Works in Progress

Links to artists that I am considering/referencing

These are the photographers that I am referencing as I build the discussions around my current work:

1. Evidence:

Eadweard Muybridge’s motion studies:

Henri Cartier-Bresson’s decisive moment:

Lewis Hine, Child Labor, Jacob Riis: How the Other half Lives


Dorothea Lange/Farm Security Administration photographs:

Charles Moore/Civil Rights:

Anna Atkins  Photographs of British Algae: Cyanotype Impressions:



Trevor Paglen: Drones:

Taryn Simon: Innocents


What Is a Document?An exchange between Thomas Keenan and Hito Steyerl

Evidence: Larry Sultan and Mike Mandel
















2. Abstraction/Material

Broomberg & Chanarin: The Day That Nobody Died

Matthew Brandt: Lakes and Reservoirs

Sunburned, Chris McCaw

Marco Breuer

Hiroshi Sugimoto: Let There Be Lightning:


Shimei Takeda: Trace


Adam Fuss:


Seba Kurtis: Drowned


3. Abstraction, Concreteness/Realism

Liz Deschenes

Floris Neusüss

4. Photography and Violence

Book: The Cruel Radiance: Photography and Political Violence, Susie Linfield

Étienne-Jules Marey's chronophotographic gun

Harold Eugene Edgerton - high speed photography

Robert Capa Fallen Soldier

Artists who have shot things, dealt w/ violence/ culture:

William Burroughs:

Richard Mitchrach :Violent Legacies

Chris Burden: Shoot

Stuart Harrison of the Dopamine Collective

Inside the exploded cameras of Dr Harrison's latent image study.

A photo posted by the dopamine collective (@thedopaminecollective) on Dec 30, 2015 at 5:56am PST

Warhol - Death and Disaster series and Gun

Weegee

Cao Guo-Qiang: Gun Power drawings

Margaret Evangeline : Shooting Metal

Sarah Pickering Explosions

Guns in the hands of artists exhibition

Short doc on the show:
Jonathan Ferrara Gallery - Guns in the Hands of Artists - Overview from Jason Berry on Vimeo.

Griffin Museum of photography 2016 Exhibit: Bullet Points:

The show brought 5 artists together.

1. Deborah Bay
2. Christopher Colville
3. Garrett Hansen
4. Sabine Pearlman
5. Yorgos Efthymiadis

4th residency set up

Photo exhibits at Mass MOCA

Liz Deschenes and Clifford Ross

P-Town and rising seas

What is the future of coastal land?

First meeting with my Artist Mentor

I had an introductory meeting with Matthew Gamber last week and caught up on where I have been and where I am going with art.
Check out The Decordova's past exhibition on Abstraction
Mass MOCA's current photography shows
Mills Gallery BCA show on Acadia
Gallery Kaafus Landscape as Fetish
Anxiety and Photography - book

We discussed ways to go about a daily photographic practice. He challenged me to take a broad subject and narrow it down to something specific. The art is in the aesthetic observation of many little gestures. In the past, I worked for many years as a photojournalist. I still have a keen interest in current events and social movements. I was thinking that I could apply this strategy to events in the daily news.

Climate Change and the Erosion of Plum Island

Plum Island is a barrier island on north east coast of Massachusetts. The sandy beach is slowly receding, and the houses built there are particularly impacted by coastal storms. As the oceans rise, the future of these precarious places remains to be seen.
Below is a google image search of the effects of the erosion in 2015, followed by two images I made on the sand dunes.