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Ginevra Shay, Raum Bilder 1, 2014,  archival pigment print, exhibited by Present Company, (e)merge 2014

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Everything That Rises Must Converge

"Everything That Rises Must Converge is a zine exploring the connection between six emerging photographers and their neighborhoods. There is a dialogue that develops between photographers and their immediate surroundings - a dialogue that's presence transcends the limitations of light and paper, reassembling context into a woven personal narrative. The photographers... become their neighborhood's ambassador, their curators, communicating their neighborhood's story, feelings and idiosyncrasies to the viewer" - Carl Gunhouse & Ginerva Shay

  There is a profound difference between how the photographer understands photography and how the every-man understands photography. For the mainstream, photography is always special. Photographs are vacations and adventures, birthdays and graduations, celebrations parties.

If aliens were to come to earth and learn of our lives only through the photographs we had taken, they'd assume we lived lives of glamour and leisure, cakes and candles, of exotic views, absent of death and loss and boredom.

The real detail of our lives, exists in the banal and familiar, the houses in your street, the wallpaper in your grandparents' kitchen. 

At least that seems the feeling I get from Everything That Rises Must Converge, a small zine where six US photographers respond to their suburban environments. This provincial exploration shows a few curious angles of a dialogue with the ordinary. Xerox printing makes these monochrome images a little flat, but still worth checking out.

-Eddie Major

  Every Thing That Rises Must Converge Photographers: Heyward Hart, Joseph Michael Lopez, Andrew Laumann, Trevor Powers, RaMell Ross and Irina Rozovsky

Writers: Ginerva Shay and Carl Gunhouse 2012, New York 8.5in X 5.5in softcover, saddle stitch 28pages 26photographs Xero print $5.00 http://www.carlgunhousephoto.com/stuff-for-sale/