Our guest today was Debe Arlook. Debe is primarily a conceptual photographer but her range of creation extends well beyond just that genre. Her artist statement can be found on our meeting schedule page and will stay posted until next week for those who have not previously read it. Today, she presented examples and talked about four series from her portfolio. The first was her “Domestic Landscape Photography” (our f8 name). In this series she combined her landscape photography with narrative she heard casually on the streets of LA. The combination of non-sequiturs (the truth of the visual image and the truth of the narrative) seemingly no relationship one to the other) allows the viewer to create for themselves the fictional stories that might in some way relate picture and words. No need for Debe to describe or explain otherwise. The second series “Skyline”…showed her take on a slice of the urban visual environment, the wires above us, we ordinarily would not pay attention to without her cameras focus. Debe described the shots leading up to her final conceptual pictures. These pictures bordered on abstract and pointed to the spatial symmetry of these urban wires in a Debe unique artistic expression. The third series…briefly shown were “Flowers”…a B&W series, again with Debe’s eye for creating a fresh view on a usual subject for photographers. Her last series…”Trailer Park” was shot with her iPhone. A series characterized by its purposely darkly toned images. Most images had some irony related to the trailer living environment.
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