Lupine Illusion, 11.5w x 14.25h, 2025
Heavy Deeds From The Book Of Skulls 5/15 - 6/27 @traceymorgangallery - Party 5/15 6-9
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Thank You to Alina Cohen @alinacohen for having a discussion about my work and including it in her article, “Why Contemporary Photographers Are Rejecting the Camera” published last week in Artsy. It’s a well researched read with historical insight and an terrific array of artists I’m proud to be mentioned with.
/article/artsy-editorial-contemporary-photographers-rejecting-camera?nocache=true.
Thanks as well to @arrrchiee , @yanceyrichardsongallery , and @emilydotsikas@almacommunications for their support.
Also on view in the palm in your hand, hands, desktop, whichever, are some new works that aren’t in the article (I made ‘em a minute ago) but are able to bloom now that the spring weather permits the prints to dry outside.
All images are analog black & white fiber prints on 42 inch wide roll paper. Printed, processed and dried like laundry in the sun at home in my garage / driveway studio setup.
Ok for now. And, as always, call if you need me.
-Bryan
ok, so, here’s another post about a particular series and some of the composition that goes into it. These installation / process photos & videos are all from the latest installation of Reflected Projections Projecting Reflections that was up last week at Two Ponds, March 25-26, 6-8pm in Mechanicville, NY. A big thank you to my friends Natalie & Shawn who co-run Two Ponds and provided a beautiful and engaging place for this installation to flourish.
And a shout out to previous collaborators / gallerys / institutions that have exhibited this work:
@halseymckaygallery@atlantacontemporary@northoptical@traceymorgangallery
And now the program notes:
Reflected Projections Projecting Reflections is a modular kinetic light installation. Composed of a slide projector, mirrors and transparency slides of screen material cut down from the scraps of large geometric abstractions, as well as photographs of interstates. These images are then amplified via the slide projector mounted to one wall and a mirrors on the wall opposite the projector – reflecting images back to the source of their projection. The slides are on an endless loop. The self timer is usually synchronized to change slides based on the average interval at which we blink our eyes. Sometimes when the room is nervous the slides will be made to blink more rapidly.
materials and their composition:
a room or structure with at least two planes that are parallel and congruent.
a 35mm slide projector is mounted onto a wall- with the lens facing the opposite wall.
the slide projector is turned on.
mirrors are installed on the opposite wall of the projector- covering the area of projected light as precisely as possible.
the projection is focused onto the wall where it is projecting from, i.e. the plane opposite the wall of mirrors.
the self timer on the slide projector is turned on.
the slides are now on an endless loop for the duration of the time agreed upon.
content:
anybody physically present between or near the two planes of the installation.
summary:
the projections are reflected back from the mirrors onto the plane of the projector. the image plane and projector plane become one.
Been getting a few requests / questions about documentation of my process for making certain prints. Here goes a try about the Telepathic Jungle works:
I’ve been making some photographs since about 2008 that play with how photos are made and printed. A kind of reduction sauce to see how I can use the most minimal amount of photographic materials to still make photos. This started for a lot of reasons but the ones that track in my mind right now are 1. I was broke and still needed to make things with almost no budget. 2. I got a job as a color printer back in like 2001 at Color Edge in NYC. This was when there was still a thriving photo district in the city and analog color darkrooms were a standard in the commercial & fine art printing industry. I had just dropped out of FIT and had no idea how to print color- at all. Luckily one of my old teachers put in a good word for me and I learned on the job how to make color contact prints. I worked the night shift from 8pm-6am, making contact sheets in the color darkroom. It was the best education I had ever received. Having had zero experience in a color darkroom the idea of making prints, let alone as a job, was kinda nutty. I realized quickly that I just needed to be able to do simple math to adjust the dials on the color enlarger to make the prints go from looking too blue, yellow, red, etc to being registered as accurate color renditions. Photography & math have a fascinating and weird relationship and -being terrible at math- the inverse and reciprocal relationship between photographic color and math somehow made sense to me. I could apply the numbers to something that I could physically alter and see immediate changes. So, fast forward and all those thousands of contact sheets later I could use my experience as a printer to deconstruct a color darkroom and make my own one out of simple materials at hand. Currently I have a way to use a small hand held flash, some cheap color filters, hand made chemistry troughs and a garden hose to make these large mural prints in my garage. Luckily I’m running out of typing space so, Ok for now, enjoy the videos & photos. -Bryan
Details for my modular light installation up for 2 days, 2 hours at a time, at Two Ponds. All are welcome. I’ll be there. And as Raymond Carver wrote- call if you need me.
Huge thank you to Shawn & Natalie for being generous, gracious and all around amazing people to work with on this fun pop up thing. See you Wednesday at sunset.
#reflectedprojectionsprojectingreflections
#twoponds
Opening Trailer for:
Reflected Projections Projecting Reflections,
March 25-27 at Two Ponds.
Open from sunset to dusk, hours TBA.
Just east of Saratoga Springs, NY is Two Ponds, an installation and performance space run by Natalie @fromhighgloss & Shawn @shawncarney . I will be showing my kinetic light installation, ‘Reflected Projections Projecting Reflections’ in a studio there overlooking the ponds from sunset to just after dusk for 3 days next week, March 25-27.
Exhibition / Visiting hours TBA soon. See you there.
-Bryan
Sun risin ging. Time to Kinetic.
Film Stills from, “Telepathic Jungle Diaries”. 2026
writing lately… words & pictures & work & works & words & breathe & breathe & breathing & flow-ers & destruction & patterns & copies & trouble & beauty & silence & static & electric & time to kinetic
#telepathicjungle
#timetokinetic
Okayok
Film Still from, “Telepathic Jungle Diaries”, 2026
Harmonics of Light:
Simultaneous Duration Study
(recorded on Kodak color reversal film)
#telepathicjungle
#bryangraf
#acrossthethunderbridgeoftime
