Hamburger Eyes Photo Epicenter is proud to present ANDROID, a collection of photographs by Ray Potes. This exhibition addresses our increasingly cybernetic existence. A common theme although this time our photographer takes a different approach. That is… from the future.
With our dependencies on technology and the advancement of quantum science one can easily imagine a world where humans will have the ability to download their minds to computers extending their lives indefinitely. The day of the biomechanical humanoid brain is inevitable. It is to be distributed, sold, and bought in corner stores worldwide. However it remains to be seen how it will recall information and process emotion.
100 photographs all the same 11x14 size and all black and white suggests the work of a coldblooded analytical machine taking notes on the current natural and un-natural landscapes, yet upon closer look the subject matter is that of the human condition. The trail of a crackhead, a blurry tree, a hound dog wearing clothes, some old ladies, and so on make up a dizzying battle not of man vs. machine, but of a hybrid vs. himself.
Ray Potes is based in San Francisco where he edits and publishes Hamburger Eyes Photo Magazine. It is his insatiable hunger to record and document all that is around him that has led him to question his own inseperability from the mechanics of the camera, which is the basis of this exhibition.
ANDROID
Ray Potes
Nov 8 – Dec 7 2007
Opening Reception
Nov 8, Thursday, 5pm-9pm
Hamburger Eyes Photo Epicenter
26 Lilac St.
San Francisco, CA 94110
415-550-0701