Keep the Channel Open

Kevin Miyazaki is an editorial and fine art photographer based in Milwaukee, WI. I've been a fan of Kevin's for some time now, both for his own work as well as his work highlighting and supporting the photographic community. We had a great conversation about his work and process, particularly about his use of image pairings and how effectively his photographs suggest a narrative, but with a sense of mystery as well. We also talked a lot about our common experiences as Japanese-Americans, and how our family histories inform our loves and our work. For the second segment, Kevin chose aging and ageism in creativity as his topic.

(Conversation recorded August 3, 2017.)

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• Kevin Miyazaki
• Kevin Miyazaki - Echo
• Kevin Miyazaki - Sky Above
• Kevin Miyazaki - Camp Home
• National Geographic - 14 Photos That Illumine a Dark Chapter of U.S. History
• Photolucida - 2016 Critical Mass Top 50
• Lenscratch
• Lenscratch - Kevin J. Miyazaki: The States Project: Wisconsin
• collect.give
• tinytinygroupshow
• Emily Shur
• Wendel A. White
• Kelli Connell
• Diane Fox
• Tule Lake Relocation Center
• Heart Mountain Relocation Center
• Yonsei (Japanese diaspora)
• Gosei (Japanese diaspora)
• Milwaukee Art Museum - Paul Druecke: A Social Event Archive, 1997-2007
• Paul Druecke

• Galveston County Food Bank
• Food Bank of Corpus Christi
• Houston Food Bank
• Texas Diaper Bank
• SPCA of Texas
• Portlight
• Coalition for the Homeless
• Southern Baptist Disaster Relief
• Heart to Heart International

Rizzhel Mae Javier is a photographer and installation artist based in San Diego, CA. I first met Rizzhel when we were both participating in the portfolio reviews at the Medium Festival a few years ago, and her stop-motion, flipbook-style pieces immediately caught my attention. More recently, Rizzhel was named one of the 2017 emerging artists by the SD Art Prize for her "Unmentionables" project, creating new art out of old mementos. We had a great conversation for the show about her artistic process, what she loves about making mistakes, and her experience as a teacher. For the second segment, Rizzhel chose the Philippines as her topic.

(Conversation recorded July 26, 2017.)

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• Rizzhel Mae Javier
• Rizzhel Mae Javier - Move(meant)
• Rizzhel Mae Javier - Unmentionables
• San Diego Art Institute - Millennial Pink
• SD Art Prize - 2017 New Contemporaries
• CM Curatorial
• Keep the Channel Open - Episode 33: José Olivarez
• ARID Journal - Strange Vistas: The Work of Walter Cotten
• Richard Keely
• Duane Michals
• Eikoh Hosoe
• Richard Prince
• Lab No. 347 - Intro to the Dark
• Art San Diego

Jennifer DeCarlo is the director of jdc Fine Art, which was one of my favorite galleries in San Diego. Today, Jennifer splits time between San Diego and Chicago, and still works constantly championing the artists she represents. I've appreciated Jennifer's insight and eye for years, so I was pleased to have a chance to sit down and talk with her. We talked about her background and how she came to start her own gallery, how she views her role as a gallerist, and also her experiences as a portfolio reviewer. For the second segment, Jennifer chose art collecting as her topic.

(Conversation recorded June 22, 2017.)

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• jdc Fine Art
• Keep the Channel Open - Episode 32: Ginger Shulick Porcella
• Paul Turounet
• jdc Fine Art - Paul Turounet
• Matt Eich
• jdc Fine Art - Matt Eich
• NYT - Peter Lik's Recipe for Success: Sell Prints. Print Money.
• Fluid and crystallized intelligence
• Joseph Bellows Gallery
• MOCA: Museum of Contemporary Art Tucson
• Quint Gallery
• Robert Rauschenberg
• Alec Soth
• Weinstein Gallery
• Alec Soth - Bible Study Book (Prophet in the Wilderness)
• Alec Soth - Charles
• Jennifer Greenburg
• jdc Fine Art - Jennifer Greenburg
• Vernacular photography
• Paul Cava

As a photographer, scott b davis is known for his stunning, shadowy platinum prints, which you really have to see in person to get the full effect. He's also the founder and executive director of the Medium Festival of Photography, which is not only one of my favorite events of the entire year, but also directly contributed to the genesis of this very podcast. In our conversation, scott and I discussed his work, what drew him to the platinum process, and how discovery plays a central role in his art and artmaking. In the second segment, scott chose Mexico as his topic, a place that's geographically close to us here in San Diego, even if it sometimes feels psychologically far away.

