All photos © Clint Blowers.

Clint Blowers is a still-life photographer residing in Chicago, IL. In this series, he reinterprets the traditional icons of coffee by presenting them in unexpected ways. Emphasizing their more graphic qualities through contrast and texture, he turns these everyday objects into something more heroic.

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Photo by Leilani Wertens. Wertens is a second year graduate student in photography at Columbia College Chicago, and this image is from a series on estate sales called “Forget Me Not.” In a statement about the project, Wertens writes:

“At estate sales, treasure seekers encounter once-beloved personal and utilitarian objects that lose their original meaning when stripped of their context. Through my arrangement of the spaces and possessions found in each home, I counteract the impersonal nature of an estate sale and the way it distances us from death.”