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10/29/2020

Photographer of the Week: Genesis Báez, an artist primarily working with photography and video.

This selection comes from the series Otra Vida, Otra Vez. Made in Puerto Rico on Báez’s return visits to her family’s homeland, Otra Vida, Otra Vez (Another Life, Another Time, or, Another Life, Again) also considers the meaning of home while living in diaspora. Báez photographed family, friends, domestic spaces and the land to trace the ways in which intimacy, care, distance, and longing often coexist. Made in Yabucoa in the years leading up to massive political and environmental shifts, the photographs also reveal the sometimes subtle yet deep ways in which US colonial power manifests in daily life, and the ways in which life moves around and beyond it.

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02/14/2019

ANNOUNCING

Capricious Photo Award Recipient
Sasha Phyars-Burgess


Capricious is pleased to announce Sasha Phyars-Burgess as recipient of the second annual Capricious Photo Award. Sasha is a vital, emerging voice in contemporary photography, engaging the charged line between documentary and fine art. Her work ranges from affecting studies on diaspora, family and place to revolving social phenomenons in which energy, beauty and power meet.

Of her practice Sasha states:

I am interested in What is seen, and the cultural connotations and markers that come with looking at bodies, particularly black ones. I use a documentary approach in order to view the domestic, the unsupervised, and the ordinary in an effort to reveal the mundane reality of lives that are often under continued supervision and oppressive state and social violence. I was born in 1988. I am a scorpio. I am black. I am Alive.

Sasha Phyars-Burgess was born in Brooklyn, New York to Trinidadian parents and raised in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. She received a BA in photography from Bard College and an MFA from Cornell University. This will be her first book.

The Capricious Photo Award was founded by Sophie Mörner and provides one photographer with the financial and editorial support to bring a body of work to fruition in book form. The 2018 jury was lead by Capricious Founder/Publisher Sophie Mörner and Senior Editor/Associate Publisher Anika Sabin, alongside Lauren Cornell (Director of the Graduate Program/Chief Curator at CCS Bard), Ka-Man Tse (Photographer/Video Artist/Educator), Matt Keegan (Visual Artist/Educator), Guadalupe Rosales (Artist/Archivist), Lyndsy Welgos (Visual Artist/Founder of Topical Cream), Katherine Hubbard (Interdisciplinary Artist/Educator) and JOFF (Associate Director of Parsons MFA Fashion Design & Society).

Image: Jerry Lim

11/30/2018

🍒THIS SATURDAY🍒 Lil Deb’s Oasis and Baby Company present performances by B.Anele, Ren Cook, lexi welch, effie bowen , and Aristilde Kirby 🍊 73 Allen, 3RD Fl 🍊

11/07/2018

John Edmonds’ Higher - on view at @parisphotofair as part of the Paris Photo-Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Awards Shortlist for First PhotoBook
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09/21/2018

TODAY 🌹 Join @johncedmonds at 4PM for a book signing of “Higher” — his debut monograph spanning the first decade of his photographic practice. #NYABF #booksigning

08/30/2018

*PRE-ORDER* Higher by John Edmonds | Capricious

Pre-order is now available!

Higher by John Edmonds is a monograph spanning the first decade of his photographic practice and includes texts by Dr. Aaron Rosen, Durga Chew-Bose, and conversation with Mickalene Thomas.

100 plus page, full colour / gold silk cloth hardcover with white, black, and blue foil stamp.

Pre-orders will ship September 22nd.

Higher by John Edmonds is a monograph spanning the first decade of his photographic practice and includes texts by Dr. Aaron Rosen, Durga Chew-Bose, and conversation with Mickalene Thomas. 100 plus...

06/20/2018

Capricious Photo Award

The Capricious Photo Award is an annual international competition, granting one emerging photographer the opportunity to publish a limited edition book.

——Deadline Extension: Apply through July 1st——

The Capricious Photo Award is an annual international competition, granting one emerging photographer the opportunity to publish a limited edition book.

06/20/2018

Photo by John Edmonds

06/15/2018

Capricious Photo Award

*DEADLINE EXTENSION!*

Apply to the Capricious Photo Award through July 1st

The Capricious Photo Award is an annual international competition, granting one emerging photographer the opportunity to publish a limited edition book.

05/02/2018

*PRE-ORDER* Quiet Storm by Jonathan Lyndon Chase | Capricious

Quiet Storm by Jonathan Lyndon Chase available for pre-order and launching this Sunday, May 6th at Company Gallery

Quiet Storm by Jonathan Lyndon Chase is published in conjunction with his solo exhibition at COMPANY GALLERY. This 70-plus page catalogue includes sketches, photography and poetry that inform the thought and process behind...

05/01/2018

Capricious Photo Award

Applications open now!

The Capricious Photo Award is an annual international competition, granting one emerging photographer the opportunity to publish a limited edition book.

