Overexposure
Measure twice and cut once. This was advice from the mom of Stacy Huggins, exec director at Redux, when she first started sewing. She reminded her not to waste fabric, not to waste thread. With the merging of instructional photography classes from the Charleston Center for Photography with Redux, Stacy has now applied this methodology [...]
Recent Art Stories
Turning Women on to Wood
Gender roles flip-flop and people are mystified when they watch Ashley Harwood working at her craft. She regularly gets decked out in protective gear and uses a chainsaw to cut salvaged trees into appropriate-sized chunks to make bowls on the giant lathe in her backyard studio in West Ashley. She finds it amusing that a [...]
World Class Wedding Pro
Some things you just want to last forever. Your wedding photos, for example. So it’s only fair that a few standard questions be asked of the prospective photographer: Who else have you photographed? What awards have you been nominated for? When the reply includes “Bill Clinton,” “Chris O’Donnell” and “three-time Pulitzer nominee,” it’s a safe [...]
Portrait Perfect
No smiling. This is what Kate Wichlinski tells the subjects of her photographs, whether it’s to herself, her mother, brother, a man who grows watermelons in the middle of South Carolina, or a friend, Larry, who works at a liquor store. Wichlinski is a local photographer who deals solely with portraiture. She says, “With architecture, [...]
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