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Concept Aware®
by J. Sybylla Smith
Here we host interviews with artists, curators, academics and writers to discuss concept development and the creative process. If you are a photographer, mixed media artist, a visual creator of any kind you have come to the right place for shared inspiration and resources. Join our Concept Aware® community and be part of an engaging and educational global visual culture conversation.
Episodes
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Through Our Eyes: Sheila Pree Bright, Julie Yarbrough, Nicole Craine, Ysa Lopez
Lens-based artist Sheila Pree Bright discusses her new series, Where We Gather, and is joined by photographers Julie Yarbrough, Ysa Lopez, and Nicole Craine to share the process behind Through Our Eyes, a collaborative project that captures the diverse communities of Atlanta for the FIFA World…
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Lillian Bassman at the Brooklyn Museum with Lizzie Himmel, Vince Aletti and Pauline Vermare
A live podcast recording with Photographer Lizzie Himmel, Author and Art Critic Vince Aletti and Curator Pauline Vermare discussing Lillian Bassman’s process, practice and indelible influence on magazine culture, art direction and fashion photography. For access to exclusive episode notes…
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Keeping Women’s Rights in the Picture: A Live Podcast Conversation with Meg Griffiths, Frances Jakubek, Jordanna Kalman and Kathya Maria Landeros
A panel discussion on photography, representation and rights through the creative process of 4 participating artists of A Yellow Rose Project honoring the centennial of the 19th Amendment giving women the right to vote in the U.S. For access to exclusive episode notes, explore our membership...
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J. Sybylla Smith, In Conversation With Claire Rosen
Birds of A Feather is a sumptuous book of striking portraits of wild, exotic and domesticated birds blended with a compelling exploration of art, nature, science and ecology. For access to exclusive episode notes, explore our membership options! If you are already a member, please log in to...
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J. Sybylla Smith, In Conversation With Inbal Abergil
The Presence of Absence reveals the aftermath and human cost of conflict in image and text. For access to exclusive episode notes, explore our membership options! If you are already a member, please log in to jsybyllasmith.com and access the Concept Aware® Show Notes page through your account.
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J. Sybylla Smith, In Conversation With Hannah Altman
We Will Return To You reinterprets historical traditional oral storytelling and religious iconography into a choreographed contemporary form. For access to exclusive episode notes, explore our membership options! If you are already a member, please log in to jsybyllasmith.com and access the…
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Welcome To Concept Aware®
Here we host interviews with artists, curators, academics and writers to discuss concept development and the creative process. If you are a photographer, mixed media artist, a visual creator of any kind, you have come to the right place for shared inspiration and resources. Join our Concept…
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April in Paris — Gallerist Julian Sander
Julian Sander presents a humanist portrait of society in 619 silver gelatin portraits of 20th-century Germans photographed by his legendary great-grandfather, August Sander. For access to exclusive episode notes, explore our membership options! If you are already a member, please log in to...
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April in Paris — Artist Caroline Mauxion
Caroline Mauxion provides an immersive experience in her solo Paris Photo installation illuminating a Crip phenomenology through an autobiographical lens. For access to exclusive episode notes, explore our membership options! If you are already a member, please log in to jsybyllasmith.com and...
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April in Paris — Artist Éric Antoine
Éric Antoine is a skateboarding self taught French painter and photographer exhibiting La Forme, a solo exhibition of luminous ambrotypes reflecting a decade of evolution to pare his creative practice to its purest essence. For access to exclusive episode notes, explore our membership options! If...
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April in Paris — Artist Evelyn Bencicova & Screennoise
I was stopped in my tracks by the groundbreaking work of Evelyn Bencicova in collaboration with graphic sound innovator Samson G. Balfour Smith being exhibited at the Artemis Gallery in the Digital Sector of the fair. For access to exclusive episode notes, explore our membership options! If you…
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International Women Photographers Series—I’m So Happy You Are Here
A trailblazing book chronicling the fundamental and consequential contributions of Japanese women photographers. Mariko Takeuchi and Pauline Vermare discuss their collaborative project creating a restorative history of Japanese photography. Offering a critical and celebratory counterpoint to the...
