Dylan Nelson: “Familiar objects can produce an uneasiness”

By Tom Seymour

Dylan Nelson was studying at Massachusetts College of Art when the idea for Amber Gambler struck him.

“At the time I wasn’t sure what sort of project to begin and I would go on walks through Boston photographing odd things I encountered,” the 27 year old explains. “Eventually this turned into a reactionary process where I would make a photograph and then respond to it by making a new image that shared a similar composition or formal quality. It became a ‘call and response’, from one image to the next.”

Nelson deliberately played with perspective and scale as he was shooting, using …read more

Via: BJP