I was excited to write a piece for the July/August Artscope Magazine on the 27th Juried Expedition at the Griffin Museum of Photography in Winchester, Mass.
Check out an excerpt below. The included images, culled from hundreds, are at turns beautiful, frightening, surreal, starkly realistic, social, sensuous.
View them here.
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UNIQUE & WIDELY DIVERGENT: THE GRIFFIN BRINGS THOUGHT-PROVOKING WONDER BACK TO PHOTOGRAPHY
by Taryn Plumb
A woman in a torn gauze dress crouches at center, holding an axe.
Around her, the room is a clutter of objects: A flock of birds flying out of a hole in the floor and roosting on the limbs of a tree emerging from the colorful fleur de lis wallpaper; a tiny rocking horse; a rabbit; a birdcage; an overturned chair; a hornet’s nest; candles, tattered books with broken bindings, animal horns, clumps of dug-up roots.
Dorothy O’Connor’s photograph “Passage” is rich with details; the eye is drawn everywhere, almost all at once.
(To read more, pick up a copy of the latest issue!)
