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Raxa Collective has favored photography that captures natural and/or cultural heritage at its best in documentary mode.  But we are interested in the boundaries of this medium, not least because several contributors cross those boundaries in their other work.  If you are interested in these issues, and happen to be in New York City any time in the next few months this show looks worth a visit:

Organized by ICP Curator Carol Squiers, What Is a Photograph? will explore the intense creative experimentation in photography that has occurred since the 1970s. Conceptual art introduced photography into contemporary art making, using the medium in ways that challenged it artistically, intellectually, and technically and broadened the notion of what a photograph could be in art. A new generation of artists began an equally rigorous but more aesthetically adventurous analysis, which probed photography itself—from the role of light, color, composition, to materiality and the subject.What Is a Photograph? brings together these artists, who reinvented photography.

From the press release for the exhibit:

On view at the International Center of Photography from January 31 through May 4, 2014, What Is a Photograph? explores the range of creative experimentation that has occurred in photography since the 1970s. Continue reading →