Alyse Emdur
Prison Landscapes
A collection of photos where prison inmates create and stand in front of backdrop paintings pr photographs provided made of fantastic places such as beaches, mountains, waterfalls, etc. To Alyse, she has a history with these backdrops. Her bother was serving a sentence for drug related crime. Her brother, sister, and herself have a photo in front of a tropical beach scene.
She wanted to prospective of the families view of America’s incarcerated population from reflecting on her own photograph. “The collection was inspired by a photograph I found of myself at age five posing in front of a tropical beach scene while visiting my brother in prison. Since discovering this first portrait in my own family album in 2005, I have invited hundreds of prisoners to send me photographs for inclusion in this collection.” -Alyse (http://www.alyseemdur.com/3_prison/index.php)
Softcover, 176 pages plus 8 fold-outs, 165 x 235mm
Published: Four Corners Books, January 2013
ISBN: 978-0-9561928-6-8
USA price: $35
Geyser Girls: A Waiting Room at Crystal Geyser
She states that this was a make-shift waiting room where “While visitors waited for the geyser to blow on sofas set within cascading travertine, they browsed my collection of women's gymnast magazines.”
It was a 3 day wait for the geyser to blow at 4 in the morning and went about 10 feet into the air.
I couldn’t find much more information on this then what was on her website. The geyser is 4.5 river-miles south of Green River, Utah.
Videos
She also does a bunch of video work, titles include: Weather woman, Fountain of Youth, Something Small, How To See Aura, Kiss Me, Round Robin, Show and Tell, Tales for Tails, Be Brave, We Try, Waterfalls, Co-existence, We Love Lloyd, Healing Each other, Beginning Animal Communication, It’ Coming, and We’re a Team. A lot of these videos are either to learn about peoples daily lives, to teach ourself to heal and help one another, a open place to talk about experiences, or all of them combined.
Waterfalls
2006, 4:45
Waterfalls sets up a video camera on a tripod facing the Multnomah Falls in Oregon and documents visitors as the water gushes behind them.
It’s Coming
2005, 32:33
It’s Coming documents a child yoga class in Portland, Oregon.
Thank you
Hannah Welter
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