. During her mania, Sarah started to experience many worrying symptoms of the condition.

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‘An Indigenous Present’ Is a Paradigm-Shifting Illumination of Native North American Art Today

Colossal

Works by more than 60 artists comprise the monumental survey, exploring myriad practices focused on and intersecting contemporary art, music, filmmaking, choreography, architecture, writing, photography, design, and more. Image courtesy of the artist and Garth Greenan Gallery, New York All pieces by Dana Claxton.

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A Trailblazing Photography Collector Champions Black Artists

Feature Shoot

Petros , Hadenbes, 2005. Best Friends, Brooklyn, New York, 1981 As We Rise: Photography from the Black Atlantic is now on view at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts. In 1997, Dr. Kenneth Montague, a practicing dentist, created a gallery inside the halls of his Toronto home.

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Humans and Animals Commune with Nature and the Cosmos in the Multidisciplinary Work of Kiki Smith

Colossal

All images © the artist, courtesy of Pace Gallery, shared with permission If you’ve traveled via the Long Island Rail Road service in Manhattan and traversed the MTA’s brand new Grand Central Madison station, you may have noticed a slice of nature indoors in a monumental, wall-spanning mosaic of a woodland deer.

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A New Book Flies Through the Vast World of Birds from Art and Design to History and Ornithology

Colossal

Elizabeth Butterworth, Lear’s Macaw, 2005. Picture credit: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC: Gift of Mrs. Walter B. Mixed media, Temporary installation at Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne, UK. Chromolithograph, 7.3 × 8.3 cm / 2 7/8 × 3 ¼ in, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Picture credit: © Elizabeth Butterworth.

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Café Royal Books: 15 years of documenting the UK

Creative Review

Café Royal Books is an independent publishing house that specialises in limited edition photographic books that focus on British documentary photography. Started in 2005 by Craig Atkinson, it began as an antidote to the work he’d been creating himself as an artist. I didn’t see myself or my work fitting into that.

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Announcing the Series Winners of the Emerging Photography Awards 2021

Feature Shoot

We’re delighted to announce the twelve winners of the 7th Annual Feature Shoot Emerging Photography Awards, with the selected artists spanning genres as well as continents. “I picked up photography again in earnest in 2005 coinciding with a newfound passion for chasing storms. © Christian K. Christian K.