SILVERTHORNE, Jeffrey - Travel Plans

Personal statement by the US photographer Jeffrey SILVERTHORNE

"I make images to remember,’ he once said, ‘not so much of that which I am recording, but of my own feelings and reactions." (© Jeffrey SILVERTHORNE)

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"What does life mean in the face of the knowledge that you will die? Photo after photo photography master Jeffrey SILVERTHORNE takes us by the hand, leading us past the beauty and the grand guignol of a life in the shadow of mortality. (...)  From the 1970's he could be found in brothels, in the company of transv-estites and transsexuals, in the world of dwarf wrestlers and body builders. In morgues he recorded the recently deceased: a sensual woman who died in her sleep, seriously frowning babies, a little boy who had been hit by a car. These are photographs from which you want to avert your eyes, but you cannot. The longer you look, the more questions they provoke, and with that: compassion. Jeffrey SILVERTHORNE succeeds in making himself increasingly vulnerable and visible through his work." (publisher's note, © Noorderlicht, 2011)

About US-American photographer, Jeffrey SILVERTHORNE (1946-2022)

Photo books by and on the work by Jeffrey SILVERTHORNE