SITE SEEING : 2014
"The negatives really underscore the use of various technologies by tourists . . . Very compelling work."
- Francine Weiss, Curator, Art and Photography Historian
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"The negatives really underscore the use of various technologies by tourists . . . Very compelling work."
- Francine Weiss, Curator, Art and Photography Historian
{click images to enlarge}
STATEMENT
When you finally save the money, find the time, and take that journey you've been longing to take to the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona (which is where the ideas for my Site Seeing series began to take shape), you'll be surrounded by hundreds of other people, but few will not be plugged in to some small device. With eyes glued to their ever-present screens, nearly everyone around you will be taking photographs and videos. Very few people will experience the place they've come so far to see, without squeezing it (along with a reflection of themselves) into the tiny frame of some kind of camera.
Site Seeing is a continuation of my last fifteen years of using the photographic negative as a way of expressing the passage of time, the blurry line between the past and the present, and the fact that in the end, while some things actually remain (nature, art, ruins), we're all just passing through, despite our incessant efforts to capture and hold on to our experiences.
* Site Seeing is featured HERE in the book Illuminating the Negative : Fifteen Years of Photographs.
When you finally save the money, find the time, and take that journey you've been longing to take to the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona (which is where the ideas for my Site Seeing series began to take shape), you'll be surrounded by hundreds of other people, but few will not be plugged in to some small device. With eyes glued to their ever-present screens, nearly everyone around you will be taking photographs and videos. Very few people will experience the place they've come so far to see, without squeezing it (along with a reflection of themselves) into the tiny frame of some kind of camera.
Site Seeing is a continuation of my last fifteen years of using the photographic negative as a way of expressing the passage of time, the blurry line between the past and the present, and the fact that in the end, while some things actually remain (nature, art, ruins), we're all just passing through, despite our incessant efforts to capture and hold on to our experiences.
* Site Seeing is featured HERE in the book Illuminating the Negative : Fifteen Years of Photographs.