Fine Art: Conceptual (PROFESSIONAL) - HONORABLE MENTION
Access

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The Access series began life as the product of failure. I approached various industrial sites, intending to photograph inside the perimeter, and was often stymied by privacy fences. I soon discovered that working from outside created visual possibilities and insights that I might otherwise have missed.
The fences act as filters, mediating the reality coming to us from the other side. They also create interesting optical phenomena, causing viewers to see different things, depending on where they stand. These two effects, filtered reality and shifting focus, became to me metaphors for our socio-political scene, which continued to evolve in parallel with the emergence of the series.
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The Access series began life as the product of failure. I approached various industrial sites, intending to photograph inside the perimeter, and was often stymied by privacy fences. I soon discovered that working from outside created visual possibilities and insights that I might otherwise have missed.
The fences act as filters, mediating the reality coming to us from the other side. They also create interesting optical phenomena, causing viewers to see different things, depending on where they stand. These two effects, filtered reality and shifting focus, became to me metaphors for our socio-political scene, which continued to evolve in parallel with the emergence of the series.
About author:
Lars Anderson was born and raised in Iowa. As a child, he sketched imaginary industrial landscapes and drafted architectural plans for buildings that would never exist. He moved to Cincinnati, Ohio in 2006 and began photographing the industrial realms of the Ohio and Mississippi river valleys in 2007. His current work focuses on the unexpected interestingness found in both abandoned and active manufacturing sites. His work has been the subject of several solo exhibits, and has been included in numerous group shows, as well as an award-winning publication.BACK TO GALLERY