52 Card Pick-Up
52 Card Pickup is an exploration of the architecture and atmosphere of the ubiquitous roadside casino in Gulf Coast Louisiana rendered in 2 formats, traditional silver chloride contact prints and as a deck of playing cards.
There’s a strange beauty in the architecture of opportunism. Sometimes they are glistening beacons, and others worn unmasked version of the desperation within. This understanding is represented in the capture and output of the prints, the highest materiality was used allowing for the possibility of rendered hope.
The deck of cards is, beyond the reference to gambling, a testament to the typologic homage to this pervasive seductress of loss and hope along the southern highways I call home.
Prints: This body of work is handmade in the darkroom using a a contact printing process on silver chloride paper then selenium-toned for archival permanence. The method provides the highest print standards in analogue photography achieving unparalleled resolution and tonality. All images are checked for perfection, stamped, numbered, signed in verso and protected with an archival sleeve.
Shipping:
All prints are shipped using an international priority tracked and signed-for service and packaged between two 15mm foam boards to ensure they arrive unscathed.
4”x5” edition of 9 $425
20”x24” edition of 9 $1625
Entire Portfolio $10,400
(52 casinos / 3 cases of cards)