Projects overview
My projects have focused on social constructs. A video installation (see image right) was the culmination of a year long effort to photograph a woman who has lived on the street for more than thirty years. The year before that I began photographing in Chinatown, asking passersby to sit briefly in my spontaneous street studio.
We don't think of the American middle class as victims, but I have been photographing some of the casualties of the global economic meltdown. The subjects in this series remain anonymous but their stories of stillness and frustration come through nevertheless. Unemployed, their jobs outsourced and skills ignored, these faceless individuals speak out from the shadows.
Recently, however, my curiousity led me to explore the natural world of my neighborhood and possibilities of combining photographs in mixed media.
I hope you enjoy these galleries.
ann-marie stillion :: photographer. artist.
:: 206-388-3363, Seattle
As the reception at e4C, the King County electronic gallery, came to a close, we took a chair outside for Eva and watched the video installation where it is meant to be viewed--from the street. "Eva Washington: sweet are the uses of adversity" played on continuous rotation from 6 a.m. 10 p.m. daily Feb. 2010-2011.
Photo by Ann-Marie Stillion