Deep Red Press

25/06/2024

Argentinian photographer and filmmaker, Eleonora Ghioldi (), delves into powerful work documenting gender violence with her ongoing series Guerreras; focusing on gender identity, memory and their relationship to violence as a system of oppression. Ghioldi’s work has taken her to parts of the U.S. Mexico and Argentina. She discusses her process and gatherings with El Paso contributor, Ingrid Leyva (). Link in bio to read their interview. Spanish and English available.

21/06/2024

Richard Sharum () is an editorial and documentary photographer based in Dallas, Texas. He is known for his intimate focus on socio-economic and social justice issues. In his latest project and soon be photo book, Spina Americana, he examines the diverse cultures along America’s “spine,” The central region from the U.S/Mexico border to the Canadian. By capturing the daily lives of various individuals, including mechanics, surgeons, and migrant laborers, Sharum highlights their contributions and the divisions in contemporary America, emphasizing that these divisions are temporary and obstructive, with hope for unity through observation. Spina Americana is currently available for pre-order. Published by GOST Books (). Link in bio to view and read about Richard Sharum’s Spina Americana.

29/03/2024

Read our latest interview with artist and curator, Zan Zeller (.jpg) from Houston, TX. Zan is the Assistant Director at Koslov Larsen () gallery and has been curating and organizing exhibitions since before their inception, showcasing a keen eye for artistic processes and a passion for fostering meaningful connections between artists and audiences. We spoke to Zan about the future direction of the photographic medium, their curatorial vision and gained valuable insights into the dynamic between artists and the gallery.

Zan Zeller is an artist based in Houston, Texas and currently serves as Assistant Director at Koslov Larsen (formerly Foto Relevance), a gallery space exhibiting contemporary art with an emphasis on photography-based work. They received a BA in Art History and Visual & Dramatic Arts with a

18/12/2023

Last feature of 2023! Check out the work of Troy Ezequiel Montes, a Houston-based photographer and native Texan from Dayton. In his most recent body of work, Cielo Azul/Cielo Nublado, he captures the life and legacy of his ancestral pueblo, El Porvenir, in Zacatecas, Mexico. His work vividly preserves the rich aspects of daily life, traditions, and the enduring spirit of El Porvenir, paying homage to his cultural heritage and personal roots.

Troy Ezequiel Montes, a native Texan from Dayton, discovered his artistic calling through photography. His images reflect raw, unfiltered honesty, capturing the essence of his community's culture, history, and the individuals within it.

03/09/2023

Check out our latest interview with Violette Bule () a conceptual artist and photographer, residing between Houston, TX and New York, NY. With global exhibitions, her projects delve into themes like migration, incarceration, identity, social equity, and nationalism. Drawing from her Venezuelan background, she seeks to blur art and reality, highlighting vulnerability as a catalyst for empowerment. Click our link in bio to read the interview by in spanish and english!

Violette Bule is a conceptual artist who goes beyond documentary recording, enhancing the fantastic within reality, deploying satire to take a critical look at social issues, and examining the structural power that shapes everyday life. By creating fictional narratives staged in urban spaces, she h

08/06/2023

4 more weeks for the University of Houston's BFA in Photo and Digital Media exhibition at Sawyer Yards! Curated by professor, Sebastien Boncy.

All Roads Lead to Home

04/02/2023

Check out our latest feature, Únies Gonzalez () from Houston, TX. Únies uses photography and the written word to create a symbiosis of poetic thought and glimpses into their life, relationships and inner workings. Link below!

https://www.deepredpress.com/features/2023/unies-gonzalez

09/01/2023

WE NEED HELP! Our website is up for renewal at a total cost of $272. We currently have a goal of $280 to cover cost + fees. Click our bio to donate to our Ko-fi Campaign! We still have a ways to go! $3 is all it takes :)

Thanks to all who have supported us so far! 🙏🏽 Link below!

https://ko-fi.com/drptx

29/12/2022

Its our annual book and zine list! Our Editor, Raul Rodriguez () went out, took submissions and gathered some heavy hitting books that really shined this year plus some regional zines that caught our attention. Check them out! In no particular order but all with a Texas connection. Take a look at the books, follow the photographers and get your hands on any you like. All descriptions have been taken by the submissions or publishers. Link in bio!

