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Mirage

These photographs were created through a meticulous process of digital manipulation. Using photoshop and combining pieces of my photographs together from Texas and Maine, I have created a space that alludes to being real. For example, Mount Nadzieja started as a photograph of a pile of dirt from a construction site. Through a process of scaling and blending layers of individual photographs, it now appears like a mountain.

Using digital tools to create these landscapes plays with boundaries of the physical and virtual. My process questions our relationship with digital existence and how this has influenced perception of the physical world, often creating a disconnect between reality.

As I am creating these photographs of the land, I am thinking about the current climate crisis we are in, as it reflects itself on the earth. Although this work is not directly about the crisis, these photographs reflect some of my concerns about the future of our planet.

Bio

Annabelle Richardson was born and raised in Central Texas. She moved to Portland, Maine to pursue photography at the Maine College of Art & Design, where she received a BFA in Photography and a Minor in SEAD: Sustainable Ecosystem: Art & Design in May 2022.
Annabelle has exhibited work for a Gold Key National Scholastic Art & Writing Awards at Parsons The New School, New York City, NYC. As well as the Photo-A-Go-Go group Exhibition at The Bakery Photo Collective, Portland, Maine.