Kevin O'Connell

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Clay Lipsky's Atomic Overlook re-contextualizes a legacy of atomic bomb tests. In an attempt to keep a nuclear threat feeling contemporary and omnipresent, Lipsky introduces archival...

Clay Lipsky's Atomic Overlook re-contextualizes a legacy of atomic bomb tests. In an attempt to keep a nuclear threat feeling contemporary and omnipresent, Lipsky introduces archival images of atomic explosions among casual scenes of vacationers. The surreal images speak to a voyeuristic culture where catastrophe is viewed as entertainment by increasingly desensitized masses. The iconic mushroom cloud in each image serves as metaphor for larger societal issues such as: global warming, nuclear power...

I'D RATHER LOOK AT CLOUDS "…Here we go alone and like it better so...Now lying recumbent…this incessant making up of shapes and casting them down…this incessant ringing up and down of curtains of light and shade, this interminable experiment with gold shafts and blue shadows, with viewing the sun and unveiling it, with making rock ramparts and wafting them away – this endless activity…One should not let this gigantic cinema [of clouds] play perpetually to an empty house…" Virginia Woolf On Being Ill This series began from my bed photographing clouds tripping along the horizon of the Jemez Mountains of New Mexico, home to Los Alamos National Laboratory. I had just moved to my small studio perched high that I’d cobbled together over several years. My casual cloud gazing immediately became part of a pain-lessening arsenal - and how lucky for me living in an amphitheatre with an unexpected generous subject – a nearly 24-hour a day theater. The title of this series comes from an exchange with a friend about war...

The Bridge at Hoover Dam series looks at the evolution of the Colorado River Bridge, in the context of the Black Canyon and Hoover Dam, as its construction continues through the end ...

After graduating from the University of California at Berkeley in 1971 with a bachelors degree in anthropology, and while teaching photography at the ASUC Studio on the Berkeley camp...

The Bridge at Hoover Dam series looks at the evolution of the Colorado River Bridge, in the context of the Black Canyon and Hoover Dam, as its construction continues through the end ...

Limited Edition large scale ( 44 x 35 inches ) 35mm photograph, taken in Norfolk. One of only three and only available in this size. David Koppel served his photographic apprenticesh...

Limited Edition large scale ( 44 x 35 inches ) 35mm photograph, taken in Norfolk. One of only three and only available in this size. David Koppel served his photographic apprenticesh...

Limited Edition large scale ( 44 x 35 inches ) 35mm photograph, taken in Norfolk. One of only three and only available in this size. David Koppel served his photographic apprenticesh...

Limited Edition large scale ( 44 x 35 inches ) 35mm photograph, taken in Norfolk. One of only three and only available in this size. David Koppel served his photographic apprenticesh...

Edition of 10 Series "The Light within" Also available in 164 x 123 cm (64,5’’ x 48,4’’) Edition of 7. A naked man stands on a rock in the Atacama desert in Chile and is doing Yoga...

"WOODLANDS" by Mat Hennek The photos from the Woodlands cycle are the outcome of numerous excursions through all sorts of bosk - wood impressions with bewitching atmospheres. Carefu...