Based in Leeds, Leah Durant states that her pri­mary pas­sion is pho­tog­ra­phy, which is melded with print­mak­ing, col­lage, and drawing. In col­laged pieces, Leah’s pho­tog­ra­phy is often non-specific and enlarged to high­light tex­ture. Aes­thet­i­cally, I love the dif­fused nature of her mark-making and pho­tos, which speaks to the larger scope of her work. She writes: ...

It seems that most times I visit New York City, I find myself on the lower west side of the city, which is coin­ci­den­tally near the High Line, an ele­vated lin­ear park that is a rede­vel­oped for­mer ele­vated freight rail­road. I have vis­ited the park sev­eral times, and each time enjoyed myself. The park boasts ...

Many thanks to Rebecca for shar­ing the beau­ti­ful Chi­nese shadow pup­pets today! Check out what I had to say about the pho­tog­ra­phy of Bernd and Hilla Becher over on Big Things! ...

I find Noper’s series, The Hid­den Bucharest both eerie and cin­e­matic. The Bucharest-based illus­tra­tor and graphic design cre­ated the series for the Grolsch Beer cam­paign, Bucharest by Hand. He took pho­tos of the city and illus­trated fan­tas­ti­cal crea­tures into the landscape. It wasn’t imme­di­ate that I real­ized these were par­tially pho­tographs. Noper does an excel­lent ...

Ana Botezatu is a Romanian-based artist and illus­tra­tor with a degree in artis­tic ceram­ics. When the medium became too costly, she sought after mate­ri­als that were recy­clable and not nearly as expen­sive, but that still allowed for her to express her love of story telling. Ana incor­po­rates pho­tog­ra­phy into her work, and col­lages faces of ...

I am absoul­tely in love with how UK-based artist Mau­r­izio Anz­eri has main­u­plated found pho­tographs and embroidery. Mau­r­izio uses embroi­dery like a shroud over mem­o­ries, breath­ing in new life and a renewed sense of color to old, sepia-toned pho­tographs. He works both with and against these found images. Some­times, he will use the con­tours of ...

Brown Paper Bag is a blog first and fore­most con­cerned with show­cas­ing works on paper (and etcerta). But, when Lesser Gon­za­lez Alvarez pre­sented with a book of his poetry to read, I enjoyed it so much that I felt as though I must share! And, as I came to find out, every­thing in Lesser’s work ...

When I received Vice Magazine’s 2010 Photo Issue, the first word that came to mind was vis­ceral. The cover itself is a photo of rot­ting fruit, a ref­er­ence to Dutch still life paint­ing from the 15th and 16th cen­turies. Not a small printed pub­li­ca­tion, the fruit is enlarged with tex­ture. And, thumb­ing through the rest ...

When you visit the web­site of Liesl Pfef­fer, her love for pho­tog­ra­phy is imme­di­ately appar­ent. She infuses it in nearly all of her works. The Aus­tralian artist com­bines draw­ing over pho­tographs, sten­cils on fab­ric (printed on pho­to­graphic paper), and finally col­lage land­scapes on white paper, using abstracted pho­tog­ra­phy to build an image. The land­scapes that Liesl ...

While I don’t really intend to fea­ture many pho­tog­ra­phers on Brown Paper Bag, the workWal­ter Mar­tin and Paloma Muñoz really delights me and I really wanted to share it on the site. I think it’s my affin­ity for toys that attracts me to Wal­ter and Paloma’s work. Each scene they’ve cre­ated is like look­ing into a ...