Isolation
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PhotographerJamie Conlan, United States
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Isolation encompasses us daily. We lose ourselves in our office cubicles, stacked one atop the other in a seemingly endless row of people existing divided. We create 8-foot fences that surround our homes, driving others away with warning signs of dogs that bite and cameras that record. Life teaches us to be a separate part of a living whole, even though the separation we create is forced and unnatural, devised to keep prying eyes out and families tucked away safely within.
In this series, isolation comes from the remnants of that which was created to bring us together: a decayed house in the middle of the desert, a cry for human interaction and commune; a defunct drive-in, once the social meeting ground of a generation past; a double occupancy motel room with only one occupant, reveling in the lost desire for the other; a paving brick made to enliven public spaces, discarded and frozen in the ice.
I attempted to find that which was truly isolated, be it human or human made, to show that isolation is really only created and imposed by man, turning his back on fellow men existing beside him, but completely separate.
Isolation encompasses us daily. We lose ourselves in our office cubicles, stacked one atop the other in a seemingly endless row of people existing divided. We create 8-foot fences that surround our homes, driving others away with warning signs of dogs that bite and cameras that record. Life teaches us to be a separate part of a living whole, even though the separation we create is forced and unnatural, devised to keep prying eyes out and families tucked away safely within.
In this series, isolation comes from the remnants of that which was created to bring us together: a decayed house in the middle of the desert, a cry for human interaction and commune; a defunct drive-in, once the social meeting ground of a generation past; a double occupancy motel room with only one occupant, reveling in the lost desire for the other; a paving brick made to enliven public spaces, discarded and frozen in the ice.
I attempted to find that which was truly isolated, be it human or human made, to show that isolation is really only created and imposed by man, turning his back on fellow men existing beside him, but completely separate.
