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Protests and Pandemic Lead Bridgehampton Photographer Back Home

Award-Winning Blog October 5, 2020

Six days out, one day in.

For Lori Hawkins, the words became a mantra. They were her schedule, a repetitive routine. A source of comfort and reassurance, stress and depression. An escape, a homecoming, her sense of normalcy.

For the last six months, that one sentence defined her life. And it has led to the most fulfilling photography series of her 20-year career.

“I feel like I’m creating my best work ever,” Hawkins said from her home in Bridgehampton. “I feel like I’m more focused on telling stories.”

Artists Inspired in Days of COVID-19 Pandemic

Blog May 30, 2020

Artists across the East End have reported mixed impacts on their creativity and productivity while sheltering in place — a concept that is foreign to some, but not much of a departure for many who are already accustomed to, and prefer, working in isolation.

Photo Ark: One Photographer’s Mission To Record 12,000 Endangered Species

Art Planet April 15, 2020

Out of the ashes came an unplanned, and unprecedented, project to help save the world’s species. The Photo Ark began in 2005 — with Joel Sartore as its proverbial Noah — and now lives as a database and traveling exhibition of 9,720 portraits to date.

Dancing Under the Water with Goliaths

Art Award-Winning Planet Travel April 13, 2020

The first atrium in the Southampton Arts Center — home to a new exhibit from Shawn Heinrichs, “Light on Shadow” — is an ode to the photographer’s first love.

And the place that would break his heart.

Photographer Renate Aller Captures the Spaces Between

Art Travel April 15, 2020

Whether she’s watching a river of clouds snake through a mountain pass, or holding her breath as the sun breaks through a storm on the ocean horizon, Renate Aller has honed her ability to predict a moment — and only then does she click her shutter.

That split second, she says, is “the space between memory and expectation,” during which nothing inherently happens, but without which no change could occur.