Combining intimate portraiture, analog printing and a study of economic systems and propaganda, Meg is focused on confronting/celebrating our expectations of utopia.
Meg Turner, Statement PHOTONola 2024
“NOWHERE” is a series of large scale photogravure prints on a fiber paper the exact hue of sun faded acidic newsprint. This series of Turner’s contemporary tintypes share an unsettling challenge or unease: the subjects stare into an incomprehensible future or back at the viewer demanding to know how we have arrived here and where we are going. By printing her tintype photographs as unique photogravure prints with printed decorative borders Turner references the cheap cardboard holders that studio photographs would be slipped into, as well as antique postcards and printed memorabilia. Turner is positioning her roadside photographs as ephemera; moments to be recorded, collected, cherished or forgotten, but in this case far too large to be cast aside.