Take It From Here features artworks by ten emerging photographers who use the camera as a multifaceted site of imagination, play, and self-exploration. Considering photography’s sordid relationship with the politics of representation, the selected artists collectively highlight new freedoms and visual possibilities of self-expression alive within the medium.
For this project, presented by Filter Photo (Chicago), curators Zora J Murff and Rana Young are collaborating with Travis Shaffer, assistant professor at the University of Missouri, and founder of the publishing project theretherenow. Founded in 2016, his publishing project uses risograph printing to produce collaborative, experimental, peripheral, and contemporary publications. The publication and exhibition will be a study on multiple collaborations between curators, designers, and artists. Using the risograph’s unique processes, the curators are borrowing from the color spaces present in each artists’ works to create a new four ink palate.
Participating Artists
Elliott Jerome Brown Jr.
Widline Cadet
Jasmine Clarke
Paul Guilmoth
Kathryn Harrison
Elizabeth Hibbard
Tommy Kha
Alec Kaus
Nadiya Nacorda
Lindley Warren Mickunas