Category Archives: Personal Projects

Jim Fiscus’ photographic novella explores fashion and obsession

It’s amazing how far artists are willing to go to bring their ideas to life. For his latest personal project, “The Unfortunate Moment of Misunderstanding,” Jim Fiscus wanted to tell his dreamed-up tale of a wood carver who crafts life-size dolls of the same woman over and over again, each time meticulously creating a new [...]

Abandoned homes and broken dreams: Lauren Greenfield on her photo essay “Foreclosure Alley”

In the three short years between 2004 and 2007, more than 360,000 homes were purchased in the area known as the Inland Empire, about two hours’ drives from Los Angeles. By November 2008, property values had plummeted and almost a third of the home owners there had defaulted on their mortgages, resulting in a landscape [...]