Copy, Archive, Signature: A Conversation on Photography – Jacques Derrida
“How to imagine an archive that is somehow immediate, a present that consists of its own memory or its own reproduction?” – Derrida
Hashem El Madani: Studio PracticesÂ
Have you ever seen the symbol of the Ouroboros, the snake eating its own tail? Studio Practices is like that, with the ordinary and sublime locked in a perpetual dance.
Wim Wenders: Once
Reading and seeing Once was like some fabulous fruit of meditation on Wenders’ words “For me, taking a picture is more an act of listening, so to speak, than of seeing.”
Biography
Born in Cleveland, Ohio, Erica McDonald is a photographer, educator and curator who lives in New York City. She founded DEVELOP Photo to provide resources for the enrichment of the photojournalism, fine art and documentary photography community. Her photography is regularly commissioned for magazines nationally and internationally and has been exhibited worldwide.
Artist's Atheneum 