(Conversation recorded June 6, 2017.)

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• scott b davis
• scott b davis - land of sunshine
• scott b davis - ocotillo, ocotillo
• scott b davis - tracings of light
• Medium Festival of Photography
• Size Matters 2017
• Group f/64
• Claire A. Warden
• Keep the Channel Open - Episode 10: Clare A. Warden
• Ray Metzker
• Harry Callahan
• Ansel Adams - "Winter Sunrise, Sierra Nevada, from Lone Pine"
• Robert Heinecken
• Man Ray
• Judith Fox - I Still Do
• Museum of Photographic Arts (MOPA)
• Paul Turounet
• Keep the Channel Open - Episode 35: Paul Turounet
• Festival Internacional de Fotografía Tijuana
• Pastilla
• Keep the Channel Open - Episode 14: Pastilla
• MCASD - Eric Orr
• San Diego City Beat - A trip into Eric Orr's "Zero Mass" installation
• Wonderspaces
• Adam Belt
• Keep the Channel Open - Episode 41: Kinsee Morlan

Susan Rosenberg Jones is a photographer based in New York City. I've been a fan of Susan's for several years, starting with her series "Second Time Around," about her experience of being a newlywed in her 60's. We had a great conversation about that series as well as her series "Building 1," about the community in her apartment building. For the second segment, Susan and I talked about Neal Rantoul's article in PetaPixel, "A Disturbing Trend in Photography."

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• Susan Rosenberg Jones
• Susan Rosenberg Jones - Second Time Around
• Susan Rosenberg Jones - Building 1
• Soho Photo Gallery - National Photography Competition exhibition
• Lenscratch - Susan Rosenberg Jones: Second Time Around
• Jen Davis
• Lenscratch - Kate Hutchinson
• Andi Schreiber
• Jennifer McClure
• Neal Rantoul - A Disturbing Trend in Photography
• Mike Sakasegawa - A Predictable Trend in Photography Criticism
• Robert Frank - The Americans
• Henri Cartier-Bresson
• David Carol
• William Eggleston
• Yousuf Karsh
• Alfred Stieglitz
• Shulem Deen - All Who Go Do Not Return
• Footsteps

Photographer Jess T. Dugan is one of my favorite contemporary portrait artists, whose work explores issues of gender, sexuality, identity, and community. Jess's 2015 book Every Breath We Drew is a favorite of mine, and I was pleased to be able to discuss that book with her, as well as her recent series To Survive On This Shore, photographs and interviews with transgender and gender non-conforming people over the age of fifty. We had a great conversation about her artistic process, how she approaches making a portrait, and how her tools inform her work. For the second segment, Jess chose "golden hour" as her subject, the time just before sunset when the light is both striking and rapidly changing.

(Conversation recorded May 8, 2017)

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• Jess T. Dugan
• Jess T. Dugan and Vanessa Fabbre - To Survive on this Shore
• Jess T. Dugan - Every Breath We Drew
• Jess T. Dugan - "Colby, 2012"
• Jess T. Dugan - "Devotion"
• Dawoud Bey
• Catherine Opie
• Robert Mapplethorpe
• Rembrandt van Rijn
• Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio
• Richard Renaldi
• Strange Fire Collective
• Kerry James Marshall
• Deana Lawson
• Daylight Books - Every Breath We Drew (purchase link)
• Jess T. Dugan - Upcoming exhibitions, workshops, and lectures

Kinsee Morlan is the engagement editor at Voice of San Diego, author of the Culture Report, and host of the San Diego Culturecast. As one of the main arts and culture writers in the region, Kinsee has a great view of the breadth of the arts scene here in San Diego, so I was excited to get a chance to talk with her. In our conversation we talked about her work with Voice of San Diego, what's great about the arts in San Diego and what gets overlooked, public art in the city, and the diversity of the city's various neighborhoods. For the second segment, we talked about getting kids exposed to the arts, and staying engaged with the arts community as a parent.

(Conversation recorded May 5, 2017.)

