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Yukimi Akiba | Timeless Knot

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The Griffin Museum is pleased to introduce Yukimi Akiba showcasing her unique work Timeless Knot.

Timeless Knot is the first project after Yukimi stepped away from self-portraits using Polaroids. Focusing on unknown women (in vintage postcards) who lived and died in the past, and using countless French Knot stitches that looks like blooming colorful threads. 

Akiba takes time to “talk” with all the creatures in the vintage photographs, and carefully stitch and revive them, stitch by stitch, with a great amount of respect towards the portrait sitter, the original print and us as viewers of the work.

Yukimi Akiba lives in Japan, working with mixed media and embroidery as her main medium. She created a series of Polaroid self-portraits, Creative ‘Self’ Destruction, from 2019-2021. Her work played an important role as a way to reconstruct what she lost in her life due to illness and trauma, which led to her current style that allows her to relate herself to others and reality.

Since spring 2019 Yukimi Akiba has thrown herself into her creative/emotional world but isolated herself from people and the real world instead. For Yukimi, art played an important role as therapy for illness, a way of not physically harming herself or others, a way of rebuilding what she had lost in her life by trauma, and now it helps relate her and the realities.

To see more of Yukimi’s work, log onto her website. You can find her on Instagram @ykm_12.44_

Ruben Natal San Miguel | Downtown Crossing

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Boston’s colonial leaders once called Downtown Boston home, and the district’s residents traded on the wharves and in shops leading from the waterfront.  The seat of government was the Old State House at the head of State Street.  The main freshwater source for the area gave Spring Lane its name.
Although you wouldn’t know it today, as recently as 20 years ago, Downtown Crossing was hardly an attraction at all. It was a place occupied almost entirely by shoppers and office workers. The neighborhood was busy during the day, but went silent at night. Now, emerging retail giants, new restaurants and revived forms of entertainment keep visitors busy deep into the night. 

Neighborhoods throughout Boston all have their own distinct demographics. But Downtown Crossing prides itself on being a place that has a little bit of everything for everyone. “When you’re taking Washington Street and you go all the way down into different neighborhoods, there are different demographics. But, specifically talking about Downtown Crossing, it really is a crossing of lots of cultures. Just a few blocks away along Washington Street, Chinatown is experiencing similar changes to Downtown Crossing. 

In Early 1982 , I moved to Boston from Manhattan, NYC to attend college. Back then, the city was mostly diverse during the semester calendar of the year when students like me (called back then foreign students) would be there during the college semesters and when college was over most would leave town for job opportunities elsewhere. The city was mostly known for its lack of diversity, lack of inclusiveness and racial tensions. 
I worked there briefly after college and then like most relocated back to NYC where 31 years later still reside. 
Recently I was invited by Crista Dix, Executive Director of the Griffin Museum to show my photographic series Expanding The Pantheon : Women R Beautiful at The Griffin @ Lafayette City Center Gallery in Downtown Crossing Boston. 
I was also asked if could do what I call and had done in several other museums a ” Wall Portrait Session ” on which will asked passersby subjects to have their portrait taken and document the current demographics of the area. 
This happened Saturday May 13, 2023 from 2-4 PM right in front of Macy’s (which in the past was formerly Jordan Marsh). 
I was so pleasantly surprised by how diverse and inclusive the city has become. Everywhere I went around the city, from my Uber driver, to delivery, to retail employers, hotel managers etc, etc, minorities and members of the LBGTQ+ community were present, confident and more than anything being seen!
I was so thrilled to document such a strong shift in demographics so evident and present and how everyone interacted so well with each other. I witnessed and documented a newer, inclusive and diverse city. 
The wall selected for the portrait session was this wonderful wallpaper simulating stage drapery. It was tiny but just perfect ! The final effect to me seemed like a vintage photo booth, where people go in to have that perfect moment of togetherness 


This whole digital archive was donated by me to The Griffin Museum. My way to give back to the city who formed me as the professional, individual and human that I am today.

