Fraction is published on a monthly basis, and to date has shown portfolios from more than 700 photographers.

OUR MISSION

Fraction Magazine is an online venue dedicated to showcasing thoughtful photographic projects from a global community of established and emerging artists. We believe that photography, as a perpetually growing set of practices, continues to present a unique medium through which individuals engage with the world by making visible their positions and concerns, their pleasures and sorrows. From our inception, our monthly issues have provided a venue for diverse perspectives and bodies of work from artists from a wide range of cultural and ethnic backgrounds, gender and sexual expressions, religious beliefs, socioeconomic statuses, and geographical locations. The heart of these efforts is to learn from one another, to broaden our awareness as best we can and to deepen our sense of community. 

We recognize that Fraction is, in our small way, a gatekeeper, and we also recognize that photographers’ works often come to our attention due to a larger system of gatekeeping in photographic media that reinforces itself and has traditionally served privileged perspectives.  While we pride ourselves on our diligence for sharing a broad range of work, we recognize that our own editorial voices are narrow and informed by our own biases, and that we can do better. Fraction is committed to being anti-racist and to broadening the historically narrow and privileged perspectives that have long dominated photographic discourse through layers of institutional filters. Without visibility and celebration of diverse experiences and points of view, we collapse into orthodoxies. 

True imagination and understanding are supplanted by adherence to the status quo, and rules congeal around fixed ideas of what photography can be and do, and who it is by and for. We pledge to share our platform with and provide ongoing collaborative opportunities for BIPOC, LGBTQ+, and Womxn artists, curators and writers, and those bringing perspectives that are under-represented in photography. We are committed to exploring photography with our growing community, as a means to understanding, and through understanding, compassion, advocacy and justice.

Managing EditorS 

Bree Lamb (she/her) is an artist, educator and editor based in New Mexico. In addition to her work at Fraction, she is Assistant Professor of Photography at New Mexico State University.

Leo Hsu (he/him) has worked in and around photography as a photography instructor, independent curator, newspaper photographer, and writer, and holds a PhD in anthropology from New York University with a focus on Culture and Media. Leo is the Director of Silver Eye Center for Photography in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

FRACTION’S FOUNDING

Fraction was founded in March 2008 by David Bram and Joshua Spees. The concept was born in 2007 on Route 66 in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The first issue went live in May 2008, and featured four New Mexican artists.  With just an announcement through social media, the Fraction website got thousands of hits.  Within days, the issue was viewed by people in 11 countries.  The second issue went live July 2008, and the audience and the traffic continued to grow.  With that growth came a widening of the scope of the magazine to include artists from outside of the region and outside of the United States and to focus on ways to increase visibility for artists and to strengthen our photographic community.

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