Welcome To Concept Aware®

Lens-based artist Sheila Pree Bright discusses her new series, Where We Gather, and is joined by photographers Julie Yarbrough, Ysa Lopez, and Nicole Craine to share the process behind Through Our Eyes, a collaborative project that captures the diverse communities of Atlanta for the FIFA World Cup.For access to exclusive episode notes, explore our membership options!If you are already a member, please log in to jsybyllasmith.com and access the Concept Aware® Show Notes page through your account.

A live podcast recording with Photographer Lizzie Himmel, Author and Art Critic Vince Aletti and Curator Pauline Vermare discussing Lillian Bassman’s process, practice and indelible influence on magazine culture, art direction and fashion photography.For access to exclusive episode notes, explore our membership options!If you are already a member, please log in to jsybyllasmith.com and access the Concept Aware® Show Notes page through your account.

A panel discussion on photography, representation and rights through the creative process of 4 participating artists of A Yellow Rose Project honoring the centennial of the 19th Amendment giving women the right to vote in the U.S.For access to exclusive episode notes, explore our membership options!If you are already a member, please log in to jsybyllasmith.com and access the Concept Aware® Show Notes page through your account.

Birds of A Feather is a sumptuous book of striking portraits of wild, exotic and domesticated birds blended with a compelling exploration of art, nature, science and ecology.For access to exclusive episode notes, explore our membership options!If you are already a member, please log in to jsybyllasmith.com and access the Concept Aware® Show Notes page through your account.

The Presence of Absence reveals the aftermath and human cost of conflict in image and text.For access to exclusive episode notes, explore our membership options!If you are already a member, please log in to jsybyllasmith.com and access the Concept Aware® Show Notes page through your account.

We Will Return To You reinterprets historical traditional oral storytelling and religious iconography into a choreographed contemporary form.For access to exclusive episode notes, explore our membership options!If you are already a member, please log in to jsybyllasmith.com and access the Concept Aware® Show Notes page through your account.

Here we host interviews with artists, curators, academics and writers to discuss concept development and the creative process. If you are a photographer, mixed media artist, a visual creator of any kind, you have come to the right place for shared inspiration and resources.Join our Concept Aware® community and be part of an engaging and educational global visual culture conversation.

Julian Sander presents a humanist portrait of society in 619 silver gelatin portraits of 20th-century Germans photographed by his legendary great-grandfather, August Sander.For access to exclusive episode notes, explore our membership options!If you are already a member, please log in to jsybyllasmith.com and access the Concept Aware® Show Notes page through your account.

Caroline Mauxion provides an immersive experience in her solo Paris Photo installation illuminating a Crip phenomenology through an autobiographical lens.For access to exclusive episode notes, explore our membership options!If you are already a member, please log in to jsybyllasmith.com and access the Concept Aware® Show Notes page through your account.

Éric Antoine is a skateboarding self taught French painter and photographer exhibiting La Forme, a solo exhibition of luminous ambrotypes reflecting a decade of evolution to pare his creative practice to its purest essence.For access to exclusive episode notes, explore our membership options!If you are already a member, please log in to jsybyllasmith.com and access the Concept Aware® Show Notes page through your account.