Jon Feinstein

In her playful, collaborative photographs, the Chinese photographer upends the meaning of “muse.” I interviewed Liao for Aperture about her recent exhibition.

Art history can't escape flowers. They're beautiful, loaded with symbolism, and go as far back as Ancient Egypt as one of art's most frequent muses. To celebrate Valentine's Day, I profiled 7 photographers who find new ways of making flowers interesting again.

The first photographic portrait ever made was a self-portrait: a daguerreotype shot in 1839 by Robert Cornelius, who held still for over a minute as the exposure slow-burned into place. As culture and technology have evolved, naturally, so has the practice of photographing one’s self. For this feature, I profile seven photographers who bring new life and energy to one of the oldest photographic genres.

From reducing ocean waste and environmental degradation to hate-speech-detecting AI, these innovative advertising and social campaigns use creative ingenuity to help make the world a better place.

Drenched in a rainbow of psychedelic hues lit by sparklers and reflected through prismatic filters, Eirik Johnson's "Pine" is a love song to adolescence, typological obsession, and a need to declare ourselves.

Podcasts are a great way for photographers to not only get helpful tips to improve their technique and grow their careers, but to learn about its history, evolution, and who — beyond just the showy gearheads — is making the biggest impact on the medium today.

I reviewed Abelardo's photography book Flowers for Lisa for PDN magazine.
"Abelardo Morell, in his latest book, Flowers for Lisa (Abrams), turns a common, fleeting romantic gesture—giving flowers to a loved one—into something lasting and permanent: a series of 76 hypnotic photographs that commemorate his love for his wife. While Morell is best known for elaborately transforming rooms into life-sized camera-obscuras, he’s experimented throughout his career...."

Ghosts, specters, and the occult have mesmerized photographers since the beginning of photographic history. More than a century before digital manipulation, there were countless attempts to use the "medium" to prove the existence of spiritual phenomena. With the understanding of today's digital technology and skepticism around truth in photography, I curated and produced this feature for VICE of 31 contemporary occult-ridden photographs.

I spoke with Emmy award-winning designer, educator, and Blind CEO Chris Do on how creators can maximize the power and profitability of their content.

Stock photo mishaps have a tendency to go viral on social media, popular blogs and magazines, have been constant fodder for content marketing, and have even made it to late night comedy shows. I wrote, researched and produced this piece for Wemark highlighting nine that are particularly funny or controversial.

For Freedoms is a 50 state spanning exhibition and events series aimed at using art to bridge the political divide across the United States. To support their citywide, multichannel efforts in St Louis, MI, I wrote, researched and produced this press release for Projects +, the gallery spearheading St Louis' arm of the project.

TED talks continue to drive some of the most inspiring ideas on science, technology, design, and all-around cutting-edge ideas — all centered around democratizing information and world-changing initiatives.

“Compound Fractures,” Joy Drury Cox and Ben Alper’s collaborative series of photographs of caves in the Southeastern United States, consider how humans use natural wonders as tourist attractions. Using direct flash to blast stalactites, stalagmites and cave walls with light, Cox and Alper’s images recall crime scene photos....

While the stereotype of the "crazy artist" can be as richly inaccurate as the trope of the "starving artist," struggles with depression have surfaced in the work of many artists and photographers throughout history. In this feature for VICE, I profiled 6 contemporary photographers who are using the camera as therapy.

“Queering” – a term that came out of queer theory in the 1980s and 1990s to challenge heterosexuality as the societal standard – has branched out, addressing a range of oppositional forces in art, literature, and beyond. In this piece for Photograph Magazine, I review Mark McKnight’s Turn Into, an exhibition of immaculately printed black-and-white photographs at Seattle’s James Harris Gallery that expand on this discussion to reconsider the concept of “normality” with a poetic twist.