Home Truth: Image-making in Absence by Steven Seidenberg

The photographic practice of Steven Seidenberg explores a material world of the unnoticed, fixing attention on structures, environments and landscapes often hidden in plain sight. Three photographic series are combined in this exhibition; each focuses on past and present living conditions in a different area of the world (Puglia and Rome, Italy; Kanazawa, Japan). Seidenberg’s richly detailed images capture current and former living spaces—houses, tents, outbuildings, and empty lots— providing the viewer with ideas about the lived environment, how space is used and how humans travel through and live within the spaces they occupy under wide-ranging material conditions.

Image: Steven Seidenberg from the series, The Architecture of Silence: Abandoned Lives of the Italian South, photograph, courtesy of the artist