This week I am featuring Megan E. Dunbar. I can easily say she was on campus everyday this semester either developing her own color film, or printing in the color darkroom. Both of these are quite impressive seeing that we don't have a color processing machine and I have yet to see any other color darkroom prints come out of that building. This project, entitled Untitled Persons, is a series of self portraits she did for her Fall 2010 senior thesis at Montana State University. Megan built about 15 free standing light boxes to display these images at the show, the images were backlit in the box.
Untitled Persons
First impressions often lead to stereotyping. Although the term "stereotype" is usually negative, stereotypes are unfortunately an evolving and integral aspect to civilization. Untitled Persons is a visual study of the human condition aimed at challenging traditional stereotypes that place people into certain categories.
Given the current advances in image-based technology, which makes truth more malleable, I have chosen a more straightforward technique, the pinhole camera, to create these fictional characters. I enjoy this simple, quiet method of picture making that goes back to the origins of photography when truth and photographs were one and the same.
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