They are portraits of unpeopled scenarios, planks, tires, culverts, basins, stones, ships, plants. I fear the demands that portraits of people make. Portraits are high risk and require familiarity, vulnerability, and strangeness.
Throughout his work, Cole, who was born in 1975, is drawn to instances of cultural, historical and literal blindness.
We only see a small part of what we are looking at, so there is a constant blind spot even with the kind of attentive looking that photography entails.
'We see the world'. This simple statement becomes ...
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