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Artist Statement
What began as an attempt to preserve memory in defiance of an ever-changing landscape of people has become an experiment in typology. Some of the People I (Don't) Know explores human interaction - the concepts of familiarity and intimacy. In photographing the gamut from people I know well to those I'm acquainted with, I examine my interactions with others, gaining new insight into these connections through an intuitive use of a toy camera. While we talk, frames are skipped, light is layered on film, some moments are isolated while others run together in multiple exposures. Interpretations of colour and light are altered by emotional reaction and become unique to the individual. No condition is perfectly duplicated from one shoot to the next.
This series is approached without any inclination to reproduce what the eye sees, or strictly adhere to what the machine records; instead I want to translate subjects onto film closely to how the mind remembers a person. This is to say, largely affected by subjectivity; emotion and experience. The contact images are documents of conversation, of established rhythms and changing dynamics, while the selected portraits become visual manifestations of fleeting moments; profound and tenuous associations.
While my presence is implicit in actions and reactions, only the subject is depicted, from this position, similar to mine when shooting, the viewer is left to interpret the nuances of the exchange; the distance between myself and subject, body language, laughter and silence. These portraits are suffused with the history of how we came to be associated; they are mnemonic devices which allow me to remember every interaction with the individual.
The need to remember, to preserve memory, became the impetus to catalogue, in some way, to keep in check what cannot be controlled. Some of the People I (Don’t) Know is a visceral reaction to change, and a method of coping with the loss/gain inherent to it.

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Given 2008-11-09

Please take the time to read the artist statement. These series are really fascinating and show an innovative approach to conceptual photography that achieves a surreal aura in the end, so it definitely caught my attention when I got this DD suggestion! sotpik: derrick by *cryptorchid. (Suggested by `peskaa and Featured by ^opioid)

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:iconolobocanta:
this is really cool. he has his hands in front of him a lot

great idea
:iconsurfer-girl:
these are very nice, i would love to have a series of these photographs of people i know, it would make an interesting portrait

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:iconbatwing:
really nice idea, i'd also like to try that... are those red lines light leaks?
:iconzedka:
Another great one... Can't get enough of this serie ! The Isabelle one was great too :)
:iconpeskaa:
I absolutely love this.

I adore the concept of this series. I could literally stare at this all day long. Wonderful.

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Superb!

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:iconfuhnora:
This is beautifully creative.
You are truly an artist. Such a brilliant idea.

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:iconlenawargo:
Very interesting.

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