SLIDE SHOW LAND

Slide Show Land is an ongoing archive, started in 2001 of 35mm transparencies purchased on e-bay. The work catalogues the incredible number of images available for purchase and staggering evidence of the all-pervasive nature of image taking during the last century that so many could ahve been jettisoned and lost.

The personalized family snap-hots draw attention to the photographer as author and reveal family dynamics and customs. Narratives are created through reading the images in sequence adn further the viewer into an investigative process of piecing together a probably fiction or identity based on a 'true story'.

Individual slides have been selected to form photographic and video works about the collection. The photographs are printed as cibachromes to retain thier material authenticity. The selected photogaphs arecomibned in small groupings to emphasise thier narrative adn portrait qualities.

Slide Show Land is for the nostalgic and lost.