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Center for Fine Art Photography will be closing permanently on January 31, 2025. Please read the letter from the Board o...
01/15/2025

Center for Fine Art Photography will be closing permanently on January 31, 2025. Please read the letter from the Board of Directors on our website: https://c4fap.org/our-vision-1

The final image we are sharing from Center Forward 2024 is “Karmacoma” by Tako Young. “fingers pull at fate lost cards s...
12/18/2024

The final image we are sharing from Center Forward 2024 is “Karmacoma” by Tako Young.

“fingers pull at fate
lost cards scatter slow
a massive attack”

Tako Young is a NYC-based photographer who explores the blurred lines between memory and moment through the grain and unpredictability of 35mm film. Her work focuses on intimate yet often ambiguous interactions that, when isolated through the camera lens, take on a cinematic and surreal quality.

Originally from Beijing and Vancouver, Tako works primarily with film photography to capture fleeting moments and subtle emotions. Growing up away from home taught her to listen to her intuition and observe the world with a detached yet curious eye—a guide she follows unapologetically, as it’s all she’s ever had to rely on.

To view this image in our online gallery, visit https://c4fap.org/center-forward-2024

Center Forward 2024 onsite exhibition was held October 30 - November 24, 2024 at the Center for Creativity in Fort Collins, CO.

“Further West” by Jushua White is our featured image today. It is on view in the online exhibition, Center Forward 2024....
12/17/2024

“Further West” by Jushua White is our featured image today. It is on view in the online exhibition, Center Forward 2024.

Joshua White reflects on the ways in which history has repeatedly shown that humanity takes what it wants. Whether cloaked in the language of progress, divine right, or manifest destiny, the underlying reality remains the same. While White has a deep admiration for science, the expansion of human knowledge, space travel, and the exploration of the unknown, he is deeply skeptical of the notion of terraforming another planet or seeking an escape route while continuing to exploit and destroy the resources of Earth.

However, White acknowledges that this perspective is not the full picture. The images he creates are curious and beautiful, representing a sense of wonder. They honor the work of brilliant scientists and engineers who developed the technology that allows us to view the surface details of a planet 100 million miles away. These works do not offer answers but serve as meditations on humanity's mediated experience of the unknown, along with reflections on the responsibilities people have to one another here on Earth.

The tintypes in White’s collection are made from images captured by the HiRISE (High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment) camera aboard the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. The plates are created in-camera by photographing edited sections of the RAW images, further blurring the line between the technological and the artistic in his exploration of space and humanity’s place within it.

To view this image in our online gallery, visit https://c4fap.org/center-forward-2024

Center Forward 2024 onsite exhibition was held October 30 - November 24, 2024 at the Center for Creativity in Fort Collins, CO.

Our featured image today is “Walk With Me” by Bahar Tusi, on view in the online exhibition, Center Forward 2024. Bahar T...
12/16/2024

Our featured image today is “Walk With Me” by Bahar Tusi, on view in the online exhibition, Center Forward 2024.

Bahar Tusi experiments with various methods and techniques in her photography practice to depict her dreams, fears, melancholic and nostalgic feelings that she experiences. She consciously expands the boundaries of her observation and explores conceptual and cognitive values. Her artistic endeavors are an extension of her personal experiences and passions. She is influenced, among other things, by the places she has lived and traveled, by nature, and by literature.

To view this image in our online gallery, visit https://c4fap.org/center-forward-2024

Center Forward 2024 onsite exhibition was held October 30 - November 24, 2024 at the Center for Creativity in Fort Collins, CO.

Today we are featuring “Milk Jug” from our online and in person exhibition, Center Forward 2024. Ian Stoufer doesn’t con...
12/15/2024

Today we are featuring “Milk Jug” from our online and in person exhibition, Center Forward 2024.

Ian Stoufer doesn’t consider himself a professional photographer; he simply has a passion for taking pictures. Over the past several years, photography has served as his excuse to venture out and explore. Stoufer is drawn to subjects that are out of place, abandoned, or no longer in use. He finds it both surprising and occasionally poetic to witness where life’s ephemera ends up once it is no longer needed.

