This work, for now, mainly consists of black and white 4 x 5 photographs. In the beginning, I was shooting 35mm, Holga, and Polaroid, I was pulling from the family archive, but I wasn’t feeling satisfied until I turned over to large format. The process is slow, meditative, one that forces me to step back, reconsider, formalize. The images it produces have such a transformational quality; now they are an invitation to not only look, but step into the backyard with us, the front porch, the parking lot. Moving forward, this work will change as my sisters and I change. In the current moment, the 4 x 5 suits us. It is a celebration of our girlhoods while we relish in the progression from young adults to grown women
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Annie Buhrone
Finding solace in moments of great tension, my work often considers dynamics of power, relationships (specifically mother/daughter, siblings, and sisterhood), and the incessant desires to return to one’s past. Whether these elements are apparent and present or not, they serve as the foundations for my visual thought processes, guiding my eyes first, mind second. I am continuously enamored with the subliminal power of photography. Through the act of making photographs, collecting, gaining, and remembering, I began an ongoing project centered around my sisters and I. Simultaneously existing as ourselves and as each other, together we embody three different versions of the same woman. The motivation to make this work came from my desire to reconcile our beginnings and honor our unified present.
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