RISD Museum - Photography and Place

 January 23rd - April 4th 2004

This exhibition featured a number of artists who all explored the idea of place through photography. Photography allows people to capture places and moments in time. The theme of place allows people to take unconventional approaches to explore ideas.

In this exhibition we see how different people explore the idea of place, some through exploring nature, others through exploring homes and other through history and archives. The idea of place isn't just geographical, it is about its history and the characteristics. It can be about telling a story and documenting. places can be associated with memories or personal histories as well as large events marked in history.

I think the idea of place is much bigger than people realise and different places have different meanings to people. This is why the ideas of how people explore place differ, someone may want to look into the place where they were born where as someone else may look into the same place for a different reason and the outcome of their research and work would be different. The idea of place is much bigger than capturing something. It is about representing and showing what that place is about.

These are some of the examples of the work shown in this exhibition.

Shimon Attie

Carrie Mae Weems

Sally Gall

Annu Palakunnathu Matthew

Francesca Woodman


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