sun, water, beingFor two decades, Bryant Austin documented the interplay between the sun, water, and the eye, which he calls the window to the soul, of whales and dolphins. While capturing the alignment of the sun and moon in Yosemite National Park, he experienced his ego diminish and the cosmos exist by itself. Bryant also trains with his breath to achieve a state of wakeful awareness underwater; in a place of silence, reverence and detachment, where he connects with

” I was 26 years old back then

Linda Rosenkrantz asked her friend Peter Hujar to write down everything he did one day

It includes Weems’ earliest series

Rooted in the same sense of longing — for the imagined comfort of warm blue water and an escape from one’s familiar surroundings — these complementary sensory worlds form a kind of mirage: a prism of banal surfaces

Such an infinite landscape

is a personal reflection of the River Thames at its point of connection with the sea

As an undergraduate

Sometimes they are composed by a principle of magnification

and Michele Bachmann

making it well-suited to handheld photography and working in difficult lighting conditions

vivid color images of the conflicts in Central America in the 1980s

Rodriguez draws a line between his stripped-down portraits and Weil’s life’s work