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Dr. Shana Lopes and Tarrah Krajnak, San Francisco, CA, 2024.
Unseen California will be at the SFABF.
Join us July 20, 2-3pm at the TIS table for a book signing with artist Tarrah Krajnak, Mercedes Dorame, and Karolina Karlic.
Unseen California launches new risograph publication, “Language Has No Weather: Field Notes From Unseen California” at the NYABF, April 24-28, 2024.
A look inside “Language Has No Weather” (bottom) and “Field Notes from Unseen California unique folio” (top). New York Art Book Fair, 2023.
Penumbra Foundation is pleased to present: Field notes from Unseen California
Aspen Mays, Dionne Lee, Karolina Karlic, Mercedes Dorame and Tarrah Krajnak
Opening Reception: Thursday, October 19, 6–8 pm.
October 19, 2023 — January 15, 2024
Related Programming: Panel discussion | Saturday, October 21, 1 pm | Kindly RSVP
with Aspen Mays, Karolina Karlic and Mercedes Dorame. Moderated by Shana Lopes, Assistant Curator of Photography, SFMOMA.
The discussion will center on the artists’ experience as the an inaugural cohort of the arts research initiative Unseen California. This event includes the launch of a limited edition portfolio of risograph prints by the imprint theretherenow and Unseen California.
The Voices of Photographers on Nature and Environment
Published in IMA, a Japanese photographic magazine, chief editor of Aperture, Lesley Martin, introduces Unseen California to an international audience and writes:
“American landscape photography cannot be disentangled from the colonial history of Northern Europeans surveying, settling, and selling the American wilderness. Contemporary American photographers working toward a greater awareness of our current climate crisis and a more complete understanding of human impact on the natural world have fully absorbed these lessons. The challenge today is how to approach environmental issues with a holistic understanding of the complex forces that shape our landscape. How can photography about the environment and our use of it grapple with the natural world, while also addressing the politics, and the economic and social histories of the land in which we live? Unseen California’s proposition and ambition feels tremendously invigorating in an area of photography desperately in need of reinvention.”