Katie's Vacation Photo

Artist/Culture Tabitha Soren (American, born 1967)

Date2018

Mediumarchival inkjet print

DimensionsImage: 76.2 × 101.6 cm (30 x 40 inches), sheet: 81.5 cm x 106.5 cm (32 x 41.9 inches)

ClassificationsPhotographs

Credit LineChapin Riley Fund at the Greater Worcetser Community Foundation

Object number2021.94

DescriptionEdition 2/5
Label TextKatie’s Vacation Photo belongs to a body of Soren’s work that investigates how touchscreens intervene between images of the world and humanity’s physical contact with it. This photograph is a complex layering of technologies and vantage points. The titular photo of a glacier in Chile was displayed on a tablet screen that was smeared by fingers. Soren used raking light to highlight the fingerprints’ greasy, rainbow effect, capturing it with an 8x10-inch view camera, a type of camera developed in the 1840s and frequently used in early photography. In the final image, the fingerprints appear to melt away at the glacier's edges. This visual metaphor prompts us to consider not only humanity’s effect on climate, but how we allow digital screens to mediate our relationship with the world.

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