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Cover boy: David Kessler in PW!

Cover story on David Kessler’s video project Shadow World. Read the article. Watch the Shadow World videos. Great coverage and most deserved for one of our favorite artists (who also does the Look! it’s Libby and Roberta videos.) Congratulations to David! xoxo from artblog!

Shadow World at Kelly Writers House tomorrow

Click To Play David Kessler, who does the magic on our video series Look! It’s Libby and Roberta is having a screening of his heartbreaking Shadow World videos tomorrow night, Tuesday, Sept. 18 at Kelly Writers House. Shadow World, which documents people who live or work or hang out in Kensington under the El, is riveting when seen small on the internet. The short pieces (a ten-minute clip showing several episodes will screen) will be very powerful when projected large. The series tells much about a part of the city and its inhabitants most people never see. Shadow World is ... More » »

Lights on Shadow World–David Kessler gets a star turn

David Kessler, standing under I-95 during Zoe Strauss’ last PAP show in May. Our video hero, David Kessler–he who one day said, how’d you like to make some videos and we said yes yes (one yes was libby, one was roberta)–got some long deserved recognition yesterday in the Inquirer yesterday. The wonderful Daniel Rubin, one of the paper’s columnists, wrote a column all about David and his amazing noir Shadow World videos of people he finds and talks to under the el in Kensington. David is able to capture sensitive portraits of people often dismissed by society, managing to simultaneously ... More » »