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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Dana Fritz – Terraria Gigantica & Other Views

Recently published, Terraria Gigantica: The World under Glass by Dana Fritz explores the itersection of natural and controlled environments through a series of photographs made in some of the world's largest enclosed landscapes. Recently, the COMP Magazine caught up with Fritz while she was in Chicago at a book ...
December 22, 2017
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Scott Dietrich – Eyes on SE Asia

In this age of global communication there are still clearly distinct differences between the Orient and Occident. Photographer, Scott Dietrich, based in Hong Kong diligently seeks out people and place in the spirit of early 20th century street photographers. The COMP Magazine finally caught up with this itinerant photographer ...
January 1, 2015
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Ron Gordon – Preservationist Photographer

Ron Gordon has documented the Chicago urban landscape and its inhabitants for almost 40 years. His photographic practice is simple, direct, yet comprehensive. The COMP Magazine recently visited his Halsted studio on the eastern edge of Pilsen to discuss an array of items ranging from teaching photography at the ...
December 30, 2014
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