Abstract of the accomplished photographic work
I take photographs every day using a 35mm Nikon camera. I then use the negatives that are produced from this daily activity as the base material for creating various series of photographs. The series are collections of descriptive fragments rooted in time and place. They are autobiographical without being personal. There are a number of motifs that repeat throughout the photographs. A few of these include: descriptions of weather, descriptions of New York City, interiors, images of advertisements, and still lifes of domestic objects.
In the series entitled Window these motifs are distilled into a series of twelve images all taken in New York City. Here concrete descriptions of the external world are offset by photographs of advertisements taken at bus stops and subway stations. The photographs of ads allow for subject matter from the imaginative realm to enter the series–subject matter not generally available to photographers working in a documentary mode.
Description of the project you intend to pursue through the Prize
I am currently working on a maquette book of photographs taken between the years 2021-2023 in which there are currently more than 40 images. This project deals with various kinds of change–the photographs cover the same places in various seasons and see the emergence of new buildings in my neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York. In 2023 my daughter was born and she began to appear in photographs directly after the period covered in the maquette book. For my proposed project I would like to work with images starting in 2023. The project would continue to document the world around me and the changes within it in a series of roughly 40 photographs. The photographs would continue to be black and white, printed by myself in a darkroom at 5×7.5 inches. I imagine the book as potentially containing more than 40 images and being reproduced smaller with one image per page spread.