2026 SPE Annual Conference: Catalyst for Exchange
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Saturday, October 19 - 1:30PM to 2:30PM
Kingsley Ballroom - South
The building blocks for this presentation stretch back to the outlying woods that surrounded my home as a child. I turned inside to my imagination for adventure. Three logs was a fortress. A hole was a trench. A puddle became a hidden water sanctuary. I went through many sets of clothes as I acted out imaginary scenes behind my parents' house. This playful, creative approach to life carried into my adulthood, where a blending of passions for photography, film, prose, and performance melded together to influence this perspective on image making. Pulling ideas from my short stories and isolating core moments into visuals, the work I will discuss centers on fictitious situations and events, told through the slight hint of a smirking camera. Love and violence, fear and celebration, along with comedy and tragedy collide for abstracted tales.I am a fictional storyteller. I use that mindset in narrative bodies of work. Photographs refer to larger stories containing buildups and conclusions, but the viewer only receives these brief glimpses of the event. This isolation invites an audience to meet my imagination halfway, producing a tale that is free to deviate in a number of directions. Various aspects of life are dramatized and presented in a packaged form of entertainment. They are escapism from reality, albeit thinly veiled. This is what separates fiction from reality, but it is this separation that I feel most comfortable in. My work is my imagination. Photography allows me to play inside of it.
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Andy Bloxham
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