Jordan Baumgarten | Blah Blah Blog

Just wrote a piece about Jordan Baumgarten’s photographs.

It is about the challenges of consuming scenes of hardship. It is an article about us, others and the photographer in modern America.

Baumgarten’s Slow Blink, Open Mouth project is difficult. It’s photographs are difficult in a number of ways. They’re difficult, first and foremost, because of their subject matter. These are hard scenes — mostly, struggling city lots populated by struggling folk. But, then again, when has our curiosity to view the lives of the downtrodden or addicted (from distance) ever stopped us gawking? We can always say we care about the issue and, by proxy, the people in the images … even if it’s only for as long as our browser tab is open.

Read more: We Look At The Same Pictures, We See Different Things

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Slow Blink Open Mouth will be published as a book by GOST. Please consider buying a print from the series to help support the production costs.

As many of you may know, I have been working on a project in my neighborhood over the past 5 years. I’m excited to say that GOST will be publishing the project, Slow Blink Open Mouth, into a book this fall/winter. While a book deal is in place, there are still costs associated with the printing of Slow Blink Open Mouth. I have set up a store through my website to sell $125 8x10 prints, in an edition of 25, in order to see this book come to print. Please pass this information around to anyone that you think may be interested. And, as always, thank you for your support.

As many of you may know, I have been working on a project in my neighborhood over the past 5 years. I’m excited to say that GOST will be publishing the project, Slow Blink Open Mouth, into a book this fall/winter. While a book deal is in place, there are still costs associated with the printing of Slow Blink Open Mouth. I have set up a store through my website to sell $125 8x10 prints, in an edition of 25, in order to see this book come to print. Please pass this information around to anyone that you think may be interested. And, as always, thank you for your support.

As many of you may know, I have been working on a project in my neighborhood over the past 5 years. I’m excited to say that GOST will be publishing the project, Slow Blink Open Mouth, into a book this fall/winter. While a book deal is in place, there are still costs associated with the printing of Slow Blink Open Mouth. I have set up a store through my website to sell $125 8x10 prints, in an edition of 25, in order to see this book come to print. Please pass this information around to anyone that you think may be interested. And, as always, thank you for your support.