Permanent Drift: Walking In Olde Kensington (2012-16)

About

John Waller is an American photographer living in Massachusetts. Born in 1976 he started photography in 2012 upon graduation from The University Of The Arts. An avid walker his photography meanders around ideas concerning the fragmentation of everyday life memory and relationship to place. He has self-published several photography zines and his work has also been published in Incandescent Magazine Save Zine Atwood Magazine and exhibited in group shows at Art League Rhode Island Project Basho Doomed Gallery Texas Photographic Society Gravy Studio and Darkroom Gallery; where he received an honorable mention from juror Bruce Gilden. Pete Duval is a fiction writer and photographer. His short story collection Rear View (Houghton Mifflin) won the Bread Loaf Writers Conference Bakeless Prize the Connecticut Book Award and was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction. A second collection The Deposition winner of the 2020 Juniper Prize for Fiction will be published by The University of Massachusetts Press in the spring of 2021. Other awards include Grain Magazines Short Grain fiction prize and Florida State Universitys Worlds Best Short-Short Story prize. Pete has received fellowships from the Bread Loaf Writers Conference and the Collegeville Center for Ecumenical Research and is the recipient of two Connecticut artist grants. His fiction and nonfiction have appeared in Ascent The Massachusetts Review Alaska Quarterly Review Witness Chelsea Exquisite Corpse and Appalachian Heritage among other venues. As a street and landscape photographer Pete explores urban Philadelphia where he lives and coastal Massachusetts where he grew upsettings that figure significantly in his writing as well.