RUBEN NATAL-SAN MIGUEL is an architect, fine art photographer, curator, creative director and critic. His stature in the photo world has earned him awards, features in major media, countless exhibitions and collaborations with photo icons such as Magnum Photographer Susan Meiselas. Gallery shows include: Asya Geisberg, SoHo Photo, Rush Arts, Finch & Ada, Kris Graves Projects, Fuchs Projects, WhiteBox Gallery, Station Independent Projects Gallery, LMAK Gallery,  Postmasters Gallery  Rome  & NYC  and others. His work has been featured in numerous institutions: The New York Public Library, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Griffin Museum of Photography, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, African American Museum of Philadelphia, The Makeshift Museum in Los Angeles, University of Washington, El Museo del Barrio and Phillips Auction House and Aperture Foundation.

Jessa Fairbrother | Conversations with My Mother

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This is my story of severance.

It explores the relationship I had with my mother and my own inability to become one. It is a photographic performance of being cut from the role of daughter while at the same time denied a maternal role to shape my future.

We had been tentatively making work together using a single disposable camera, taking photographs of our own lives. I would take one and send the camera to her in the post; she would do the same. We tried to communicate through this process.

Not long after my fertility began to unravel. I was unable to concentrate on my story because it was then we both found out she was going to die.

I dismantled my existing life to relocate and care for her, my second parent dying of cancer. In the immediate moment I was concerned with the gesture to record her as she was but felt the photograph’s inability to do this. I photographed myself responding to the surroundings, to negotiating space. Once or twice I asked my mother to photograph me, echoing the way we had used a camera only a few months before. I tried to make sense of things that had no sense except sadness.

I jostled with several personas during this period – wife, daughter, sister, artist. I gained new roles and became Carer. I became child-less…. or child-free. We strived to understand and love each other more completely; we looked at each other seeking resemblance, resentment, entanglement and reliance. I became Orphan. An orphan.

I put on her chemotherapy wig afterwards – it was the only thing that smelled of her. I burned, buried and embellished photographs of us. I performed my grief and began to stitch. I cried a lot for her. I cried for my loss of feeling the hug of her body, her touch, her laugh. I cried in sorrow at the abrupt suspension of future narratives, for the mother I would not hold again and for the child who would never hold me.

About Jessa Fairbrother –

Jessa Fairbrother is an award winning artist with a practice focussed on feelings and the body, using photography, performance, and stitch. Initially training as an actor (1990s) and completing an MA (Photographic Studies, University of Westminster 2010) underpins her knowledge of how artwork and audience collide. Her expanded use of stitch is underpinned by training in historical hand-embroidery at the Royal School of Needlework through a QEST scholarship received in 2019.

Solo exhibitions include The Photographers’ Gallery, London (The Print Sales Gallery, 2019, who represent her as an artist), and Birmingham City University (2017). In 2020 she was commissioned by Wellcome Collection, illustrating work for their Digital Stories section, and again in 2022.

‘Conversations with my mother’ (2012-16), her study of maternal grief, has been noted for significant contribution to understanding mourning with scholarship by art historian Jennifer Mundy published in Tate Papers (2020) and conference presentation at The Freud Museum, London (2018). A substantial amount of this work was exhibited at Bristol Museum and Art Gallery in 2021, presented as intervention in the main collection for Bristol Photograph Festival.  The artist-book of this work is held in UK / US collections (Tate Britain,  V&A, Yale Centre for British Art, Museum of Fine Art, Houston). Her work is also included in the extensive survey Body (2019) by curator and art historian Nathalie Herschdorfer.

Receiving a-n bursaries in 2016 / 2020, a 2020 Arts Council England (ACE) Emergency Grant, and most recently a Developing Your Creative Practice grant (2021), also from ACE, have supported ongoing research on her long-term work a Fencing Manual for Women.

Other notable mentions include shortlisting for Jerwood Open Makers (2017) and winner of the GRAIN portfolio prize (2017).

Jessa is based in Bristol, UK

Renewal Rhapsody : Spring in Black and White

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“Renewal Rhapsody: Spring in Black and White” is an online exhibition showcasing the stunning black and white photography of Arthur Griffin. With a focus on the arrival of spring, this collection of 15 photographs captures the essence of renewal and rebirth. Griffin’s masterful use of light and contrast, combined with the timelessness of black and white photography, creates a sense of nostalgia and wonder that draws the viewer in.

Each photograph is a celebration of the beauty and magic of spring, from the delicate petals of a flower to the playful energy of animals awakening from their winter slumber. Griffin’s keen eye for detail and his ability to capture the essence of his subjects are evident in every image, making this collection a true testament to his skill as a photographer.

