Photography Professor Ron Jude will travel to Germany this week to open a solo exhibition at Robert Morat Galerie in Hamburg, and give a lecture about his work at Leipzig University in Leipzig.Photography Professor Ron Jude will travel to Germany this week to open a solo exhibition at Robert Morat Galerie in Hamburg, and give a lecture about his work at Leipzig University in Leipzig.
The opening reception for the exhibition is scheduled for Friday, January 16th at 6:00 pm.
In his photographic series "Lick Creek Line" Ron Jude follows a fur trapper into the wilderness of the American West. But just as the route of the trapper along a river takes him deeper and deeper into nature and further and further away from the security of human settlements, the photographic series itself takes the viewer into uncertain territory. Documentary photography that, just a moment, ago still had been conceived as actual representation of reality, dissolves into the poetic freedom of a fictional narrative. While following his subject along the river, Jude reflects on the possibilities of storytelling in photography, on the blurring line between documentary and fiction in his work and on the new space that is thus created. "For every good story", says Joerg Colberg in his review of the work, "requires an empty space that the reader / viewer can insert a part of himself / herself."
Ron Jude, born in 1965, lives in Upstate New York and teaches photography at Ithaca College. His work is in major collections such as the George Eastman House, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art or the Georgia Museum of Contemporary Art in Atlanta. The book to the series was published by Mack Books, London.
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