To view this image in our online gallery, visit https://c4fap.org/center-forward-2024

Center Forward 2024 onsite exhibition was held October 30 - November 24, 2024 at the Center for Creativity in Fort Collins, CO.

Today we are featuring “Notes on a Moral Injury II.” This image from the series “In Case of Rapture” by Forrest Simmons ...
12/14/2024

Today we are featuring “Notes on a Moral Injury II.” This image from the series “In Case of Rapture” by Forrest Simmons and is part of the Center Forward 2024 Exhibition.

This ongoing series created by Forrest Simmons was born out of a profound period of mid-life transformations. Set against the backdrop of the impending birth of his first child and his mother's concurrent battle with the early stages of dementia, the work reflects Simmons' search for spiritual grounding in a time marked by anxiety, overload, and uncertainty.

The series is composed of tableau images, instinctive gestures, documentary-style photographs that interact with the landscape, and a video piece titled Closet Sonata, which explores the spiritual impulse found in solitude.

The tableau images follow a consistent methodology: the camera is set to record frames at regular intervals while Simmons inhabits the scene. He moves through the process of attempting to craft a performative action, but ultimately, more basic emotional impulses—boredom, sadness, frustration—take over. This leads to images that are both grounded and controlled, with the artist’s hand ceding to the immediacy of the moment.
In Case of Rapture serves as a record of Simmons' transition into a new chapter of life, where the technicolor fantasies and daydreams of youth give way to a more earthy tapestry of fragility, vulnerability, and acceptance.

To view this image in our online gallery, visit https://c4fap.org/center-forward-2024

Center Forward 2024 onsite exhibition was held October 30 - November 24, 2024 at the Center for Creativity in Fort Collins, CO.

“Shabot Shalom” is our featured image today. You can view it in the online exhibition, Center Forward 2024. For self-por...
12/13/2024

“Shabot Shalom” is our featured image today. You can view it in the online exhibition, Center Forward 2024.

For self-portraits, Susan Rosenberg Jones does not simply choose an environment and set up the tripod. She needs to think and plan the shoot for a while – sometimes a couple weeks or so, where an idea comes to mind, often from a dream, and she lets it percolate. The final step before shooting is planning how best to illustrate the story in her mind.

It is Jewish tradition to light the Shabbat candles every Friday night. Rosenberg Jones enjoys Friday night services when someone lights the candles, but she hardly ever lights them at home. When she does light them, she uses a set of candlesticks that have been in her family for a very long time. There’s an old sepia-toned photograph that appears to be from the turn of the 20th century, judging by the clothing the people are wearing. They’re seated at a table, upon which stand these very candlesticks.

Susan Rosenberg Jones is a portrait and documentary photographer based in New York City. Her work explores themes of home, family, community, identity, aging, love, and relationships.

To view this image in our online gallery, visit https://c4fap.org/center-forward-2024

Center Forward 2024 onsite exhibition was held October 30 - November 24, 2024 at the Center for Creativity in Fort Collins, CO.

Today we bring you Kathryn Rodrigues’s image “I Will Be The One You Need,” from our online exhibition, Center Forward 20...
12/12/2024

Today we bring you Kathryn Rodrigues’s image “I Will Be The One You Need,” from our online exhibition, Center Forward 2024.

Rodrigues’s series Homesick examines the contrast between her transient, international childhood and her current life parenting in the suburbs. While reckoning with putting down roots for the first time, she also struggles with the isolation of parenting. She began this series of performative self-portraits taken in her yard and around the exterior edges of her house. She explores the intersection of public and private domestic spaces, using her body as a cartographic tool for delineating and transgressing edges and boundaries. The images represent the range of emotions present as she wanders through the space, from dark humor and absurdity to yearning and hopefulness. The work celebrates these moments of attempted connection and stillness after a lifetime of movement.

Kathryn Rodrigues is a Chicago based artist and educator. Her photography-based practice investigates the interconnectedness of identity, memory, domestic life, and the natural world through a feminist lens.

To view this image in our online gallery, visit https://c4fap.org/center-forward-2024

Center Forward 2024 onsite exhibition was held October 30 - November 24, 2024 at the Center for Creativity in Fort Collins, CO.

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