Hey, Hot Shot! Entries: Jeffrey Stockbridge
51st and Warrington by HHS! contender Jeffrey Stockbridge
It’s 4:39 in the morning and I just returned home from work. All I want to do is sink into my warm covers. But first, I want to briefly share a photograph with you.
Jeffrey Stockbridge is a 24-year-old photographer based in Philadelphia. He writes:
As a photographer I am compelled to make photographs that reveal what is ordinarily hidden. I am attracted to the elusive and mysterious nature of areas that are outcast from the rest of society. This desire has brought me to many economically depressed neighborhoods in Philadelphia. The houses I photograph have aged. They have been deserted and left to decompose, yet there remains a lingering memory of a past life. With furnishings still intact and personal belongings scattered about, it is as if the inhabitants simply disappeared. The ready-made scenarios I discover inside the houses I photograph are tranquil, yet unsettling.
See more of his work on his fabulous website. Best of luck, Jeffrey.
One more day to enter, y’all. ‘Nighty ‘night.
November 9th, 2007 at 1:57 pm
Looks amazing, beautiful, and startling.
November 9th, 2007 at 5:11 pm
I admire Jeffrey’s trail blazing journey into the etherial nether world of life at the edge. Mystery provokes the observer’s imagination. Meaning and closure become subjective. The subject grows deeper& personal. Isn’t that what makes art great?