“The other photographs in this exhibition are a more intentional ethnographic, documentary body of work. I call it Working Hands because I travel to get to know and photograph workers as they go through their daily routines, including both on the job and during leisure time. For 20 years I photographed in and around the small towns of Texas on ranches and oil rigs and in urban, high-tech clean rooms to observe, get to know, interact with and photograph people of the basic work forces of Texas—cowboys, roughnecks and technology workers. My interest is in how the work both follows and creates the social/economic/cultural scape of Texas as it has changed from primarily agrarian to mechanical to technological. This work tells the stories of people’s lives in a direct reportage format. But the images also reveal the ways people interact with facets of grace and power as they struggle to balance the paradoxical realities of ranches, oil rigs and technology clean rooms sharing Texas land, spaces and resources.”
The gallery is located in building 11 on LCC main campus, 4000 E. 30th Avenue. There is no charge for admission. The Art and Applied Design Department phone number is (541) 463-5419.
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