The PSNWA Distinguished Photographer series presents Beverly Buys, a cyanotype artist from Hot Springs, Arkansas.
A former educator who is listed on the Arkansas Arts Registry, she is a 57th Delta exhibition participant, and has hung solo shows at the Delta Cultural Center, ASU Beebe Gallery, and many other locations. Primarily known for cyanotypes, she is an analogue photographer working with light sensitive materials and chemistry in a traditional darkroom.
Brooklyn photographer Ed Drew was commissioned to photograph Black Arkansas Veterans upon a recent relocation to Little Rock – a work on social equality which is currently on exhibit at the Mosaic Templar Cultural Center.
Since 2017, Carlos Diaz has travelled 30,000 miles photographing Confederate Monuments as they are being removed. As a person of color, he is “bravely attentive” to American history and national shortcomings on race and diversity.
In an effort to better understand the controversy and complexity of Confederate Monuments, Carlos hopes his viewers will engage as culture transforms, and contribute to conversations about our changing American experience.
Since 2018, Eileen Powers has had 11 rounds of chemotherapy, abdominal resection surgery due to lymphoma, a stem cell transplant and a CAR t-cell treatment.
She is a photographer, artist and graphic designer living on Cape Cod who fought cancer with levity and joy. Upon losing hair to chemo, her friends replaced it in the most humorous ways – eventually making nearly 100 heads of replacement hair.
Personal Projects are created from a burning desire to photograph with a message in mind.
The subject of your message could be on identity, diversity, atrocity, or even a pandemic. But how do you get started? How do you gain access to photograph the subjects that inspire you? And what about process? If starting can be hard, how do you know when you are done?