01/05/2018

Capricious Photo Award Winner: John Edmonds

Capricious is pleased to announce John Edmonds as the recipient of the inaugural Capricious Photo Award.

John Edmonds is an important, rising voice in contemporary photography, distilling mediations on black masculinity into affecting portraiture. The book will be the culmination of several bodies of work unified around his interests in the Black body as a site for contemplation, spirituality and beauty. This is Edmonds' first book.

John Edmonds is an artist working in photography whose practice includes fabric, video, and text. He received his MFA in Photography from Yale University School of Art and his BFA in Photography at the Corcoran School of Arts and Design.

The Capricious Photo Award was founded by Sophie Mörner and provides one photographer with the financial resources and editorial support to bring a body of work to fruition in book form.

The 2017 Capricious Photo Award jury consisted of Sophie Mörner, Anika Sabin, Katherine Hubbard, Charlotte Cotton, Deborah Willis, Shannon Michael Cane, Hanna Liden, JOFF, Emma Reeves, Tim Barber, Paul Mpagi Sepuya, and Melanie Bonajo.

10/31/2017

Capricious TOM

Check it out! New from Capricious: TOM by Silvia Prada in collaboration with Tom of Finland.

Available on our shop: https://becapricious.com/shop/tom/

TOM $25.00 In collaboration with Tom of Finland foundation, Prada creates drawings in conversation with Tom’s personal collages and archives — opening the narrative to understand new nuances of sexuality through the perspective of a woman. This book features writings of Michael Bullock (author of Ro...

08/02/2017

Capricious Blog

Check out our newest Photographer of the Week, Jon Henry. Live now on the Capricious Blog!

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Photographer of the Week #179: Jon Henry August 2, 2017 Jon Henry is New York based visual artist working primarily in photography. “Strange Fruit”, a recent series by photographer Jon Henry, echoes the classical melancholic tenderness of a pietà, contextualizing the composition’s symbolic relations...

07/25/2017

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Check out Photographer of the Week David Rothenberg!

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David Rothenberg is a visual artist and an adjunct professor of photography at The City University of New York living in Queens, New York. He received his MFA in Photography from the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College and his BFA in Photography from Parsons School of Design. Hi...

06/29/2017

Photographer of the Week #177: Athena Torri

This week and through the weekend we are featuring the work of Athena Torri.

Torri's work explores connections between the human condition and the surrounding natural landscape. Each series presents a different anthropological discourse seen through the lens of the artist's personal history and their poetically charged, and traditionally photographic, aesthetic sensibility.

Athena Torri is an Ecuadorian Italian artist based in Beacon, NY. Born in Milan, Athena grew up in Quito, Ecuador before immigrating to the United States. Athena has a BFA from Ringling College of Art and Design, and a General Studies Certificate from the International Center of Photography.

06/21/2017

Cristina Velásquez is a Colombian photographer based in New York City. She holds a B.A. in Industria

Check out Photographer of the Week: Cristina Velásquez

“Through photography, Velásquez explores the power —and limitations— of representation and translation between cultures of resistance. It attends to the ways in which shared notions of value are shaped and governed by images, social conventions, political relationships, and language."

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06/14/2017

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Check out our newest Photographer of the Week: Nik Antonio

Nik Antonio's ongoing series, Tale of "i", utilizes portraiture not only as a means for creating narrative through pose, placement and gesture; but also presenting the body as a vehicle for understanding desire and intimacy as universal aspects of personal relationships.

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Nik Antonio is a Brooklyn based photographer, born and raised in different parts of the New York City area. Antonio is a recent BFA graduate from Parson School of Art and Design.

06/06/2017

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Check out our newest Photographer of the Week: Carlos Jaramillo
live now on the Capricious Blog!

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Through selective emphasis on specific human interventions of spaces and objects, Jaramillo’s work presents the viewer with an idiosyncratic depiction of his subjects.

05/30/2017

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Introducing Photographer of the Week Jesus Madriñán

In Madriñán’s project, Dopo Roma, he uses studio lighting to photograph people outside roman clubs as the night draws to an end. Madriñán’s choice to use studio lighting refuses the traditional candid nature of party pictures, creating dissonance between the aesthetic and the physical

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05/25/2017

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Check out our latest Photographer of the Week: Evelyn Pustka!

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Evelyn Pustka is an American photographer, working between New Haven, New York, and Houston. She is currently a 2018 MFA candidate at the Yale School of Art. Born in Houston, Evelyn received her BFA from the University of Texas, Austin.

05/09/2017

Juliana Huxtable talks about conspiracy and her show at Reena Spaulings

Juliana Huxtable, whose new book Mucus in My Pineal Gland is now available through Capricious and Wonder, talks to Artforum about her new solo exhibition at Reena Spaulings, writing, and "the aesthetics of conspiracy and American paranoia."

