The Contemporary Print Series - Joel Whitaker Unframed

Joel Whitaker

Invisible Cities 0049, 2016

Archival pigment print

from the Portfolio Dayton Visual Art Center (DVAC) CSA 2016

Artist Statement

 I am particularly interested in the ephemeral nature of structure, location, and process; physically, psychologically, photographically, and virtually. For Invisible Cities, I used Google Earth downloads to attempt to reinvent the idea, representation, and physical form of cities and the photographs that define and describe them. The resulting photographs are as much informed by my experiences in such places as by my relationship to the physical and intellectual underpinnings of the photographic medium that serve as a record of these experiences and interactions. I consider the city and the photographic medium transitional; organic things that are constantly in flux, both physically and intellectually.