MELISSA GOLDEN, PHOTOGRAPHER: “Bohemian Black Life, Circa 1974”
Melissa Golden’s photograph of author Alison Mills Newman accompanying Lynell George’s “Bohemian Black Life, Circa 1974” (Issue 27) looks almost like a portrait of an oracle—or a superhero.
TOD SEELIE, PHOTOGRAPHER: “The Old Man and the Sea”
Photographer Tod Seelie went into the drink to capture writer Santi Elijah Holley learning to surf for “The Old Man and the Sea” (Issue 27).
Gregg Segal, PHOTOGRAPHER: “Wonderhussy to the Rescue”
For Meg Bernhard’s “Wonderhussy to the Rescue” (Issue 28), photographer Gregg Segal captured her nude, submerged in a watering hole.
Spencer Lowell, PHOTOGRAPHER: “From Rigs to Reefs”
The sheer massiveness of an offshore oil rig is evoked by photographer Spencer Lowell, looming over the viewer as they read Katharine Gammon’s “From Rigs to Reefs” (Issue 27).
Lee Starnes, PHOTOGRAPHER: “The Diaspora Returns”
Lee Starnes’s portraits of Vietnamese and Vietnamese American artists accompanying Joe Fyfe’s “The Diaspora Returns” (Issue 28) are direct, intimate, and striking.•
