SEEING + SEEN

SEE THE IMAGES

“The world is always ‘already there’ before reflection begins….” — Maurice Merleau-Ponty

My photographs engage with things that can be seen, intuited, and extracted directly from the fabric of everyday life. When photographing people, I’ve paid particular attention to exterior evidence of interior thought and feeling. In exploring such ambiguities, I think of the images as encapsulations of time: a summary of what seems to be true in the apparent present as represented by each image, a hint of what might have taken place that led up to that moment, and a portent of what may soon follow.

These images were shot just before and after the turn of the century, in various locations. Revisiting them now, at a remove of more than two decades, has allowed for a second, deeper engagement with the subjects themselves, slower and closer, a meditative re-immersion in the moments and situations depicted. A small number of the images were shot in color, then selectively de-saturated to varying degrees. Most, however, were shot on black + white film, reimagined with color that has been selectively added in the transition from analog to digital.

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