Softcover
ISBN:
9781945725159
Contact Sheet 205 highlights the multimedia work of Oakland-based artist Dionne Lee. The publication centers on her exploration of the American landscape, tracking how natural environments intersect with themes of survival, power, and historical trauma.
The work examines the dual nature of the outdoors, presenting it simultaneously as a space of personal refuge and a site shaped by racial violence, vulnerability, and climate anxiety. By incorporating elements from wilderness survival manuals alongside photographic fragments, Lee investigates ancestral knowledge, resourcefulness, and the human drive to endure in an unstable world.
Her darkroom interventions deliberately disrupt traditional photographic processes through physical manipulation, including graphite drawings on prints, double exposures, and scanner-bed experiments. These techniques challenge traditional notions of authorship, pristine documentation, and colonialist views of the earth, reframing photography as an active, fluid medium.
This catalog includes an essay by Light Work’s associate director Mary Lee Hodgens.
Contact Sheet 205 highlights the multimedia work of Oakland-based artist Dionne Lee. The publication centers on her exploration of the American landscape, tracking how natural environments intersect with themes of survival, power, and historical trauma.
The work examines the dual nature of the outdoors, presenting it simultaneously as a space of personal refuge and a site shaped by racial violence, vulnerability, and climate anxiety. By incorporating elements from wilderness survival manuals alongside photographic fragments, Lee investigates ancestral knowledge, resourcefulness, and the human drive to endure in an unstable world.
Her darkroom interventions deliberately disrupt traditional photographic processes through physical manipulation, including graphite drawings on prints, double exposures, and scanner-bed experiments. These techniques challenge traditional notions of authorship, pristine documentation, and colonialist views of the earth, reframing photography as an active, fluid medium.
This catalog includes an essay by Light Work’s associate director Mary Lee Hodgens.
Contact Sheet 205 highlights the multimedia work of Oakland-based artist Dionne Lee. The publication centers on her exploration of the American landscape, tracking how natural environments intersect with themes of survival, power, and historical trauma.
The work examines the dual nature of the outdoors, presenting it simultaneously as a space of personal refuge and a site shaped by racial violence, vulnerability, and climate anxiety. By incorporating elements from wilderness survival manuals alongside photographic fragments, Lee investigates ancestral knowledge, resourcefulness, and the human drive to endure in an unstable world.
Her darkroom interventions deliberately disrupt traditional photographic processes through physical manipulation, including graphite drawings on prints, double exposures, and scanner-bed experiments. These techniques challenge traditional notions of authorship, pristine documentation, and colonialist views of the earth, reframing photography as an active, fluid medium.
This catalog includes an essay by Light Work’s associate director Mary Lee Hodgens.