Polaroid 20x24 prints. Variable edition of 9. Contact artist for edition pricing.
In addition to the above installation walkthrough at the Center for Photographic Arts, I was invited to exhibit the GHOST STORIES series at an art/design/photography website created by WEBESTEEM in Poland
go HERE to see the Polaroids at WEBESTEEM
GHOST STORIES ARTIST STATEMENT
"No matter how slow the film, Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer It has chosen." - Minor White
This series began because I found myself compelled to photograph people who appeared either haunted or haunting. As the work progresses, I have widened the initial scope of the project to include portraits of people who are in some way "disembodied" by being marginalized in our culture either because of their beliefs, physicality, sexual preference etc.
The resulting images reveal gesture without detail,obtained via processes
that rely on chance and accident, amplifying the opportunities to capture
the numinous. They hint at an underlying thaumaturgical drama that unveils
forgotten personas, thereby presenting a documentary of the imagination
with a history both real and fictitious.
This work is informed in part by the Spirit Photography of the late nineteenth
and early twentieth century. Through the use of photo-manipulation techniques,
a group of early photographers produced images with an ethereal quality.
Even though these spectres were for the most part products of either accidents
of slow film or calculated hoax, the stylistic presentation of "that
which is not normally seen," becomes a guiding factor for this work.
A
selection of the GHOST STORIES images was on exhibit at
the PHOTOGRAPHIC CENTER NORTHWEST
in Seattle, WA
Oct 3rd - Oct 31st 2007
900
12th ave Seattle, WA 98122
206.720.7222