Collected iPhone Images

2018 — 2023

Collected iPhone Images is a series of meticulously curated, labeled, and organized images made over the life span of three cell phones: the iPhone 6, iPhone 6S, and iPhone SE (2020) by Makaveli Gresham from early 2018 and ending in early 2023. Through whittling down over 15,000 images I was able to identify the themes, tropes, and compositions of my work through that time span. In addition to this it serves as a diaristic exercise of the sites, people, and events I encounter through daily life. The attached file is a collection of images that will be included in either a 1/1 or limited printing of custom bound photo books, seeking to elevate the contemporary photo album that typically only exists as data on screens. 

hanky

May 1 - June 3, 2022

Lowell

"...whether they did it or not is an unequivocal address to both gallery audience and a wider power structure, similar to Vo Vo’s Two Party Politics. Made with cyanotype printing and ink, the saturated blue of the background reveals an image the artist captured and subsequently transferred onto the silk of the hanky. Printed in the right hand corner of the work, the emotive scene was captured outside of a community garden the artist came across of various objects—discarded materials, destroyed clothing, yard debris—stacked atop each other in disarray. Slightly veiled as a result of the transfer process, the image calls for a more profound introspection considering the contrast between the discarded debris and its location at a site meant to inspire communal care. The remaining background reveals an even fainter image resembling a wooded area or perhaps extensive, tangled brambles…”

— Luiza Lukova, An Invitation Into Intimacy

Polaroids

2020 —

A selection of monochrome and color Polaroids. Type 600 and SX-70.