150 Years

150 Years is a conversation across a chasm of time. Diptychs pair daguerreotypes and other antique images from the 1850's with present-day portraits—faces juxtaposed beyond the reach of any single human lifetime. 150 Years is a conversation between a contemporary photographer and photographers who made photographic images at a time when photography was new and magical.

Time, like culture, divides but also unites us. These conversations span this gap of time easily despite the different worlds its subjects inhabit. The human spirit and it's will to survive leaps out from the face, the eyes, the gesture, the position of a supple body. It doesn't matter which person still moves and breathes, each is just as vitally alive, each just as quickly lost in time.

In Camera Lucida, Roland Barthes wrote that the photograph is inherently frightening since it stops time and reminds us of death. The other side of that same message is also true—that photography shows us our immortality by revealing the endless repetition and regeneration of the human spirit.

150 Years depicts a world where we observe strangers conversing through time. They in turn, are asking us to consider our fleeting position between the fading past, and the unreachable future.