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Wooden Toy: Getting to Know Noah Sahady

This is "Wooden Toy", a bi-weekly column by Kris Evans that explores the creative lives of different skaters, and shows how a simple toy with four wheels has changed lives and formed careers.

In The Pursuit of Visual Declaration: A Conversation with Colin Sussingham

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Sussingham grew up on Long Island, used to the convergence of assorted cultures and people, all of which he captures in his photos. From city sidewalks to friends' living rooms, Sussingham makes the most of his surroundings, employing his cameras rather than effects to grab the attention of his audience via the attention of his subjects.

A Visual Recount: Artist Dana Stirling

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Dana Stirling is a storyteller, and a damn good one at that. A visual narrator, Stirling unfolds past and present through anonymous people, objects and things, wrapping her own self expression in expressionless beauty and attacking her memories from an abstract vantage point.

A Life Interpreted With Photographer Yoav Friedländer

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As natural observers, we learn and understand with our fives senses—that is, until they’re impeded by things such as geography or time, in which case we look to outside experiences to fabricate our own. Enter photography: the window to shared places, moments and experiences from which we inform our own by others’ documented memories. For photographer Yoav Friedländer, those shared memories are more than memories, but opportunities to develop personal meaning and effect.

The Ambiguous Enthrallment of Justin Clifford Rhody’s Free-form Photography

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To Justin Clifford Rhody—an Oakland, CA native with free-form photography down to an archival science of sorts—the experience of a photograph is to be interpreted by the experiencer, whether that lives in his interactions with subject and film or in the onlooker’s self-diagnosis of a photo’s weight.

Something Like Idols: Sally Mann

A black-and-white photograph titled "White Skates" perfectly captures the provocative, sensual and enigmatic style of Sally Mann's stunning photography. Mann's older daughter, Virginia, stands naked and poised in some white roller skates on a wood deck with her siblings. Her pale body is luminous; it appears sun-kissed and at the center of the intense summer light behind her.