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Artist Statement
We often say, photographs “capture” time. But to capture something is not to understand it, because in the act of capture the thing is changed. Family albums, travel photographs - what they do with time is give it boundaries. They make memory possible by giving it shape. They describe an event or a place as if in the absence of time, as if time does not exist. My recent work aims at a photography that can speak to the passage of time more as it is experienced and in doing so it aims to enhance that experience.
Artist Bio
Chris Engman received his BFA in photography from the University of Washington in 2003. He has shown in and around the university at the CMA, Jacob Lawrence Gallery, and the Photographic Center Northwest, and currently shows with and is a member of SOIL artists' cooperative. He lives in the Ballard District of Seattle and makes his work in Seattle and his "giant outdoor studio" of Eastern Washington.
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