Mike has had the pleasure of editing with these photographers and others, recently.

I just got off the phone with Nicole Wolf, a lengthy call talking about her photographs. I was so excited by her work that I had to write something about it right away. What energy! She’s a commercial and advertising photographer who is part of a business based in D.C. and Chicago: SOTA Dzine.

D.C. is a far cry from where she grew up, on a small New Brunswick, Canada, island, where lobsters dominate life. Nicole has been returning home to make pictures that are a far cry from her commercial work. She asked me to look at her photographs about the lobstering life back home and do an edit to show for gallery submission.

© Nicole Wolf

We also talked about how to approach such a subject in general, how to make even better pictures and I assessed the work as it is and suggested how to make it into a book-level body of work.

The photographs have this timeless, harkening-back-to-the-early-days-of-photography quality that is very sensuous. They elicit a range of emotional responses. If you’re in the Northeast, you may well get to see them in a gallery near you.

Worth mentioning: Nicole showed me more vertical photos than any photographer I’ve worked with. More than half of the selections from the more than 200 she sent are vertical. Which means Nicole clearly has super human powers: She can cause a camera to defy gravity by tipping its axis.