Last month, Aperture and the British Journal of Photography brought together photographers Diana Markosian and Abdulhamid Kircher to talk about their respective books, Markosian's "Father" (Aperture) and Kircher's "Rotting From Within" (Loose Joints), which, as BJP noted, "both offer an alternative, brutally honest look at fatherhood." Born in Berlin, Kircher moved to the US as a child, leaving his father behind. Later, at 17, he became familiar with his father's life in Turkey and Germany. Markosian used both documentary photographs and archives of objects, letters, and vernacular images to probe the fifteen years of her father's absence.

  Susan Wides, a photo artist who traded NYC living for a new home upstate, near Catskill, during the Pandemic lockdown, is a long-time DART subscriber and contributor. Recognized for her innovative use of shift-tilt distortion in large-format photography to explore perception and presence, her work was first featured in AP17, in 2001.  Since her immersion in the wildness of her present environment, the images she creates have become increasingly abstract and painterly. Done usi...