Issue 172

For Issue 172 we are delighted to share work from Radial Survey Vol.3, currently on exhibition at Silver Eye Center for Photography in Pittsburgh through February 3, 2024.

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Bree and Leo

Radial Survey is Silver Eye’s flagship biennial exhibition featuring preeminent emerging and mid-career photographic artists based within 300 miles of Pittsburgh. This third edition, Presence, includes seven artists nominated by Radial Survey Vol.2 artists and selected by Silver Eye’s curators, Leo Hsu and Helen Trompeteler, who wrote the curatorial texts accompanying each of the artists’ quotes in the portfolios below.

These seven artists–Akea Brionne, Larry W. Cook, Alanna Fields, Marissa Long, Eduardo L. Rivera, Shane Rocheleau, and Lisa Toboz–create work that invites us to explore the relationships between presence, visibility, and absence. Recontextualizing family and found photographs, reimagining genres, and affirming their unique subjective experiences, these artists create visually compelling languages that recognize and subvert forces larger than ourselves. In doing so, they question learned ways of seeing and how these affect our contemporary experience.

Radial Survey Vol.3 is generously supported by The Leonian Foundation and Henry Simonds.