Curtis Mann finds photographs from flickr, eBay, estate sales, etc…which were originally made in places such as Israel, Pakistan, Libya, and Iraq. He then applies varnish, which acts as a resist, to areas of enlarged C-prints, then uses household clorox bleach to bleach areas out. Additionally, prints are crumpled, and other elements (think Pop Art) are applied.

A new, fictional and more abstract understanding is sought in these snapshots, travel photographs and casual documentations.

The photograph is physically and contextually altered to produce a reading that oscillates between image and object, photography and painting, real and imagined. This new interpretation attempts to disrupt how we normally perceive, understand and connect with the fragmented world in which these photographs attempt to represent.

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