ISO

Ephemera
Spring 2023
For photographers, there is a visceral importance to preserve memories through images, and retain the ephemerality of a moment. Photographs become personal archives of lives that quickly become part of the past – subject to the fragility of remembering what used to be so present. What becomes discarded over the course of time, returns to the forefront through the photographs of careful observers.

In this issue, we delve into the concept of ephemera and how it relates to the tangible and intangible aspects of the everyday. Our contributors explore the various ways in which fleeting moments are transformed into legacies through these artists’ interpretations. Artists like Cora Rafe and Gavin Elian Ben Rodriquez meditate on the personal, and temporality of life. Liz Speiser directs her attention to the cultural and familial as modernity takes over through post-photographic image-making.

                                                     – Katie Noble and Carlos Ocando



Front Cover: Antonio Pulgarín @antonio_pulgarin

Back Cover: Lamar Kendrick-Dial @lamarkendrickdial

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