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Artist Statement:
For the series "Formation":
My photographs are the result
of my many years working as a
nanny. I have always enjoyed
letting go and entering into a
world experienced through the
senses. This seems to be a
point of connection between me
and my child friends. We
explore and relate on this
basic level resulting in
images that inhabit this sort
of in-between space of adult
and child.
In the field of Sociology of
Childhood, there is an ongoing
discussion of how our
understanding and perception
of childhood and adulthood is
changing. The child/adult
distinctions that were once
based on the idea of the
innocent child, who is
developing toward the worldly,
completed adult, are changing
into something new.
Children are no longer thought
of as blank slates needing to
be given all knowledge and
information, they are now the
“knowing child,” seemingly
wise beyond their years, with
our expectations of their
responsibility for themselves
early in life. Adults are no
longer “completed.” We think
of ourselves as always
evolving or “developing.”
This change in our perception
of adulthood and childhood has
been reflected in contemporary
photography mostly as an
externalization of the child
as the “knowing child.” ...
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Artist Exhibitions:
Awards:
Honorable Mention-Best of
Show, Onward: Journey For
Emerging Photographers,
Project Basho 2008.
Illinois Arts Council
Fellowship Award in
Photography 2007.
Honorable Mention, PX3 Prix de
la Photographie Paris 2007.
Award of Excellence, Cook
County Treasurer, March 2007.
Solo Exhibitions:
Formation, Up Gallery,
Chicago, IL May-June 2005.
Photographs ...
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