Julie Blackmon, Jill Greenberg, and Ruud van Empel photograph children,creating fictional images that elicit reactions ranging from amusementto astonishment to shock. While photography of children is as old as themedium itself, the works in this exhibition represent a recent approachaided by digital techniques. Each of these artists uses digitaltechniques to separate photography from its associations with reality.Blackmon collages elements and Greenberg draws on the images. Van Empeluses the most elaborate techniques, building his images element byelement and often compiling more than 100 individual elements in asingle image. Extending the late-twentieth-century movement toward“fabricated” imagery, they shift photography further and further awayfrom its association with reality

Curated by Jo-Ann Conklin
image: Julie Blackmon, Gum, 2005