The January edition of PDN has a two page spread on James Deavin’s recent exhibition, Photographs from the New World. Unfortunately I can’t link you to the article, since it’s available to subscribers only online, but a) it sure looks purty (lots of photos from the exhibition) and b) the writer, Scott Tillitt, did a great job and was a pleasure to work with.

The issue is on newsstands now, but here’s a snippet to tide you over:

In another real-life parallel, most non-professionals use the camera like a point-and-shoot and simply save small JPEGs to their hard drives—pictures of friends and family and such “to act as memory in the future,” Deavin says. And that’s how he thinks his own images can best be understood: “as a piece of Second Life history, markers of a time when people were still viewing the new world through the eyes of the old.” As gallery owner Jen Bekman sees it, Deavin is “an explorer in this new territory, largely uncharted and almost entirely a mystery to the general public.”

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