PDR Blog

Our current issue features work from photographer Caleb Cole, hailed by inBoston Magazine as “shaking up New England’s visual arts scene.”  

Caleb has received numerous awards for his work and exhibited at a variety of venues, including Gallery Kayafas (Boston), the Danforth Museum of Art, Photo Center Northwest (Seattle), Good Citizen Gallery (St. Louis), Childs Gallery (Boston), and Jenkins Johnson Gallery (NYC). He is represented locally by Gallery Kayafas.

Caleb has this to say about a recent project, Other People’s Clothes:

At the heart of my work is a fascination with ambiguities and inconsistencies, an interest in how I go about negotiating areas of grey and how others manage to do the same. When I am in public, I watch people going about their daily routines alone; I wonder about the lives they lead, wonder how they experience the world around them and how they make meaning of it. I spend time inventing stories for them: narratives of isolation, of questioning and searching, of desire, and of confusion. The images in Other People’s Clothes are a product of my exploration of private moments of expectation, a visual expression of my experiences stepping into the shoes of the types of people I see on a daily basis. Each photograph in the series is a constructed scene that begins with an outfit or piece of clothing (either bought, found, or borrowed), then a person that I imagine to fill those clothes, and finally a location where that person can play out a silent moment alone. This moment is the time right before something changes, the holding in of a breath and waiting, the preparing of oneself for what is to come. Though I am the physical subject of these images, they are not traditional self-portraits. They are portraits of people I have never met but with whom I feel familiar, as well as documents of the process wherein I try on the transitional moments of others’ lives in order to better understand my own.

We’ve extended our submission deadline for the Fall 2012 issue to August 15. Fiction writers, we’re especially interested in short story and novel excerpt submissions. We’re still waiting for that one story that’s going to bowl us over–is it yours?

PDR is proud to announce our nominees for Best Indie Lit New England (BILiNE). BILiNE is a new print anthology series showcasing the best fiction and poetry published by independent journals in New England. The first volume will be published in Fall 2012 and will feature works that appeared between 2010 and 2012 in independent literary magazines throughout the region.

Our nominees, from our first three issues, are:

M. R. B. Chelko, from Manhattations
Laura Cherry, “Missing Gloucester Teen Found Dead”
Allan Converse, ”City of Women”
Kendra DeColo, “The Dream in Which You Are”
Mercedes Lawry, “The Same Moon”
Ed Porter, “A Proposal”
Gabrielle Reeve, “How to Sex Yourself”
Ed Skoog, “Hattie’s Hat”
Franz Wright, “Autoventriloquism”

Congratulations to the nominees. For more information and to support the BILiNE project, visit their kickstarter page. A $25 donation gets you a copy of the print book as soon as it’s printed. The kickstarter ends on Sunday Jul 22, 5:00pm.

As of today, we’re officially open to submissions of fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and visual art for our Fall 2012 issue.  Check our submissions page for section guidelines and to access our online submission form.

Also, be sure to check out the new section of our site, the bookshelf, where you’ll find books by writers and artists featured in PDR (including the likes of Miranda July, Franz Wright, Ed Skoog, and more).