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Oberlin Student

Class:
2005
Major:
Double Degree in English and Voice Performance
Home Town:
Minneapolis, MN
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Artist's Statement  
 
I find photography to be among the most personal and revealing of art forms. Looking at someone’s photographs, you are forced to see the world through their eyes, to experience something of what they have experienced. Unlike writing, sound, or other visual arts, photography provides an image that is uncorrupted by memory or individual perception. The viewer of the photograph becomes an extension of the photographer his or herself, looking through the viewfinder of a camera at the same things that have affected the life of the artist. Additionally, on a personal level, photography has the power of immortalizing a moment, a glance, an action, a place, even an emotion exactly as it was. Ever since I first picked up a camera, this aspect of photography has intrigued me and led me to believe that having someone look at my photographs lets them into my mind, my memories, my experiences and my life like no other medium can.