Jed Fielding "Look at me: Photographs from Mexico City"
Andrea Meislin Gallery
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Jed Fielding is a Chicago-based photographer working at the intersection of street photography and high modernism, whose attention to the formal qualities of surface and light is characteristic of his teachers at the Rhode Island School of Design – Aaron Siskind and Harry Callahan.
In Look at me, Fielding moves deftly into a partnership with children attending several of Mexico City's schools for the blind. Throughout his career as a street photographer, Fielding's work has been based on collaboration between himself and his willing subjects. His new work in Look at me takes this collaboration to an intriguing, new level - what does it mean to photograph those who cannot return the photographer's gaze?
Rather than adhering to a documentary point of view, Fielding aims to create elegantly formal portraits. These schools for the blind provide a nurturing environment in which the mothers attend school daily with their children. In this setting, even more than in his work on the street, Fielding was able to concentrate on the formal aspects of his work, and he invites the viewer to contemplate these images with their own sense of wonder.
[Image: Jed Fielding "Mexico City #135" (1999) Gelatin silver print 23 x 15 in.]
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from September 10, 2009 to October 17, 2009
Opening Reception on 2009-09-10 from 18:00 to 20:00