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<h2 align="center"><a href="home.html" class="text-dark">Durham: Fragments</a></h2>
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<h5>Artists' Intention</h5>
<p class="card-text mb-auto">Photographers have a history of using the process of image making to become familiar with their subject matter. As a relatively new resident of Durham, I’ve struggled to get a sense of the city because of the intense pace of change in the built environment in the city center. Recalling the idea of coming to know the city through walking, as practiced by Eugene Atget and other Parisian artists at the turn of the 20 century, I set out to do the same in Durham. Using a city map that indicates active demolition permits, I go on 2-5 mile walks from my apartment in the Warehouse District of the city, and visit these sites. I photograph intuitively along the way, not limiting myself to the active sites but rather using them as waypoints along the journey. I keep an eye out for scenes that reflect the transitioning nature of downtown Durham, often indicated by the blues, oranges and yellows associated with construction sites and equipment.</p><br>
<p class="card-text mb-auto">These walks, and subsequently the photographs from them, accumulate into a database where images are compiled, layered, and cut up into pieces using a series of processes in Photoshop. The pieces are then almost reassembled into something approaching the complete original image before being disassembled and morphing into a new aggregate scene of the city. The gridded nature of the transitions is a nod to the prototypical urban grid, but the cut-up nature of the pieces themselves is entirely dependent on the generative processes used, and changes depending on what other photographs images are blended together with.</p><br>
<p class="card-text mb-auto"> Durham: Fragments ultimately offers the viewer bits of indexical, documentary evidence of the city surface, but only in the incomplete and changing ways in which the photographer experiences the city space. It is always changing, it is ephemeral, the photographs never complete the documentary process, at best they the visual proxy for the memory of the particular walk the photographer took, one that can never be exactly replicated. As more photographs from more walks are entered into the database, the image will continue to evolve with the surface of the city itself.
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<h5>Michael Zhang</h5>
<p class="card-text mb-auto">Michael is an undergraduate student at Duke University's Pratt School of Engineering, class of 2020. His major is Electrical & Computer Engineering with a concentration in Signal Processing, Communications, and Control Systems, and is pursuing a minor in Philosophy. He is interested in the intersection of art and technology.
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<h5>Peter Hoffman</h5>
<p class="card-text mb-auto">Peter is a Durham, NC and Chicago, IL based photographer and artist. He is currently an MFA Candidate at UNC-Chapel Hill. He combines his roots in documentary photography with experimental approaches in imaging to elicit notions about place and environment. <br><br>
His artist books can be seen in special collections including Yale’s Beinecke Rare Books and Manuscript Library and the Sloane Art Book Library at UNC-Chapel Hill. His projects have been published by National Geographic, Phaidon, CNN, Fast Company, Vice and others. He has worked on assignment for NPR, The New York Times, The Guardian and other publications. In 2013 he was a nominee for the Prix Pictet Prize. </p>
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