Title: Wake
Photographer/s: Matt Austin
Date of publication: 2009
Place of publication: Self-Published
Dimensions: Approx 9 x 12 inches
Edition size: Uneditioned
Type of binding: Embossed cover, Unbound Prints encased in a clamshell box
Number of pages: 51
Type of paper: Red River Arctic Polar Matte Paper
Number of pictures: 33
Type of printing: Archival Inkjet
Printer: Epson 3880
Publisher: Self-Published
Language: English
Category: Artist Book
Price: $1,000
Summary: Wake is a photographic narrative that represents the struggles that have affected my family over the past few years. The work began with my father being violently evicted while I was studying at a college in Ireland. It has now continued throughout the difficult following two years that have brought his resultant homelessness and three deaths in our extended family. The narrative is comprised of my photographs and writing, along with excerpts of e-mails from my dad while I was abroad. By making metaphorical connections between our present economic time and physical death, I use this work to serve as a kind of elegiac ceremony for these trying experiences. Wake functions as my personal understanding of our situation and an example of a story that is unfortunately familiar to so many others living in this generation.
Date and place of birth of photographer/s: September 7, 1986. Hartford, CT.
Website: http://mattaustinphoto.com
Donated by: Matt Austin
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