Andrew Skalak (@_skalak ) (b. Davenport, Iowa) is a New York-based cinematographer and photographer. His work is rooted in film - motion picture to still, unwilling to surrender the concentration, techniques, and necessary discernment that produced the refined landscape of image which came to define the visuality of twentieth century American prosperity, and the language of the visual cultural document. As a working documentary and narrative cinematographer, photography serves as a counterpoint to the hectic apparatus of film production, and a reprieve from the disarming ease and perfection of digital workflows. Instead of seeking to hold the world still and fabricate fictional narratives, Skalak uses the road to discover sites, juxtapositions and subjects with their own latent narratives.
Raised along the Mississippi River, always drawn to the arteries of the global economy, the artist maps larger systems throughout these regions including energetic flows, water development, and patterns of utopian religious settlement, while surveying the industrial expansion and contraction from the Mississippi watershed to the oil fields of the Permian Basin.
Skalakโs projects have screened at Doc NYC, Chicago International Film Festival, A Century of 16mm, and Seattle International Film Festival, among others. In 2025 he was selected to attend the Carrizozo artist residency program in Carrizozo, New Mexico.
Three questions with Zolt from Test Strip @teststrip.iso at the Printed Matter LA Art Book Fair @printedmatter_artbookfairs@printedmatterinc
hard liver notes: My one year anniversary of discovering Test Strip was this time last year at the PM LAABF. I immediately subscribed to receive an issue and a limited print in the mail every month. Since the first issue, my favorite part has been discovering a new artist every month and even see a friend ( @ethnming ) be featured in an issue. Looking forward to more discovery and more fun with Test Strip!
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Matthew Phipps practice, as I'd prefer to describe it best, is something akin to, or rather downstream of Jodorowsky's 1974 adaptation of Rene Daumal's seminal, unfinished novel 'Mount Analog' - The Holy Mountain. Based in CMDX, Phipp's lens is secondary in his practice, we might consider "light" to be it's primary element, but that is not to consider light purely as photon-reacting-with-film. Here, we might consider light in it's metaphysical character, "stepping towards the light" or orienting one to a life full and well lived. Phipps writes simply "I believe there is great beauty in the reality of the world" and it should be noted, that reality he images does not stray from death, decay, grief, struggle, yet understands it in the wholeness of light as it reaches up. The making of the image becomes a practice not of capturing, but of prepense.
Jaeden Hannus and Ceninye Harris are emerging photographers and curators based in Chicago, IL. The two artists, falling into a cadence working and thinking in close proximity, have rapidly gained experience in exhibitions and the curatorial process. Both artists have had recent solo shows and presented an acumen in bringing photographic works, now commonly relegated to the image - into the material. Issue No. 29 presents the work of 18 photographers presented in a recent exhibition presented by Hannus and Harris. The issue serves as an accompaniment to the exhibition, rather than a catalog. An image of the exhibition follows alongside this issue, and writing about their show "from porch to patio" can be found in New City magazine.
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