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Two photography blogs capture Asheville buskers
Over the weekend two blogs — one local, one which covers all of North America — captured local street performers at work.
See and be seen: What’s new in the Xpress Photo Gallery
From Halloween night to Blogapalooza to local tennis matches, food fests and art shows, here are the latest shots from our photographers
Day in the Life of Asheville “digital opening” Friday at Lark Books
See the best 100 images from almost 1,000 that were shot for the community photo project, and much more.
Asheville, say “Cheese!”
In this town, a whole lot can happen in a single day. That’s part of the premise behind the third annual Day in the Life of Asheville community photo project. Starting at noon on Friday, May 22, scores of photographers—pros and amateurs alike—will disperse to varied locales and start snapping away, capturing as many facets […]
Mountain Xpress Community Photo Gallery
Each week, the Mountain Xpress plans to dip into the Xpress Community Photo Gallery and highlight a few photos of yours.
Mountain Xpress Community Photo Gallery
Each week, the Mountain Xpress plans to dip into the Xpress Community Photo Gallery and highlight a few of your photos.
Picture this
Plenty of people travel for their work; what sets local photographer Rene Treece apart is that her jaunts are adventures, and the travel photos she takes don’t pay the bills. Instead, Treece’s photos are intended to lay the groundwork for future projects. Adventuresome spirit: Photographer Rene Treece takes a self-portrait in Peru. Photos by Rene […]
Xpress is Flickrin’ and Twitterin’ now
News flash: Mountain Xpress adds Twitter feed, and Flickr isn’t far behind. Or, in Twitter-speak—News: Mtn X adds Twitr & Flikr. See http://bit.ly/HTFVR. #mxnow. Bitly what? Flickr who? OK. Here’s the deal (with apologies to the English language): Social networking and news gathering have mingled. Twitter is a micro-blogging program that lets users exchange brief […]
Lessing discusses photo essay on evangelicals
Asheville-based documentary photographer Scott Lessing talks about some of his photos featured in this week’s Mountain Xpress cover story.
Faith in focus
In a time when many religions are witnessing a drop-off in attendance at worship services, evangelicalism is booming: It’s the fastest-growing form of faith in the United States today. A substantial 26.3 percent of American adults define themselves as evangelicals, according to the 2008 U.S. Religious Landscape Study conducted by the Pew Forum on Religion […]
Showcasing “A Year in Asheville”
In the fall of 2007, Asheville-based writer and photographer Marty Weil set out to document a year in the life of Asheville by taking a picture a day then posting it to a Web site (www.a-year-in-asheville.com). Along the way, he missed a few days, but when he completed the project this September, he had uploaded […]
See and be seen: What’s new in the Xpress photo galleries
From Asheville’s Holiday Parade to the Foothills Highland Games and Festival to a real live zombie bank protest, our latest online photo spreads train a lens on local matters
Look Up Asheville exhibit
Photographer Michael Oppenheim shows images from the upcoming book Look Up Asheville. The opening is Friday at Lola Salon.
Dry harvest
Editor’s note: Liz McCarthy, a UNCA senior from Crystal Lake, Ill., who’s majoring in photography, spent the past few months serving as a photo intern for Mountain Xpress. In June, she embarked on a mission to document the area’s small farms and how their products reach local markets. But as the summer wore on—and the […]