Artists 8th Edition - The Photoville FENCE

Meet the artists of the 8th edition of The Photoville FENCE and the Regional Showcases, and the jury who helped curate this wide range of visual stories.

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Creatures 8
Food 8
Home 8
Nature 8
People 8
Play 8
Streets 8

Just like humans, dogs form attachments to their own possessions and these objects can give the viewer greater insight into their identity.

A Dog’s Life

Alicia Rius

These photographs serve as metaphors for the way we alter, mend, and piece together memories, in order to make sense of what we have lost.

Alterations

Heather Evans Smith

Mountains are the water towers of the world. They provide freshwater to half the world’s population for irrigation, industry, domestic use, and hydropower.

Artificial Glaciers

Ciril Jazbec

Twins Jörg and Rolf Fischer are deeply bound to one another by their fate. They were both born deaf and gradually lost their sight during the course of their lives due to severe diabetes.

brothers

Marlena Waldthausen

In 2015, I was visiting a tea plantation in the northeastern corner of Bangladesh to cover a worker’s movement that protested the government’s decision to set up an Economic Zone on the land where workers had been cultivating crops for over hundred years.

Cha Chakra: Tea Tales of Bangladesh

Faiham Ebna Sharif

Changing Perspectives: Chile

Jamey Stillings

Under the auspice of capitalism, we’re taught to consume, to take, to ingest at our leisure. Food has become one of the most hyper-glamorized commodities.

Cravings

Victoria Bouloubasis

Farm–to–Camera

Adrien Broom

This project examines the intense and chaotic environment of one of the most densely populated cities in the world, Hong Kong.

Frenetic City

Zhou HanShun

Home Sweet Home

Francis Meslet

This project was commissioned by ProPublica as part of an investigative series that examined the condition of deteriorating public housing developments near St. Louis.

House of Cards

William Widmer

House of Glory

José A. Alvarado Jr.

On the prairies of Manitoba, the Hutterites are outside. They are playing hockey, climbing hay bales, fishing, swimming, riding bikes, and connecting to their surroundings in ways that are increasingly uncommon with young people today in mainstream society.

Hutterites Playing

Tim Smith

In this whimsical and humorous conceptual series, I was intrigued by the idea of using different frames enabling me to put the cats in the frames without any confinement.

In and Out of the Frame

Joyce Reinertson

The food that I make for the camera, and thanks to technology–with smartphones, has become our history book, our hand-me-down recipes, our record of how and what we ate at a given point in time.

In situ

Dominic Episcopo

It’s all in my head

Etinosa Yvonne

LAMBA

Miora Rajaonary

The LGBT community has been specifically targeted since 1979 when the Chinese communist party criminalized the group by including homosexuality in the nonspecific act of hooliganism.

LGBT in China

Raul Ariano

Life at the Zoo

Michael George

In this series, Zilberberg creates animal montages as an expression of self-therapy.

Meditations

Alice Zilberberg

Take Me Away depicts the life and times of Canton House, a Chinese take away which opened in the UK in the early 60’s by the Yau family after emigrating from Hong Kong in search of a better life.

Memento

Rachel Wisniewski

There is a garden in the city, an idyllic oasis set apart from the urban chaos by a wrought iron fence. If you pass it in the daytime, you might notice how nicely it has been curated and cared for it, how pretty it is, how much like paradise.

Midnight in the Garden

Anna Beeke

Mimesis

Jose Snook

The city of Rio de Janeiro has a singular relief, historically expanded right between the sea and several mountains, such as Corcovado and Sugar Loaf.

Mysterious Photos from the Forest of Brazil

Antonio Pedro Schubert

$No Surrender: The Protestants provides an intimate look at Northern Ireland’s fractious Protestant neighborhoods.$

No Surrender: The Protestants

Ed Kashi

Our Neighborhood

Robin Michals

The nature of the Camargue is truly spectacular, showcasing Mother Nature’s raw and fragile beauty, which never fails to impress with its shapes and colors.

Painting-like

Magali Chesnel

Those who stay can only think about leaving. Those who leave can only dream of returning.

Paradise Lost

Adriana Loureiro Fernandez

This project was photographed on the homelands of the Neets’aii (Arctic Village) and Tetlit (Fort McPherson) Gwich’in, the traditional custodians of these areas.

