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My work's always been about community in a certain sense
for many years I would say no I'm not a photographer I'm
another kind of artist
and uh...
then I
photographed every one in my town and I all of a sudden
realized that that was photographic
and I was a photographer
as it turns out there was interest in my doing
something for this building the college of public health because of the
Oxford project and, the people on the committee liked for project and
and so they asked me to write a proposal
everybody in the state is in some way affected by what the college does here
so, that was where i started I wanted to have a representation in terms
of
occupation, gender, age
the all those issues
so my my basic idea
was that almost anybody could be in this project, and i photographed over three
hundred people and by the time we were finished selected down to twelve
I basically thought of the Oxford project end this
as a way of providing a stage for my subject
for the person
and let them act themselves out
I wanted to do treat everybody in that project
the same and wanted to treat everybody nicely so that's the best what i bring
to the making of these photographs
also
is and just a trust and a spirit of
kindness.
The interesting thing to me is if you go up a closer look at it it's amazing how
coarse it is, but then when you move away what just blows me away is how much
detail you can see.
I love them, I love them. I love, there's like something about a, like a
pearlescent quality or something it's it's just uh-
the tone, not the texture but the tone- soft
I love this building
I love this building- I wish I could have taught in a building like this
But it is industrial
and it's cool
I wouldn't say cold, but it's cool and precise
and, uh calculated- I mean it's beautifully calculated i think
I knew that the
softness of these images
and the tone of them
if we can get the right tone, that i was hoping for
would warm the building up
in a sense
give it a humanity.