Justin Visnesky is a photographer, designer, husband and father. His work focuses on the contemporary family and the relationships people form with place. He lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania with his wife, son and daughter.
Justin’s work has been in various print and online publications including 10x15, BOOOOOOOOM!, Conscientious photo blog, Feature Shoot, Flak Photo, Fecal Face dot com, Get Off My Lawn Issue 1, La Pure Vida, MILK Magazine, No Culture Icons, Roll Series 002, Romka Magazine, Tiny Vices, Triangle Triangle, World Identity Lab and Urbanautica. Justin received an honorable mention in the Summer 2007 Hey, Hot Shot competition. His photography has been exhibited throughout the US, most notably at the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis.
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 ...