Perfectible Worlds
By: Sage Sohier
Contributors: Photolucida; Critical Mass
Publisher: Photolucida
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Portland, Or
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781934334010
Subjects: Artistic Photography
Description: Perfectible Worlds  is a group of 60 color photographs of people with obsessions. Begun soon after 9/11, the series portrays people transported into worlds and activities over which they have near-total control. The photographs, made from medium format negatives, are all environmental portraits, and range from people who make extravagant miniature worlds, to others who have extraordinary collections or who immerse themselves in unusual pursuits. The juxtaposition of scale in a number of the photographs makes them surprising and surreal. Each photograph is the discovery of a particular world an individual has found or created for himself: a private world that few are privileged to see.
Notes: Every other Spring an international set of photographers and reviewers gather in Portland Oregon for a week-long celebration of photography. As part of Photolucida's Critical Mass,  Sage Sohier was awarded monographs by a group of 200 jurors comprised of some of the most important photography curators in the world.