Scott Fortino – A Tour of Charged & Privileged Spaces

Accessibility can be key in producing thought provoking images in photography. Former CPD officer and photographer Scott Fortino has navigated Chicago while making photographs with objective eye of spaces not commonly seen for the better part of 30 years. This week, the COMP Magazine traveled up to Buena ...
July 11, 2019
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Julie Weber – Subtleties in Light, Form, and Being

There is a sensual luminosity in the elegant approach to visual meditation in the practice of artist/photographer Julie Weber. In her photobook REMNANTS, published by Chicago's Skylark Editions, light experiments, and installation works one finds a clean and clear translation expanding investigation that references formal elements and ideas that ...
December 13, 2018
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Larry Ross – The Riberenos & a Conversation

Larry Ross has held a lifelong connection with the sciences and visual arts. Trained as a urologist and having taught and practiced medicine for a number of years at UIC in the College of Medicine, Ross is the Clarence C. Saelhof Professor Emeritus in the Department of Urology. In ...
July 17, 2018
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Jason Reblando – Diaspora & New Deals

Having photographed in an array of places, including Chicago public housing, the New Deal "Greenbelt Towns," the Philippines, and central Illinois, one can see how Jason Reblando's aesthetic practice is actively influenced by his background in sociology in a manner that recalls prominent social documentarians who worked in the ...
January 12, 2018
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