ETHRIDGE, Roe - Sacrifice your body

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"The practice by Roe ETHRIDGE is that of a restless maverick and his constantly evolving visual sensibility has spawned a myriad of copyists in what has become known as ‘the new school of synthetic photography’.In his artist book 'Sacrifice your body', the US-photographer conflates a rich array of photographic tropes, combining personal documentary images made in western Palm Beach County, his mother’s childhood home, with surreal collage works, and a series discarded from a Chanel fashion shoot. These are interwoven with what appears to be a carefully directed scene depicting a teeth-white Durango SUV sinking into and then being retrieved from a canal. The clash of visual styles, histories and meaning establish a flatline of dissonance underscored by the touchline admonition of the neon title - SACRIFICE YOUR BODY.
The storytelling by Roe ETHRIDGE invokes a sense of discomfit akin to David Lynch’s film-making, a lucid undermining of veracity and morality and the ingrained materiality that underpins American life." (publisher's note, © Mack Books, 2014)

About US-american photographer, Roe ETHRIDGE (b.1969, in Miami)

Photo books by Roe ETHRIDGE