Category: Documentary

Noted Cleveland rock photographer Janet Macoska photographed Queen five different times as the band toured through Northeast Ohio, starting with a show Feb. 8, 1975, at Cleveland Music Hall. She says that Queen, and specifically singer Mercury, put on some of the best live performances she’s ever photographed.

The power of gold to both subject and liberate those who are drawn by its lustre is at the heart of one of Brazilian photographer Sebastião Salgado’s most celebrated photographic series. It sold last month as a complete portfolio of 20 selenium-toned silver prints for £118,750 at Sotheby’s in London.

Ohio native Clarence H. White is considered one of the founding fathers of artistic photography. His work is now being celebrated at the Cleveland Museum of Art. On this Week’s State of the Arts, WKSU’s Mark Arehart explores the new exhibit “Clarence H. White and His World: The Art and Craft of Photography, 1895-1925.”

Sarah Waiswa is a Uganda-based documentary and portrait photographer, whose key interests are people and their stories. Much of her work focuses on identity, and explores themes surrounding isolation and belonging in her native Africa. In particular, she is concerned with documenting what she calls

When pieced together, the giant eight-panel print on the back wall of the Lower Haight’s Family Affair gallery reveals an image of focused crate-diggers, combing through an old Sacramento record store. Standing atop one of the stacks is a grizzly, short-haired cat, a sure sign for dedicated vinyl junkies that within these bins, gems are