We invite you to take a journey through “Renewal Rhapsody: Spring in Black and White” and experience the wonder of spring through Griffin’s lens. Whether you are a fan of nature photography, black and white photography, or simply appreciate the beauty of spring, this exhibition is sure to captivate and inspire.

Xiaonan Guo is an artist, photographer, and a writer. Photography has been her constant passion because it encapsulates the fleeting moments of beauty, ugliness, perplexity, and conflict. She believes photography is a poetic language that speaks vehemently across time and space. Xiaonan graduated from Mount Holyoke College in 2022 majored in Art History and minored in Studio Art. Currently, Xiaonan is working at The Griffin Museum of Photography, where she is assisting with upcoming exhibitions and preserving the invaluable Arthur Griffin photography archive.

Special thanks to the Boston Public Library for digitizing a large portion of the Arthur Griffin Archive so it may be accessible to the public. If you would like to view more photos and library material, visit the Boston Public Library for the Digital Commonwealth and the Digital Public Library of America.

All images on this webpage © copyright 2023 by the Griffin Museum of Photography. All rights reserved.  No part of this webpage may be reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission of the museum except in the case of brief quotations from the written material with citation.

Best Friends Forever | Curated by Claire Fadness

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Historically, vernacular photography has shown us glimpses into the lives and relationships of everyday people. Since film is used for this type of photography, fleeting moments that would otherwise be lost or exist only in hazy memory, are given permanence.

In contemporary times people have chosen to document through digital means using phones or tablets. While those kinds of images may look really good, they can lack a certain authenticity because digital photos can be endlessly retaken until the moment becomes more of a staged photo shoot. Recently, among Gen Z, there has been a trend to buy disposable or older film cameras. Using these types of cameras tends to make the taking of pictures less serious and keeps the moment fun and loose. This allows us to see intimate moments between friends.

This collection of photographs is of contemporary images featuring different Gen Z friend groups everywhere. The pictures were taken spontaneously among friends and family capturing candid, genuine moments of joy. It is important to note these images are born out of the friendships and closeness between the photographer and the subject. The photographer is more than just a documenter of what is occurring, they are also a participant. 

The title of this show is not only about the lasting relationships of the subjects, but also the permanent format of physical film photography.

BFF’s – Claire Fadness, Caroline Karakey, Isha Khanzode, Rachel Kosta, Bix Lowsley-Williams, Alice Pendergast and Aidan Wiese

This exhibition curated by Claire Fadness, a student of Connecticut College, and summer 2022 intern for the Griffin Museum in our Administration program.

Claire Fadness is a student at Connecticut College, majoring in Art and Art History with a certificate program in Museum Studies. She first became interested in photography through an art history class her sophomore year of college. Especially inspired by vernacular photography, Claire was prompted to buy her own point and shoot film camera. Her favorite thing to capture are candid moments with loved ones. All of her friends will tell you how irritated she becomes when taking a picture and everyone begins to pose. 

This particular group of photographers were chosen after an open call through Claire’s instagram. The audience reached was a group of young adults whom Claire had various connections with. However, it was initially prompted by looking at the photos taken by her and her friends. The photos chosen have an emphasis on group dynamics and friendship. 

New Visions is a curatorial project that highlights the creativity of the Griffin Museum Curatorial Internship Program. Throughout their time at the museum, each student develops a thesis statement or curatorial vision, connects with artists, selects images, writes texts and produces an online exhibition finding new ways to express their creativity through a curatorial practice.

New England Portfolio Review (NEPR) May 2023

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We are so pleased to highlight the work of the attendees of the New England Portfolio Review, happening on May 6-7th, 2023.

