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People observe and collect just as I, as a photographer, observe and collect through images. I am interested in this collection process and how the objects people choose to live with and display not only show their personal likes, dislikes, and tendencies, but are a product of the place they live, their family, and their culture. This is not work about people with collections, but rather the objects that we all collect over time or just live with. These are objects are functional, decorative, or neither. We connect to the things other people "collect" because they remind us of our own tendencies. Strange, beautiful, ugly, etc.; the objects I photograph show that everyone has a different idea of "normal." What people do with their objects in their space, be it conventional or not, is noteworthy evoking a narrative about the people who interact with the place that not only describes personal times and tendencies in their lives, but also of their culture as a whole.
I make my photographs using medium and large format cameras.
The negatives are scaned and the images are printed as archival
pigmented inkjet prints.
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