Book Review: Mordenkainen’s Tome of Foes

Book Review: Mordenkainen’s Tome of Foes
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Mordenkainen’s Tome of Foes Wizards of the Coast Street: 05.29 What sacrifices are you willing to make to ensure interplanar balance? What role will you play in the conflicts to come? Those are two of the main narrative themes presented throughout Wizards of the Coast’s newest publication, Mordenkainen’s Tome of Foes. Almost immediately upon cracking

Fazilat Soukhakian

Fazilat Soukhakian
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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

Chad Kirkland Photography: A Journey from the Dark Room to the Light Side

Chad Kirkland Photography: A Journey from the Dark Room to...
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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

Martha Díaz Adam and Visual Ethnology

Martha Díaz Adam and Visual Ethnology

Photographer Martha Díaz Adam, a recent Utah State University BFA graduate in photography, has a penchant for visual ethnography. She seeks to foster understanding among cultures and understanding of underrepresented groups of people—both locally in Utah and abroad—through her photographic portraits and work. … read more

The Illusion of Photographic Realism: Josh Winegar

The Illusion of Photographic Realism: Josh Winegar
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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

Cultivating Life: Niki Chan Wylie’s Photographic Storytelling

Cultivating Life: Niki Chan Wylie’s Photographic Storytelling
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The photography of Salt Lake photographer Niki Chan Wylie is the kind that nudges you when you look at it, encouraging you to really feel out the story indicated in her images. She describes her work as “honest visual storytelling, walking the line between documentary and art.” … read more

Selective Nature: Nancy Rivera

Selective Nature: Nancy Rivera
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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

Film Review: Deadpool 2

Film Review: Deadpool 2
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The formation of the X-Force is one of the greatest sights to be seen, and I will never look at another parachuting sequence in the same light for the rest of my life. Sorry, Point Break, Deadpool 2 has you beat dead to rights. … read more

Film Review: Solo: A Star Wars Story

Film Review: Solo: A Star Wars Story
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Coming from veteran director Ron Howard, Solo: A Star Wars Story comes across as safe without any significant directorial uniqueness. Essentially, anyone could have made this sci-fi adventure. … read more

A Place of Power: Russel Albert Daniels and the Authentic Native Image

A Place of Power: Russel Albert Daniels and the Authentic...
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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