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Input/Output: Photography as Exchange

Can artists imagine photography as a form of art-making that transcends the simple recording of an image?

Can photography be considered as a means of exchange between the audience and the urban scene, with the artist as an intermediary who consciously frames that interaction?

Input/Output: The Mural Arts Photography Project was a year-long series of public art projects, community workshops and youth art programs that explored a provocative question: Can artists imagine photography as a form of art-making that transcends the simple recording of an image?

During the course of the project, each artist led workshops and youth programs that resulted in an original project presented in neighborhoods throughout the city.

Stephanie Diamond

(New York)

Diamond, whose “It Would Look Like...” involved working with young mothers to select photos for their homes, based on their responses to interview questions about what they would want images in their homes to look like.

Wing Young Huie

(Minneapolis)

Wing Young Huie's “”University Avenue Project combines interviews, text and photography to challenge visual stereotypes of cultural diversity.

Jestonorama

(Arizona)

Chip Thomas aka Jetsonorama's photography-based wheatpastes present community-generated cultural landscapes.

 

  • Art Education class with Wing Young Huie. Photo by Steve Weinik.

  • Chip Tomas and Ursula Rucker at the You Go Girl mural dedication. Photo by Steve Weinik

  • You Go Girl © 2014 Mural Arts Philadelphia / Jetsonarama and Ursula Rucker. 1531 Ridge Avenue. Photo by Steve Weinik

  • Installation of student work with Wing Young Huie at the Municipal Services Building in center city Philadelphia. Photo by Steve Weinik.

  • Art Education class and time capsule burial with Stephanie Diamond. Photo by Steve Weinik.

Input/Output: Photography as Exchange projects

Sponsor 

City of Philadelphia Department of Human Services