Both use digital manipulation to express provocative ideas about traditional photographic representation. Ensdorf recreated faces from advertising media and family snapshots by using computer-imaging techniques and then mounted the images in a grid. Historically many photographs of the western landscape are idyllic images, avoiding the reality of the land and its inhabitants regarded as a commodity.
History is therefore open to interpretation.
The collaboration of the editor and the ideas expressed by the individual artists make each issue of Blind Spot emerge as a single work of art. A number of artists have received widespread acclaim after being published in the pages of Blind Spot . Museum curators, galleries, designers and advertising agencies have been culling talent from Blind Spot since the premier issue. Previous issues have published works by artists such as Jeff Brouws, James Casebere, Damien Hirst, Vik Muniz, Andres Serrano, Bert Stern and William Wegman. I was at my desk in my office one evening, lap top opened, pictures happy on the walls, when I became sharply aware that in my large windows, the Hudson River, the lights from the New Jersey side, the carnival atmosphere of the Chelsea Piers, provided a simultaneous world.