Jennifer Magruder, Introduction

I always see pictures as streaming movements of events. A seemingly boundless labyrinth where there is only forward and experience, I can't see beyond it.

I search for a presence to stay with me, but most seem to find their way out on their own. Whenever I think I can escape, I encounter a delicate edge, an uncomfortable view. I visualize what it would be like, but the fear cuts me off, and I return to...


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Jillian Guyette, Introduction

I’ve spent years trying to reconcile my relationship to home through pictures. While spending an enormous amount of time watching the people and space around me change and grow, I had forgotten to look at myself.

Thoughts of my abrupt departure from the place I’ve spent years feeling safe in ignited conflicting emotions, and a sense of exhilaration for the new life ahead of me. I wanted to keep a transition that lasted only moments alive and breathing afterwards.

                                                Leaving became just as important to me as the history I’ve left

behind.

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Kassaundra Porres, Introduction

I am a consequence of displacement. I have lived according to its rules and have adjusted to surroundings and situations at its whim. With each change I reevaluated myself and the comfort I previously created, only to be forced to repeat the process.

These photographs are my perception of moments; moments which were experienced differently by all who took part in them, but can only now be revisited in the way I choose to show. I have grown to no longer allow displacement to hold me captive. I am creating for myself a life, freeing myself despite its attempts to resurface through the fears and lack of security it has provided me with.

This is my response to displacement.



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Alene Pierro, Introduction.

I plot the map of the underside of sight

The surf
The sine
Unseen


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Eric Madar, Introduction

This is my dad.  He has always been a mystery to me, all my life I have had questions about him I have been too afraid to ask.  These photographs are an observation of my father, and my relationship with him.  I feel that by better understanding my father I can better understand my own sense of identity.  Another purpose I had for making these photographs is to capture the memory of him the best way I know how, and to insure that this memory will never die.

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Anna Clem, Introduction

“Take care to remain yourself” –Tracy Chevalier

It will become something

As we move away from the purity of our births, we become complex and gnarled like old tree trunks. Underneath all the layers, the core remains the same.

I have taken up the endeavor of excavating the self.

I thought we had become strangers, my child-self and I. I felt as though she had gone missing. I have now caught a glimpse of her after all this time. After all this time, she’s been there patiently waiting.

I began keeping journals as soon as I could write, but I have been taking note of my world since the very beginning. Over these long years since then, I have gathered my feelings and surroundings to excess. I am attempting to put all this into context so that maybe I can understand.

Together, it will become something. Together, we will find ourself. She has inspired me.



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Ashley Hyman, Introduction

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Giana Caliolo, Introduction

“Let the light rays shine
It will all be fine
in time”

There is a moment when everything falls into place and I realize the impact of my family that
surrounds me; whether it be at school in Rochester or in Long Beach where I grew up. The
presence of home has been a constant in my life that continues to give me the strength I
need throughout the more difficult experiences. My work reflects those feelings and the
notion of appreciation I have for the people that surround me.


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Kaycee Gagnon, Introduction

By creating moments within my domestic space using objects that I often see on a daily basis, I work to manifest a tangible scene of my ongoing worries. These are my deepest emotions constructed into the quiet whispers that sometimes escape me.  I often get stressed and anxious about the things in my life that I feel I don’t have control over. The passage of time being a source of my anxiety; anticipating graduation, planning to move, and starting my life after college. By taking the time to create still lifes that express these feelings I’ve found it gives me a sense of control. Making these images act as a release for what I feel so often but rarely say out loud.

Claire Wilson, Introduction

 

Stuck

My portraits represent a small circle of friends I grew up with living in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. At the moment they are lost souls; many of them don't go to or haven't been to college, a few never finished high school, work dead end jobs or are unemployed, and live with their parents. Most of them have been through traumatic experiences recently: losing loved ones or finding out others are sick or dying. Many have developed addictions or mental health issues. These portraits are of a class of people that I believe exists almost everywhere; the kids who get stuck when it's time to become an adult but they just don't know how, and life's problems end up bogging them down. These portraits focus on exploring my changing relationships with the people who are closest to me and simultaneously documents their struggles being the youth population in a small town with a bleak future. With this series I hope to reach our generation as a whole, sending them the message that the obstacles that life presents us with don't have to destroy us unless we allow them to. 

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