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From Manufacturing Home series This Week: Photographer Amy Eckert talks about her collage work, and her photography project Manufacturing Home. For the project Amy photographed the interiors of model mobile homes around the U.S. Amy's work has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Scientific American and Dwell, among many others, and is part of the collection of the George Eastman House and the Museum of Fine Arts Houston...

From Manufacturing Home series This Week: Photographer Amy Eckert talks about her collage work, and her photography project Manufacturing Home. For the project Amy photographed the interiors of model mobile homes around the U.S. Amy's work has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Scientific American and Dwell, among many others, and is part of the collection of the George Eastman House and the Museum of Fine Arts Houston...

Everglades cover - Image via Zatara Press This Week: Photographer Lisa Elmaleh talks about driving her homemade, portable darkroom through the American Southeast to take photographs of  the Florida Everglades and  traditional folk musicians in Appalachia. Lisa's new book, Everglades came out in May from Zatara Press...

Everglades cover - Image via Zatara Press This Week: Photographer Lisa Elmaleh talks about driving her homemade, portable darkroom through the American Southeast to take photographs of  the Florida Everglades and  traditional folk musicians in Appalachia. Lisa's new book, Everglades came out in May from Zatara Press...

This Week: Landscape architect David Seiter talks about his new project: Spontaneous Urban Plants: Weeds in NYC. David is interested in how weeds might be used by landscape designers and urban planners to improve our cities. David is the design director and founding principle of Future Green Studio. 00:00 - BTR Today 00:54 - Spontaneous Urban Plants 02:50 - What is a Weed? 06:13 - Native vs...

This Week: Landscape architect David Seiter talks about his new project: Spontaneous Urban Plants: Weeds in NYC. David is interested in how weeds might be used by landscape designers and urban planners to improve our cities. David is the design director and founding principle of Future Green Studio. 00:00 - BTR Today 00:54 - Spontaneous Urban Plants 02:50 - What is a Weed? 06:13 - Native vs...

This Week: Filmmaker Cem Kaya talks about his documentary Remake Remix Rip-Off. The film chronicles the rise and fall of Yesilçam, the Turkish film industry, which during the Cold War was one of the most prolific in the world, churning out close to 300 films a year. Producers kept up with the public's demand for new films by copying, remaking and mashing up Hollywood scripts into zany, Turkish versions of films like The Wizard of Oz, Rambo and ET...

This Week: Filmmaker Cem Kaya talks about his documentary Remake Remix Rip-Off. The film chronicles the rise and fall of Yesilçam, the Turkish film industry, which during the Cold War was one of the most prolific in the world, churning out close to 300 films a year. Producers kept up with the public's demand for new films by copying, remaking and mashing up Hollywood scripts into zany, Turkish versions of films like The Wizard of Oz, Rambo and ET...

This Week: Denver, Colorado based artist and photographer Edie Winograde talks about her project Sight Seen, which she made while traveling through America's national parks. Edie is interested in how we experience history in the landscape, and her pictures of places like Niagara Falls, Monument Valley, and Scott's Bluff showcase the sublime beauty of the landscape as well as the way nature is packaged for tourists and travelers...

This Week: Denver, Colorado based artist and photographer Edie Winograde talks about her project Sight Seen, which she made while traveling through America's national parks. Edie is interested in how we experience history in the landscape, and her pictures of places like Niagara Falls, Monument Valley, and Scott's Bluff showcase the sublime beauty of the landscape as well as the way nature is packaged for tourists and travelers...