Technology Reversal Illustrates the Progression of Time

March 19, 2016 by Mariamma Kambon

    A photograph can preserve a moment well past a lifetime, inscribing it with the indelible ink of light. Because it has the power to make time stand still, photography is our ultimate defense against mortality. Part of the magic of photography is in the physics of this art form. Wave packets of light bounce off of a countenance and race through a piece of curved glass to smack into a layer of chemicals and leave a trace of […]

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Shaking Paper

July 18, 2013 by Mariamma Kambon

The story “Asha Means Life”, told in boxes made of wooden photographs, was on display in the Olive Tjaden Gallery at Cornell University between October 15-26, 2012, in the group show entitled “Shaking Paper”.

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The Birth of Earth

June 27, 2013 by Mariamma Kambon

She danced almost until the moment of the birth of her fourth child . . .

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Asha Means Life: An Introduction

June 1, 2012 by Mariamma Kambon

In late summer 2011, I overnighted with Asha and her family while in transit to work on another project. I began snapping as Asha created pockets of order in the chaos that ensued the night-before-the-first-day-of-school. Weeks later, I realized there was an emotional charge to the images. Still nascent, the project “Asha Means Life” came into being with that moment. It features my mother’s namesake – a young mother herself, an artist and a Caribbean immigrant – and the visual […]

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