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  Joan Osato, United States
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  Joan Osato
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Home in the World; An Apocalyptic Travelogue

Home in the World is a new photographic series inspired and realized through my travels
and travails with my “lonesome cowboy” partner, and our pack of two animals. In Greek, the
word Apocalypse means "lifting of the veil" or "revelation", and is a disclosure of
something hidden from the majority of mankind in an era dominated by falsehood and
misconception. Home in the World explores our place and displacement out in the yet-wild
parts of the American West and uses forced perspective, tilt-shift photography and
selective blurring as a tool to isolate minute detail within the grandeur and overwhelming
scale of the terrain. Combined in unorthodox ways, the photography and effects in Home in
the World advance an aesthetic created to unveil the hidden meanings in ordinary things.

I was born and raised in the San Francisco bay area. I am a self-taught photographer, who dedicates most of my professional life to supporting individual artists, the development of their projects, and producing their work for stage. In 2009 I made a decision to make a serious investment in my personal artistic work, which includes concentrating on literary fiction, and photography. I work exclusively in medium film format, preferring to work with existing light, hand held. My style is documentary, although my favorite images exude mysterious and dreamlike qualities.