2025 SPE Annual Conference: Adaptations
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Saturday, October 19 - 2:30PM to 3:30PM
Kingsley Ballroom - North
In calculated performances that intersect with photography's documentary potential, I explore ephemeral occurrences. Making such humble events happen is alchemy of sorts, the transformation of the mundane into the poignant. Within the constructed images, I reposition specific celebratory iconography to create minor spectacles. My process requires detailed and elaborate production outside the photographic frame so that what appears within the frame implies simplicity and straightforwardness. It is important to me that these constructions actually exist in the world, if only for the moment in which the photograph is madeThrough this process, my work could be considered almost exclusively photographic. The images are made with a camera and rely on the precise rendering of the lens; they are not manipulated in digital post-production or the darkroom. In this sense my pictures rely on an uncomplicated and unquestioned photographic record of what transpired in the moment the image was made. Nevertheless, my practice also transcends the traditionally photographic. It relies on actions outside of the photographic frame and is therefore deeply indebted to Performance Art of the 1970s. My practice also reflects aspects of Conceptual Art, theater, and sculpture in order to achieve its effect on viewers. Finally, in my practice, I have often misused the camera, pointing it at the sun to burn concentric rainbows onto a negative or to cause a minor eclipse with a mundane object. In this way, my work weaves together the documentary impulse so revered in the history of photography with influences ranging far beyond the photographic.
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