Artists participating are –

Adrien Bisson, Amanda Tinker, Amisha Kashyap, Amy Durocher, Amy Giese, Anastasia Sierra, Anjola Toro, Ann Hermes, Anna Litvak-Hinenzon, Beth Lilly, Caren Winnall, CB Adams, Daniel Remer, David Ricci, David Sokosh, Diana Nicholette Jeon, Donna Tramontozzi, Elisabeth Smolarz, Elizabeth Wiese, Ellen Harasimowicz, Elsa Marie Keefe, Eric Graig, Fehmida Chipty, Francine Sherman, Fruma Markowitz, Hannah Altman, Hannah Latham, Howard Lewis, Ileana Hernandez, Ivana George, Jamie Hankin, Jennifer Thoreson, Joetta Maue, John Roy, Jonathan Bourla, Joseph Lieber, Judith Donath, Judyta Grudzien, Kay Kenny, Lana Caplan, Laura Blacklow, Laura Ferraguto, Lauren Shaw, Laurie Peek, Lawrence Manning, Lisa McCarty, Liz Albert, Lou Peralta, Marc Goldring, Marcy Juran, Margo Cooper, Marsha Wilcox, Michael Corthell, Michael Young, Mitch Eckert, Pam Connolly, Robin Bell, Robin Boger, Sal Tuccitto, Sam Comen, Stephen Starkman, Stephanie Shih, Susan Keiser, Tina Tryforos, Tokie Rome-Taylor, Torrance York, Vanessa r Thompson, Vaune Trachtman, Victoria Gewirz, Wen-Hang Lin, William Betcher, and Xuan-Hui Ng.

With Scholarship attendees –

Bai Song, Cas Haddad, Devan Jeffery, Drew Leventhal, Gabriella Azurdia, Jee Su Kim, Kannetha Brown, Rachel Cardillo, Saul Barrera, and Trent Bozeman

An online catalog for the New England Portfolio Reviews has been created and is available here.

Singular Vision

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We celebrate the unique and individual narratives from twenty two New England schools with Singular Vision. These incredible students give us a vision of the medium that provides great promise for photography. Whatever creative path they decide to follow, their vision is one we look forward to. Thank you to all the teachers who inspire these students with their creativity and ability to support them with the tools to express their creativity.

We have highlighted three students here with recognition of first, second and third place, and each school had one student artist receive an honorable mention.

First Place – Miffy Wang – Governor’s Academy

Second Place – Amina Benlail – Winsor School

Third Place – Laura Botnaru – Marblehead

The schools and students shown here – Honorable Mentions and Award Winners are highlighted with *

Arlington High School – Educator – David Moore – Students – *Giselle Sical-Mayen, Daniel Hazen, Moshe Goff, Daneili Felscuti, Alex Moran

Bedford High School – Educator – Larry Sheinfield & Sean Hagan – Students – Marlowe Tilne, Joseph Kponou, Emily Zeltser, Shannon Sullivan, *Ameera Saba

Boston Arts Academy – Educator – Guy Michel Telemaque- Students – Jade Miranda, Denver Simmons, Milianys Polanco, *Xavier James, Nadine Vincent

Brimmer and May – Educator – Blake Fitch – Students – *Nolan Suraci, Oliver Baggett, Edrik Quezada, Zachary Adler, Thomas Gheewalla

Buckingham Browne & Nichols School – Educator – Andrew Warren – Students – Emmy Lev, *Rahina Abubakar, Caroline White, Keira Hagerty, Mika Higgins

Cambridge Rindge & Latin School – Educators – Debi Milligan, Cindy Weisbart , Amanda Kilton

Students – Hailey McLaughlin, Natalia Livon-Navarro, Stella Guest, Lucy Taylor, Clara Delfumeri, *Isaac Wheatley, Elisa Bechthold, *Ella Lehrich, Erwin Kardaktzke, Adelina Escamilla-Salomon, Ronan Mullner, Zephyr Newman, Alfrid Naziha

Concord Carlisle High School – Educator – Greg Coan – Student – Lila Parker (Image No.1)

Dana Hall School – Educator – MaryAnn McQuillan – Students – Amy Meuse, Sicheng Wang, Eloise Svedlund, Miranda Meuse, *Stella Yan

Framingham High School – Educator – Scott Alberg – Students – Hayley Muniz Santiago, Sam Lamont, Meghan McCluskey, *Dylan Harris

The Governor’s Academy – Educator – David Oxton – Students – (1st Place) Miffy Wang, Eliza Gibbs, Bear Brooks, Matt Collina, *Brian Zheng

Lexington High School – Educator – Samantha Lowe – Students – Ana Avila Garcia, *Lotem Loeb, William Kilgore, Kyle Taylor, Nora Manasas

Marblehead High School – Educator – Leah Bordieri – Students – Siena Day, (3rd Place) Laura Botnaru, Saylor Caruso, *Andrea Potvin, Samantha Roman