#julianahuxtable #mucusinmypinealgland

New York–based artist, writer, and performer Juliana Huxtable brings her trenchant voice and #shockvalue flair to two new publications out this year: Mucus in My

05/02/2017

Capricious Award deadline extended! More info: capricious.picter.com

05/02/2017

Melina Papageorgiou

Introducing Photographer of the Week: Melina Papageorgiou.

Over the past six years, Papageorgiou has spent time in the United Arab Emirates and Oman. Here she developed Burkini, a photo project that focuses on capturing the sense of these individual places through her personal experiences. These photographs are composed in a way that gives the viewer space to take in the details of each subject and object individually.

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04/25/2017

*PRE SALE* Juliana Huxtable's Mucus in my Pineal Gland

Excited to announce Juliana Huxtable's MUCUS IN MY PINEAL GLAND is now available for pre sale orders.

Reserve your copy today on the Capricious Shop!

A 180+ page collection of poems and writings by artist and performer Juliana Huxtable. Juliana Huxtable is a New York City-based writer, performer, and artist. Her work has been featured in numerous publications, including Artforum, Candy, Tropical Cream, and Mousse. She was included in the

04/11/2017

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Introducing Photographer of the Week: Samantha Friend.

In the selected photographs, Friend documents human interaction with manicured nature: rose gardens, parks and atriums, these designated areas are equipped with walkways and fences that facilitate and direct movement within the kept spaces...

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04/04/2017

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Introducing Photographer of the Week Guanyu Xu!

In “One Land To Another,” Xu utilizes mirrors, eye contact with the viewer, and tight camera angles to construct a narrative that presents moments of intimacy and longing, questioning who looks and is being looked at. These images are shaped by American generalizations of gay Asian men as both feminine and submissive.

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Guanyu Xu is a Chicago-based artist working in photography and installation. Born in Beijing, Xu moved to the United States where he earned his BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He is a recipient of the Fred Endsley Memorial Fellowship, a finalist for the Lucie Foundation Emerging...

03/28/2017

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Introducing Photographer of the Week: Akasha Rabut.

Akasha Rabut’s series Southern Riderz captures the vibrant lives of a group of urban cowboys in New Orleans called The Game Changers. The Game Changers emerged from a tradition of black cowboys in the South and particularly in New Orleans
Rabut’s photographs document The Game Changers in various locations: at their stable, in New Orleans and at the trail ride - a yearly event held in western Louisiana where tens of thousands of cowboys and spectators gather to celebrate the tradition of riding.

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Akasha Rabut is a photographer based in New Orleans, LA, and New York City. She has a BFA in photography from the San Francisco Art Institute. She has been published in Vogue, ESPN, The Magazine, Bust Magazine, Accent, Barbara and Juxtapoz.

03/21/2017

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Introducing Photographer of the Week: Griselda San Martin

Griselda San Martin’s photographs effectively convey the dehumanizing consequences of ‘The Wall’. At its best, the fence polls are wide enough so an arm could fit through, though the United States officials prohibit touching. Touch is craved deeply, shown in the images of cracked hands pushed against the metal mesh in order for pinky fingers to touch.

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Griselda San Martin is a Spanish documentary photographer and visual journalist based in New York City and Tijuana, Mexico. For the past four years she has been documenting the U.S.- Mexico border, staying most of the time in Tijuana, a community that has been a victim of Mexico's drug war and has b...

03/14/2017

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Introducing Photographer of the Week: Daniel Orr!

His series capturing the 2016 Women's March in DC, reexamines the event through the forms, shapes, highlights and color fields present throughout the landscape of the march. His photographs present us with a broad perspective of the dichotomous tone of the 48 hour event, ranging from rageful resistance to decorous celebration.

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03/07/2017

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Introducing Photographer of the Week: Zuza Krajewska

Zuza Krajewska is a photographer and filmmaker currently based in Warsaw. Her work is characterized by her socially engaging subject matter and her determination in capturing the entirety of an obscured narrative through one single image.
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03/02/2017

Capricious Photo Award

Spring is fast approaching- SUBMISSION OPEN NOW!

The Capricious Award will provide one photographer with the resources and editorial support to bring a body of work to fruition. The award will be juried by photographers, critics and curators, with the intent to select a photographer whose work is both distinct in point of view and boldly relevant…

02/21/2017

Photographer of the Week #164: Isabel Magowan

Introducing Photographer of the Week: Isabel Magowan.

Magowan’s vivid and rich photographs capture tender moments in the wake of adolescence, these transitory junctions are palpable instances of self recognition and finding the footing to interact with a culture that has a particular set of expectations and norms.

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Isabel Magowan lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. She received a BA in History from Wesleyan University in 2011 and a MFA in Photography from Yale School of Art in 2015. Magowan’s work has been exhibited in New York and Los Angeles, and appeared in numerous digital and print publications inclu