Cheers to the roller coaster every year brings us! 🥂

https://www.deepredpress.com/features/2022/2022-book-and-zine

19/12/2022

Our last interview this year is with San Antonio artist, Gabi Magaly (). Magaly graduated with an MFA from the University of San Antonio in 2020 and has been making her way through exhibitions, residencies, and numerous awards nationally and internationally. Her work gives power to women and pushes back on the machismo dynamics that crowd social behaviors, particularly within the Mexican-American community. She channels her voice through a variety of mediums but focuses on image making to tell her story and the story of her family. Link below to read the interview, led by Editor Raul Rodriguez (), as they unpack the vulnerable and intimate nature of her work.

https://www.deepredpress.com/interviews/2022/gabi-magaly

07/12/2022

Check out our latest feature with photographer, Joe Robles(). Robles uses photography to document his hometown, Pasadena TX, and the vibrant life that exists within this coastal community. His documentary and street photography approach allows him to get close and personal to capture moments that may otherwise go unseen. From families at Strawberry Park, Lowrider shows and Ballet Folkloricos -- to photographing his own life and the presence of his family within this region, Robles tells honest stories about a place that often goes unnoticed and unrecognized. He continues to grow in and learn from Pasadena.

https://www.deepredpress.com/features/2022/joe-robles

14/11/2022

Jessica Just (.a.jessica) is a Texas based artist and photographer who received her BFA from Baylor University and her MFA from the University of Texas at San Antonio. Many of her interests lie in various facets and manipulations of the past, and how it affects objects, tradition, outlook, identity, and memory.

She shares with us her series, Sweet Face, which explores aspects of her upbringing as a woman in the American South and the contrast that comes with this experience in a modern day society. Link in bio!

31/10/2022

Mónica Alcázar-Duarte () is a Mexican-British artist that explores the homogeneous landscape of our world wide web and questions its current interpretation of various Latin American, Mexican and indigenous representations that define its code. Her work is currently being highlighted at the 2022 Fotofest Biennial: If I Had a Hammer () in Houston, TX. She sits down with Ingrid Leyva () to discuss her research and interests that inform her practice. Their dialogue was conducted in Spanish and English that together form the hybrid and verbal expression, Spanglish in an effort to complicate systems of operation that form biased categorizations and stereotypes. Disfruten esta increíble conversación! :) link abajo!
https://www.deepredpress.com/interviews/2022/monica-alcazar-duarte

23/09/2022

Opening night of FotoFest tomorrow! See everyone there.

We invite you to the grand opening of the FotoFest Biennial 2022 If I Had a Hammer on September 24 from 8 to 11PM with the exhibitions on view from September 24 to November 6 in Sawyer Yards in Arts District Houston. In addition to the central exhibition, FotoFest is presenting the exhibitions African Cosmologies: Redux, an adaptation of the FotoFest Biennial 2020 exhibition, African Cosmologies: Photography, Time, and the Other, and the Ten by Ten featuring artists whose works are selected by a series of invited nominators as exceptional image-based portfolios presented during the 2020–21 FotoFest International Meeting Place Portfolio Review programs.

See more below:
https://fotofest.org/fotofest-biennial-2022

20/09/2022

Featured on the site today is Joseph Bui (.photo) from Houston, TX. Bui uses photography and the power of portraiture to tell the stories of those who grace his camera. He shares his most recent project where that camera is turned on his own life with his parents at the forefront. His project “I Love You. I Miss You. Have A Good Day." is a reflection on the role that aging plays within the family dynamic. Joseph's take follows that of Larry Sultan's "Pictures from Home" where both attempt to freeze time and stop the inevitable through a photograph’s literal significance. Check out Joseph Bui's work and culminating artist book project for “I Love You. I Miss You. Have A Good Day."

https://www.deepredpress.com/features/2022/joseph-bui

08/09/2022

On the site this month we have the multi talented Bria Lauren (), from Houston, TX to discuss her work Gold Was Made Fa' Her. Bria creates a rich universe that intends to holds space for Black women at the intersection of a multitude of identities and constructs. Her work aims to return the gaze, empower her subjects and community while writing the story of their existence. She sits down with Brenda Edith Franco () to talk motivation, intention and the collective healing for Black women that is long overdue.

https://www.deepredpress.com/interviews/2022/bria-lauren

10/08/2022

Our latest interview is with professor and researcher in neuroaesthetic, Gabriela Duran-Barraza. Duran has been doing experimental research on the conceptual knowledge in photography using various forms and subjects like the German-American photographer, John Gutmann. Gabriela received her M.A in Experimental Psychology and Ph.D in Psychology, Social, Cognitive and Neurosciences from the University of El Paso. She speaks to contributor Ingrid Leyva about her work and research on how photographic media informs the conscious self.

