As we continue to ask, who are the people of Ware as a part of our larger organizational theme of who are we, the people I think that the work of this woman may be of interest to you. Read the statement below that was posted with a recent show. What do you think of this statement? What do you think of her work?
We work a lot with the combination of text and image. How does the text within these photos play into the larger project? How do you feel about writing messages onto bodies? Tattoos?
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Deanna
Templeton has always shot photos. Her mother bought her a Cannon T - 90
for coming back home after running away. She was 15. That camera got
stolen from her luggage on her way back from Mexico in 1987. She stopped
for 3 years. When she was 21, she got a Yashica point and shoot. She
shot so much, that I got her a Cannon AE - 1 for Christmas one year.
That started her on her current roll...
She
now has a whole bevy of cameras to choose from, and seems to always
have one with her. Looking at her photographs is like knowing her.
Photographs say as much about the person behind the lens as it does
about the subject. There are choices involved that reveal the
sensibilities of the creator. In Deanna's you see an eye to the feminine
experience, - the cracks that are forming in that false persona of
being a girl in this day and age. She explores what being a child, or a
woman feels like today. She gets inside the migrant workers and little
ironies on the street that passes us by without a thought usually.
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