SPACE HUBS.
Infrared, Isolated, Mirrored.

Many years ago I saw several photos in an exhibition by Wendel White. His series titled Schools for the Colored had a real impact on me. The series documented the architecture of the segregated schools in the States. His photos show the architecture in its current state. There’s one in Trenton, NJ that I recognized. In his text the series is described as: The architecture and geography of America’s educational apartheid.

I show his work to the students in my intro and advanced photo classes at the school where I teach part-time.

With this in mind, I wanted to start a project along the lines of referencing his treatment to the images. The process that I find brilliant is isolating the building - but leaving in some power lines, some trees, metal things in the way (I call street furniture) - stuff that ordinarily might ruin the shot, but you have to accept that it is there - in the landscape of your subject matter.

These are digital infrared images of the Churches, Chapels, Shrines, and Spaces - some of which are accessible as a place of assembly or hub, and other spaces inaccessible.

The mirroring is to simply alter the reality of the architecture and the fold the planes to create an imaginary world.

The images above fall in line with my initial interest in places of assembly - both are State buildings in Trenton. Interesting to me is the destruction vs. construction moment. We rarely get to see inside a building from the outside, and the building covered in scaffolding practically turns into a drawing on its way out the frame. A visual exciting part of that particular image - assembled with lines.