Jenny Wicks writes about her series 'Root Ginger' "playing on my interest in sub-groups and sects, the photographs show that the 'every day' and ordinary can quickly become fascinating or exceptional when they are looked at in isolation.  Red hair conjures up a plethora of images and provokes a range of reactions from people. The work looks at the social aspect of having red hair and how society views and treats a minority group."

Below is an image from her 'Root Ginger' series:

Canon 1DS Mark II

With his two most recent projects 'Italian Journey' and 'Where Miracles Happen', Eric Klemm presents his very personal signature style to the international gallery world. He writes "Many of my photographs relate to Goethe’s text, while some do not. Putting myself in the poet’s state of mind, I found other motifs he would have loved, but either didn't have the time to see or failed to mention.  My work on Italian Journey is a very personal portfolio. It has not at all been my intention to produce a comprehensive account of Goethe’s book."

Below is an image from his 'Italian Journey' series:

5x7" Swiss SINAR with Kodak

Karolina Karlic writes that the "book project, “Elementarz” - Polish for “The Primer,” weaves together six strands. First among these are the ambitions, frustrations and hopes of my industrial engineer father, who emigrated to Detroit from Poland. Second comes the decline of the historical US manufacturing base of the automotive industry, a turn which sends my father back to Poland to search for new manufacturing sites to build cars for the growing Eastern European market."

Below is an image from her series 'Elementarz':

4x5 field camera with Ektachrome 100

Daniel W Coburn's 'Next of Kin' "records the interaction of a working class family living in Middle America.  A complicated relationship with family, and an immersive experience with an evangelical Christian church resulted in my loss of spiritual and domestic faith.  My work relates specifically to these personal struggles and explores the quiet suffering that occurs within the perimeter of a family unit living under the auspices of the American Dream."

Below is an image from his series 'Next of Kin':

Canon 5D

Emma Livingston writes about her 'Tree portrait' series "I treat each tree as an individual, centering them in the composition as I would a person. The tree is the protagonist. I am intrigued by how each one has a personality of its own. An expression conveyed through its size, build, ‘posture’; the ‘attitude’ expressed through the display of its branches."

Below is an image from her 'Tree portrait' series:

Hasselblad 501CM with Kodak Portra 160NC 

Nathan Cyprys writes about his project 'Neighbour State', "a series of American landscapes, strives to reveal the idiosynchracies of American life through destinations between cities. These are often the places one finds rest at, or passes through during an extended drive, often taking little notice of what lies hidden through a maze of rural roads just beyond the interstate. These are farms, tourist attractions, condemned homes and affordable motels. Yet, these are ultimately captured from a Canadian perspective, as I become a tourist upon crossing the border." 

Below is an image from his series 'Neighbour state':

4x5 B&J press camera with  Kodak Portra 

Manya Fox writes the  photographs in the 'Washington, Wyoming, Nebraska' series "were taken with a large format field camera while exploring the Western and Midwestern states of America in 2009.  Exploring the areas outside of major cities, attention is paid to tourism, recreation, and nature. Documenting these ageing and dated places with only available light, they come to represent an antidote to a globalized culture. "

Below is an image from her 'Washington, Wyoming, Nebraska' series: 

Reed Young writes about his series 'The Italians' "On assignment, spending weeks and months traveling through Italy, I used my free time by photographing the strangers and characters I met. Being a big weird American, the Italians forced me into a new style: these portraits were taken with one light, each person usually giving me less than 5 minutes."

Below is an image from his 'The Italians' series:

Canon 5D

Clare Strand’s images are conceived, researched, developed and resolved through a highly unusual and personal sensibility, using a clear and decisive method of production unique to each project. Strand belongs to the everyday, yet her images evoke the mesmeric, the talismanic and the unsolvable.

Below is an image from her 'Gone Astray Portraits' series:

 5x4 camera with Polaroid type 55 

Tim Richmond’s work exists within the landscape of a certain type of cinema. Wherever his inspiration takes him, across the USA, throughout Europe or his native England, his photographs are imbued with narrative strands.

