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Josh Raftery
Friday, October 10 - 4:00PM to 5:00PM
Mendenhall Student Center Rm 244
Josh Raftery's photographic work addresses the viewer's interaction with the remains of the dead through a visual dialogue representing the narrative of a corpse. Raftery utilizes traditional photographic processes, such as photogravure, carbon transfer, and blood-pigmented gum bichromate to emphasize the passage of time, memory, and the tangible nature of existence.
In the spring of 2014, Raftery received two grants from Ohio University, The Student Enhancement Award, and The Original Works Grant. With these awards, he photographed charnel houses, ossuaries, crypts and catacombs throughout Europe. These elaborate symbolic structures assembled from human remains were created as a means to commemorate the dead, and to display examples of Memento Mori, the remembrance of mortality. The locations indicated above represent a cultural and historical phenomenon of bridging the social division between the living and the dead. The result of this project is printed in the photogravure process.
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