Sensual and sexy are first words that came to mind when we saw Clayton Cubitt’s fashion photography. When we saw his portraits of hurricane Katrina survivors however, the word “RESPECT” flashed before our eyes. Clayton treats these portraits with the same stylized production value as his fashion work, but lets the survivors everyday personality show through in a way that tells a profound American story that desperately needs to be heard.

“A lot of the time I’m a fashion photographer,” The Wiliamsburg (area of Brooklyn) native explains. “And I’m certainly inspired by fashion photography, but I don’t consider myself a fashion photographer alone any more than I would consider myself a ‘portrait photographer’ or an ‘art photographer.”

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San Francisco based Paul Catanese describes himself as a hybrid media artist. In his new series, Celestial Workshops, drawing gestures are captured on a computer tablet then run through custom software. The resulting data is used to machine etch printmaking plates. The finished work is complexly white line-work on black as seen in the detail above.

Paul Catanese is an Assistant Professor of New Media at San Francisco State University. He earned his MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where he lectured for several years on animation, digital imaging and virtual reality. He has also taught at Columbia College, Harold Washington College and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago. Prior to teaching position at SFSU, he authored Director’s Third Dimension, a book on three-dimensional programming for interactive multimedia.

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