MUSÉE 29 – EVOLUTION
Evolution explores the concepts of progress, transformation, growth, and advancement in an age when images are taking a dramatic shift in the role they play in our lives.
MUSÉE 29 – EVOLUTION
Evolution explores the concepts of progress, transformation, growth, and advancement in an age when images are taking a dramatic shift in the role they play in our lives.
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“Through meticulous hand-manipulation of photographic prints and the fusion of mythical narratives, he embark on imaginative, non-linear storytelling that transcends the constraints of time.”
“Memories bridge the past and the present but what is this memory we all have?”
“What is the mystery of their masculine experience, does it even exist, and what are the biases of our own cultural moment of narrowly defined readings of boys and men? In this mythic space, I explore an epic love story between fathers, sons, and brothers which feels like unexplored territory in a traditionally homophobic American landscape.”
With this series I wanted to create some images that I knew would be impossible for me to capture straight from a camera. The woman wearing elaborate clothing sitting in an ornate chair is juxtaposed with the barren desert to make the woman seem to be powerful, alluring and mysterious. A Goddess of the desert.
This body of work is almost entirely from my post-photojournalist life; When I moved to Los Angeles in 2007 I had to reinvent myself. My identity as a photographer had been tied to getting assignments from magazines and newspapers, I had just started learning the very old technology of wet plate collodion, and I was not getting assignments anymore.
