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The Photo Memory Project |
; The Photo Memory Project is an ongoing installation and is still taking photo submissions. To become part of, or to learn more about the project, join The Photo Memory Project Group on Facebook. |
When George Eastman introduced the Kodak camera in 1888, he made a cumbersome and complicated process easy to use and accessible to nearly everyone. Since then, the snapshot has become secondary to our modern existence, flooding the world with trillions of images. My work investigates not just the subtle power, but the overwhelming, yet overlooked, presence of the snapshot. Working from "memories", my work forces the viewer to reassess the importance of the everyday image, and changes the meaning of the snapshot with large scale, ink transfer drawings that resemble the highly recognizable Polaroid photograph. Compared with today's digital image, the Polaroid was instant, inexpensive and expendable. My intent is to take the forgotten or disregarded "memory" and recreate it to force the viewer to question its importance. |
