Exposure: Louis Mazza

The Lure of the Mundane

All photos ©Louis Mazza. All rights reserved.

"This exhibition is not about each image taken individually but about the environment they have been taken in. They are as much about what’s outside the frame as what the camera has captured. The pace of life in a city is not about speed, it is about focus. Train schedules, warning signs, things seen in a blur while speeding through an intersection in the back of a cab, all compete for our attention. What’s more, the immediacy of digital media make the documentation of insignificant details not only possible but necessary. The images that result are almost "careless accidents" that, far from being inconsequential, actually reveal the authenticity of the moment. Strung together, these images of movement and transience remind us of things we normally forget as soon as we’ve passed them."

Louis Mazza is a net-based artist and teacher working exclusively with digital media. Since 1996 he has been developing interactive works for museums and galleries throughout the U.S. and creating web-based works made specifically for online viewing.

Technical: This collection of images were made with a Sony Cybershot camera at low resolution.

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