Tueaaaaasdays exhibition......

well were not all perfect.. we make mistakes.. but i finish college today, so all i can say is see you tueaaasday...

Critical(mass)Evaluation.....

Over the course of the last four years we set out to define ourselves as photographers, image makers or visual artists. Yet in certainty we can only say that we are photographers and as such we are defined by our use of the camera. It is with this position in mind that perhaps i can communicate something of my understanding of what it is to study photography and in my case to be a photographer who values ideas over execution. I began over five years ago now, pursuing a notion of what it was going to be to be a photographer. In the pursuit of this idea, I have been lead through many regions of understanding as to what it is to be a photographer, be it commercial, land art, reclaimed photographic imagery or any other use of the photographic medium. And I stand now looking back to these beginnings and i can say just this. 'So far i have come, but I still haven’t left.'

The beginning of understanding is rooted in our ability to refuse. With photography there is no margin of refusal, no space to breath. What I am getting to here is that as a photographer I learn to make photographs, and as such I am a photographer. Yet to go beyond this means a certain level of foresight to see the folly of representation. The inability to distinguish between many truths is human; the ability to fix a truth is photography. With this explanation of my position as a photographer, Maybe now we can go on to understand why the images I create are no more final or finished than the maker of them.

Your Invited...

Free Poster to download, please feel free to wallpaper your house, if thats want you want...
or just come on the 10th of July...

Unearthed negs.

Really think that this image is my favorite out of all i have seen so far. the repetition between the leaves in the foreground and the soil and residue in the top part of the neg. It is for me, one of the more evocative images in the set.

jpeg cloud...jpeg sea

Thomas Ruff, maybe, bad college scanners definitely. Possibly the most out of focus,
low resolution image I have ever had the pleasure of mistakingly making.


For more out of focus, pixelated images check out my "bogpegs" on

www.photographyshubris.blogspot.com

To Bury the Dead

I'm just back from the bog, went out early this morning to look around and find a few different places to bury the negatives. As i was doing my this is art, I'm creating here, returning to the mother nature bosom.. a big rat ran out in front of me, nearly shit my pants. It was really huge,could have been a cat.. Anyway dug a big hole in the ground, about 3 foot deep, technically no longer a hole but a trench, and threw about half the negatives in there. Dug another hole further away and threw the rest in that.

Was looking over the images last night, as i was cutting them into seperate pieces, and did feel a trepidation about destroying the images. This is important, that these things don't do anything but represent an attempt to represent the space and the memories, the threads that join me to this space and to my photography.

More importantly is the creation of something new, something that goes beyond me, releases me from the need to hold fast the image, the space. In this way i leave the final intervention to serendipity...apart from my act of burying the images, the result is unknown, the finished image will be unfinished... My hand is now out of this process...

Was thinking about how my burying these images comes back around to the initial thinking about the space and history. The discovery of the bog men in these space, as so beautifully evoked in the poetry of Seamus Heaney. I also wanted to share the origin of the title of "Unearth" and something that influenced my way through the last 5 months. In The Moveen Notebook, the second generation Irish-American poet Thomas Lynch, asks the simple question:

‘To bury the dead, must we first unearth them?’

Free Downloadable B&W Negatives

Download and print negatives from the comfort of your own home.

Ceci n'est pas un negative mais une photo d' negative..

Magritte, George, Magritte.