People of the Caribou (Dinjii Naii Vadzaih Haa T’iinch’yaa)

Keri Oberly

Using extravagant costumes and staged compositions to abolish the fifty year gap between them, Joannie and Yvette became the Hallandale Twins.

Playtime

Joannie Lafrenière

This series documents the incongruous behavior between man and the environment in Sumatra, Indonesia. On the one hand, humans destroy virgin forests, wounding and killing animals, while on the other hand they do everything possible to save them.

Saving Orangutans

Alain Schroeder

Over the course of seven years I spent approximately 130 days in the town of Greenwood, Mississippi, as I considered the legacies of racism and segregation on the lives of people growing up in America today.

Sin & Salvation in Baptist Town

Matt Eich

Take Me Away

Nicky Hamilton

The Changing Landscape of American Retail

Jesse Rieser

Having grown up reading a multitude of home and lifestyle magazines, my work confronts the expectations that developed from buying into the photographic fantasies depicting the pristine and perfect domestic life.

The Joy of Cooking

Rachel Bee Porter

The Keepers of the Lanes

Jake Belcher

The Lowriders: From Detroit to LA and Back

Erik Paul Howard

This project discusses social and political issues in Hong Kong using inspiration and references from various objects: matchboxes, half a papaya, a drawing, two passports, and a kid, to show the needs and wants of Hongkongers.

This is my Home

Tsz Wah

Regarding sports, Ghana is known predominantly for soccer. However, some of the youth in Ghana are embracing a popular sport in the United States, basketball.

Two Worlds, Same Energy

Lloyd Kofi Foster

For over a decade the Wet’suwet’en Nation has stood in defense of their last unspoiled territory.

We are not visitors here

Amber Bracken

Regional Showcases

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Florida 8
New England 8
Western Canada 8

In this series my main focus was to create a set of collages in the darkroom, sampling negatives of my own that best reflect my deep appreciation for music and album artwork.

Album Artwork for Unrealized Music

Curtis Collin

This project seeks to awaken and inspire within my viewers, an appreciation for, and desire to preserve the homes, legacies, and treasures of our past, lest they and their stories be lost forever.

An Old Home Recalls

Paula May Scott

Apologue

Dan Jackson

These images of childhood bring to mind the self-consciousness that has lead to the societal conformity and emotionally binding behavior ithat so many of us have become entrenched in as adults.

Before Self-Consciousness

Laurie Swope

Behind the Chutes

Nathan Jones

Birds of Florida in Breeding Glory

Carole Devillers

When there is the death of your very best friend and spouse, you deal with the not there. Missing. Gone. Absent. Emptiness.

Black Flower Series

Joyce P. Lopez

My daughter and my nieces' involvement in each other's lives is both gravitational and expected. Growing up is complicated.

Cousins

Kristen Joy Emack

The juxtaposition of a young girl and a prehistoric animal is enigmatic and mythical: beauty meets the beast, but this time on her own terms.

Crustaceans

Susan Lapides

Since before recorded history, natural springs have been critical to human survival as dependable sources of water.

Hidden Waters: Desert Springs

Bremner Benedict

My camera allows me to peer into other lives outside of my world.

Home, Sweet Mobile Home

Ann Clifford-McGough

In Contact

Callan Field

Into the Fire

Evan Rensch

In the volcanic mountain of Kawah Ijen on the Island of Java in Indonesia, toxic smoke billows out onto the surface of the mountain through tentacle-like tunnels.

Mining in Hell’s Fire for Devil’s Gold

Larry Louie

My photographs are investigations of female gender roles as influenced by American culture and mass media.

Ms. Behavior

Nancy Grace Horton

Having had some wonderful, fun cars I wondered what happened to them after they left my driveway.

Nature Triumphs

Michael Simeone

Nature’s Colorful Palette

Peter Monsees

I always take the opportunity to grab a backpack and my camera and travel somewhere in the world where I can learn more about other forms of photography.

Nightless Summer In Southeast Iceland

Cliff Roles

I began this series shortly after–and in response to–the 2016 presidential election.

Pattern Repeats

Tira Khan

Down to the smallest of elements, everything exists in relationship to something else.

PELE

Daniel Fox

I hope this message gets to the people that need to see it and they do something about this.

Save the Sirens Project

Tonya Barnes

Siren Song

Tamar Granovsky

The Spoken Word

Gregory Jundanian

Vulnerability

Shira Gold