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James Hunt
Awakening
Inspired by: Joyce Tenneson, Fork Shaped Tree
infrared digital photography
20″ x 24″
2018
Awakening was taken in Acadia National Park in the fall of 2018, during the “blue hour,” just before dawn. During the blue hour, the scattering of light rays yields a deep cool blue to the eye. Much like the fog in Joyce Tenneson’s “Fork Shaped Tree,” the atmosphere creates a mood on its own. Awakening was created with color infrared photography. Normally, color infrared results in a very dominant red tone. When the blue and red color channels are switched in post-production, a potent blue results, mystical and otherworldly, closer to the “blue hour” one can see and feel.
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James Hunt
Blackstone Canal, South Grafton
infrared photography, archival inkjet print
24″ x 20″
2023
The Blackstone Canal ceased operations in 1848. Yet, the Canal still exists, largely unprotected by governments, along its route from Worcester to Providence. The Canal seems to remind us that the scars we inflict have enormous staying power. At the same time, those scars, coming to grips with nature, can be beautiful as well.
James Hunt
Artillery Platforms at the Quabbin Reservoir, Gate 52, Ware, Massachusetts
Inspired by: Robert Adams, Bulldozed Slash
digital photography, archival inkjet print
20″ x 24″
2023
Clashes between the environment, health and human behavior are sometimes inexplicable. In the years from World War II through 1968, the Quabbin Reservoir, which supplies drinking water for 2 million people, was used as a testing range for weapons developed at the Springfield Armory. Large shells, made from a variety of substances, some incompatible with human drinking water, were routinely fired into the Reservoir. The guns are gone, of course, but the platforms remain. This submission was inspired by the FAM loan photograph, “Bulldozed Slash,” created by Robert Adams. Some human decisions and actions that may appear reasonable at the time, to some at least, can seem so incomprehensible when viewed from other perspectives.
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