Photo Journal Monday: Chase Middleton

Unlock Futures, 2019, 20x24, Archival Pigment Print. ©Chase Middleton.

All images and text by Chase Middleton.

My work restages narratives, spanning from the appropriation of forgotten internet photo albums to encounters with strangers - a space where vernacular photography collides with the spectacular. The production of my work involves several stages of planning, paralleling the creation of a soap opera or reality tv-show. Strangers from the internet become my cast and hotels, empty homes and in-between spaces become my set. 

Motifs such as ritualistic gatherings, class anxiety, hallucinatory artifice, and the heightened drama of myth in the domestic uncanny are all seen within this world. I use photography as a vehicle to enter into an unsettling world where it is uncertain whether one is viewing a glimpse of an imagined afterlife, alternate reality, or if it is the simple recording of everyday banality.

The Endearing Recognition, 2019, Archival Pigment Print. ©Chase Middleton.

Untitled, 2019, 20x24, Archival Pigment Print. ©Chase Middleton.

A Force of it's Own, 2019, 20x24, Archival Pigment Print. ©Chase Middleton.

Carter, 2017, 20x24, Archival Pigment Print. ©Chase Middleton.

Untitled, 2017, 20x24, Archival Pigment Print. ©Chase Middleton.

Twin Oaks, 2018, 20x24, Archival Pigment Print. ©Chase Middleton.

Untitled, 2016, 20x24, Archival Pigment Print. ©Chase Middleton.

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