“Growth and Despair/Deer Beds”

March 26th, 2009

As you may have noticed, we at PRODn are passionate about photography! From editorials to gallery openings, flickr to museum exhibitions, we’ll take a look at just about any picture you put in front of us. Since we happen to work during normal business hours, however, we rarely get to check out gallery shows sans opening night crowds.

That’s why we love the website Women in Photography. Dedicated to showcasing new work by female photographers, the site is almost like an art gallery, except entirely online! It features a new body of work every two weeks, and the range of projects featured so far is impressively broad.

For the next two weeks, Women in Photography is featuring a project by none other than Katherine Wolkoff. Entitled, “Growth and Despair/Deer Beds,” the series juxtaposes images of deer beds made in New England in 2007 with images of abandoned or empty lots in the Lower Ninth Ward in New Orleans, made in 2008. Of the body of work Katherine says, “Each time I came upon a [deer] bed it felt as if the deer had just departed, leaving a warm impression in the grass… The pictures in New Orleans also follow the traces of an absent population, barely visible through the ruins left behind. Both bodies of work quietly embody the absence of a recently departed presence.”

Deer bed, 2007

New Orleans, 2008