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International Women Photographers Series—Linda Troeller: Sex Death Transcendence
Linda Troeller’s self-portraits are compiled into a luscious tour de force of womanhood, identity and aging. Troeller utilizes her relationship with the camera to understand herself and a woman’s place in the world across decades. Her history traverses that of a beauty contestant, potential…
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International Women Photographers Series—Fast Forward: Anna Fox & Karen Knorr
Two intrepid photographers and professors discuss the myriad educational strategies they activate and lead to enhance and strengthen women’s presence in photography. Anna Fox and Karen Knorr share how they empower visual storytellers by engaging a global network of practitioners, academics and...
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International Women Photographers Series—Camera Geologica
Camera Geologica: An Elemental History of Photography by Dr. Siobhan Angus is the lens through which we explore the multi-media artwork of Rosell Meseguer and Kosisochukwu Nnebe. This deeply researched and resourced book contextualizes the dark side of photography, the mining and extraction of...
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International Women Photographers Series—WOPHA, Women Photographers International Archive
Unscripted conversations with Aldeide Delgado, co-founder and leader of Women Photographers International Archive, and recent WOPHA Research Fellow and scholar, Dr. Candice Jansen. Each woman shares their expansive practice, leading with curiosity and utilizing inquiry to activate potentiality.…
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International Women Photographers Series—Collaboration
This seminal book, a compendium of image-based projects, illuminates the subtle evolution of ideas of photographic practice over time. This book offers a non-authoritarian systematic deconstruction of photo history to expand ways of making, seeing, and thinking about the multi-layers of...
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International Women Photographers Series—Leica, Latin America Team
This is an introduction to the Leica team in Mexico, Central, and South America, which is actively highlighting and amplifying the visual voices across Latin America. Meet: Aurora Bruzon - Latin America Marketing Manager Betsy May - Commercial Director Latin America Manolo Marquez - Gallery and...
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J. Sybylla Smith, In Conversation With Danielle Ezzo
Danielle Ezzo is a new media artist pioneering the lossy space of photography through a process of sourcing from the vast digitized open-access archive of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. This beguiling book animates McLuhan's semiotic principle, the medium is the message, by activating the…
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Artist Talk: Paris Photo In The Rearview Mirror — 2023
A decade of attending this fair has honed my ability to select from the staggering amount of concurrent offerings - astounding amounts of work, panel discussions, book signings and outside Prsi Photo happenings during a packed week in Paris. In this conversation, Syb discusses, among other…
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J Sybylla Smith, In Conversation With David Campany
David Campany pays tribute to the multidisciplinarian artist Robert Cumming, known for his rigorous dedication to the aesthetic tonality of the B & W image and his uncanny investigations into the philosophical nature of perception. Lusciously printed images from original 8 x 10 negatives are...
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J. Sybylla Smith, In Conversation With Mary Virginia Swanson and Darius D. Himes
This recent Radius release offers an expansive framework of the principles of publishing including the layered roles and responsibilities inherent within the creation of a photobook. NOT a how-to guidebook, this beautiful object elegantly packages decades of research and provides contemporary...
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J. Sybylla Smith, In Conversation With Preston Gannaway
Episode Notes Photojournalist Preston Gannaway won a Pulitzer Prize for her poetic photography documenting a New Hampshire family coping with a young mother's illness and death. Remember Me is her breathtakingly graceful and intimate chronology of EJ over the intervening years since he lost his...
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J. Sybylla Smith, In Conversation With Rehab Eldalil
Photography is innovatively and collectively utilized to create a new narrative challenging the stigma and stereotypes of this indigenous community. This book is a multilingual textural object of beauty and wisdom — a non-linear collective celebration and document of home, belonging, hospitality,...
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J. Sybylla Smith, In Conversation With Barbara Peacock
American Bedroom: Reflections on the Nature of Life is a messy, energetic, playful and heart-stoppingly poignant romp into the intimate spaces of ordinary Americans. Each portrait is accompanied by text by the subject. The result is an anthropological study of the physical, emotional, spiritual,...
