Mother F Stop

"JP Terlizzi is a New York City visual artist whose work explores themes of memory, relationship, and identity. His images are rooted in the personal and heavily influenced around the notion of home, legacy, and family. He is curious how the past relates to the present and how that impacts and shapes one’s identity. Born and raised in the farmlands of Central New Jersey, JP’s career spans thirty plus years as creative director for a boutique agency specializing in retail desi

"At the limits of limits and borders, the human soul is looking for alternatives or loopholes. Capturing these moments is exciting. The present, the magic of the moment reveals all that is in us of fears, mysteries, joys and misfortunes. The metaphor is both words and images. Light inscribes the infinity of things captured. The search is history. From the past to the future there is only one fragment of time named present. So lively, so stealthy, and so terrifying, because on

San Jaun Photographer, Educator, and Entrepreneur portfolio of work entitled, Exposed Abandonment.

Claire A. Warden (b. Montreal, Quebec) is an artist working in Phoenix, Arizona. She received her BFA in Photography and BA in Art History from Arizona State University. Claire’s work has been exhibited widely in the United States and abroad. She has been named LensCulture's Top 50 Emerging Talents, Photo Boite’s 30 Under 30 Women Photographers, and a Clarence John Laughlin Award finalist. She received an Artist Research and Development Grant from the Arizona Commission on th

"Usually, dust, fingerprints and out-of-focus images are seen as mistakes in photography, yet for Sheedy, these elements are magnified and glorified. Here, imperfections become layers of texture and add substance, character and consistency to her work," states Lisa Miquet of Deborah Sheedy's images. And she is correct. As a student of film photography, I can recall countless times which I tried to rid a negative of a scratch with oils or used pigment paint to painstakingly m

Bree Lamb's still life photography asks us to stop and take a closer look into objects from daily life that hold impact on our memories and our perceptions of domesticity. They contain both a shared yet varied experience. She examines and isolates these objects as she questions notions of the weight they each hold and their role in modern and past conventions. Artist Statement: In the series, A House, A Home, I isolate ubiquitous household objects as a way to begin to inves

After being introduced to Brandon Thibodeaux's photography by a friend of Mother F Stop, we have been a fan of his work for some time now and have enjoyed seeing his imagery gain the success and attention that it deserves. We are excited to showcase his first monograph, In the Land of Perfect Day, published by Red Hook Editions, a project he has photographed for the past eight years. Please read an excerpt of his artist statement for this project and book provided below.

I was born in Rhode Island but I've lived in many places between then and now. I went to the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and studied studio art on a Spencer Love scholarship for visual arts. When my father unexpectedly died in a tragic accident, I felt compelled to work with grieving people, attended graduate school and obtained a Master's degree in Social Work from the University of Georgia. The next 20 plus years were spent working with hospice patients in ru

Tiffany Smith is a visual artist from the Caribbean diaspora who uses photography, video, design, and installation to create conceptually based work focused on identity, representation, cultural ambiguity, and displacement; particularly within minority communities. Her work examines individual narratives pulled from an array of multi-cultural influences, derived from her upbringing between Miami, Florida, Nassau, Bahamas, and Jamaica, and molded by her current home of Brookly

We are excited to feature the work of Birthe Piontek's this week. She is someone whose work and continuation of pushing the creative process and crossing platforms is both inspiring and captivating. Still lives, objects, portraits, both photographs & mixed media and more, set the stage for a mysterious and alluring body of work built on layers of reoccurring themes. Originally from Germany, Birthe moved to Canada in 2005 after receiving her MFA from the University of Ess