Punctum / One Year of Taking Pictures

On the walls, accompanying the stacks, are photographs that illustrate the 35mm hole drilled through the center of each picture—a necessary element in order to stack the photographs on the poles. The uncanny element that each of these photographs share in common, is that the main subject has been eliminated or partially obscured due to the hole. The hole has been drilled in the center of each image, and, as we all know from our own picture-taking experience, it is common practice to place the subject in the center of the frame. The combination of the photographer’s and the drill’s centering is an overwhelming amount of bodies without faces, animals missing heads, and vacant landscapes.

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