The day started out bright and beautiful. I’d been at the Newport Boat Basin the day before and decided to return, as I wasn’t sure I’d gotten any good photographs. Besides, I’d planned on taking the train to the World Trade Center after having breakfast at the nearby Starbucks, because I had things to do [...]
Photographer Sandra Swieder had admired and shot the Twin Towers for years. She had seen them from homes in New York and New Jersey, from scattered job sites, and from within, when she worked briefly as a waitress at Windows on the World. From the age of 14, when she would take the PATH into Manhattan to explore and spend time with her friends, the towers were always there. Until, one day, they weren’t.
A conventional photograph can seize a single moment in a person’s life with the delicacy of an expert pickpocket. In a blink of an eye, a face can be documented with mirror-like precision. But Jersey City artist Roger Sayre is not content with this snatch-and-escape approach. His line of attack resembles an interrogation session rather than a studio shoot.
Grace Church Van Vorst is currently looking for photographers to submit works for its upcoming spring photography show, which will be on display at the church in May. Photographers can submit up to four jpgs (the preferred method, at 8″ x 10″ and 72 dpi) or prints no later than April 10 to spring.photo.show (at) [...]
JCI reader John Dunstan (the filmmaker behind Secret Life of … My Small Urban Backyard) shared this great shot he took this morning of what appear to be vultures atop a Gifford Avenue home. As when a wild turkey was spotted on 8th Street a few years ago, it is a great reminder that our [...]
Greenville resident Elizabeth Deegan is organizing a Jersey City photo contest that will end in a group exhibition tentatively scheduled for May, and she’s currently looking for entries. “The contest is open to all, whether you live in Jersey City or not, so long as the images submitted are of Jersey City,” she writes in [...]
At rush hour on Tuesday morning, a tractor truck hauling bails of recyclables got stuck under the train bridge on Marin Boulevard and 18th Street in Jersey City, at the Hoboken border.
For full calendar listings, be sure to check out the Cultural Calendar. Want your event listed on our calendar? You can submit it yourself — just click here and follow the simple instructions. TODAY The Creative Grove Artist Market is always worth checking out; today’s is no different, with DJ sets from Daveed Martinez & [...]
Former city employee and onetime Ward E council candidate Guy Catrillo, who reported to the Fort Dix Correctional Facility in March after he pleaded guilty on corruption charges, has long been known around town as a friend of the arts, a musician and an artist himself. So it seems fitting that despite still having nine-plus [...]
- Shelter Has Placed Most of the Dogs it Took from Liberty Humane: A Morris County animal rescue that took 11 dogs from Liberty Humane Society earlier this month has found homes for eight of the animals. – Kendall Messick’s Latest: The Jersey City artist we profiled in January has a new book coming out, [...]
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