MARGET
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The Medium is the Mirage

Mathew Brady’s Skylight
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Rearranging Canon Balls
Blanks I
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Everyone I Owe

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Flash + Cube (1965-1975)
When I Was a Mirage
Removing James Franco 

Hunting Blinds
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Hunting Blinds,  2005-2006


One day, I came across a shower stall in the middle of my usual path through the woods. Someone had cut a peephole into the front panel, and it immediately struck me as oddly camera-like. I was drawn in by its mute, uncanny presence, and soon I began seeking out hunting blinds myself—first with a small digital camera, and later with a large-format one.

At first, I thought of them as curiosities. But the more I photographed, the more I saw the blinds as charged objects. They are built to vanish into the environment, yet their purpose is to control it. They enforce invisibility, self-negation, and a narrowing of sight. They are temporary spaces of willful blindness, even as they are designed to prize vision above all else.

These photographs are not staged fictions, nor are they entirely “straight” documents. The blinds themselves already operate as fabrications: sites where violent fantasy, imagined threat, and the natural world converge. In photographing them, I am less interested in recording their existence than in revealing the fictions they create—fictions that expose how power inscribes itself into the landscape.


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