One Year of Taking Pictures / Punctum

‘One Year of Taking Pictures’ collects over 100,000
photographs scavenged from the dumpsters of
one-hour photo stores and categorizes them by
subject on twelve-foot skewers—thus representing
the receipts of our collective experience via a
three-dimensional bar graph. The categories,
including ‘Portraits’, ‘Landscapes’, ‘Leisure’, and
‘Animals’, among others, were determined from
popular stock photography websites.

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 'Punctums' 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.