Description
About this piece:
Exposing Saints takes you on a journey starting in NJ and takes you throughout the Southwest of the US. We start with low depth-of-field in NJ and work our way to higher depth-of-field once we reach Utah. The history of photography is also relevant with whimsical humor about the potential photography saints one may call upon during their photographic endeavors.
I created the images while teaching a class that traveled through the Southwest for Mercer County Community College in New Jersey. All the images were taken on the trip, and I found myself praying to the photo Saints because of the behavior of several students. This book became my process for letting go of the turmoil from the class.
The book is meant to fold up and travel with a photographer in the camera bag or sit on the shelf of one’s photobook library. The idea is that sometimes there are days where nothing works, and other days everything magically works and falls into place.
Materials:
paper, ink, bookcloth
About the artist:
Eric T. Kunsman (b. 1975) was born and raised in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. He holds his MFA in Book Arts/Printmaking from The University of the Arts in Philadelphia and an MS in Electronic Publishing/Graphic Arts Media, BS in Biomedical Photography, BFA in Fine Art photography all from the Rochester Institute of Technology in Rochester, New York.
Eric is an educator at the Rochester Institute of Technology for the Visual Communications Studies Department at the National Technical Institute for the Deaf and the School of Photographic Arts & Sciences.
