This week’s guest at APAD is Nora Rosenthal. Her website is an art collective of her work and that of her partner and their best friend: Ain’t No Sunshine in Plato’s Cave.

I take pictures of myself and those closest to me at our worst, embracing a darkly humorous self-parody. Most of the photos for APAD are from two series. The first is a recently completed zine-cum-motivational poster entitled “Self-Help”, and the other, “Daphne & Doug” is an ongoing portrait of my least-favourite relatives: my maternal grandparents.

Georges Salameh was APAD’s guest this week.

Thank you, Georges, for being part of the project.

This week at APAD: Georges Salameh.

This week at APAD: Georges Salameh.

This week at APAD: Georges Salameh.

This week at APAD: Georges Salameh.

This week’s guest at APAD is Georges Salameh.

Note: The original series is formed by triptychs divided into three categories: #1 Men asleep in public places or means of transport. #2 Internal spaces where I was welcomed to stay. #3 View from a host’s window, balcony, terrace, etc. Please have a look at Georges website to see.

This week’s guest at APAD is Georges Salameh with his ongoing series Refuge Dreamgrove.

Refuge Dreamgrove is a photographic series based on the notion of hospitality.
“Your home will be the one where you would put your head to sleep and for a pillow one dreamgrove”. These words were pronounced by a prostitute, hosting a scared 12 years old kid. He was one of thousands greek survivors from the “Asia Minor Catastroph” of 1922. To reach Lebanon, he walked barefoot from Smyrna in Turkey, for days, before losing the rest of his family on the road and seek refuge for 4 nights in a brothel in the port area of Beirut. For the rest of his life, this sentence and that city became his haven. That kid was my grandfather, the one I never met.

This week’s guest at APAD was Nathan Pearce from Southern Illinois with a selection from his series Midwest Dirt.

Thanks a lot for being part of the project, Nathan!

This week at APAD: Nathan Pearce.

This week at APAD: Nathan Pearce.

This week at APAD: Nathan Pearce.

This week at APAD: Nathan Pearce.

This week’s guest at APAD is Nathan Pearce with a selection from his series Midwest Dirt.

This week’s guest at APAD is Nathan Pearce from Southern Illinois with a selection from his series Midwest Dirt.

When I was 18 years old I packed my bags and left rural Illinois. It had been my home my entire life, but I thought in leaving I would find the perfect place for myself elsewhere. In the city everything and everyone I knew was very different from what I knew back home and yet at the same time familiar. The wild and restless days of my youth were in full swing. But when I awoke those mornings I still expected to see my old midwestern life.
Where I was living wasn’t exactly the wrong place for me, and at its core my life wasn’t drastically different, but it wasn’t home.
I came back home to live almost a decade later. I still have no idea if this time I will stay for good, I don’t know if that will ever happen.
The wild restless days and nights haven’t ceased.
Some nights when I lay down in my bed and close my eyes I fantasize that I didn’t ever return. I dream that I could get right back up and go over to my corner bar in the city and have a drink looking out on the crowded street.
But I’m not there. I’m here. In the country.
Now it’s just after harvest time, my favorite time of year. The fields are almost cleared and I’m barefoot on my porch with a beer in my hand. I can see for miles.
This project is about a time in my mid twenties when I can feel the tension between home and away.

APAD’s guest this week was Tania Maria Elisa.

Thank you for being part of APAD, Tania.

APAD’s guest this week is Tania Maria Elisa.

APAD’s guest this week is Tania Maria Elisa.

No monster: on make-believe. newsprint paper.

This week at APAD: Tania Maria Elisa.

This week at APAD: Tania Maria Elisa.

APAD’s guest this week is Tania Maria Elisa.

Lk/Lv/Lz is about romance, the city, and taking pictures.

This week’s guest at APAD is Tania Maria Elisa from Montréal, Canada with a selection from her series Lk/Lv/Lz and No monster.