Caity Fares: Visions from Mannequin Camera #1
Caity Fares is a visual artist, college educator, and freelance photojournalist living in California. Working across analogue and digital photography media, the following project was produced through a wholly unique and experimental methodology.
Caity’s project Visions from Mannequin Camera #1 “was inspired by feminist-science thinker Donna Haraway's ‘Cyborg Manifesto’ and the idea of the human-machine. [She] turned a discarded mannequin-head into a pinhole camera and used light sensitive paper negatives to capture seemingly haunted imagery.” It depicts imagery of urban San Francisco.
Originally published on caitlinfares.com (see original post here) / See artist bio at end of gallery
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Above: the discarded mannequin-head converted into a pinhole camera used to create the gallery images
About the Artist: Caity Fares (b. 1987 ) is a visual artist and educator living in San Diego, California. She uses alternative processes and builds handmade cameras out of discarded materials to make experimental landscape images. Caity has exhibited work in the states and abroad, including at SOMArts, the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History, the Szkéné Theatre in Budapest, the San Francisco Arts Commission, The California Museum of Photography, and the San Diego Art Institute: Museum of the Living Artist.
Her photos have been published in a variety of online and print venues, including Shots Magazine, Coast Magazine, the Los Angeles Times, the New York Times, and FStop Magazine. Caity was a resident artist at Fljotstunga Travel Farm in Iceland, The Makers Circle in Asheville, and Space4Art in San Diego, and is the current administrator of the online group “Queer Community San Diego."
Caity received her BA in Art from the University of California, Santa Cruz, and completed her MFA in Photography at the San Francisco Art Institute. She now works as adjunct faculty at San Diego City College and UC San Diego Extension.
Website: caitlinfares.com / Instagram @caityfares
