"Using large and medium format cameras, my images function as traces of my presence. The photographed interventions range form very simple gestures to elaborate stagings: what they have in common is an implied self portrait while I am absent from the frame. This residual presence is established through a host of different strategies--juxtaposing banality with the phenomenal this body of images explore the activation of environments through gesture and lens fallibility.

"Collectively the temporal quality of the images is intended to mirror the human condition. Even at the most staged the constructions sidestep conversations about agency favoring the sensation that the photograph evokes. These fleeting events exist for a moment while the photographic documentation of their existence gives them eternal life."

--Adam Ekberg

Adam Ekberg received his MFA in Photography from the Art Institute of Chicago. His photographs are in the collections of The Museum of Contemporary Art and The Museum of Contemporary Photography, both in Chicago, IL. His work was last seen in Seattle as part of the group show, "a spectral glimpse," curated by Jim O'Donnell at Platform Gallery in 2007.

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