Below is an image from his 'Love Bites' series:

Ebony 23 with Kodak Portra

Melissa Ann Pinney writes about her series entitled 'White dress project' "It was a tradition at the Academy of the Sacred Heart for Girls in Chicago to wear white dresses for graduation long before I attended high school there. When my daughter was getting ready for 8th grade graduation in 2009 I wanted to make a book of portraits for the class. I photographed each girl in the dress chosen for the ceremony in the Grand Ballroom of the Hilton."

Below is an image from her 'White dress project":

Mamiya 7II with Kodak Portra 400

US photographer Adam Ekberg writes that in "calculated performances that intersect with photography’s documentary potential, I explore ephemeral occurrences. Making such humble events happen is alchemy of sorts, the transformation of the mundane into the poignant."

Below is an image entitled 'An aerosol container in an abandoned peach orchard 2012':

Alinka Echeverria writes "Fifty five years ago, young men from impoverished rural areas in the highlands of Cuba rose up against the dictator, Batista to join Fidel Castro’s rebel army. They had no weapons, supplies, nor guarantees of survival. Triumph seemed like a distant possibility, yet many claim they had nothing to lose. My project revisits the history of this remarkable revolution through the personal biographies of men, who despite dedicating their lives to their leaders, have remained anonymous and have never held positions of power."

Below is an image from her 'Cuba 1959: The Second Front' series:

Bryan Schutmaat was born in Houston Texas in 1983 and currently is based in Brooklyn, New York.  He writes about his 'Grays the Mountain Sends' project that it "combines portraits, landscapes and still lifes in a series of photos that explores the lives of working people residing in small mountain towns and mining communities in the American West."

Below is an image from his 'Grays the Mountain Sends' series:

4x5 field camera with Kodak Portra

Jill Mead writes "I was born and grew up in North Yorkshire.  My love of photography blossomed from expeditions with my family, taking pictures of abandoned farms on the North York Moors, capturing both beauty and poignancy in their dereliction. Imagining which one I might live in one day. Now I feel incomplete without a camera."

Below is an image from her 'Bangladesh honey hunt' series:

Nikon F100 with Kodak 400VC

Ron Jude was born in Los Angeles in 1965, grew up in the Pacific Northwest, and currently lives in upstate New York.  He writes about his 'Other Nature' series "The places in these pictures are transitional, and therefore nameless within the standard vocabularies of landscape: between the parking lot and the woods, the train-tracks and the stream, the highway and the field. They exist only as a result of the exigencies and limits of other things and forces."

Below is an image from his 'Other Nature' series:

4x5 field camera with Kodak Porta 160N

Erica Shires, a New York photographer is originally from Detroit and has also lived many years in Texas.  She writes that her 'Nova Scotia' series was taken during "a 3 week road-trip, camping and meandering all around Nova Scotia."

Below is an image from her 'Nova Scotia' series:

Mamiya 645 AFD with Kodak Portra

Justin Schmitz is currently studying photography at Yale University. He received his BFA in Photography from Columbia College Chicago in 2004. He writes that his series 'Patrick' "is a collaboration between my littlest brother and I. These pictures are a record of two brothers growing up.  We have made pictures together for over ten years and continue to make picture indefinitely." 

Below are two images from his series entitled 'Patrick':

6x7 camera

4x5 camera

Monika Merva writes that the "word "origins" refers both to my own source, my family, and to my discovery of the power of making pictures. I search for the beauty in the ordinary, the melodies in the commonplace.I photograph subjects that are quiet yet evoke an emotional intensity. I am fascinated by the universality of the individual, and look to capture in pictures the thing that hooks me into my subject."

Below is an image from her 'Origins of an Emotion' series entiled 'Doki's Hand, 2010':

Contax 645 with Kodak Porta 400

Jesse Burke is a photographer and an instructor at Rhode Island School of Design where he recently received his MFA in Photography. His work has been exhibited in New York City, Tokyo, Milan, Stockholm, Madrid, Miami, Los Angeles, Seattle, Tucson, Providence, Ottawa, Boston, and was recently selected to be a finalist for Critical Mass 2009. Jesse's Twitter.

Below is an image from his 'Clover' series: