


Paul Shamboom's photography explores the cultural and power aspects of America. His art is demonstrated through his visual investigations of democratic, economic and security institutions. Shambroom spoke about his different projects, but what I enjoyed mostly about his ideas was that he does not photograph with the intent to make an opinion on these matters, but to educate the population with the unknown. The body of work that I am most interested in was his Security series from 2004-2007 where he was photographing training facilities, equipment and personnel involved in the massive government and private sector efforts to prepare for and respond to terrorist attacks within the nation’s borders. First responders and law enforcement officers train in large-scale simulated environments. These environments and people created an extreme sense of apocalypse for me, he does use a bit of photoshop with these images that really pushes the boundaries of what is perceivably real. And at a time of apocalypse- who's to really say what it would be like, all i know is that I could imagine these photographs at a time of complete disaster and chaos.
2 comments:
Are you waiting on this for a reason? The subject of his work is not unrelated to the possibilities/apocalyptic qualities of your images.
because I'm a slack ass. o.o Gettin right on that..
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