kitchen tables

I don't know what brought on my recent obsession with kitchen tables, but something as simple as everyday furnishings can speak so strongly about a culture. The kitchen tables of my family in rural southern parts of the country are dramatically different than those from my friends' new york city apartments. Spaces that people occupy and the things in those spaces become so much of a person or a way of life.

Anthony Goicolea

I was really intrigued by Goicolea's work, and especially so after hearing him speak. His images using repeated versions of himself are interesting, but I am most interested in his shelter photographs. The idea of spaces and their impact on us, and at the same time our impact on them is something that I have thought about a lot lately. His images are striking at first glance, and because their layers and complexity, there is a complete other world to them upon closer examination.