Zach Ranson is a Brooklyn-based photographer hailing from Southern Virginia. His work draws on the numberless chance experiences that make up a life, inhabiting the ambivalent poles of the serendipitous and the foreboding. His photographs convey a double sense of abandonment and loss while also entertaining feelings of hope in stories still unfolding.
Is the main character in the frame? Or have they just left? Or are they still to arrive?
This attention to narrative gives his work a storybook-like quality, dealing in archetypes and the common language of allusion. Through foregrounding character//symbol hybrids, the work resonates with the viewer’s own imagination, thoughts that go beyond the confines of the image itself.
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