Book Cover Image, TRACES by John Singletary © John Singletary 2024
September 18, 2024
Amie Potsic interviews artist John Singletary about his new book titled Traces and how it examines the cycles of life and human values.
© John Singletary, Still Frame from “Traces”, Still Frame from Video Capture, 22:45 Minute Multi-Channel Video/Sound Installation on Six OLED Panel, Pigment Print 20” x 30”, 2023
John Singletary is a photographer and multimedia artist based in Philadelphia, PA, whose installations are visual, intellectual, and sensory experiences. His work uniquely combines black and white photography, video, animation, and technology in a manner that explores our shared humanity. He received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Photography from The University of the Arts and studied photography at the Community College of Philadelphia. His work has been collected by the Philadelphia Museum of Art, The Center for Fine Art Photography as well as other institutional and private collections. He has exhibited at the Pennsylvania State Museum, LG Tripp Gallery, The James Oliver Gallery, The Sol Mednick Gallery and The Delaware Contemporary Museum. His work has been reviewed and/or featured in Lenscratch Magazine, L’Oeil de la Photographie, the Od Review, Movers and Makers (WHYY) and the Philadelphia Inquirer. Singletary was a featured lecturer in the 2021 Atlanta Celebrates Photography Festival and is a contributing writer for The Photo Review Journal.
John singletary: traces
Published by Daylight Books
The imagery and vignettes in this ongoing multimedia work use video, digital and stop motion animation, historical footage, and audio to depict the extraordinary light and darkness in the human condition and life events such as the genesis of our existence, and the purpose we serve to each other and ourselves.
The familiar and unpredictable illustrate the cycles of life across cultural barriers. Surveying the myriad and disjointed experiences that make up a life, Traces explores the way we construct our internal narratives and create meaning from experience. The audio component consists of a series of anonymously conducted interviews with a range of participants. The perspectives chosen reveal the universality and individuality of values, the intersectionality of symbolism across cultures, our lineages, and the perpetual cycles of life.
Buy the Book:
https://daylightbooks.org/products/traces
© John Singletary, The Fall (still Frame from “Traces”), Still Frame from Video Capture, 22:45 Minute Multi-Channel Video/Sound Installation on Six OLED Panel, Pigment Print 20” x 30”, 2023
© John Singletary, Blinders (still Frame from “Traces”), Still Frame from Video Capture, 22:45 Minute Multi-Channel Video/Sound Installation on Six OLED Panel, Pigment Print 20” x 30”, 2023
© John Singletary, Triptych (still Frame from “Traces”), Still Frame from Video Capture, 22:45 Minute Multi-Channel Video/Sound Installation on Six OLED Panel, Pigment Print 20” x 30”, 2023
© John Singletary, Kiss (still Frame from “Traces”), Still Frame from Video Capture, 22:45 Minute Multi-Channel Video/Sound Installation on Six OLED Panel, Pigment Print 20” x 30”, 2023
To learn more about John Singletary visit, www.johnsingletaryimaging.com.