Object Diaspora


  • Photographer
    Jennifer Schlesinger
  • Prize
    Honorable Mention
  • Date of Photograph
    2009-2010
  • Technical Info
    pinhole neg on gelatin silver

I have photographed sacred objects that have belonged to someone else in an attempt to merge the memory and the spirit of the person in which the object originally belonged to, as well as the person whose possession it now resides, placing the sacred object into a new milieu. Like people who migrate from one country to another looking to begin a new life, these objects travel, get placed in a new environment and become part of the new culture they belong to. We breathe our spirit into these objects, and we use them with the spirit of the person who gave them to us, they become an “Object Diaspora.” These images are taken with a large format pinhole camera. They are toned gelatin silver prints on 8x10” Foma paper.

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