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• Voice of San Diego - Kinsee Morlan
• Voice of San Diego Culturecast
• Voice of San Diego - Culture Report
• San Diego City Beat
• Kinsee Morlan - San Diego's Art Scene Can't Stop Asking Itself: 'What's Wrong With Me?'
• John Baldessari
• San Diego Visual Arts Network
• San Diego Art Institute
• Keep the Channel Open - Episode 32: Ginger Shulick Porcella
• ICE Gallery
• Bread & Salt
• The San Diego Foundation
• Andrea Chung
• Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego
• Cloud Gate
• Kinsee Morlan - San Diego's Public Art Isn't Very Public
• Keep the Channel Open - Episode 9: TML Dunn
• Adapta Project
• Seth Combs - Should parents bring their kids to art shows?
• Tribal Baroque
• Art Produce
• San Diego Museum of Art
• Museum of Photographic Arts
• The New Children's Museum
• Panca
• San Diego Union-Tribune - Binational artist Panca goes big in Barrio Logan
• May-Ling Martinez
• Seth Combs - To See or Not to See: May-Ling Martinez

Rachel Hulin is a photographer and writer based in Providence, Rhode Island. I first came to know Rachel's photographic work several years ago, and when I saw that she'd recently published her first novel, I snapped up a copy as quickly as I could. In our conversation we talked about her book, Hey Harry Hey Matilda, about working in multiple creative disciplines, and the differences between photography and writing. For the second segment, Rachel chose creative flow as her topic.

(Conversation recorded May 4, 2017.)

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• Rachel Hulin
• Rachel Hulin - Hey Harry Hey Matilda
• Lenscratch - Rachel Hulin: Flying Henry
• iN-PUBLiC - Blake Andrews
• Jiro Dreams of Sushi
• Rachel Hulin - Thirty-Five and One
• The Lester Dent Pulp Paper Master Fiction Plot
• Oliver Sacks
• Sally Mann - Hold Still
• Ryan Pfluger
• Noah Kalina

Dr. Becky Senf is the Chief Curator at the Center for Creative Photography in Tucson, Arizona, and the Norton Family Curator of Photography, a joint appointment between the Center and the Phoenix Art Museum. In our conversation, Dr. Senf and I talked about her work at the Center, and what the breadth and depth of the Center's archival collection enables in terms of researching and understanding the artists whose work is housed there. We also talked about a deeply personal exhibition she curated for Art Photo Index, entitled "Not MY Family Values," which is a favorite of mine. For the second segment, we talked about the #BuyArtFriday hashtag that she started, and what her hopes are for the initiative in the future.

(Conversation recorded April 4, 2017.)

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• Center for Creative Photography - Rebecca Senf
• Center for Creative Photography
• Mary Virginia Swanson
• Society for Photographic Education
• Prison Photography - Oracle, the Annual International Conference for Photography Curators Nobody Knows About
• Bill Jay
• LA Times - Robert Sobieszek (obituary)
• Ansel Adams - Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico
• Mark Klett
• AIPAD
• Phoenix Art Museum
• Tina Modotti
• Zach Weston
• Keep the Channel Open - Lindsay Hatton
• Lindsay Hatton - Monterey Bay
• Art Photo Index - Not MY Family Values
• Center for Creative Photography - Wynn Bullock: Revelations
• Phoenix Art Museum - Longer Ways to Go

Keep the Channel Open is a bi-weekly podcast featuring in-depth conversations with artists, writers, and curators. The show is hosted by San Diego-based photographer and writer Mike Sakasegawa.

Brandon Taylor is a writer and a Ph.D. candidate in biochemistry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. One of my favorite contemporary writers, Brandon's short stories are marvelously crafted, understated and emotionally charged, while his personal essays and cultural critique are insightful and often lyrical—all of it is just a joy to read. In today's conversation, Brandon and I talked about his work and his process, how he often finds himself inventing around the margins of the stories he takes in, and how and why he always resists the reductive take. For the second segment, Brandon chose expectation as his topic, both the excitement and terror of one's own anticipation of the future, but also the expectations others can put on us.

(Conversation recorded April 4, 2017.)

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• Brandon Taylor
• Brandon Taylor - We're Just People
• Brandon Taylor - Frites
• Brandon Taylor - Run
• Mavis Gallant
• Brandon Taylor - There Is No Secret to Writing People Who Do Not Look Like You
• Gregory Heisler
• Iowa Writers' Workshop
• Catapult Community - TinyLetter of the Month: Brandon Taylor, "Hours"
• Brandon Taylor - Virgin Wool (TinyLetter)
• Helena Fitzgerald
• Alexander Chee
• Roxane Gay
• Alexander Chee - The Queen of the Night
• Ted Chiang
• Certain Women
• Kelly Reichardt
• Maile Meloy