FotoVisura Grant Winners In La Lettre De La Photographe
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A big thank you to CNN Photos for giving a shout out to the FV Grant winners on their twitter feed.
The 2012 WalkThrough Museum | Huffington Post by Adriana Teresa
Visura’s Adriana Teresa writes on her recent exhibition in San Juan, PR.
“Being a part of this project is one dream come true. The WalkThrough Museum is my first contribution to Puerto Rico; it is a public art exhibit, free of cost, that honors a key component of Puerto Rico’s heritage. It is also a message of hope to all my friends and colleagues, who still dream of being given the opportunity to share their voice and contribute to the island of their birth, the one we left in search of a dream — to continue working towards making that new dream a reality.”
Read the full article on Huff Post
Image by Jack Delano
FotoVisura Community Highlight | CNN Photo features Julia Kozerski
When Julia Kozerski began losing weight in 2009, she started an intimate, “brutally honest” self-portrait project, “Half,” documenting the process and her progress. She showed safe, close-up images that didn’t reveal her face to classmates during critiques. But the photos quickly “launched into something more important than homework,” Kozerski said.
She began to photograph more of her unclothed, changing body and found the process consoled her.
Read the full article on CNN Photo
Image by Julia Kozerski
Visura Spotlight Highlights
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PAUL SZYNOL | Natale Solum
Natale Solum is a series of photographs about Poland, where I was born and lived as a child, before leaving for New York City. I returned to Warsaw only some 20 years later. These photos are about the country I’ve been discovering since then. Image by Paul Szynol |
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ELLEN WALLENSTEIN | Pocketbook of Drag Queens
The waitresses and performers became friends; they allowed me to photograph them both “on” and “off”. There was mutual trust. As a woman photographing men dressed as women, I was doubly aware of the surrealism involved. It made me question what I used to take for granted, about appearances and what constitutes gender. Image by Ellen Wallenstein |
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