A CAPTURED SPECIES


  • Photographer
    Chris Anthony
  • Prize
    Honorable Mention
  • Date of Photograph
    2011

The photographs in the series were taken with a large-format camera in Big Sur, Sequoia National Forest and Southern California. Anthony uses his 4x5 camera and most of the images are photographed with 150 year old French lenses. The locations are key to providing the necessary context that serves as both juxtaposition and provides a wonderfully organic landscape to the images. He explains the series by saying that as he observes American life and politics these days, “The infuriation I feel replays itself in my daydreams. The characters I create are both absurd, tongue in cheek yet representational of the inequity I see all around me.” The work has evolved into a series of images involving fictional attributions, narratives, and sculpture, mask-making and costumes, replete with absurdity and hilarity, and doubling as a cautionary tale, Anthony serves up color scenarios documenting the species he sees everyday.

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