Video: Josh Poehlein: Between Drawing and Photography
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
The work of Josh Poehlein is difficult to attribute to any particular type of art. He takes photographs and draws objects on them, relying on his own imagination and vision of the depicted plots.
We can say that the finished objects only spoil the photographs, but Josh Poehlein manages to find a delicate balance between drawing and photography and not spoil this harmony. So who is he more: a photographer or an artist? The author himself found a fairly compromise answer to this question, characterizing his series of works as interdisciplinary. And he gave it the appropriate name - "Borderlands", that is, "Border area" or "Something in between."
Josh Poehlein himself speaks of his series of works as follows: "Borderlands" explore the possibilities of photographic landscapes, with particular emphasis on places where you can see the passage of time most clearly. They separate old and new, refined and neglected, me and you. At these borders, streams of fresh water rush into musty houses, and plants grow through the concrete …"
Why does the author need these drawings? Why doesn't he paint them, leaving only white lines, which makes the images seem fragile, weightless, almost ghostly? To answer, let's give the floor to the photographer himself: “By painting in white, I remind the viewer that landscapes alone are not enough without history or potential future. Borderlands is about thinking about what might or might have happened."
Josh Poehlein is an American photographer. Graduated from the Rochester Institute of Technology and currently lives in Salt Lake City. His work can be found on the website.
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