Alone Together


  • Photographer
    Joshua Sarinana
  • Prize
    Honorable Mention
  • Date of Photograph
    2015
  • Technical Info
    All images shot on iPhone

The contrast between isolation and connectedness creates an uncomfortable space that I often occupy. These images represent that aforementioned space. I aim to invoke feelings of familiarity and detachment through seemingly universal spaces that could be anywhere or no place at all. My goal is to create an empathic relationship between the audience and myself, drawing in the viewer while keeping them at an outside distance. Nostalgia advances with technology exemplified by the use of retro filter apps that pays homage to artists such as Stephen Shore and William Eggleston, but repeating to excess the social sharing and instability of images a la the Polaroid camera. Prints are tangible in a way that contemporary images are not; the same way that connection with another person differs when mediated by a screen. Although the feeds of phones are loud there is a quietness brought about by peering into rectangular boxes.

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