Hey, Hot Shot! Entries: Chase Browder
Man of Vision by Chase Browder
Today’s Hot Shot hopeful, Chicago-based photographer Chase Browder, hails from a land just before that of the adobe Circle K and the kokopelli dreamcatcher. An 8th generation Texan, Browder is a bonafide camera-carrying cowboy.
A player in the Chicagraphy arena, Browder goes beyond the Midwestern landscape into the psychological dude ranch-land of the West––the West where Rogers drives a Mustang and Wayne dines at Chuy’s Cantina. By photographing representations of the frontier and the everyday Texas he knows so well, Browder re-envisions romantic notions of his native soil. On his series Another Story..
As the photographer I am visually retelling the stories of my homeland. In the liberating of vernacular and popular images I want to continue the mythological story of the West.
Browder graduates from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago’s MFA program this month. If you find yourself in the windy city this weekend and still wonder how the West was won, stop on by his thesis show and keep your eyes peeled for the big black brim.
In the meantime, this is it. We are officially at the one week mark––and my oh my, time sure does fly. Enter today.
