For our 2022 Booooooom Photo Awards we selected 6 winners, one for each category: CLIMATE, PEOPLE, PLACES, THINGS, SERENDIPITY, COMMUNITY. Here is our interview with CLIMATE Winner Mithail Afrige Chowdhury. Mithail is a documentary and street photographer based in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Born and raised in Khulna, Mithail has always been a keen observer of the people around him – their […]
April 25, 2023 Artists Barcelona-based muralist, fine artist, and experimenter Sixe Paredes is associated with his vibrant extractions with a geometric lightness. His stylized murals may have elements of nature, mythology, and indigenous echoes; delivered in a whimsical, surreal, and engaging way that keeps even his most static work moving. At work for the last two decades, building a name […]
April 25, 2023 Artists Barcelona-based muralist, fine artist, and experimenter Sixe Paredes is associated with his vibrant extractions with a geometric lightness. His stylized murals may have elements of nature, mythology, and indigenous echoes; delivered in a whimsical, surreal, and engaging way that keeps even his most static work moving. At work for the last two decades, building a name […]
A selection of paintings from Brooklyn-based artist Alexander Harrison’s recent solo exhibition, Big World, at Kasmin gallery. With a long-held interest in the cosmos and physics, Harrison creates an “alternate dimension” in his paintings — “a universe that feels like a fever dream as shown through my eyes.” He invokes the grandiosity of the cosmos with symbols like shooting stars […]
April 24, 2023 Artists As the corporations and the war machine continue to destroy and de-nature, Italian muralist Fabio Petani makes it his job to re-nature with his rich representation of beauty. It isn’t quite summer here yet in Comacchio, Italy, but Mr. Petani is on the Po river delta for the Manufactory Project 2023 painting his newest mural that […]
April 24, 2023 Artists As the corporations and the war machine continue to destroy and de-nature, Italian muralist Fabio Petani makes it his job to re-nature with his rich representation of beauty. It isn’t quite summer here yet in Comacchio, Italy, but Mr. Petani is on the Po river delta for the Manufactory Project 2023 painting his newest mural that […]
Seattle-based artist Tom DesLongchamp turns 8 years of portrait-making into an intimate art book. “Nowhere to Now” charts Tom’s evolution from doodling during breaks at work to full-time devotion. The intro and section titles share details about Tom’s approach to creativity in general, but also include specific information about his unique ink/fingerprint/masking technique. The book offers an intimate view of […]
“Ex Animo”, Eight Years of Poetry by Faith Forty SevenWorn workers, wild beasts, a bloom in the rubble. Prayers of supplication and longing, racing teams of stallions and master felines of fury, the exhausted figure of a dream barely still illuminated, …
“Aliens, That’s What They Called Them”- Molly Crabapple on the Streets“I left all my memories in Syria, so there’s nothing left to take”. “Husband works in construction. Husband salary depends on luck, waits on side of the street to get picked”. “Prefer by land, …
Our weekly focus on the moving image and art in the streets. And other oddities. Now screening:1. GARBAGE FUTURISM POST-WASTE / BAER 2. Jaune Quick-to-See Smith: Memory Map via Guggenheim Museum 3. TENS Crew – The Molson Project via Spray Daily BSA Special Feature: GARBAGE FUTURISM POST-WASTE / BAER Horror, fluorescence, biting parody, and flirting with futuristic horror! What’s not […]