Video: The Docks aka "Tiger Bay" by Clement Cooper

Last week photographer Clement Cooper sent me this video via Facebook. It features still photographs taken by Cooper in 1995 when he was in Butetown, Cardiff (Wales) working on the images for his DEEP, a body of work that explored "the contientious issue surrounding British mixed-heritage identity".

From Wikipedia: "Commonly known as "Tiger Bay", this area became one of the UK's first multicultural communities with people from over 50 countries settled here by the outbreak of World War I, working in the docks and allied industries."

Photographer Interview: Justine Reyes

While books and the web enable us to consume photography wherever we are, there's nothing like seeing a photograph up close. This past April I discovered Justine Reyes' work while attending the Women in Art Photography Panel.

From her Vanitas series, I saw the luminescent image of a half-eaten banana composed with a coin purse, clearly recalling the 15th century still lifes made popular by Dutch master painters.

Reyes' lighting skills go beyond the technical because she uses them to convey a deep, emotional feeling that is unique in each series whether she's photographing decaying fruit or family members.

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D&B: Where are you from?
JR: I was born in San Bernadino, California but moved to New York City when I was two.