2026 SPE Annual Conference: Catalyst for Exchange
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with Nick Shepard
Saturday, October 05 - 10:00AM to 11:00AM
This presentation will center around photographs made while traveling throughout Aotearoa, New Zealand in early 2024. The project is ongoing, and the presentation will present different threads of work I have been exploring, ecological and artistic contexts around my project, as well as an exhibition I presented this July in Sacramento. The title of the presentation, "Near Point", refers to the "the closest point at which an object can be placed and still form a focused image." Most of my photographs are made in extreme close, revealing beautiful fine detail, but with reduced field of vision and confusing planes of focus. Like these visually alluring pictures, my understanding of Aotearoa NZ is both clearer and fuzzier than it was when I arrived. In some ways, this project speaks to the difficulty of understanding the big picture through fragments of experiences and interactions.
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