Month: May 2018
![Luminaria: A Photo Lab for Alternative Process Photography](https://www.slugmag.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/354-ED-Luminaria-JessicaBundy-IMG_6709.jpg)
Luminaria: A Photo Lab for Alternative Process Photography
Luminaria is one of the newest installations to Salt Lake City’s blossoming arts community. It began earlier this year as artists and partners Christine Baczek and David Hyams made the decision to focus their passion for alternative photography into an outlet that they could share with the greater community. … read more
![Localized: Zac Ivie](https://www.slugmag.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/353-ED-Localized-ZacIvie-LoganSorenson-5.jpg)
Localized: Zac Ivie
Born and raised right here in Salt Lake City, Utah, Zac Ivie is just starting to reach his potential. He’s released a steady flow of music in the three years he’s been making it, and he’s also been on the Perceptionists Tour with Zion I, Mr. Lif and Akrobatic. … read more
![The Illusion of Photographic Realism: Josh Winegar](https://www.slugmag.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/354-ED-JoshWinegar-MatthewHunter-11.jpg)
The Illusion of Photographic Realism: Josh Winegar
When asked about his process, work or style, Josh Winegar is incredibly particular and often elusive. In regards to whether or not he employs certain techniques or concepts when creating, his most common response is that it varies from work to work. The medium does not present a unidirectional approach to art. … read more
![Localized: Vinnie Cassius](https://www.slugmag.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/353-ED-Localized-VinnieCassius-LoganSorenson-8.jpg)
Localized: Vinnie Cassius
When speaking of fashionable Utah emcees, Vinnie Cassius (aka Pretty Misfit or Tsunami Slim) must be mentioned. According to him, his style is laid-back, simple, clean and vintage. He and other Utah artists have formed ties with and done modeling work for a fledgling local brand named Drux. … read more
![A Place of Power: Russel Albert Daniels and the Authentic Native Image](https://www.slugmag.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/354-Ed-Russel-Albert-Daniels-Native-Horseman.jpg)
A Place of Power: Russel Albert Daniels and the Authentic...
Russel Albert Daniels is a quiet, pensive artist who contains an expansive river within him, much like the spaces and stories his work reflects. His photographs have captured the complexity of the modern Native experience intersecting with nature and contemporary political struggle. … read more
![Fazilat Soukhakian](https://www.slugmag.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/Fazilat-Soukhakian-We-Share-the-Same-Feeling-1.jpg)
Fazilat Soukhakian
Fazilat Soukhakian’s approach is an active, inquiring one. The Iranian artist-photographer’s work continually records and questions what it means to exist in our contemporary world—what it means to engage with it, to have a stake in it. … read more
Art | Art and Fashion | LGBTQ+
![Hungry Hawaiian: I Like Pig Plates And I Cannot Lie](https://www.slugmag.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/354_AD_Hungry-Wawaiian-2.jpg)
Hungry Hawaiian: I Like Pig Plates And I Cannot Lie
With plans to expand by adding a food truck in the near future, the Hungry Hawaiian owners are not only pursuing their dream of serving real, feel-good food, but also honoring and reviving owner Keni Aikau’s late father’s passion. … read more
![Chad Kirkland Photography: A Journey from the Dark Room to the Light Side](https://www.slugmag.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/DSC_9313.jpg)
Chad Kirkland Photography: A Journey from the Dark Room to...
Chad Kirkland is a local freelance commercial and editorial photographer. He has shot for companies like Google, Converse, The Wall Street Journal and more. More impressive than his list of clients, however, is his work. “It’s my typewriter, my paintbrush, my microphone and amplifier,” he says, referring to his camera. … read more
![Selective Nature: Nancy Rivera](https://www.slugmag.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/Nancy-Rivera-@clancycoop.jpg)
Selective Nature: Nancy Rivera
Nancy Rivera has wrestled with this boundary of the real since her days completing her MFA at the University of Utah. Her work centered around the cyanotype processes, a cameraless form of photography that exposes a photosensitive iron solution onto a surface and then dries it in a dark room. … read more
![The Visual Journalist: Photographer Kim Raff](https://www.slugmag.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/354-Ed-Kim-Raff-USM-Lindsay-Wood.jpg)
The Visual Journalist: Photographer Kim Raff
There is an intimacy in each photo that is unmistakable when glimpsing into the lives that Kim Raff captures, and each portrait is vastly different from the next. “I’m legitimately curious about people and how they live, so it’s not really hard for me to talk to people and explain why I want to spend time with them.” … read more