Blackout Tuesday
June 2, 2020 Aint–Bad is not perfect. As an organization, we have not always used our platform to the best of its ability. We recognize the need for voices to…
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Kevin Williamson
Kevin Williamson is a photographer and BFA candidate at Massachusetts College of Art and Design. A move from rural New York to Boston for school has influenced the way that…
Adam Geary “Slow Gaze” – Book Review
The Slow Gaze photobook takes a look beneath the cracks of our increasingly fractured lives. Lives in which the ‘home’; itself a shelter to our consciousness, has become a fragile…
Ellen Stewart
Ellen Stewart is a fine-art photographer living and working in London. Stewart graduated with a Photography degree from the Arts University Bournemouth in 2019. Presently, she is undergoing the first…
Michael Amato
Michael Amato is a fine art photographer, emerging artist, and a Hilla Rebay Post Baccalaureate Fellow at Trinity College in Hartford Connecticut. Much of his work carries a central theme…
Bree Lamb
Bree Lamb is an artist, educator, and editor based in New Mexico. She received her MFA in Photography from the University of New Mexico. Bree is a Beaumont Newhall/Van Deren…
Pascal Haas “TEL-AVIVIS” – Book Review
The photography book TEL—AVIVIS shows Jewish and Arab Israelis on the beach of Tel Aviv. The portraits capture the urban hedonism of young men of different backgrounds, with a focus…
What We’ve Found: Covid-19
Hi everyone! We hope that you and loved ones are continuing to stay safe and healthy. It’s been a month since I posted the initial covid-19 call for entry, and…
Joe Nigel Coleman
Joe Nigel Coleman (B. 1987) is a photographer from Melbourne, Australia. Inspired by artists from the Romantic era, there is a painterly quality to his work, an ethereal or other-worldly…
Heather Rattray
Heather Rattray is a queer photographer born in Vancouver, British Columbia. She lives and works in Toronto, Ontario, and recently graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Ryerson University…
HanShun Zhou
Born and raised in Singapore, Zhou HanShun is a Photographic Artist and Art Director. After graduating from Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts Singapore and RMIT University, he went on to…
Ilan Rabchinskey
Ilán Rabchinskey (b. 1980) is a Mexican artist. Among other themes, his photographic work explores the tension between the forces of nature and the human species, the physical constitution of…
Brian Kanagaki
Brian Kanagaki is an art director and photographer living and working in New York City. Along with his wife Amy, he runs the black and white publishing imprint Soft Copy.…
In Conversation: Peter Watkins
Peter Watkins (born in 1984, UK) is an artist based in London. His autobiographical work begins with photography, but incorporates sculptural and spatial elements. His work is above all a…
In Conversation: Patty Carroll on “Domestic Demise”
Patty Carroll has been known for her use of highly intense, saturated color photographs since the 1970’s. After teaching photography for many years, she delights viewers with her playful critique…
In conversation: Olga Bushkova
Olga Bushkova (1988) was born and grew up in Rostov-on-Don, Russia, now is a Zurich-based artist. Graduated from Rostov State University with a Master degree in Applied Math, she began…
Patricia Voulgaris
Patricia Voulgaris is an artist and educator from New York. She graduated from the School of Visual Arts with a BFA in photography. Her work has been exhibited in numerous…
Dana Mueller
Dana Mueller was born and raised in Thuringia, East Germany until the fall of the Berlin Wall. She received her MFA in Photography from the Massachusetts College of Art +…
Alisa O’Connor
Alisa O’Connor is a photographer and photo editor originally hailing from southern Illinois. Now based in New York, she has worked extensively as a photo editor in music, travel, and…
Lex Thompson
Lex Thompson’s work examines aspects of American intellectual and cultural history in relationship to contemporary thought. Obtaining a BA in History at New College of Florida and a MA in…
Tagger Yancey
Tagger is a queer photographer, photo editor, and fine artist originally from Rochester, New York. He earned a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2012, and has…
Greg Holland
