Laurie says: As I said in my blog War Photographs: Disturbing Images I’ve been thinking about beautiful photographs of dreadful things for a long time. They make me viscerally uncomfortable. I’ll look at the front page of a newspaper and react positively to a beautifully composed photograph, and then I realize it’s of fighters shooting [...]

Laurie says: I saw these remarkable 19th century glass sculptures in a New York Times article In Pursuit of an Underwater Menagerie by C. Drew Harvell. I was particularity struck by them both as a photographer and as an artist who makes very detailed carvings in jewelry and sculpture. They exhibit the combination of vivid [...]

Lynne Murray says: In August of 2010, I posted here about feminist artist Brenda Oelbaum’s work turning diet books into papier mâché models of the Venus of Willendorf. Now Brenda is bringing her vision to the larger stage with “a national ad campaign to take down $66 BILLION Diet Industry.” She calls her project “DUMP [...]

Laurie says: I met José Ramón Lerma for the first time in 2004 when he bought two of my photographs at an exhibition of my work. We became friends. Later he acquired more of my photos, and I have a marvelous painting of his on my wall. José was in his seventies when I met [...]

There is a special quality in these exquisite images by  Polish photographer Magda Wasiczek. Beauty for it’s own sake is something I appreciate but it doesn’t necessarily deeply interest me. These images do. .. .. Photography raising awareness to the beauty of nature to me, I’ve learned to see things invisible, to enjoy a million [...]

Laurie says: Trigger warning: Photos in this post are of war and its effects. They are disturbing. I’ve been thinking about beautiful photographs of dreadful things for a long time. They make me viscerally uncomfortable. I’ll look at the front page of a newspaper and react positively to a beautifully composed photograph, and then I [...]

Laurie says: These remarkable photographs of nude dancers in motion are by Shinichi Maruyama. They are composed of innumerable shots of the dancers. The technique and the concept are as impressive as the images themselves. I first saw them on dreamboom: .. .. japanese photographer shinichi maruyama is well known for his colliding liquid photography [...]

Laurie says: Cross-posted on Feministe. When Nisi Shawl called me up and asked me to do the cover for her anthology Bloodchildren, I was astonished. Not because she asked me but because I knew I was going to say yes. I’ve never done a cover and my photography is normally unsuited for SF anthology. But [...]

Laurie says: I have a photography project that I’ve been wanting to work on for about the last year and there simply wasn’t enough time for it. So, I’m taking an Artist’s Sabbatical this winter to work on it. This means that regretfully, I won’t be at either Boskone or Norwescon. I’ll really miss people [...]

Laurie says: I’ve had a long passion for living volcanoes. It began when I shot at Mt St Helen a few years after it erupted and saw it smoking. It was the first time I’d seen a live volcano.  Since then I’ve made a point of seeing them, often on the Big Island (Hawaii). Sometimes I’ve [...]