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J. Sybylla Smith, In Conversation with Elizabeth Clark Libert
Elizabeth Clark Libert's bold diaristic conversation with herself is a reckoning with a twenty years old sexual trauma and its impact on raising her school-age sons. Boy Crazy is a masterfully designed melange of self-portraits, environmental portraits, seasonal landscapes and family photos....
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J. Sybylla Smith, In Conversation with Anastasia Samoylova
Anastasia Samoylova furthers her exploration of place and the ability of photography to shape our perceptions of reality. Central to her investigation is the geography of human relationships to our natural and man-made environments. Utilizing her masterful ability to collage in-camera, her...
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J. Sybylla Smith, In Conversation with Brea Souders
Another Online Pervert creates a visual and text dialog between photos from Souders’ image archive and snippets of written copy from a two-year engagement with an AI personality chatbot. Utilizing prompts from her childhood journals, an emotional call and response is created between human sense…
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Artist Talk — Todd R. Forsgren
In this conversation, Todd discusses, among other things: Working in archives Thinking in books Approaches to appropriation Running amok Parameters for sequencing Perceived opposites Light leaks Colliding technologies Data corruption Observation & measurement Falsehoods & mystery Artist...
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J. Sybylla Smith, In Conversation with Toni Wilkinson & Susan Bright
Tough Pleasures turns a bright light and witty lens on the conflicting dynamics of femininity and food—revealing appetite and desire. Susan Bright's astute and savory essay provides the perfect table setting for the environmental portraits that follow. Wilkinson masterfully interrupts the...
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J. Sybylla Smith, In Conversation with Cai Quirk
Episode Notes Cai Quirk deeply explores genderqueer self-portraiture in an original image creation and story formation orchestration. A phantasmagorical world unfurls, as six evolutionary text and image sections weave a mythical interdependency of body, spirit and nature. The result is an...
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J. Sybylla Smith, In Conversation with Astrid Reischwitz
Spin Club Stories is a mixed-media reintegration of history, environment, society and self in an interactive dialog spanning centuries. Reclaiming the artform and impact of women’s handiwork, Astrid assembles collages of images and textiles, perforated with hand embroidery. Sourced from family...
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J. Sybylla Smith, In Conversation with Karni Arieli
This book forms a collective reframing of the realities of motherhood beyond the mythologized patriarchal gaze. A global array of photographer mothers document, with bold authenticity, the carrying and caring of a human—the feral and relentless shared space of heart-exploding wonder and joy—all...
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Artist Talk — Britland Tracy
In this conversation, Britland discusses, among other things: Camera as mediator Gender constructs Male vulnerability Strong opinions, loosely held Human-inflicted trauma Sensationalizing violence Working from a set of rules Creative kinship Serendipity Applied abstractions of visual allegory...
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J. Sybylla Smith, In Conversation with Peggy Levison Nolan
In this conversation, Peggy discusses, among other things: How a camera transforms what we see Being addicted to film Seeing inside the photographer's head Vastness of observation The intelligence (and swiftness) needed to respond to the presence observed The high jinx of black and white imagery...
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Artist Talk — 10x10 Photobooks Reading Room at the Boston Athenaeum with Russet Lederman and Lauren Graves
In this conversation, Russett and Lauren discuss, among other things: What constitutes a photobook The evolution of the photobook Gendered discrepancies and the inequity of access and privilege A lack and/or ambiguity of attribution or authorship The personal and political visual voice of women…
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Artist Talk — Kristen Joy Emack
In this conversation, Kristen discusses, among other things: The power of observation Speaking through photos Commanding the frame Leaning towards iconography Intentionality A circular gaze Reciprocity in relationship with subjects Import of residencies and support of the Guggenheim Performative...
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Artist Talk — Jessica Todd Harper
In this conversation, Jessica discusses, among other things: Mining family narratives Focusing on what's in front of you Working with light The influence of teachers Wrestling with the materiality of now Transcending the ordinary Photojournalism vs art One ‘good’ photo a month Life fitting into...
