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Photography from its fundamental beginnings has been intimately bound with the exploration, curiosity and ‘sampling’ of exotic and mysterious sites. These ‘Sites’ depict various locales throughout home, and foreign territories in which I have lived, played, or passed through with my camera- posing as the flaneur and itinerant photographer.

I discover distinctive and shared traits of the landscape photographers practice: observing, recording, and collecting souvenirs that render time, place, history, and desire. Imaging the landscape via photography has a mnemonic function, the final image potentially prompting or bringing into recall a shared connection, a memory, and a be/longing- tracing a lineage from the original experience and location.

The photograph becomes evidence, a memento, a version, and acts as a trigger to illuminate a journey and a potential script.

Meighan Ellis