Lorraine Turi
Saturday, October 19 - 3:00PM to 3:45PM
UNCC Center City Building // 204 Lecture Hall
My current work is a visual photographic exploration which considers the migration from the fieldto the factory and the consequences of that shift on the American worker. Since the IndustrialRevolution, large corporations have formed that monopolize industries such as farming andmanufacturing. These monstrous companies have slowly conquered the American workers' abilityto be self-sustaining and to compete in today's economic market. Staging my photographs in a field,I use the worker as a mechanism to contemplate the complex relationship between the worker andAmerican industry in contemporary society. The field in my photographs represents the generations offarmers and workers that have physically put hand to soil in order to plant food and sustain life. Thephotographs are printed on paper that has been imbued with dirt from my land; creating a permanentphysical connection between the soil and the paper or image. Each photograph carries the historyand hand of the worker and connects the viewer back to the land.
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