With the lack of any legitimate memorial to the Kent State massacre, we look to an unintentional memorial, one vast structure built at the same time, by the same man who caused the massacre. In 1970, anti-war uprisings at Kent State invoked Ohio Governor Jim Rhodes to go against the…

With economic and political power, an individual billionaire like Les Wexner tends to also take on the roll of a city planner and architect. His spatial impact on the city of Columbus, Ohio is hard to miss. ‘I think the Arts Center represents that only in a democracy can you…

The architecture of New Albany, Ohio is more than just an aesthetic choice. The ideological implications reflect the wider economic conditions of our society. Published October 5, 2020 Outside of the modest city of Columbus, Ohio is an isolated ‘bourgeois utopia’. The geography, landscape, and architecture of the suburb called…

Trump could trigger an avalanche of Democrats like the Watergate scandal did, but the 1975 race for Ohio Governor could’ve set a chilling precedent for the 2020 presidential election. “I’ve done more in 47 months than you did in 47 years”, Trump famously proclaimed in the first presidential debate of…

Originally posted on July 31, 2020 on TheColumbusCapital.com. The federal paramilitary agents occupying Portland and Seattle have been deploying chemical weapons, shooting protesters and journalists with “less-lethal” munitions, and beating protesters. In Portland, the federal agents were documented grabbing people off the street, putting them into unmarked vans, and allegedly…

Author ········· Taylor Dorrell Published ······ March 23, 2020 on Giphantie Journal For such a prolific thinker as the late Jean Baudrillard to not only write on a specific subject like photography, but to make his own photographs, places his work in a unique position for the viewer — one…

The inherent objectivity in satellite images implies a symbolic distance towards subjects which contrasts on-the-ground photojournalism. The visceral closeness of photojournalism can often feel too close and subjective in form — these images are often used as subtle propaganda or detested as being overtly graphic to generate more viewers and…

Americans are facing restrictions on TikTok while China is restricting the NBA. While the two both have market drives and differ in their ideologies in democracy, there is something that binds the two. Both the US and China see it in their favor to utilize any means necessary — culture…

Photographers and those who’ve written on the subject have had a problem; one could say this problem haunts the medium. This problem is seeing photography as a medium to be addressed within a relative vacuum. Not necessarily culturally or socially, as many projects’ main focus today is to escape the…