Greg Holland is a photographer raised in the North of England but has been in constant transit since he got a camera. Working between documentary and fashion photography, the camera…
Brittany Marcoux
Brittany Marcoux is a photographer and visual artist from Massachusetts. In 2016 she received her MFA in photography from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design. She has exhibited at…
Henrik Emtkjær Hansen
Henrik Emtkjær Hansen is a self-taught danish photographer with a focus on personal landscapes in and around the Wadden Sea area, Denmark. In his work, he often looks for the…
In Conversation: Evan Allan on “The Tiger Beetle”
Evan Allan is a Brooklyn based photographer working primarily with the constructed American landscape. He grew up in the mountains of Western North Carolina and received his BA from UNC…
Clár Tillekens
Clár Tillekens is an American Irish photographer born in New York. As a daughter of Irish immigrants who is now based in Europe, her work focuses on plural citizenship, transnationalism,…
Kim Llerena
Kim Llerena is a photographic artist currently based in Washington, D.C. She holds an MFA in Photographic & Electronic Media from the Maryland Institute College of Art and a BA…
Leandro Colantoni
Leandro Colantoni was born in Agrigento (Sicily) in 1991, where he currently lives. He started shooting actively in 2015, after discovering Luigi Ghirri’s Kodachrome. He immediately gave up the idea…
Sam Gregg
Sam Gregg (b. 1990) is a London born & based portrait and documentary photographer. With a particular interest in marginalised and dispossessed communities, Gregg’s work is both immersive and removed,…
In Conversation: Molly Matalon on “When a Man Loves a Woman”
Molly Matalon is a photographer born and raised in South Florida. She received her BFA in photography from The School of Visual Arts in New York City. Her work deals…
Daniel Everett
Daniel Everett is an artist and professor based in Provo, Utah working across photography, sculpture, and video. He received his MFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago…
Kyle Berger
Born in 1991 and raised under the soft glow of spinning strip mall signs in the swelling suburbs of Western Canadian prairies. Spending scorching summer evenings riding bikes in circles…
Evan Hume
Evan Hume is an artist living and working in South Bend, Indiana. He is currently the Visiting Lecturer of Photography at the University of Notre Dame. Hume earned his BFA…
John Watts
John Watts is a self-taught photographer and artist based in Toronto. John discovered analog photography while at school on the east coast of Canada to capture memories for him and…
What We’ve Found – Covid-19
Hello everyone! We hope that you’re all staying sane and well in these trying times. Across many parts of the world, humanity is being forced to reckon with the existential…
Rydel Cerezo
Rydel Cerezo is a Filipino-born visual artist working in Vancouver, Canada. Cerezo’s work investigates the spaces between sexuality, religion, and race, and how these disparate themes metaphorically and visually coalesce.…
What We’ve Found – Mass Production
Hello everyone, happy end of March! Thank y’all for your wonderful submissions to this month’s mass production WWF. While the spirit of large-scale excess is captured in various different manifestations…
Maxi Magnano
Maximiliano Magnano is born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1989. He grew up in a town called Pilar. At the age of 25 he took up photography as a hobby,…
David Avazzadeh
David Avazzadeh is a self-taught photographer based in Vienna. After graduating from the University of Vienna with a Bachelor of Arts, he started working as a freelance photographer. Beside several…
In Conversation: Alana Celii on “Paradise Falling”
Recently I had the opportunity to speak with Alana Celii to discuss her first monograph: Paradise Falling. Paradise Falling is published through Aint-Bad with orders shipping out later this month.…
In Conversation: Christopher E Manning on “Everything, As Perfect As It Seems”
Christopher E. Manning has an MFA from SUNY New Paltz and BFA from Manhattanville College. He is currently the Exhibitions Manager at The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, as well as…
Emma Ressel
Emma Ressel (b. Bar Harbor, Maine) is a Brooklyn-based fine-art photographer who creates surreal still life photographs of food. Her photographs are surprising compositions that challenge pure aesthetic pleasure and…