La misión de Gabriela Durán-Barraza es hacer investigación estética (es decir, neuroestética, práctica artística y educación artística) como una forma de entender y conectar con otres. Cuenta con una maestría en Psicología Experimental y un doctorado en Psicología Social Cognitiva y Neur...

29/07/2022

On the site and wrapping up the month we have interdisciplinary artist, Ari Brielle (). Brielle is a Dallas based visual artist who is better known for her paintings that delve into black femininity, identity and softness. Her work celebrates and empowers but also gives us the stark reality of the violence that surrounds these experiences. Although her primary medium is of gouache paint, her exploration into various art forms including photography, collage and digital approaches carry similar topics, ideas and social constructs around Black femme identity. She is a current pursing her MFA at the University of Arlington.

https://www.deepredpress.com/features/2022/ari-brielle

15/07/2022

We have Austin Cullen () on the site this week. Austin is a photographer based in Houston, TX who examines the relationship between the natural world and people. Focusing on the displays housed within natural science museums, Cullen's work investigates the presentation of these topics and approach to the understanding of our environment in the midst of heightening global and climate changes. Cullen is a recent graduate from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln with an MFA in Photography. You can see his work in this year's Houston Center for Photography () 39th Center Annual: Living Creatures exhibition from July 13th - September 4th in Houston, TX. Click below for Austin's full feature!

https://www.deepredpress.com/features/2022/austin-cullen

23/06/2022

Check out our latest interview! Jesse Egner () is a q***r artist working primarily with photography and video. Often taking the form of playful and absurd portraiture of himself and other individuals, his work explores themes of q***rness, disidentification, q***r corporeality, and the uncanny. Jesse was a selected artist from Float Magazine's New Seeds online exhibition our editor Raul Rodriguez curated last year. Click the link to read their interview!

https://www.deepredpress.com/interviews/2022/jesse-egner

20/05/2022

Check out our latest feature on artist and recent MFA graduate from the University of Houston, Haoua Amadou (.o.t.p). Her work investigates the migration journey of her family explored from her own perspective as a young child. Beginning a transition from Cameroon to France and later to Louisiana and the United States, Amadou critiques the motives to the abrupt shifts she experienced. She uses family archives, fragmented documents, cultural references, oral histories and the memories she can recount to put together photo collages and visual pieces to her part of the immigrant experience and where it has brought her. Check out Haoua's work, Unraveling the Past.
https://www.deepredpress.com/features/2022/haoua-amadou

05/05/2022

Francis Almendárez is on the site this week with Brenda Edith Franco. Almendárez is a Houston based artist whose work takes on various mediums like photography, video, performance and installation to investigate the underwritten themes within the Central American Diaspora that is often overlooked. The contributions by Black and Indigenous communities to the Latin American identity is an essential component unpacked within his work. Francis and Brenda discuss the importance of including family in his collaborations and the over-arching theme of labor and exploitation he explores through his practice and process.

https://www.deepredpress.com/interviews/2022/francis-almendarez

19/04/2022

Check out our latest and first ever Spanish focused interview with Karla Guerrero () of Femgrafía. Karla is a photographer and cultural manager from CDMX. She was a selected artist from the New Seeds exhibition our editor curated with last year. We reached out to Karla and conducted this conversation with new contributor Ingrid Leyva (). View and learn about the many works, projects and processes of Karla Guerrero.