Milton Academy – Educator – Scot Nobles – Students – Blake Ankner, *Jack Weil, Michaela Ocko, Alex Cesaretti, Natalie Williamson

Norwood High School – Educator – Saquora Lowe-McLaurin – Students – Lise Marie, Yash Shah, Lilila Hatch, Avi Yossef, *Anna Buttton

Pingree School – Educator – Debora VanderMolen – Students – Alex Yablin, Helena Crate, *Jack Moulison, Riley McClure, Helen Coughlin

Reading Memorial High School – Educator – Kathleen Dailey – Students – Jackie Cole, Rose Clark, Hannah Rigney, *Jonathan Nazarro, Mina Willander, Emily Bass

The Rivers School – Educator – Sophie Lane – Students – Kate Paquette, Sindisiwe Khumalo, Taylor Ehler, *Maylea Harris, Madison Ngai

Somerset Berkley Regional High School – Educator – Virginia Troutman – Student – *Henry James, Leandra Paul, Alex Crook, Sam Grew, Hayden Teasdale

Walnut Hill School for the Arts – Educator – Holly Worthington – Students Sophia Kim, Andrew Glass, Rowling Zhu

Weston High School – Alexander Zhu, *Ryan Kirmelewicz, Andrew Pettinato, Elisha Davidoff, Ryan Chao

Winchester High School – Educator – Caitlin Engels – Students – *Neave Bunting, Mairin Norton, Maggie Shevland, Leo Wang, Natalie Taylor

The Winsor School – Educators – Sara Macaulay, Erin Calamari-Kirwan and Mia Tinkjian – Students – Keira Finn, (2nd Place) Amina Benlail, *Camille Eckert, Aiko Dable, Emma Roffman

Nolan Ryan Trowe | Kenosis

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In 2016 I had a spinal cord injury. That was seven years ago. I was 22. Being paralyzed and using a wheelchair fundamentally changed everything about how I move through the world and society; physically, emotionally and mentally everything is different. These photographs and short films shot using various analog formats (super 8mm, 35mm, 120mm, 4×5 and 8×10), are my way of understanding what happened to me, who I was, and who I am continually becoming.  

Nolan Ryan Trowe is a multidisciplinary artist from California. His work has been published and recognized internationally. The most recent of his many honors is being a Magnum Foundation Photography and Social Justice Fellow. Currently a series of his photos are on view at the Museum of the City of New York. 

JaLeel Marques Porcha | High Interrogation

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Self-portraiture is a category that is more interrogative for me than any other. The repetition of it all– framing, shooting, and viewing myself, over and over again makes me think I’ve gotten closer to realizing something. The thing I have discovered – is that there is an uneasiness when seeing oneself. The uneasiness is a feeling that lingers even after I’ve looked away, knowing that the eyes of the image are fixed with a pain I try to leave behind. But what does that realization mean for me when I turn my back to the process I’ve also enabled?

High Interrogation is an ongoing investigation of imaging and understanding the self in times of trauma. I’ve struggled with the idea of photography, or specifically self-portraiture, as being a type of catharsis that helps or heals the artist as they create through pain. I am continuously making images as I work through waves of depression, times of numbness, or internal conflicts. Conflicts that feel as though they have been passed down to me and ones that are born as I grow older into my own identity of a black non-binary person. With each image, there is a resurfacing of memories I didn’t know were still contained inside of me. Memories that maybe hoping that these acts of performance will set them free and start a new process of healing.
It makes me wonder – what will forever lie within the marks and makeup of my own body?

JaLeel Marques Porcha

(b. 2001 Fort Riley, KS; raised in Paterson, NJ; and lives/works in Providence, RI)
JaLeel Marques Porcha is a multimedia artist whose works engage in notions of the archive and history; community and universality; trauma and the ideas of overcoming said trauma. Their practice is multifaceted and investigates solitary identity to narrate personal experiences for others to recognize similar or different experiences within themselves.
Their inspiration is derived from their own lived experience, introspectiveness, and black popular culture. Porcha aims in surfacing the links that connect the nuances that connect the intersections of their salient identities. Through the usage of a variety of mediums and approaches, Porcha creates layered spaces for imaginative thinking and confrontation.
JaLeel has exhibited in Philadelphia, PA; Long Island City, NY; Atlanta, GA; Boston, MA; Providence, RI. They are pursuing their BFA in Photography & Sculpture from the Rhode Island School of Design.

