Andrew Hammerand #Photographe
Andrew Hammerand (b. 1986, Chicago) is an artist interested in using photography to interrogate the intersection of technology, privacy, and image culture within America. Andrew holds a bachelor of fine arts degree from Arizona State University, and recently received his master of fine arts degree from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design in Boston, where he currently resides.
Exposition Exhibition : « Watching You, Watching Me, A Photographic Response to Surveillance » Exposition Exposition : Close to home Modifier l'image
Press release - What right do governments, corporations, and individuals have to collect and retain information on your daily communications? What tools – both today and in the past – have been used to monitor your activities? What are the immediate and far-reaching effects? As governments and corporations around the world expand their efforts to track the communications and activities of millions of people, this not only threatens our right to privacy, but also opens the door for information to be collected and used in ways that are repressive, discriminatory, and chill freedom of speech and expression.
Mishka Henner, Nato Storage Annex, Coevorden, Drenthe, 2011, from the series Dutch Landscapes, © Mishka Henner
It is in this context of massive information gathering that Watching You, Watching...
Home is both the place you live and the place where you used to live. It is your family and your neighborhood and your city. It is a place of comfort and apprehension. You may look forward to going home all day long, or you haven't been there in years, and you have no plans to visit. Home is a complicated place.
The seven artists in this exhibition use photography to explore different notions about home as a physical place with deep emotional connections. In doing so they show us an extraordinary range of feelings toward home: tenderness, anxiety, love, and heartache. Perhaps photography is the ideal medium to express these feelings about home because of its ability to depict complicated things, in the most straightforward way, like a family portrait.
The artists sharing their versions of home include : Martha ...