2027 SPE Annual Conference: Community in Contrast
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William Connally
Friday, October 10 - 10:00AM to 11:00AM
Mendenhall Student Center Rm 244
In preparation for his narrative photographs, William Connally writes elaborate short stories and makes drawings detailing the characters who exist just beyond the scene. To create the characters who populate the Lake Elster Series, Connally draws from his own personality traits and family history, which become increasingly fictionalized as the initial idea reaches the final photographic image. Be it a projection of his hermetic nature fifty years in the future, but set fifty years in the past, or a refracted view of the traits the artist shares with his father, as personified by Hollis Wolfram, an adjunct professor of cave art who drowns in the titular Lake Elster.
During the course of his Image-Maker Lecture at this year's Southeastern SPE Conference, Connally will speak about the trajectory of his narrative work, from the original grains of truth, through the storyboarding of each scene, on to the creation of the finished photograph. Through this discussion, Connally will examine the role narrative plays in his artwork, and the significance of viewer interpretation as it relates to fiction.
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