Nocturne

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Statement
Nocturne is about my emotional responses to New York City. This project features composite photos of the waterfront and landscapes in New York City or straight photos of reflections of the landscape on the water’s surface. The landscape in my works is murky, dark, and far away from viewers, which means that there’s always a barrier between me and this city. The composite photographs derive from my imagination, and the straight photographs are the projections of reality. The alternation between imagination and reality function like melody and rhythm, and together they compose a nocturne that explains the name of this project and individual images. I think it’s a time for native and local people to rethink and re-understand New York City due to coronavirus. WHC

Bio
Wen-Han Chang was born in Kaohsiung, a southern city of Taiwan, in 1982. His journey into photography began in university. While doing his BS in physics, he studied light and was fascinated with laser photography and optics. Soon, he found that he loved photography more than physics, so he decided to forfeit his master’s degree in physics.

Time went on until the 2008 financial crisis, he was laid off from an engineering job and had nothing left except his camera. In order to try to see if the career of photography could be continued, he signed up for the 2008 EPSON contest, of which the judges were all Japanese, including Daido Moriyama, Mitsuo Katsui, and so forth. The first prize came when he almost gave up taking photos. Following that, more tries rewarded him with international competitions and prizes, such as PX3 and IPA.

From 2009 to 2017, he worked as a medical photographer. The work led him to a professional field that consisted of photographing procedures, such as heart surgery, and documenting patients’ visible symptoms. The work was fascinating but didn’t satisfy his artist’s soul. Therefore, he quit his job in 2017 for his true passion, abstract photography. In 2020, he got his MFA degree in Photography from the School of Visual Arts, continuing his professional track in art. Now, he is a director of photography in an international IT company.

Image List

An Introduction by Nat Trotman
Inspired by his experiences as a newcomer to New York City, Wen-Han Chang creates photographs of depopulated cityscapes that evoke a sense of dreamlike stillness. He deliberately underexposes his black and white images, sometimes combining multiple images into invented composite scenes. Nearly every image features a darkened body of water, often bearing an abstracted reflection of natural or artificial light. This recurring motif brings to mind the musical patterns to which his artwork titles allude—a connection made explicit in the accompanying soundtrack by Yun-Chun Jasmine Sun.

Nat Trotman, Curator of Performance and Media at Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

A Review by Natasha Chuk
The images in Nocturne are beautiful: extremely fitting of the title given the series and the traditions of this form of music, altogether eliciting a kind of appealing sadness. The work overall references the transition from day to night, the crepuscular light, which forces you to make adjustments and, sometimes, produces an overwhelming awareness of this struggle. The metaphor and assertion of the barrier working together is strong in its promotion of the idea of distance and incomplete understanding and perception.

The musical score is a tremendous accompaniment, drawing out the sensations of longing and unfulfillment, almost like the exploration of a gap that isn’t filled with emptiness so much as an alternative experience or encounter. It takes on a life of its own, entrancing and enveloping the viewer.

The work also references a state or idea of liminality You could say the work is visually and conceptually betwixt and in-between, which encapsulates the state of your daily encounters in a city that teeters between being accepting, indifferent, and rejecting, almost simultaneously. With this in mind, your influence by Hiroshi Sugimoto’s photographs are apparent: they’re situated at the threshold of resolution, and they produce a quiet discomfort in their unwillingness to forge definition. This promotes the value of these liminal spaces/conditions as being and having definitions of their own, worthwhile and encompassing of a feeling or situation.

The work of the Pictorialists and the broader notion of elevating the status and possibility of a photograph beyond looking and recording also are integral to this work, encouraging the images to suggest movement, almost toward transformation. The reference to Sally Mann’s layered and mostly obsolete techniques of image-making — which infused her images with a sense of physical, emotional, and ultimately temporal texture — plays well here. Nocturnehas an effect of suspending a sense of reality, or the image’s referent, somewhere inside, unlocatable and at a remove. The result is arresting: both intimidating and extending an invitation to look closer.

Natasha Chuk is a critical theorist and writer whose research interests focus on the use of creative technologies as systems of language at the intersection of expression, interface, and perception. She teaches courses in film studies, digital cultures, aesthetics, and art history at the School of Visual Arts in New York City. natashachuk.com

View Wen-Han Chang’s website.

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