https://www.deepredpress.com/interviews/2022/karla-guerrero

24/03/2022

Check out our latest feature with Sheryl Anaya (). Sheryl is a Puerto Rican artist and current MFA candidate at Texas Christian University whose work focuses on identity and the intimacy of her relational dynamics. In her series, Agridulce she investigates the memory of her summers spent in Puerto Rico after leaving as a child - describing the colors, smell, sights and sounds and the subsequent disconnect. Through the conversation between her personal archives and travel postcards that are often associated with tourism on the island, Anaya juxtaposes a sense of humor with nostalgia and aims to rebuild the lost connection of a place she called home while engaging the audience’s response to her work. Link below!

https://www.deepredpress.com/features/2022/sheryl-anaya

10/03/2022

A few months ago, our editor Raul Rodriguez curated the online photo exhibit, New Seeds on Float Photo Magazine. From the selection we invited a few national and international artists to share space with us on DRP. Check out our recent interview with Los Angeles photographer, Paloma Dooley. Her work focuses on landscape and the things that interrupt, divide, or cause an irregularity to their natural existence. We spoke about her work from 2018, Edges / Passageways and its significance to divisions and resonance to power structures and their pre-emptive yet empty threats. How do we relate to lines drawn? Is it an absurd notion? When does a Edge become a Passageway? Paloma frames these questions with her investigative and stunning work. She is an active photographer in LA and co-founder of the new project space, Hermitage. Link below!

https://www.deepredpress.com/interviews/2022/paloma-dooley

28/02/2022

ITS TOO COLD OUTSIDE!! Stay in and check out our feature Sebastien Boncy () with his new work, Time After Time. Boncy is a persistent photographer currently holding space in Houston, TX. His work can be best described as a “can't stop won't stop” approach that invokes the medium's natural qualities to capture, archive and repeat. Sebastien Boncy's practice is equally rooted in his personal mental health and clarity. The act of distributing his work online and into various self published zines makes his particular take on photography a genuine expression of freedom. Check out Boncy's ongoing visual archive of H-town!

https://www.deepredpress.com/features/2022/sebastien-boncy

15/02/2022

Check out our latest interview! We caught up with a fantastic photographer from Dallas, Nitashia Johnson - Artist, who has been documenting and capturing The Beauty of South Dallas. Her work speaks to the disappearing structures, communities and people that the neighborhood of South Dallas faces as gentrification and development closes in. Johnson intends to gather these stories and continue their legacy through photography. Link below!

https://www.deepredpress.com/interviews/2022/nitashia-johnson-the-beauty-of-south-dallas

08/02/2022

Announcing our new team members!
Ingrid Leyva () is a transborder artist who grew up between Cd. Juarez, Chihuahua and El Paso, Texas. She has been developing her ability for portraiture in order to explore her own identity and the one of the world around her. She studied in Escuela Activa de Fotografia in Mexico City and has an Associate in Arts from El Paso Community College. Her work has been shown individually in Mexico City and collectively in states such as Chihuahua, Texas, New York, Guadalajara and California. Leyva is our new Regional Contributor for the El Paso/Cd. Juarez region.
Also with us is Melissa Brito () who received a BA in Art History from the University of North Texas with a concentration in Mexican-American political and social representation. She has worked in several capacities at the Dallas Museum of Art and currently serves as the Manager of Access Programs & Resources. Melissa is passionate about creating opportunities that provide equitable access to the arts. Melissa will act as Project Manager for DRP. We are looking forward to working with our new team to continue exploring and advocating for contemporary lens based art in TX and alittle bit beyond.

14/01/2022

Check out our first interview of 2022 with Christopher Sonny Martinez (). Sonny is a photographer and filmmaker from Oak Cliff, TX. Sonny's image making process is an intimate approach to each subject photographed who ranges from close family members to chosen family of q***r and LGBTQ+ identity. Sonny discusses taking back the power and presence of black and brown bodies from the heteronormative, white and cisgender dominated lens through their photographic practice and n**e image making. Having spent time outside and returning to Oak Cliff has informed Sonny's approach to telling stories from a Tejanx perspective.

deepredpress.com/interviews/2022/christopher-sonny-martinez

08/01/2022

Our website is now funded for 2022! Thank you to those who have donated! We truly appreciate all the support. 😭

The Kickstarter will stay up until February 5th for further funding and the rest of the money we generate will go to getting more books in the store!

Keep it coming folx! Thank you!

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