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About NOW IS ALWAYS 

At the beginning of the Great Depression, my father photographed his Philadelphia friends and neighbors. Nearly a century later, my sister found his negatives and gave them to me. I then combined the people from his pictures with my own cellphone images to make this series of photopolymer gravures.

In NOW IS ALWAYS, I want to create a sense of collapsed-yet-expanded time. I want to look at the past, and I want the past to look right back. And by combining images taken almost a century apart, I also want to explore technology, memory, and image-making history.

NOW IS ALWAYS

NOW IS ALWAYS

Part of installation at the Griffin Museum of Photography.

Trestle

Trestle

Photopolymer gravure with surface roll 28” X 34”

Starren

Starren

Photopolymer gravure with surface roll 19.5” X 24”

Reverie

Reverie

Photopolymer gravure with surface roll 28” X 34”

Cycle

Cycle

Photopolymer gravure with surface roll 13” X 16”

Singlet

Singlet

Photopolymer gravure with surface roll 28” X 34”

Conduct

Conduct

Photopolymer gravure with surface roll 13” X 16”

Kindred

Kindred

Photopolymer gravure with surface roll 19.5” X 24”

Yoke

Yoke

Photopolymer gravure with surface roll 19.5” X 24”

Limn

Limn

Photopolymer gravure with surface roll 13” X 16”

Corner

Corner

Photopolymer gravure with surface roll 19.5” X 24”

Flint

Flint

Photopolymer gravure with surface roll 19.5” X 24”

Bound

Bound

Photopolymer gravure with surface roll 14.25” X 17.5”

Gravitate

Gravitate

Photopolymer gravure with surface roll 14.25” X 17.5”

Scull

Scull

Photopolymer gravure with surface roll 14.25” X 17.5”

Strand

Strand

Detail of Tryptic Photopolymer gravure 16" X 42.5"

Strand

Strand

Photopolymer gravure 16" X 42.5"

Tenement Roof #1

Tenement Roof #1

Photopolymer gravure with surface roll 28” X 34”

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