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Pixel Portraits (2009)

Pixel Portraits is a series of photographs gleaned from Google image searches of major American news broadcasts.  Subsequently enlarged beyond their capacity in Photoshop, the images are broken down to highlight the subjectivity, hyperbole and spectacle underpinning much of what is transmitted to us via the media.  When viewed to scale, each degraded image simultaneously forces the viewers to physically distance themselves from the work and, as a result, from the content that is being relayed.

Ultimately, Pixel Portraits sets out to challenge the subversive rhetoric of media imagery. By undermining the integrity of the photographic image and reducing it to a pixelated version of itself, it becomes possible to dissociate the photograph from its long-entrenched alliance with notions of "authenticity" and "truth".