Essay Commissioned by BlackFlash Magazine Issue 33.3, 2016
excerpts:
“…my best students have taught me the indescribable shift that has occurred growing up with the internet post 9/11; this shift has and continues to challenge much of contemporary photographic practice, which struggles to keep pace…”
“…one of my favorite ‘photographers’ right now is Kimberlé Crenshaw, a theorist who developed the term intersectionality. in short, the term formally recognizes gender and race as a legal moiré that marginalizes beyond recuperation. while she doesn’t work with a camera in any sense, her contribution of the term is an integral moment of contemporary high vision where ‘seeing’ is significantly expanded. using this other model, who else could be proposed into the canon of photography?”
“how might we reconceive shutter, lens, (camera) body, exposure, scan, focus, print (object), print (action)?”
Issue 33.3, 2016
