COMPTOIR DE L’IMAGE
These images represent my interest as a designer in documenting my environment. They also serve as a visual antidote to my work writing about design. As photographs they are rarely about fixing an image or a solitary moment. Most often they are about the wear and patina of time, and the visual and material afterlife of objects, spaces, and images. The title speaks to the trade in images as quotidian consumer goods and the ordinary exchangeability of photographs. In many of these the photograph flattens the space upon the surface making plain our inability to take in all we see except perhaps the blunt, unsentimental gaze of the lens. They are also often about the beauty found in mundane objects and forgotten or banal places, especially as people write and make marks upon them, exerting tiny degrees of agency over how we experience these. Despite the fact that my photographs display a daily interest in intentionally crafting images using the formal elements I was trained in as a designer, I look to find compositions that seem accidental. Finally, these images are about how design very often fails to work as intended and feels incidental to how we actually mold the world all around us through repetitive reuse and remaking.