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J. Sybylla Smith, In Conversation with Binh Danh
Three deeply researched long-term projects; Immortality: Remnants of the Vietnam and American War, One Week’s Dead, and National Parks are compiled in a sumptuous two-volume slipcase. Hauntingly beautiful chlorophyll prints and daguerreotypes, printed with clarity and depth on dense black paper,...
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J. Sybylla Smith, In Conversation with Diana Karklin
Undo Motherhood is a boxed set of soft-covered trifold booklets titled after the predominant feelings identified by regretful mothers: anger, fear, isolation, exhaustion, guilt, resignation and acceptance. Karlkin’s investigation was driven by a single question: “If you knew then what you know…
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J. Sybylla Smith, In Conversation with Vince Aletti
The Drawer is a visual autobiography of Aletti’s deep canon of inspiration, experience and multi-media obsessions collected over five decades. Created and captured in a single day, each collage is a flurry of free association. This book animates his refined sense of composition, eclectic...
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J. Sybylla Smith, In Conversation with Odette England, Jennifer Garza-Cuen and Susan Bright
In this conversation, Jennifer and Odette discuss, among other things: Collaboration Inherent trust Being reckless Being process driven Allowing the material to speak for itself The social journey of a photograph Playing vs working Simplicity Growing understanding Undoneness Referenced in the...
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Artist Talk — Paris Photo In Your Pocket
In this conversation, Syb discusses, among other things: Gallery/Artist/Resources Gallery: Casemore Gallery/ San Francisco/Chris Grunder Rolf Art/ Buenos Aires, Argentina/Florencia Giordana Braun Julian Sander Gallery/Cologne, Germany/Julian Sander TOBE Gallery/Budapest, Hungary/Tomas Opitz and…
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Artist Talk — Matt Johnston
In this conversation, Matt discusses, among other things: Taking a fixed object to a fluid space Accessibility Readability Intentionality as a central focus The purpose of publishing is to make public Engaging the mobility of books Taxonomy of the photobook Establishing criticality standards...
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J. Sybylla Smith, In Conversation with Rita Leistner
Photographer and filmmaker, Rita Leistner, blends fine art with documentary in her intensely lit, unstaged, metaphorically-inspired environmental portraits of the tree planters reforesting the cut blocks devastated by commercial logging. In this conversation, Rita Leistner discusses, among other...
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J. Sybylla Smith, In Conversation with Rania Matar
Matar gracefully investigates womanhood, identity, and empowerment - across time and place. Poetic, soulful, and bold portraits capture the agency of becoming, at the threshold of independence. Matar bridges differences in culture, religion, geography, and nationality, offering the connective...
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J. Sybylla Smith, In Conversation with Holly Lynton
Holly Lynton melds form, content, and meaning in her strikingly beautiful images, capturing the lives of those providing our sustenance, while protecting our land. Lynton’s compositional framing, lush palette, textural tones, and transformative gestures craft a meditative beauty. Accompanying...
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Artist Talk — Toni Pepe
In this conversation, Toni discusses, among other things: Unpacking seeing The family photo album Pushing expectations of the image Text as a tipping point Enticing touch Engaging viewers physically Being driven by an idea Collective learning Cross-discipline experimentation Stick-to-it-ness...
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Artist Talk — Hettie Judah
In this conversation, Hettie discusses, among other things: Gender care gap Gender pay gap Family as a trap for women Domesticity and art Need for subsidized, affordable childcare The time-consuming emotional labor of parenting most often falls on mothers Studio space & residency limitations...
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Artist Talk — Colleen Plumb
In this conversation, Colleen discusses, among other things: Awakening to invisible justice Bodily autonomy Animal spectatorship A practice of attention Distilling process Good obsessions Book as archive Puncturing social individuality Sound is time made flesh Sustaining projects is a puzzle...
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Here we host interviews with artists, curators, academics and writers to discuss concept development and the creative process.
If you are a photographer, mixed media artist, a visual creator of any kind you have come to the right place for shared inspiration and resources.
Join our Concept Aware® community and be part of an engaging and educational global visual culture conversation.
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J. Sybylla Smith
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