Introduction
Revenants-Skin: I am currently working on a book project, which combines images from my two photographic series, Revenants and Skin. In my role as a photographer at Yale’s Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, I photograph books every day. As they are photographed, the books often shed bits and pieces of their bindings and flecks of paper from their brittle pages. I started documenting these remnants within the course of my regular work–day, culminating in my series, Revenants. I began pairing these images with earlier work from my series, Skin. In that series, I photographed my female subjects partially undressed in order to reveal the imprints on the skin that remain once clothing has been removed. Together, these diptychs create a compelling narrative –the images echo one another not only in form but also in content as both examine fleeting impressions.
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