Pack Ice
This new project considers the intense light seen by the very first arctic explorers. By using the photographic still life to visualize the sense of foreign light, the black and white images provide abstractions of the light and minimalist landscape foreign to human eyes. Images from this project explore the desolation of the landscape that is obscured or revealed by the light, and the methods used to understand the distant and foreign land. The project developed from an ongoing interest in the ability to make photographs of distant lands to which the mind has traveled, but the body has not yet been.
John Mann (b.1972) was born in the East, raised in the Midwest, and schooled in the West. Upon graduation from the University of New Mexico with an MFA in Photography, he headed back east to start the cycle all over again. He now lives in Tallahassee, Florida, where he makes images and teaches at Florida State University. His work has also traveled, and has been exhibited internationally at venues such as Daniel Cooney Fine Art (NYC), PDX Contemporary (Portland, OR), Phillips de Pury (London), Privateer Gallery (Brooklyn, NY), JK Gallery (Los Angeles) and the Newspace Center for Photography (Portland, OR). His work was featured in The Collector’s Guide to Emerging Art Photography published by the Humble Arts Foundation. A book of his work, titled Thinner Air, was published in 2010.
FESTIVAL
Hyères, International Festival of Fashion and Photography
April 26 – 29, 2013
Villa Noailles
83400 Hyères
France
