HEATH CREEL
April 2024 Resident
Drawing on the extensive connections between the worlds of poetry and visual art, I create photobooks which draw on themes of discovery, self-expression, and contingency. My practice asserts that photography can be a powerful tool of self-exploration, a way of finding one’s strange place within an immense world. Taking influence from photobook photographers such as William Eggleston, Lee Friedlander, and Alec Soth, I aim to create landscape works which are unmarketable and strange, revealing the mystery of place and, thus, rebuking the commercialized, brand-oriented culture of much of our contemporary image economy. In pursuit of this goal, I use a fully automatic point-and-shoot camera, leaning on the uncontrollable contingency which comes out of being unable to affect a camera’s basic settings.
Photo by courtesy of the artist.
Heath Creel is a photographer based in Denver, CO.
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Mineral House Media’s digital residency program is a series of online “takeovers,” wherein each selected artist is given full control of the Mineral House Media Instagram feed for 2 weeks. Residents complete an interview to be published at the close of their designated month. The residency also includes a group exhibition at the end of the year. It is a great way to experiment, showcase your practice in a new way, and develop a new following. If you wish to be considered for our 2024 residency year, Apply Here!