From an article in the Seattle Times:
Arts & Entertainment : Friday, March 23, 2001
Visual Arts
Photos capture how we live
By Katie Kurtz
Special to The Seattle Times
This is the last weekend to see the Seventh Annual Photocloset Group Exhibition at the Pound Gallery. Photocloset
is a shared darkroom that members pay to have 24-hour access to, a rare resource in Seattle. In the tradition of social documentary
photographers of the '50s and '60s such as Dorothea Lange and Helen Levitt, Megan Joplin's suite of three black-and-white
photographs, "Bria," "Phoenix" and "Cousin," are unself-conscious and capture a distinct time and place.
And unlike a lot of contemporary photography, Joplin's work isn't experimental, doesn't draw attention to
photographic process and doesn't overexplain what the viewer is seeing, or supposed to see. The viewer is actually expected
to work, and determine the narrative on their own. These are the kind of pictures people will look at 50 years from now to
see how we lived.
Other artist/members in the exhibition include Christine Taylor, I.H. Kuniyuki and Cristine Larson.
Copyright 2001 The Seattle Times Company
