701 East 8th Street
New Albany, IN 47150
(502) 432-6226
Hours: Monday – Thursday 9am-8pm, Friday & Saturday 9am-5pm
Par Avion & Documentary Fictions
Featuring Ted Wathen
Website: kydocphoto.com & qphoto.com
Dates: September 30 – November 11, 2023
Events: Opening Reception, September 30, 3pm -7pm Artist Talks: October 21 & November 11, 3pm
This show contains two strains of my work: Par Avion is aerial photographs of Kentucky and Indiana. Documentary Fictions takes elements of real situations I have photographed and combines them into anew reality that is totally in keeping with the original.
Juanita Phoenix.
I saw that name painted in broad silver brush strokes on a brand-new padlocked mailbox mounted on a tenement wall. I wanted to remember this moment. I became entranced with the idea of packing apiece of reality into a two-dimensional rectangle. I bought a camera.
In 1975 I founded the Kentucky Documentary Photographic Project, photographing each of Kentucky’s120 counties with Bob Hower and Bill Burke. After that, I was a principal photographer for the President’s Commission on Coal. Documentary photography is in my blood. How do you make a meaningful visual statement that transports the viewer into the reality being depicted?
I am currently co-directing the current Kentucky Documentary Photographic Project. As part of the Project I have flown thousands of miles with my head and camera poked out the window of a small plane documenting what unfolds below. How things look from above, a reality that most never see. I am also well-grounded, continuing to photograph from terra firma.
This show contains two strains of my work: Par Avion is aerial photographs of Kentucky and Indiana. Documentary Fictions takes elements of real situations I have photographed and combines them into anew reality that is totally in keeping with the original.
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