After two plus years of sharing Google Drive links and running from gig to gig with seemingly a new camera every week, I am finally ready to take my finger off the shutter for a little while.
“ADS FOR SALE” celebrates the traditions of labor I have consumed my Yale life with so far and forces me to reckon with the aesthetics I adopt as a photographer serving the institutions, groups, and individuals that hire me.
What gazes do I have to grapple with or morph alongside my own when I create art solely for someone else?
Can I chop and splice these works and make something truly of my own afterward? Or do these pieces hold unsevered ties?