Blank___Photographs is comprised of three ongoing bodies of work that relate photographic concepts and methods to other forms of media in ways that draw attention to the diminishing materiality of photographic images while expanding the boundaries and possibilities of the photographic lexicon.
 
Recent years have witnessed the production of over 1 trillion photographs annually, with the average user in the United States capturing approximately 20 images per day. Collectively, we take more photographs every two minutes than the sum total of photographs that existed in the world 150 years ago. We are awash in disposable images that fleetingly scroll past our eyes while escaping our touch. The projects in Blank___Photographs salvage orphaned images from a bygone photographic era and use other indexical, contact processes more commonly associated with drawing, glasswork, and printmaking to re-assert the photograph’s duality as an object. These material experiments visualize the physicality and afterlife of images in novel ways. They recall the alchemical magic of the nascent photographic medium and, in doing so, they think of photography as an unfixed idea in the spirit of Geoffrey Batchen’s argument that photography, rather than the practice of capturing light and shadow with a camera, is better defined as an “economy of concepts related to things like nature, knowledge, representation, time, space, observing subject and observed object.”