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| Ormet Aluminum |
"Born and Raised Outsiders have long fictionalized the narrative surrounding Appalachia. As a resident of West Virginia I have always been aware of the views others hold of my home, and they have guided me to create my own version of life in the hills. My Appalachia is a granulated depiction based on the false impressions of others, my idealizations and personal experiences. Light plays an important role in how I understand this place."
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| Roula! Mytilene, Greece 2007 |
"I photograph to counteract erosion of self. When our grandparents emigrated from Greece, we became hyphens between Greek culture and American, adding and subtracting American-ness and Greek-ness ad infinitum. This failed attempt at fine-tuning is an enigmatic game in which an individual rarely actualizes “selfness.” After years of investigating by camera the back roads of Mexico, Nicaragua, and Cameroon, I arrived at my grandmother’s birthplace, an island in the north of Greece near Turkey."
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| Glemie, Blues Player, Raccoon Hunter, Westside, Detroit 2011 |
"Detroit: Unbroken Down Detroit is my hometown, but I’ve been gone for over three decades. These photographs are my reaction to all the negative press that Detroit has had to endure over the past few years. I wanted to see for myself what everyone was talking about, and like everyone else I was initially drawn to the same subjects that other photographers were interested in; the crumbling factory interiors, the empty lots and burned out houses that consume forty square miles of the city, and the massive abandoned commercial infrastructure."
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| Wallportrait Ashley 2, The Triumph of Death |
"As a very young boy I went deaf slowly enough that I was able to hide it for a year by learning to read lips and read visual clues. This handicap offered a kind of compensation: the power to witness. I began to see hidden things, other people living inside my mother and my father, strange flashes of other beings that arose as something fugitive, something dangerous and not-them. I couldn't say—and still can't—what they are, who they are, or from where they came, but I saw them and still do. Surgeries a year or so later repaired my hearing, but I have been transfixed, fascinated, and frightened ever since by things that change shape or appear about to."
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| Atom Planet Installed |
"For years I have been experimenting with different ways of generating an image on photographic paper. I recently began thinking about the dialogue that painters and sculptors have with their mediums and realized that I wanted come up with ways that my process could inform the resulting image. While still working with photo paper, light and chemistry, I used some well-known processes like the photogram and invented other ways of producing images without using a negative. Some of these methods included painting bleach onto blackened photo paper, or building layered piles of glass and eggshells and moving around them with a flashlight to make an exposure."
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| #8796, 27 October 2012 |
"The Evolution of Ivanpah Solar is an ongoing photographic essay that grows from my enduring interest in human-altered landscapes, particularly those at the intersections of nature and human activity. These intersections hold great visual, philosophical, environmental and political energy, as they urge me to ponder our individual and collective relationship to the world. An aerial perspective heightens this interest and contextualizes the marks we make upon the land. I am intrigued, inspired, indeed seduced by changes we make to the land to establish an order, pattern and structure that provide utility for our culture and ourselves. Yet such transformations often elicit differing, difficult, and dissonant responses."
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